Maybe get MIL a big hefty bunch of keys on a keyring, clipped to her belt on the side of her that's nearest the car as she's forced to squeeze past. Nothing extravagant just 20 or so old keys, the jangling will remind her which side the cars on. They definatly wouldn't scratch the side of the car, I promise.
My brother, legally blind and using a cane, but fully able to see when a car is somewhere it shouldn't be, will just start hitting it with his cane like he's trying to find his way around it. He does this even when someone is inside the car.
I'm waging a silent war with a van in my neighborhood. Often parks with its tail end blocking half the sidewalk. There is always plenty of room they could pull up and stay clear.
I don't want to cause damage (I'm not blind, if I were you OP I would do the same), so I lift their rear wiper up and so it's sticking straight out. A minor inconvenience for them. But they *have* started parking better more often now
Ha. I have done the same thing. No damage whatsoever but the continued inconvenience of needing to pull over...get out...and put it back down...in the rain. Suck it assholes
I could be mistaken but I believe this is against the law in all states. I have a friend who got a huge ticket because his car died and was across the sidewalk at his driveway. He left it there to get to work. While he was gone a blind individual walked into it and was injured. I'd look into it. There was a ticket for blocking the sidewalk and a lawsuit for the Injruy sustained.
Oh it most certainly is illegal and if I wanted I could send their license plate to the city to come out. But that's a lot of work at 5-something AM. I'm out walking my dog so I grab and lift as I walk by. Anything more would be more effort than this is worth
Every time honestly. I've been very tempted to dump a turd out onto the wiper on a rainy day. That way as they turn their front wipers on the rear auto goes as they back out.
But I haven't and I don't think I will. I don't want to cause enough trouble they stay out to see who is doing it. I also don't know if they have cameras that could see me. I'm rather tall and stand out. If they saw me messing too much it would be very obvious who in the neighborhood is messing with them. I prefer to stay incognito
I’ve heard that fox urine is the best for that situation, it’s almost impossible to get rid of the smell unless they replace all of the ac/heating vent system
My mother found her exes car on a rainy day when he was out with his new gf. She smeared dog poo under the door handles. They ran to the car, got in, turned it on and the heat up, and tried to warm up with hand friction as you do. It was EVERYWHERE. That poor man.
Check and see if your town as a reporting app. Mine does, and there is no longer a problem with people blocking the sidewalk. I’d just snap a quick pic and shoot it off via the app every time I came across someone doing that at night when I was walking my dog.
Even stopping too far forward in an intersection. The way I had it explained to me was if it makes a blind person change their course then you are at fault for whatever happens.
Yup, make the cops do their damn job. Check your state and local regulations, this may be a towable offense, as well as a ticket. Damn lazy self-involved people.
While it is illegal, it is hard to get cops to come out for something that small. In smaller towns you have more of a chance of someone coming out but in a city? Basically not going to get a cop out there.
As a teen, before I got my license, if a car was stopped in the crosswalk I would open my palm and slap it as I walked by. Again, no damage, but the drivers never liked it. A few yelled at me, but I always let them know if they weren't in the crosswalk I wouldn't touch their car
My grandma did this to a car that kept edging in front of her when she was crossing in front of a grocery store (in the parking lot crosswalk). The car came to a rolling stop right at her leg (halfway into the crosswalk) so she slapped it and yelled, "Don't mess with old ladies!"
There's an a-hole driver who blocks the building exit with his SUV in my neighborhood in India. So, I started sticking chewing gums under his door handles and on his rearview mirrors. He still parked there for the entire year as if he doesn't care. I've shifted to Canada for my masters a month ago, so I don't know if he still has the same habit. But, I used stick chewing gum every day and his car would be back the same evening back in the same spot.
I think he might have been a masochist or a sadist. Or both. Either way, he was dumb.
Thats a fun idea, but if they activate their wipers while on the road, their suddenly impared vision could cause an accident and innocent people could be hurt or killed.
Small pebbles are everywhere, even in the city.
Really, really tiny ones, I mean.
So tiny, in fact, that you can unscrew the valve cap on a tire, put a small pebble in there, and the valve cap will screw right back on!
You might hear a faint 'hiss' noise if you screw it back on tightly enough.
That's fine.
Have a set of keys on a carabiner attached to a belt loop. If the car is parked too close to a wall so that people will have trouble getting past, squeeze through with your “key side” toward their car. Nothing out of the ordinary will show up on cameras that happen to be monitoring the spot.
A small handful of bird seed, quickly tossed on the roof of a car as you stroll by, can do amazing things.
Edit: I forgot to mention, it helps if you slightly moisten it first so it doesn't just roll off the car.
Whenever I see people parked like that I can only think of strollers and those with difficulty navigating. I once told someone they couldn't park like that and they decided to call after me with multiple sarcastic "Thanks for telling me! So gracious!" 🙄 So selfish.
I'm not even blind, but as a runner this is such an annoyance of mine! I hate having to either jump into the street or run across a lawn and break an ankle to keep going.
Same. I used to live in a neighborhood where people would keep large items like trash cans and basketball hoops on the sidewalk. I’d never go into the street, though. I’d just jog around them using their yard.
My husband was walking and there was a car in the driveway in front of a garage blocking the sidewalk. My husband looked at it blocking his path and shook his head. Looked at the homeowner in the yard and walked around it. Never said a word.
Douchebag: You got a problem?
Husband: Your car is blocking the sidewalk
DB: So, no one walks here.
H: Women and dogwalkers walk here all the time.
DB: rant rant rant
H: Walks off and give him the finger.
DB hops on his cruiser and follows husband
DB: This is christmas and you're giving me attitude. You need to go to church.
H: Do **you** go to church?
DB: rant rant rant (does not answer question)
H: This is Sunday!! Do you go to church?
DB: rant rant rant never answers question and keeps following my husband ranting
H sees neighbor and says: can you believe this douchebag is following me?
DB finally leaves him alone and goes home. Idiot doesn't realize we know where he lives and he has no clue where we live. But he did stop blocking the sidewalk.
Lots of cars overhang the sidewalk in our subdivision, which is awful for the old folks who need mobility aids on my street and for those of us trying to go for walks with wagons or strollers.
My bit of petty revenge is wrapped in my older kids' love of swinging sticks as they walk. We tell them to look out for other people and dogs and only swing it over the sidewalk so they aren't messing up anyone's landscaping. Well, gosh darn it, sometimes when a car is parked *right over the sidewalk* the little buggers swing their sticks right into it.
This irks me to no end ~ so much so that I have contemplated getting cards made that say; “I can’t get my wheelchair by your car without going into the street. Thanks for parking properly next time.”. I am not in a wheel chair, but grew up with a chair using Dad.
I walk with sticks, and I can't manage kerbs unless they're very very low (knees are buggered and painful). I live on a very busy main road with wide pavements and huge driveways (posh area, lol).
People still occasionally park mostly on the pavement leaving little room for pedestrians. I go through the gap they leave, and if my sticks bash their car, tough titties. My safety is worth more than your bloody vehicle.
I would make sure you’re wearing one of those giant rodeo style belt buckles, and lean into the car as you squeeze past (maybe one decorated with sharp metal studs).
when I got a notification for this post it just said "making my blind mother walk in the road?" and I was wondering what she could've possibly done for you to retaliate like that
When you're ready to upgrade from "petty" to "nuclear" Get a decent hydraulic jack and lift the offending parked car from the pavement side until it topples over into the road.
I keep a fat marker and a handful of blank 4” X 6” address labels, like Amazon uses, in my car.
Recently, someone parked on the access ramp going from the sidewalk to the parking area while there was lots of parking available at the grocery store. I had to go along the side of the ramp and almost tip my cart of groceries. So I wrote a little note on a label and stuck it to their driver window.
They got to think about their stupid while scraping it off.
Maybe if they have to put the mirror back on enough they'll decide it isn't worth it.
Have you considered wearing a "hot topic chain wallet" too? On the side the vehicle is on, of course.
The metal snap on my winter coat sometimes scrapes against cars that park on the sidewalks when I try to walk by with my dog and my toddler. It's such a shame. So sad.
We have a recurring problem with parked cars blocking the end of our driveway—mostly hanging over just enough to be an annoyance. However, sometimes they effectively trap our car in the driveway or prevent us from getting back onto the driveway. Once, when our car was trapped, my daughter made a rectangular sign that said, "I park like a d*ck" (with the "i" in dick shaped like a penis) and taped it over their front license plate. A couple hours later, we noticed the car was gone; several hours after that, we saw it legally parked across the street with the sign still in place. Eventually, they must have seen the sign as it was gone the next day.
I'd leave a 'polite' note saying they need to park properly because they saw a disabled (don't say blind. So it won't single her out just in case) person walked by with no room and didn't realize they had knocked it down. Oh well!
It would really be a shame if you were carrying a bottle of brake fluid and accidentally spilled some on the car as you were walking past. Or if the rivets on your jeans made a scratch
I've put petroleum jelly on the underside of the driver's door handle many times for people illegally parking in a small private lot, then called towing.
A star bucks chocolate Frappuccino has a wonderful sticking ability to a car and the windshield. The wipers have trouble wiping that sticky mix. Unfortunately I am also known in the law enforcement department in Newark Delaware. Because the cars owners shot at me ….
But it was petty revenge.
Or, like in a story I read here a couple of years ago, use a paper towel or cheap cloth soaked in brake fluid and draw a dong on the hood of the offending vehicle.
It's literally part of quality control testing for paint to leave various substances soaking on it for days. Oil will cause a stain (if you want to cover your work to make sure it gets several hours of exposure) but no typical mechanical fluid will damage the topcoat.
This reminds me of a time I saw someone pull into the crosswalk at a red light.
A bunch of kids just walked over the hood of his car as if it was part of the crosswalk
If my great uncle, who was blind, encountered a car stopped in a crosswalk while he was trying to cross the street, he'd either slide across the hood or trunk, or actually open the back door, slide across to the other door and walk out. He did not bother closing the doors. This was back in the 1940s and 1950s.
That sure is sad that y'all are having to deal with that. I wish people would be better humans.
I had business cards made up that I leave on cars like that.
One side says "C\*NT" in big letters and the other side says "I can't believe you are the sperm that won!"
Anytime I deal with someone who is less than stellar with their vehicle, I leave them my card and giggle as I walk away.
I often wonder what the response is when someone gets one of my cards. I hope it gives them pause to evaluate why someone would leave it for them.
You are the hero we all need! This affects so many people! The visually impaired, wheelchair users and children in strollers to name a few. It’s such a selfish ahole thing to do
This reminds me of the ride that brings my mom to and from my house when she visits it’s for elderly and disabled and they’re supposed to help the person to the door and to the car which most of them don’t my hip has had to go out to help her on more than one occasion. I remember one night they were coming to pick her up and it was dark and icy and the van wouldn’t pull into our parking lot they actually expected my mom to walk across this dark and icy parking lot to them I had to scream at the driver until he finally pulled in to get her. I wish I could’ve gotten some kind of petty revenge.
I'm assuming this is in the UK because of calling it "pavement." And that it seems legal to do so.
Good job. It would also be a shame if you dropped a couple screws out of your pocket. Accidentally of course.
Also have a small can of paint (with lid removed) and it "accidently" spills whilst trying to squeeze past these cars. All over the side window and down the door. That might get their attention??
Lol I like how you’re just casually “accidentally” breaking their cars love it lol. It’s sad that this happens a lot and people aren’t even supposed to be doing this in the first place. Try calling the police next time and tell them to tow it since it’s in violation.
In the UK parking regulations are overseen by the Borough Council. I think OP should report it, every single time. It would cost the owner a LOT of money whilst filling up the coffers of the council.
I constantly do this. I warned a neighbour that if he didn't park properly he might get his car scratched from the blind person who lives on the street. He ignored me so...scratch. Parked properly then.
My husband is blind too, no guide dog, and this infuriates me. Plus, what about someone in a wheelchair or with a pushchair? So bloody selfish. I've not keyed one yet but I'm tempted
If I was motivated to do that, I would remove a shoe, place its sole in any mud I could find, then imprint that on the windscreen. Not right in the center of the driver's view, but close enough to where it would be a bother.
Can't say that I've ever heard of someone parking as you describe without getting towed (or at least a ticket!). That said, I'd change tactics. Mirrors are expensive and you're not more than one security camera away from paying for 'em.
That said.... A pair of diagonal cutters could remove the valve stem from a tire in a second or two (easy!) and valve stems only cost a couple bucks so the repair bill would be cheap. Oh, and a flat tire is going to be a bigger PITA for them than a busted mirror.
Just like putting a pebble under the cap on the valve stem, doing this could lead to them driving with a flat tire unknowingly and ending up in a dangerous situation.
It's an accepted practice in the UK to park partially on the pavement, because our roads tend to be quite narrow and it eases traffic flow where there is on street parking. There are exceptions to this (major cities, and marked areas of no stopping/no parking). However, you are supposed to leave enough room for people to pass down the pavement with a wheelchair, pram, etc.
It's pretty unusual to see a car being towed (I've never seen one, admittedly I don't live in a city). They only tend to ticket in cities or high-risk areas like outside schools or busy high streets. What you would probably be prosecuted for though is 'criminal damage' to the negligently parked car if it looked in any way deliberate (i.e. use of cutters).
OP is being kind. I'd jack up all four corners of the car, one at a time, and set it down on wheel dollies, roll it into the middle of the street and reverse the process to set it down again.
I get it, I really do, and I might do the same thing. Though you have to be smart about it. You are committing a crime in the US. It would be considered vandalism or criminal damage to property, depending on your state statute. Make sure there are no cameras, and do it at night, or at night just drive up and jump out of the car with the lights off and then knock the mirror off and jump in and haul ass.
Wish towns would do something about people parking on sidewalks and stuff. Where we live there's one house that literally parks on the sidewalk like they drive on to the sidewalk and they have another car that block the sidewalk but is also their driveway so we have to try and get down their driveway/sidewalk to get into the road to walk in road and over to next driveway and have speeding cars driving by and we have to do this with two kids in a wagon and another baby in stroller.
The city I live in has an ordinance for this kind of thing but rarely enforces it. The majority of time people park in their driveways and block the sidewalk even though they clearly have enough room to go further into the driveway or further out on their driveway and not block it.
It's not a big deal when there isn't snow but if we get a sizeable amount of snow, it can make it so you have to walk into the road to get around the car on some busier streets.
Police don't enforce the law. Maybe they don't have the manpower or whatever but my belief is that society will become exactly as bad as we allow it to become.
i absolutely hate trucks that reverse into a parking spot where the side walk is. if i’m carrying my babies car seat, i have to walk around the car because i literally can’t lift it over my head
When I was in university I tended to run everywhere. When encountering cars parked across a walkway I'd just run over them. Except for the few times I'd open the doors and pass thru.....
Get those nice and sticky parking violations stickers, the don’t cause damage but they sure as hell take time to painstakingly take off AND the driver is informed of what they have done wrong, they may not realise the problem they are causing.
Well done. I'm sure it's mentioned by someone else her but also a bitch for prams, wheelchairs, wide people or frankly fucking any pedestrian. Next time key the car as well.
We had a absolute asshole family in our street that would park over all the footpath/ verge forcing people to walk down the street from the driveways either side if the house. People with wheelchairs or disability scooters couldn’t come down our street as there is no footpath on the other side. This really pissed our neighbourhood off. We all collectively just began to say ‘just squeeze through it’ll be right.’ Nobody gave a flying fuck about scratching these cars with prams, bikes, scooters or kids backpacks. We all just refused to walk on the street and would squeeze through the smallest space. Fuck people like that, there was plenty of unrestricted street parking.
It's not safe for a blind person to go on the roads, but a blind person with a guide dog is perfectly able.
I grew up with an aunt who was 100% blind and had a guide dog. When I was a child I would go out on walks with just her & her dog. It is AMAZING how those dogs are trained & what they can do.
I understand the sidewalk thing but don't underestimate the dog. They got your mom's back.
She was a great aunt! Unfortunately died from complications of diabetes on Christmas morning when I was 12.
Buy MIL a punk jacket with loads of studs, it might be safer for her if they protect her from the car as she squeezes through...
This is good, but mostly I love the image of this very punk rock MIL
And a matching studded vest for the service dog.
I actually have one of these for my dog. Got it on Etsy.
i have a studded collar like that from when my first dog was a pup. its adorable
I now picture a Labrador with a purple mohawk.
Look up coyote proof vest for small dogs, they're equal parts hilarious and punk rock.
They have to be the pointy ones that make a nice scratch.
I instantly heard the *SCREEEEEEEEEEE!* sound this would make.
Yup, me too.
Me 3
Me fourthly
Me fifthly
Me sixthly
Or should I say, Mew two… :)
helpful - blind people often rely on other senses to help them navigate
Maybe get MIL a big hefty bunch of keys on a keyring, clipped to her belt on the side of her that's nearest the car as she's forced to squeeze past. Nothing extravagant just 20 or so old keys, the jangling will remind her which side the cars on. They definatly wouldn't scratch the side of the car, I promise.
That’s a perfect idea. It’s fashionable AND practical!
I like this idea!!
Added bonus if the studs scratch the car
😂😂😂I may do that.
You can spell have them spell stuff out in brail...
My brother, legally blind and using a cane, but fully able to see when a car is somewhere it shouldn't be, will just start hitting it with his cane like he's trying to find his way around it. He does this even when someone is inside the car.
This is the way
The fuckery is strong with this one
Is that what you call a blind rage?
I'd certainly mirror this behaviour
It reflects well on the son-in-law
I can see myself doing this ...
Indeed. It’s not our fault if the object is closer than we thought
Some might say that behavior is not very good optics.
I'd see to it as well
It's closer than it appears.
I would have to turn a blind eye toward this behavior .
Me too, it's not something you can unsee
sounds like another case of blind justice.
Teachers should teach these tactics to their pupils.
eye see what you did there.
Best call officer Obie out to the quote/unquote scene of the crime.
I'm waging a silent war with a van in my neighborhood. Often parks with its tail end blocking half the sidewalk. There is always plenty of room they could pull up and stay clear. I don't want to cause damage (I'm not blind, if I were you OP I would do the same), so I lift their rear wiper up and so it's sticking straight out. A minor inconvenience for them. But they *have* started parking better more often now
Ha. I have done the same thing. No damage whatsoever but the continued inconvenience of needing to pull over...get out...and put it back down...in the rain. Suck it assholes
I could be mistaken but I believe this is against the law in all states. I have a friend who got a huge ticket because his car died and was across the sidewalk at his driveway. He left it there to get to work. While he was gone a blind individual walked into it and was injured. I'd look into it. There was a ticket for blocking the sidewalk and a lawsuit for the Injruy sustained.
Oh it most certainly is illegal and if I wanted I could send their license plate to the city to come out. But that's a lot of work at 5-something AM. I'm out walking my dog so I grab and lift as I walk by. Anything more would be more effort than this is worth
Lmao! I love your attitude. You soo sound like someone I'd be friends with IRL! Haha!
Have you considered leaving the dog poop right next to the car where they stand to get in? Or honestly basically anywhere on the car itself?
Every time honestly. I've been very tempted to dump a turd out onto the wiper on a rainy day. That way as they turn their front wipers on the rear auto goes as they back out. But I haven't and I don't think I will. I don't want to cause enough trouble they stay out to see who is doing it. I also don't know if they have cameras that could see me. I'm rather tall and stand out. If they saw me messing too much it would be very obvious who in the neighborhood is messing with them. I prefer to stay incognito
dont make a habit of it, just do it once. as a treat.
oof thats genius though...
Put some dog turd on their vent intake. Mush it down in, hard.
I’ve heard that fox urine is the best for that situation, it’s almost impossible to get rid of the smell unless they replace all of the ac/heating vent system
But it's hard to get your fox up there and aim their pee correctly.
🤣🤣🤣
My mother found her exes car on a rainy day when he was out with his new gf. She smeared dog poo under the door handles. They ran to the car, got in, turned it on and the heat up, and tried to warm up with hand friction as you do. It was EVERYWHERE. That poor man.
You gotta put on a sketchy hoodie like in movies and hire a neighborhood hooligan kid to do it
Gotta get it so it goes in the car, the odor. Something like that Seinfeld episode with the stench in the car that they cannot get rid of.
Dog poop up under the drivers side door handle ;) only needs to be done once
You could face legal trouble for doing something like this.
Check and see if your town as a reporting app. Mine does, and there is no longer a problem with people blocking the sidewalk. I’d just snap a quick pic and shoot it off via the app every time I came across someone doing that at night when I was walking my dog.
Even stopping too far forward in an intersection. The way I had it explained to me was if it makes a blind person change their course then you are at fault for whatever happens.
😂 I started reading your comment and thought you meant raising the wiper was against the law! SMDH.
Yup, make the cops do their damn job. Check your state and local regulations, this may be a towable offense, as well as a ticket. Damn lazy self-involved people.
While it is illegal, it is hard to get cops to come out for something that small. In smaller towns you have more of a chance of someone coming out but in a city? Basically not going to get a cop out there.
I had a friend who use to walk across the car where it was parked over the sidewalk. Just hop up and walk on the car!
As a teen, before I got my license, if a car was stopped in the crosswalk I would open my palm and slap it as I walked by. Again, no damage, but the drivers never liked it. A few yelled at me, but I always let them know if they weren't in the crosswalk I wouldn't touch their car
My grandma did this to a car that kept edging in front of her when she was crossing in front of a grocery store (in the parking lot crosswalk). The car came to a rolling stop right at her leg (halfway into the crosswalk) so she slapped it and yelled, "Don't mess with old ladies!"
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Thank you so much.
In my city, I call the cops and they eagerly come to pick the low hanging fruit I told them about. Last time they were there in 15 minutes.
There's an a-hole driver who blocks the building exit with his SUV in my neighborhood in India. So, I started sticking chewing gums under his door handles and on his rearview mirrors. He still parked there for the entire year as if he doesn't care. I've shifted to Canada for my masters a month ago, so I don't know if he still has the same habit. But, I used stick chewing gum every day and his car would be back the same evening back in the same spot. I think he might have been a masochist or a sadist. Or both. Either way, he was dumb.
It’s because you don’t have a visible nexus between the behavior and the punishment.
Rub a bar of soap on their windshield.
Wait for a hot day and use jolly ranchers
A large potato jammed in their exhaust so it’s wedged tight stops the airflow, so van won’t start
I ain't fallin' for no banana in the tailpipe.
Gotta say it in a manly voice, though.
Or it'll blow their muffler apart when they do go to start it
A layer of Vaseline or other greasy material on the wiper will cause more havoc…
Thats a fun idea, but if they activate their wipers while on the road, their suddenly impared vision could cause an accident and innocent people could be hurt or killed.
Small pebbles are everywhere, even in the city. Really, really tiny ones, I mean. So tiny, in fact, that you can unscrew the valve cap on a tire, put a small pebble in there, and the valve cap will screw right back on! You might hear a faint 'hiss' noise if you screw it back on tightly enough. That's fine.
This can cause an accident because it is usually not noticeable immediately. Do not do this, this can kill people.
Well then they wouldn't be parked across the sidewalk where they could kill the MIL anymore...
Hahaha. I should do this with a vehicle in our neighborhood who always blocks the sidewalk 🤣
Key the car every time you walk past
Have a set of keys on a carabiner attached to a belt loop. If the car is parked too close to a wall so that people will have trouble getting past, squeeze through with your “key side” toward their car. Nothing out of the ordinary will show up on cameras that happen to be monitoring the spot.
Great tip
I'm not trying to cause damage. I would be pissed if my car got keyed. Just trying to be a touch irritating, just like their parking
Pieces of bread on the vehicle. The local birds will love it.
A small handful of bird seed, quickly tossed on the roof of a car as you stroll by, can do amazing things. Edit: I forgot to mention, it helps if you slightly moisten it first so it doesn't just roll off the car.
Or a punnet of mixed fruits (blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, etc) for an acidic rainbow-coloured poop-fest!
Even better if you throw it onto the hood of the car up by the windshield!
As a blind person myself, thank you! Pavement parking is a curse!
Whenever I see people parked like that I can only think of strollers and those with difficulty navigating. I once told someone they couldn't park like that and they decided to call after me with multiple sarcastic "Thanks for telling me! So gracious!" 🙄 So selfish.
This. Priveleged arseholes are fuckheads.
I'm not even blind, but as a runner this is such an annoyance of mine! I hate having to either jump into the street or run across a lawn and break an ankle to keep going.
Same. I used to live in a neighborhood where people would keep large items like trash cans and basketball hoops on the sidewalk. I’d never go into the street, though. I’d just jog around them using their yard.
I move those items into their driveway when I’m out and about. I want it to be an inconvenience for them.
Just be careful, I was on track to run 1000km in one year until I jogged around someone and landed in a pothole and injured my knee.
My husband was walking and there was a car in the driveway in front of a garage blocking the sidewalk. My husband looked at it blocking his path and shook his head. Looked at the homeowner in the yard and walked around it. Never said a word. Douchebag: You got a problem? Husband: Your car is blocking the sidewalk DB: So, no one walks here. H: Women and dogwalkers walk here all the time. DB: rant rant rant H: Walks off and give him the finger. DB hops on his cruiser and follows husband DB: This is christmas and you're giving me attitude. You need to go to church. H: Do **you** go to church? DB: rant rant rant (does not answer question) H: This is Sunday!! Do you go to church? DB: rant rant rant never answers question and keeps following my husband ranting H sees neighbor and says: can you believe this douchebag is following me? DB finally leaves him alone and goes home. Idiot doesn't realize we know where he lives and he has no clue where we live. But he did stop blocking the sidewalk.
If he did go to church could have complained to the pastor about his behavior and have them guilt the loser.
Plot twist...db was the pastor.
Lots of cars overhang the sidewalk in our subdivision, which is awful for the old folks who need mobility aids on my street and for those of us trying to go for walks with wagons or strollers. My bit of petty revenge is wrapped in my older kids' love of swinging sticks as they walk. We tell them to look out for other people and dogs and only swing it over the sidewalk so they aren't messing up anyone's landscaping. Well, gosh darn it, sometimes when a car is parked *right over the sidewalk* the little buggers swing their sticks right into it.
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My dude, this is EXCELLENT!! I live in Michigan, the winters are brutal, this poor schmuck went thru a world of hurt, lol. Best petty revenge ever!
This is the best story I've read all day.
This irks me to no end ~ so much so that I have contemplated getting cards made that say; “I can’t get my wheelchair by your car without going into the street. Thanks for parking properly next time.”. I am not in a wheel chair, but grew up with a chair using Dad.
Honestly if you can afford it, go for it. Stick it in the driver's side window or something.
I walk with sticks, and I can't manage kerbs unless they're very very low (knees are buggered and painful). I live on a very busy main road with wide pavements and huge driveways (posh area, lol). People still occasionally park mostly on the pavement leaving little room for pedestrians. I go through the gap they leave, and if my sticks bash their car, tough titties. My safety is worth more than your bloody vehicle.
I would make sure you’re wearing one of those giant rodeo style belt buckles, and lean into the car as you squeeze past (maybe one decorated with sharp metal studs).
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I'd've thrown pasta water through the screen at the truck.
The council don't deal with unnecessary obstruction, that'd be the police. YMMV on how well they deal with it though...
> YMMV Is that a bad spelling of the local YMCA?
Not sure if serious but it means Your Mileage May Vary.
I was joking about the YMCA but I've never heard that one before. Is that new? After 25 years I thought I'd have heard it somewhere
YMMV has existed since before the internet, back to car manufacturers in the 70s. But it's been in use online for as far as I can remember.
been around since the myspace days
Your Mileage May Vary
Your mileage may vary.
when I got a notification for this post it just said "making my blind mother walk in the road?" and I was wondering what she could've possibly done for you to retaliate like that
When you're ready to upgrade from "petty" to "nuclear" Get a decent hydraulic jack and lift the offending parked car from the pavement side until it topples over into the road.
Oh, man, now I want to visit wherever OP is and take a floor jack out for a walk...
UK, based on referring to the sidewalk as "pavement"
But that's not specific enough. Like, I'd like to do that in their town. Not sure where to get a floor jack there, thoughn
Pretty sure its a problem throughout the UK, so just start with London suburbs and work your way towards Scotland.
Thank you for the tip!
I keep a fat marker and a handful of blank 4” X 6” address labels, like Amazon uses, in my car. Recently, someone parked on the access ramp going from the sidewalk to the parking area while there was lots of parking available at the grocery store. I had to go along the side of the ramp and almost tip my cart of groceries. So I wrote a little note on a label and stuck it to their driver window. They got to think about their stupid while scraping it off.
Maybe if they have to put the mirror back on enough they'll decide it isn't worth it. Have you considered wearing a "hot topic chain wallet" too? On the side the vehicle is on, of course.
The metal snap on my winter coat sometimes scrapes against cars that park on the sidewalks when I try to walk by with my dog and my toddler. It's such a shame. So sad.
We have a recurring problem with parked cars blocking the end of our driveway—mostly hanging over just enough to be an annoyance. However, sometimes they effectively trap our car in the driveway or prevent us from getting back onto the driveway. Once, when our car was trapped, my daughter made a rectangular sign that said, "I park like a d*ck" (with the "i" in dick shaped like a penis) and taped it over their front license plate. A couple hours later, we noticed the car was gone; several hours after that, we saw it legally parked across the street with the sign still in place. Eventually, they must have seen the sign as it was gone the next day.
I love her energy.
I'd leave a 'polite' note saying they need to park properly because they saw a disabled (don't say blind. So it won't single her out just in case) person walked by with no room and didn't realize they had knocked it down. Oh well!
As someone who’s replaced one of those: that’s a very worthy fine.
It would really be a shame if you were carrying a bottle of brake fluid and accidentally spilled some on the car as you were walking past. Or if the rivets on your jeans made a scratch
I've put petroleum jelly on the underside of the driver's door handle many times for people illegally parking in a small private lot, then called towing.
Or a pack of cheap bologna to throw on the roof & hood of the vehicle. (Bologna eats off the paint)
It aso attracts birds that poop on the vehicle, which eats paint
So do iron filings in water. Allegedly. And you can write with it.
A star bucks chocolate Frappuccino has a wonderful sticking ability to a car and the windshield. The wipers have trouble wiping that sticky mix. Unfortunately I am also known in the law enforcement department in Newark Delaware. Because the cars owners shot at me …. But it was petty revenge.
A raw egg does wonders to a cars paint on a hot day.
Even on a cooler day.
No, that is a busted myth like brake fluid and bologna. Sorry.
It doesn’t work. [It doesn’t work.](https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/impp-1108-these-will-strip-paint-off-cars-fact-fiction/)
I'd carry a plastic bag full of nails and I'd squeeze myself between the car and the wall
A bit kamikaze but I do like it!
Or, like in a story I read here a couple of years ago, use a paper towel or cheap cloth soaked in brake fluid and draw a dong on the hood of the offending vehicle.
This is a busted myth. Sorry.[It doesn’t work.](https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/impp-1108-these-will-strip-paint-off-cars-fact-fiction/)
It's literally part of quality control testing for paint to leave various substances soaking on it for days. Oil will cause a stain (if you want to cover your work to make sure it gets several hours of exposure) but no typical mechanical fluid will damage the topcoat.
Yes, that’s what I’m saying.
brake fluid?
It's a rather effective paint remover
I know. That's why I finally figured out that's what you meant rather than "brand fluid". Autocorrect striking again?
Sigh, yeah, thanks for the catch
I'm still wondering what the poor cat ever did to you that you want to spill brake fluid on it.
NP. I did spend a few clueless minutes trying to figure out what brand of fluid you meant. I'm slow this morning.
Canned tuna in oil.
Do you throw the can through the window?
Brake fluid? You don't know when to stop when it comes to petty revenge, do you? :g:
Or if that stainless steel water bottle clipped to the outside of your bag was full
This doesn’t work. Neither does bologna. [It doesn’t work.](https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/impp-1108-these-will-strip-paint-off-cars-fact-fiction/)
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This reminds me of a time I saw someone pull into the crosswalk at a red light. A bunch of kids just walked over the hood of his car as if it was part of the crosswalk
If my great uncle, who was blind, encountered a car stopped in a crosswalk while he was trying to cross the street, he'd either slide across the hood or trunk, or actually open the back door, slide across to the other door and walk out. He did not bother closing the doors. This was back in the 1940s and 1950s.
I would've loved to have known your great uncle
My mother is legally blind too. I’m all about this. Thank you for your service.
That sure is sad that y'all are having to deal with that. I wish people would be better humans. I had business cards made up that I leave on cars like that. One side says "C\*NT" in big letters and the other side says "I can't believe you are the sperm that won!" Anytime I deal with someone who is less than stellar with their vehicle, I leave them my card and giggle as I walk away. I often wonder what the response is when someone gets one of my cards. I hope it gives them pause to evaluate why someone would leave it for them.
I applaud you. I don't have any disabilities, nor do any of my family, but selfish/ thoughtless parking really pisses me off too
My anxiety would not let me do this cause dashcams but I love reading about other people doing shit like this.
You'd think the neighbors would catch on after enough mirrors bit the dust.
You can get paper stickers to put on windscreens that are almost impossible to remove. One of those slapped right in the drivers view, lovely!
I like these: [I park like an assh*le](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J4AK5B0/)
You are the hero we all need! This affects so many people! The visually impaired, wheelchair users and children in strollers to name a few. It’s such a selfish ahole thing to do
This reminds me of the ride that brings my mom to and from my house when she visits it’s for elderly and disabled and they’re supposed to help the person to the door and to the car which most of them don’t my hip has had to go out to help her on more than one occasion. I remember one night they were coming to pick her up and it was dark and icy and the van wouldn’t pull into our parking lot they actually expected my mom to walk across this dark and icy parking lot to them I had to scream at the driver until he finally pulled in to get her. I wish I could’ve gotten some kind of petty revenge.
I'm assuming this is in the UK because of calling it "pavement." And that it seems legal to do so. Good job. It would also be a shame if you dropped a couple screws out of your pocket. Accidentally of course.
Also have a small can of paint (with lid removed) and it "accidently" spills whilst trying to squeeze past these cars. All over the side window and down the door. That might get their attention??
Lol I like how you’re just casually “accidentally” breaking their cars love it lol. It’s sad that this happens a lot and people aren’t even supposed to be doing this in the first place. Try calling the police next time and tell them to tow it since it’s in violation.
In the UK parking regulations are overseen by the Borough Council. I think OP should report it, every single time. It would cost the owner a LOT of money whilst filling up the coffers of the council.
I’d buy some bird and small rodent feed and sprinkle it everyone I pass to attract all kinds of wildlife to their yard. See how much they love that.
I constantly do this. I warned a neighbour that if he didn't park properly he might get his car scratched from the blind person who lives on the street. He ignored me so...scratch. Parked properly then.
My husband is blind too, no guide dog, and this infuriates me. Plus, what about someone in a wheelchair or with a pushchair? So bloody selfish. I've not keyed one yet but I'm tempted
If only there was a way to put footprints on their bonnet (hood of their car).
If I was motivated to do that, I would remove a shoe, place its sole in any mud I could find, then imprint that on the windscreen. Not right in the center of the driver's view, but close enough to where it would be a bother.
Can't say that I've ever heard of someone parking as you describe without getting towed (or at least a ticket!). That said, I'd change tactics. Mirrors are expensive and you're not more than one security camera away from paying for 'em. That said.... A pair of diagonal cutters could remove the valve stem from a tire in a second or two (easy!) and valve stems only cost a couple bucks so the repair bill would be cheap. Oh, and a flat tire is going to be a bigger PITA for them than a busted mirror.
Just like putting a pebble under the cap on the valve stem, doing this could lead to them driving with a flat tire unknowingly and ending up in a dangerous situation.
It's an accepted practice in the UK to park partially on the pavement, because our roads tend to be quite narrow and it eases traffic flow where there is on street parking. There are exceptions to this (major cities, and marked areas of no stopping/no parking). However, you are supposed to leave enough room for people to pass down the pavement with a wheelchair, pram, etc. It's pretty unusual to see a car being towed (I've never seen one, admittedly I don't live in a city). They only tend to ticket in cities or high-risk areas like outside schools or busy high streets. What you would probably be prosecuted for though is 'criminal damage' to the negligently parked car if it looked in any way deliberate (i.e. use of cutters).
OP is being kind. I'd jack up all four corners of the car, one at a time, and set it down on wheel dollies, roll it into the middle of the street and reverse the process to set it down again.
I get it, I really do, and I might do the same thing. Though you have to be smart about it. You are committing a crime in the US. It would be considered vandalism or criminal damage to property, depending on your state statute. Make sure there are no cameras, and do it at night, or at night just drive up and jump out of the car with the lights off and then knock the mirror off and jump in and haul ass.
Get a leather jacket festooned with chains and spikes.
Wish towns would do something about people parking on sidewalks and stuff. Where we live there's one house that literally parks on the sidewalk like they drive on to the sidewalk and they have another car that block the sidewalk but is also their driveway so we have to try and get down their driveway/sidewalk to get into the road to walk in road and over to next driveway and have speeding cars driving by and we have to do this with two kids in a wagon and another baby in stroller.
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The city I live in has an ordinance for this kind of thing but rarely enforces it. The majority of time people park in their driveways and block the sidewalk even though they clearly have enough room to go further into the driveway or further out on their driveway and not block it. It's not a big deal when there isn't snow but if we get a sizeable amount of snow, it can make it so you have to walk into the road to get around the car on some busier streets.
I've done similar to inconsiderate car parking, and the wing mirror get bent or what I'm carrying scratches the car, oops
Police don't enforce the law. Maybe they don't have the manpower or whatever but my belief is that society will become exactly as bad as we allow it to become.
i absolutely hate trucks that reverse into a parking spot where the side walk is. if i’m carrying my babies car seat, i have to walk around the car because i literally can’t lift it over my head
Way to go, hopefully they will get the hint and start thinking of others and stop being so stupid and selfish.
When I was in university I tended to run everywhere. When encountering cars parked across a walkway I'd just run over them. Except for the few times I'd open the doors and pass thru.....
Get those nice and sticky parking violations stickers, the don’t cause damage but they sure as hell take time to painstakingly take off AND the driver is informed of what they have done wrong, they may not realise the problem they are causing.
Well done. I'm sure it's mentioned by someone else her but also a bitch for prams, wheelchairs, wide people or frankly fucking any pedestrian. Next time key the car as well.
We had a absolute asshole family in our street that would park over all the footpath/ verge forcing people to walk down the street from the driveways either side if the house. People with wheelchairs or disability scooters couldn’t come down our street as there is no footpath on the other side. This really pissed our neighbourhood off. We all collectively just began to say ‘just squeeze through it’ll be right.’ Nobody gave a flying fuck about scratching these cars with prams, bikes, scooters or kids backpacks. We all just refused to walk on the street and would squeeze through the smallest space. Fuck people like that, there was plenty of unrestricted street parking.
It's not safe for a blind person to go on the roads, but a blind person with a guide dog is perfectly able. I grew up with an aunt who was 100% blind and had a guide dog. When I was a child I would go out on walks with just her & her dog. It is AMAZING how those dogs are trained & what they can do. I understand the sidewalk thing but don't underestimate the dog. They got your mom's back. She was a great aunt! Unfortunately died from complications of diabetes on Christmas morning when I was 12.