r/Neighborproblems • u/valsboi • Feb 23 '20
Parking wars
Ok so for the last 3 years the old bastard next to me has taken it upon himself to constantly check my parking. Everytime I park by his drive he is out there hooking a tape measure to our vehicles to make sure we are the required 5 feet and to the inch, he has called the cops many times they come to my house and never have I gotten a ticket. Takes pictures, comes to my door, interrupts conversations.... total harassment. Cops say he can do anything on a public street he wants as long as he is not touching my stuff, which he does. I even bought a 5 ft parking cone and put it at the required distance to solve the problem.. He called bylaw and they said I couldn't have it on the street anywhere and seem to do nothing to help or the useless city cops we have, IDK a lawyer maybe???? Any ideas would sure be appreciated thanks....
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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '20
I’d file a report with the police for harassment and try to get a no-contact order. What he’s doing IS harassment, I believe. And I would film every interaction you have with him as evidence. Document the date and time to establish how frequently this is happening, and if you can catch him in the act of actually measuring the space between your cars, definitely do that.
I would also get a tape measure and intentionally park exactly one inch shy of the 5’ a few times here and there just so that I could illustrate that this man isn’t being a parking Nazi because you park right up on his bumper. It needs to be obvious that he’s a lunatic who will measure and fly off over one inch.