ULPT: How to Stop Neighbor from Parking in Front of my House
Posted by phosphosaurus@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 34 comments
My irritating neighbor parks their POS car in front of my house. It's laneway parking with a sidewalk infront. The problem is they start and idle it which is so loud it literally sounds like a bomb is going off, waking me up at loud times in the night and idling it for >10mins duing the day.
How do I put a stop to this once and for all?
Things I've tried:
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Politely leaving a note on their windshield kindly asking they park their loud car in front of their own house or better yet, their garage.
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Caling the municipal bylaw office twice for both idling (sometimes they would do it >1 hour and it would shake my house) and also noise complaints (the fact that it sounds like a bomb going off). I live in Canada so they would get a warning before a fine.
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Getting a neighbor to help them diagnose the issue with their loud POS car. (When one dies they just get another equally loud one)
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Building a snow wall against their car (Canadian). This worked (their car even got stuck for an hour after they attempted to move it after a week, but now the snow melted.
Ideas to try next:
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Sprinkle rusty nails on the road infront of my house (we have a garage for our cars in the back alley)
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Hire someone to slash their tires (they have front cameras so I can't do this myself)
3.???
puddlewizard@reddit
Depending where you are in Canada it is illegal to idle a car over 3 minutes.
Call bylaw daily, hell call multiple times a day if they don't send anybody to deal with it promptly.
Your best bet is to make sure it's documented how often this happens.
Personal_Shoulder983@reddit
Is it really? In Canada? The place where half of the population remote start their car in winter?
puddlewizard@reddit
The first words I said are depending on where you are, as a massive chunk of the population lives in places where you do not need to idle for over 3 minutes in the winter.
Source: I'm literally in Canada
Personal_Shoulder983@reddit
Let's agree to disagree. Source, I'm in Canada too.
bean_fritter@reddit
birdseed + powdered laxative
No_Eye1022@reddit
Do you mind confrontation? Just start chucking eggs at it the moment he turns it on
phosphosaurus@reddit (OP)
Will try this.
At this point I'm borderline schizophrenic from the lack of sleep.
No_Eye1022@reddit
On second thought, in this economy, there might be cheaper options
False-Strawberry-319@reddit
Birdseed.
Fine-Structure-1299@reddit
Park your car there to take up space
phosphosaurus@reddit (OP)
But what if they fuck w my car?
ZanzaBarBQ@reddit
You have a camera
Honky_Town@reddit
Call police. Prepare by reporting some more shits so its documented and they be the suspect.
3daycondor@reddit
Get cameras
IdubdubI@reddit
Buy a POS of your own to park there.
wtporter@reddit
Freeze piss, shove inside tailpipe to muffler. Muffler heats, cooks piss, car smells like piss forever.
Get glass etching cream/liquid and go to town.
Find super aggressive dog and tie leash to driver side window. Crazy glue passenger side lock. Watch them try to get in car.
Figure out what time they leave daily. Schedule your morning crap for 5 min before they leave. Take crap on hood.
Record sound of car. Make sound loop. It cheap blue tooth portable speakers off marketplace or wherever you can find them. Put them against neighbors bedroom window, set volume to max and blast sound if their own car while they are asleep. When they find speaker just use different one the next day.
Zip tie small wind powered whistles to grill so everytime they drive they hear a whistle and have to go to the garage.
Eastern-Astronomer-6@reddit
This sub is weird. The last 3 posts like this everyone jumped on OP because the car is legally parked and for this thread everyone is on OP's side. So strange.
mmartinien@reddit
I think is is mostly about the noise nuisance than the parking in itself.
ReasonableTiger4945@reddit
Sorry Karen you can't control people who park on the street. Mind your business. Don't try and fuck up his shit cuz you're too fragile that they park on the public Street.
jarrucho@reddit
Hey! You all right? Everything ok at home?
phosphosaurus@reddit (OP)
Dog that's what I'm already doing. Nothing kept Karen.
I'm trying change it up. Actually do something about it for a change. Fuck some shit up. š
Cowpreensive@reddit
Potato on exhaust pipe
SeeMarkFly@reddit
Put a bill for a parking fee on their windshield. Increase the dollar amount each time.
Sonikku_a@reddit
You donāt own the street.
Sod off
Lxspos13@reddit
A nice squirt of zip strip paint remover from a bicycle šš¼
ech0_7ruth@reddit
lol the pattern itāll make it you give it a little wiggle as you spray n ride
Lxspos13@reddit
https://youtu.be/4M2DmJaoxRk?si=XyRx2Jy8PXp4jJie
Coelubris@reddit
Toss a ton of birdseed all over the car. They will have a crappy situation every time.
Jim-Jones@reddit
If you're in Canada you may find that your city has a 3-hour limit on parking in front of somebody else's property.Ā
phosphosaurus@reddit (OP)
Sadly mine is 72 hours and they still do nothing
lavasca@reddit
Use CL for the next town over. Invite 2-3 fellows to pose as whatever they like and linger beside the vehicle.
Costumes may include:
Clowns
Exomorphs
Lingering activities may include but are not limited to:
Interpretive dance
Ring around the rosies
Excessive french fry eating
Waiting for perpetrator, rolling out red carpet and escorting them to their destination while singing āHow do you solve a problem like Maria?ā
Deliver a particular type of disk to place under the perpetratorās car
ech0_7ruth@reddit
I had a neighbor who went through something similar, she put the dudes car up for a really low cost on Craigslist, said something like transmission was just replaced and under warranty but that it had to be towed as the license plate and vin were jacked from another car.. very descriptive of the location and when people could stop by to check it out first come first served.
DocumentSuitable3993@reddit
Mask
trustedbyamillion@reddit
Another one