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I had a problem with a neighbor who would constantly park over the sidewalk and block it completely. I knocked on his door and politely asked him to stop. He r

I had a problem with a neighbor who would constantly park over the sidewalk and block it completely. I knocked on his door and politely asked him to stop. He reacted in the worse way possible and tried to intimidate me while never opening his storm door. This caused me to laugh and it made him even more angry. He refused to move the truck and my wife and I refused to push our child’s stroller into the street. So I called our city’s police non emergency number. I thought the city would send out an officer to speak to the guy. Nope. They just sent a tow truck and towed it without even knocking on the guy’s door. I had that guy’s truck towed four times in less than two months. He made multiple posts on Nextdoor and to my surprise many individuals came to his defense and supported him parking on the sidewalk.

pavel_lishin 3y ago
> He made multiple posts on Nextdoor and to my surprise many individuals came to his defense and supported him parking on the sidewalk. Similar experience with local Facebook. People truly don't understand why anyone would be upset with someone parking their car in a sidewalk.
- hollywood_court 3y ago
  A similar incident was the main reason I canceled all of my social media altogether. There is a stop sign directly in front of my house. Children routinely play in the street. People were running the stop sign all day everyday. Not just rolling through it, but going through it so fast that they were ending up on the opposite side of the road and had to correct themselves to get into the proper lane. My wife and I spent months calling and emailing the police department. I even setup a cheap Wyze camera attached to our mailbox and sent videos to the police department. They never did anything. I finally made a post on Nextdoor and it caused a huge mess. People were so offended that we expected them to simply stop at the sign and drive at a reasonable speed. It really caused me to no longer want to be involved in any of the community stuff in our town.
  - alphabettsy 3y ago
    Nextdoor and Ring neighborhoods can be really awful. Surprisingly the best experiences for me have been in my neighborhood’s Facebook group.
  - pavel_lishin 3y ago
    I'm proud of you for doing the right thing. I would have just started throwing bricks in the road.
nick_ 3y ago
That sounds exactly like 9/10 sidewalk parkers that I approach. Their attitude is always that their private vehicle has the right to be stored on public property for free.
bifrost 3y ago
Sounds about right.

pavel_lishin 3y ago

> He made multiple posts on Nextdoor and to my surprise many individuals came to his defense and supported him parking on the sidewalk. Similar experience with local Facebook. People truly don't understand why anyone would be upset with someone parking their car in a sidewalk.

hollywood_court 3y ago
A similar incident was the main reason I canceled all of my social media altogether. There is a stop sign directly in front of my house. Children routinely play in the street. People were running the stop sign all day everyday. Not just rolling through it, but going through it so fast that they were ending up on the opposite side of the road and had to correct themselves to get into the proper lane. My wife and I spent months calling and emailing the police department. I even setup a cheap Wyze camera attached to our mailbox and sent videos to the police department. They never did anything. I finally made a post on Nextdoor and it caused a huge mess. People were so offended that we expected them to simply stop at the sign and drive at a reasonable speed. It really caused me to no longer want to be involved in any of the community stuff in our town.
- alphabettsy 3y ago
  Nextdoor and Ring neighborhoods can be really awful. Surprisingly the best experiences for me have been in my neighborhood’s Facebook group.
- pavel_lishin 3y ago
  I'm proud of you for doing the right thing. I would have just started throwing bricks in the road.

nick_ 3y ago

That sounds exactly like 9/10 sidewalk parkers that I approach. Their attitude is always that their private vehicle has the right to be stored on public property for free.

bifrost 3y ago

Sounds about right.