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Entitled Neighbor calls the police on residents for parking on a public path, they dismiss the case, she keys their car: 'Anyone is allowed to park there!'

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  • "Entitled Neighbor thinks she owns a public path"

    This started about 5 or 6 years ago, when we moved into a house with a fairly long driveway.
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  • The neighbours next to us were decent enough but the house opposite us (Who i will refer to as EN) ended up being a nightmare.
  • We have 2 cars, one being a sedan, the other being a small hatchback. The long driveway means we can fit both cars on it,
  • but there is a fence along half of it, meaning if we need to use the car behind we have to move the other,l. This also means when we have to take the bins out we have
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  • to move both cars. So once a week we would park the smaller car on the pavement opposite our house, in front of EN's. We would park on the pavement outside our house but due to the position of a
  • lamppost, it makes it awkward to get in and out of the driveway with the other car. And there is a large patch of grass which we were trying to maintain.
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  • Keep in mind we would only park there overnight maybe once or twice a week (bin day and if we knew we needed to use the larger car). Eventually I got the use of a work car so that would be parked on the opposite side every other week.
  • When we first moved in, she kept yelling from across the road about how we were parking on her land and that we needed to stop. We checked, and it's a public pavement, so anyone is allowed to park there. She called the police saying we were illegally
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  • parking, the police did turn up but just went away once they realised we weren't doing anything wrong.
  • She had multiple cameras set up looking at our house, then called the police again when we set up one looking at our driveway after the sedan was keyed. We assumed it was her but had no proof. She then she the set up 2
  • loads of cement blocks and wooden pallets on the pavement blocking anyone from parking there, stating she was storing them there while doing work on her backyard. The council told her to remove them by the end of the week.
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  • She didnt remove them until the police told her she had to move them a month later. She started reversing into her driveway by deliberately going up onto the grass verge destroying it while shining high beams into our living room.
  • Eventually she stopped/gave up after about 2 or 3 years of this, but her driveway was wide enough for 2 cars and she only ever parked on the pathway to stop us from parking there. I work
  • nights so I'd get back on the morning see her SUV was parked on the pavement with her driveway empty, and I'd just park behind her.
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  • Thankfully we've since moved out of that house after some issues with the landlord.
  • A woman holds her fists in the air in frustration.
  • alicat777777 Street parking is public parking, no matter whose house it's close to. It's so bizarre that people get territorial about that.
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  • Odd-Outcome450 Some people will make themselves unhappy just to spite others.

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