A man’s ‘epic’ revenge on an entitled neighbour who pinched his parking spot has won him plaudits online.
Sharing his tale on Reddit, he detailed the chilly morning surprise: “Eight inches of snow had fallen the night before, and the windchill made it feel as if it were in the negatives (Fahrenheit). I drive an all wheel drive SUV so I have no issues getting out. My wife on the other hand drives a Prius, which slides with the smallest amount of moisture on the road.”
He continued: “My car was down at the time, so we had to take my wife’s car. I spent 45 minutes in the freezing cold shovelling that car out so we could get to the store. We were gone for an hour, and when we came back, our neighbour had taken the spot I had shovelled.”
Despite the lack of assigned parking at his apartment, there’s an unspoken rule that the person who clears a space in the snow earns the right to use it. Frustrated, he recounted: “When I saw his car in the spot I had just shovelled, I was pretty annoyed.”
Determined to give his neighbour a frosty lesson, he filled two-gallon jugs with water and doused the neighbour’s windshield repeatedly, using about ten gallons in his icy act of retribution.
He added: “Being how cold it was, it was already freezing by the time I poured the last gallon on. It sat like that overnight. The next morning, I got to watch as he helplessly tried to scrape all of these layers of ice off his windshield. Don’t take my goddamn parking spot.”
Sharing their own tale, one user commented in response: “My dad was petty af. The winter of 96′ in the Philly area. He had shovelled a spot out from the few feet of snow we got. I can’t remember why his car was gone for a minute but when he got back someone had parked in his spot.
“My dad was mad. So he shovels himself a new spot, and piles all the snow up on and around the car in his original spot. He then shovels the neighbours some spots and did the same thing. Couldn’t even see the car when he was done.”
Another user chimed in: “In Pittsburgh we’ve mostly all agreed on the ‘parking chair’ system. If you shovel it, you put a folding chair or something similar in the spot. If you’re someone looking for a spot, you do not violate the sanctity of the parking chair.”
A third user recounted: “A few years ago, we got a foot or two of snow in Philadelphia. I lived in the not so good section of west Philadelphia. People would put cones and trashcans on spots they shovelled out. One idiot had the balls to move the cones and trashcans and park in the spot. Guess who didn’t have tires when they came back.”
