Guy Parks Car In Public Parking, Neighbor Insists It’s Private And Stabs Tire, Gets Reality Check
Imagine moving into a new house, in a wonderful, calm area, and already looking forward to living here happily ever after, with nothing to spoil your carefree life… You already sensed a catch here, didn’t you? Yes, there are almost always some nuances in such stories – and there are some in this one, too.
The narrator of this story had the misfortune of having a neighbor who, contrary to all rules and laws, believed that the stretch of public road opposite their house (just a street, without any driveway) should have been their special parking spot. This, of course, was not the case, but the neighbor didn’t care…
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This story happened around 3 decades ago, when the author of the post had the misfortune of living next to some entitled guy
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That man wrongly considered the public road in front of his house to be his exclusive parking space, for some reason
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Accordingly, the guy used to attack the neighbors for parking there – and the author was not an exception
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One day, after finding his car with a stabbed tire, the author decided to take petty revenge on the guy
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They bought an old car with a certificate expiring in a year, parked it on the spot in front of the neighbor’s house – and simply left it there
This story, told to us by the user u/AceRead73, happened about three decades ago in the UK. Since then, as the Original Poster (OP) assumes, the rules may have changed, and this year-long petty revenge (some netizens, however, call it a full-flegded pro revenge) may well not have happened. Well, as they say, there’s a time for everything…
So, the author’s neighbor, for some reason, strongly believed that the section of public road opposite his house belonged to him and only him. Accordingly, he perceived any other car, except his or his wife’s, parked in this space to be a personal and very offensive insult. The OP, who lived directly opposite the spot, often parked there, however.
Quarrel after quarrel, one word led to another – and one day, the author found their car with a punctured tire. It was impossible to prove anything, but they understood perfectly well that it was the neighbor. That’s when the OP took action…
They bought an old Ford Fiesta for £300 (~$400), with a valid insurance and certificate from the Ministry of Transport, waited until that coveted place opposite the neighbor’s house became free – and just left the car there.
The certificate expired in a year, and for the following twelve months, the neighbor had to watch the old Ford rust under his windows. The car gradually had all its tires stabbed, its windows broken, and local teenagers covered it in graffiti – but there was no legal reason to tow it away from the neighbor. Formally, the author was 100% law-abiding.
The police went to the Ford’s resting place from time to time – but everything was okay with the papers, and after hearing this story, the cops invariably laughed and drove away. The day before the certificate expired, the OP called the towing company – and took the car to the dump. Yes, they spent money – but who would dare say that the pleasure they’d been receiving for a whole year was not worth it?
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“People like this neighbor, unfortunately, are encountered literally at every step,” says Maria Kryvosheeva, a psychologist and NLP coach, with whom Bored Panda got in touch for a comment here. “It is interesting that the mechanism by which such a conviction in one’s own rightness arises is almost always the same in different people.
“The famous French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote: ‘Hell is other people,’ meaning that people don’t tend to associate the typical mistakes of others with themselves. That is, they believe that they have the right to do what they condemn in others. Usually, this is due to wrong parental upbringing – that is, the system is set up to reproduce itself.
“Moreover, even if such a person is shown any rule that they somehow violate, they tend not to believe it too – simply because the pattern that they are infallible is firmly ingrained in their heads. It’s possible to cope with this – but to do so, one must admit their own mistakes – and for many of us this is very difficult and quite painful,” Maria summarizes.
People in the comments also expressed admiration for the ingenuity of the original poster and, unfortunately, shared many of their own stories from various countries about how they had to deal with similar entitled folks. “I can’t believe the number of people who think they own a space on the public road,” someone concluded. By the way, have you, dear readers, ever encountered anything similar in your life?
Most commenters just cracked up over the hapless neighbor and gave their own similar stories and parking dramas
Location, Location, Location viewers left baffled by ‘entitled’ couple’s response to spacious home in Surrey suburb
- This week, Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer were house hunting in Surrey
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By ELEANOR DYE, SENIOR LIFESTYLE REPORTER
Published: 22:19 GMT, 21 May 2025 | Updated: 09:55 GMT, 22 May 2025
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Location, Location, Location viewers have been left baffled by a young couple who dubbed spacious homes in leafy Surrey a ‘compromise’.
On tonight’s episode of the Channel 4 series, Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer hoped to find Elise, Elliot and their three young children the perfect home.
Having already sold their three-bedroom property, the couple had a healthy budget of £650,000 for four bedrooms and an open-plan downstairs.
But, heavily emphasising that they weren’t willing to compromise, Elise and Elliot were struggling to meet all their needs with the money available.
As a result, they’d viewed countless properties and, despite having moved back in with Elliot’s parents, were refusing to settle for something less than perfect.
With Kirstie taking them round several properties, the couple either weren’t ‘sure’ about the area, said the homes were ‘too small’, and even just ‘didn’t feel the love’ for what they were seeing.
Their indecision soon left viewers of the show baffled – as they failed to see anything wrong with the sought-after postcodes and spacious properties.
People said: ‘They are worried about the area?? Mate, you’re in Epsom’;
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Location, Location, Location viewers were baffled that Elliot and Elise (pictured) were refusing to compromise on their new home in Surrey
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Viewing one property in Ewell (pictured), they said it was too small
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‘Watching a bit of Location, Location, Location for first time in years, and am reassured they still have the formula of one reasonable couple and one self-entitled tosspot couple who won’t compromise on anything, and refuse to consider a house because the road name has an F in it.’
However, others were more positive – and praised the ‘excellent episode’ with ‘lovely couples’.
Another wryly noted: ‘They certainly like beige in Surrey.’
However, their indecision was partly due to both wanting to be close to family in a nice area, and also wanting a spacious design – two requirements that seemed to be impossible.
Kirstie kicked off the search with a four-bedroom home in the leafy market town of Epsom – nestled between London and the Surrey Hills.
Unfortunately, Elliot, who works in animation, and stay at home mother Elise had already discarded the property when they saw it online – saying they weren’t ‘sure’ about the location.
But, seeing the potential, Kirstie warned ‘there has to be a compromise somewhere’ – and said it may have to be the location.
Realising Epsom was a lost cause, Kirstie found them a selection of properties to view in Ewell, which was much closer to where Elliot’s parents live.
But despite one smart semi-detached home having three-bedrooms and a converted attic, the couple said it was ‘too small’.
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The property was actually very spacious downstairs (pictured), with the open-plan design they’d hoped for
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But despite a converted attic into a master suite (pictured), they didn’t think the upstairs was big enough
Viewers were baffled that the couple were worried about the area – and one even implied they were ‘entitled’
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‘The upstairs was much better than the downstairs and we want the downstairs to be the big space,’ Elise explained.
Moving on to what she thought was her ‘last option’ for them, Kirstie was once again met with disappointment when another home in Ewell had already been viewed by the couple.
Despite being detached and a good size, with four bedrooms and an office, Kirstie said the two ‘didn’t feel the love’ for the property.
However, not all hope was to be lost, as eventually Elise and Elliot realised a property they’d previously viewed was the one for them.
On the market for offers in excess of £700,000, they’d initially believed it was out of their budget but, with Kirstie’s help, managed to get an offer accepted for £675,000.
The delighted couple confessed at the end of the episode: ‘We can’t believe it, it’s a bit of a fairytale, it’s like a dream come true.
‘It ticks so many of our boxes, more than we ever thought we could on our budget.’
Elsewhere in the episode, Phil Spencer sought to find a home for Kim and Ralph who, with two children under five, were bursting out of Kim’s two-bedroom starter flat.
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Kirstie (pictured) had insisted the couple would have to compromise, but eventually found them everything they were looking for
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Kirstie found them a second option in Ewell (pictured) – but they’d already viewed it and didn’t love it
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However, all hope was not lost, and Elise and Elliot eventually secured the home of their dreams (pictured), also in Ewell
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At the end of the show, the couple said all of their dreams had come true and ‘they couldn’t believe it’
They desperately wanted a taste of the space they grew up with in Zimbabwe – but close to their extended family in Horley.
Luckily, Phil had success from the get-go, as Kim and Ralph loved every property they saw, and even joked they would put an offer in on the first one.
They too had a happy ending, and their offer of £470,000 for property two was accepted.
Last week, Location, Location, Location viewers slammed a pair of Gen Z sisters for purchasing a ‘pokey’ London flat for an eye-watering £405,000 on Wednesday evening’s episode.
Amoke, a campaigner for a non-profit organisation, and Ines, who works in digital marketing, saved up enough money for a deposit for a flat in north London by continuing to live at their family home in Ipswich.
The pair, who are in their mid-twenties and had some financial help from their brood, haven’t had the best of luck in the capital city, where even the rental market is cut-throat.
They began their search two-and-a-half years ago and have since viewed over 50 properties and even put in an offer for four – but they all fell through due to bizarre circumstances, which even shocked expert Kirstie Allsopp.
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Last week, Location, Location, Location viewers slammed a pair of Gen Z sisters for purchasing a ‘pokey’ London flat
Amoke, 25, said: ‘One of them, somebody else already started their mortgage process, the other one we got beat out by another cash buyer. There was [also] a man who was quite elderly and quite unwell and his nephew had started selling the place before he died.
‘Our lawyer was like “If you buy this, when you try and sell it I’m not even sure you’d own it”. There was also someone living in it that didn’t have a tenancy agreement. Ines, 23, revealed that their fourth offer was also outbid by the council, who offered the seller more money and all in cash.
Kirstie said: ‘I’m sorry! Jesus, Mary and Joseph! The council were buying back properties and you were outbid by the council? Oh my God, I’ve never even heard of that. I’m genuinely open-mouthed.’
Their bad luck in the London property market only fuelled Kirstie’s hunger to get them on the housing ladder and they ended up securing a property in north London for £405,000 – which was over their original budget of £5,000 – with fans of the Channel 4 show saying they should’ve ‘moved to the suburbs instead’.
