REVENGE! - She Stole My Owned Parking Spot (SILLY FUN Instead of Having Her TOWED)

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Published 2018-02-19
UPDATE: 2 weeks after this she saw me getting into my car and came over to apologize and thank me for not having her towed. Apparently it happened to her recently when she parked in another spot. I guess she was thankful for saving time and money by not having to go get her car from an impound lot. Everyone wins! :)


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***** THE STORY *****
I came home from work at 3am to discover someone had stolen my parking spot! (This is an owned and reserved/assigned spot). Each spot in the garage is assigned to a resident, so I could not just go park in another spot.

I decided not to have them towed, instead opting for placing 20 reminder notes on their car, just to be sure she saw it. I set up a hidden camera in our other car before I went to sleep, because I really wanted to see who this was.

This was fun to make. I could have had them towed, but decided to let it slide this time. Luckily she didn't ALSO come into my house! :D

#ParkingSpot #BadParking #Revenge

(BTS: Behind the Scenes Production Secret!)
The real tricky part was that I didn't have much footage of me putting the notes on the car, so the next night I had to do some re-takes even though she was back in her spot. (I took them off myself the second time!) That's how video production goes, sometimes you have to do retakes. Congrats to the very few who spotted this! Great eyes! :D

This happened just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in Oakville. We have assigned parking in our condo's garage and this person decided to park in my spot.

I have been watching a lot of Casey Neistat and Peter McKinnon so used elements of their VLOG style to make this video.

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Title: Road Trip
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Title: Almost Original
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Title: Danger
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All Comments (21)
  • @TheJeffChase
    UPDATE: The lady saw me get into my car this morning and came over to apologize and thank me for not towing her. She said THAT it has happened to her before. Amazing! Quick note: There seems to be some confusion in the comments. This is indeed a purchased and owned parking spot. It's the same as someone coming to your house and parking in your driveway/property. I legally could have had them towed, but decided to be nice and have some fun. For the people asking why I didn't confront her, I wasn't there... I set up the camera and let it roll, I wasn't sitting hidden in a car for hours, that's silly lol!!! (I did periodically come down to check, wanted to make sure it was still recording).
  • @TheCludo
    when someone parked his black chevy on my parking space outside i made french fryes and invited all the doves of the citty on his car, thank god these flying rats shitt like there is no tomorrow and the roof, the windshield and the back view mirrors were full of bird poop. It was a sight to behold
  • @peggyhill.3798
    This is all the way frustrating! I just moved into my dream apartment and you get one free space and you have to pay for a second. I pay for a second one for my bpyfrind and the family that lives in my block got their son a new car and they instructed him to just park in my boyfriends. It went like this for a week and I waited 2 hours for them to come down. I confronted them and told them it was a violation of the lease agreement and they got pissed! They said they lived here longer and make more money so they deserve it. Wtf. I worked my ass off to be able to live here. I make just as much as them. I took it up.qith the owner of the building and they had to pay a fine of 1000 dollars and I got half of it. I hate inconsiderate people. And to top it off the security cameras caught their spoiled son keying my 1967 impala. I pressed charged and had him arrested and the whole family moved. Assholes.
  • @enyayannidido
    we lived in Santa Barbara, CA, so parking spots are not a separate property we have to purchase, it comes with the purchase of the condo. My husband, kids and I arrived home from hospital with our newborn to find a car parked in our condo designated spot. My husband wanted to go knock on the units close to ours to locate the owner of the car. I said, no! I need you to help me with getting the kids and all the stuff (carriers, diaper bags and luggage) all that comes with having a newborn a toddler and a school age child settled first. I Did not want to deal with finding the owner of car that was rude enough to take someone's parking space. So, we parked behind them. Figured when they were ready to leave they would come find us. Yup, they did, at 11 PM and not even ashamed of having parked in my spot. He Was just miffed that he had to come and find us to get out. Turns out it was the next door neighbour's brother that was visiting. You might say, he made a mistake, he thought it was her spot. Wrong, he is also the owner of the condo she was living in. So he damn well knew it was not her spot!
  • @richardmann5049
    Years ago, after an all night snow storm, I shoveled my spot (each apartment had an assigned spot) out before I left for work. when I returned from work a neighbor was parked in my shoveled out spot. I knocked on his door to ask why and he said because it was shoveled. I asked him not to do that again ... he slammed the door in my face. Two days later the same neighbor did the same thing to me. I buried his car with snow. When I came home from work he was pounding at my door cussing me out. A month later .. the same thing.  Since the owners of the complex didn't want to get involved, I gave my 30 day notice. The day I moved,  I chained his rear axle to the guard rail behind his car.
  • @stanhammond8414
    You sir are a saint, I would have had her towed or worse. You are a patient man, and that's awesome that the lady thanked you for not having her towed. Can't believe some people in the comments think YOU'RE the bad one lol You are the hero of this story. That lady is not intelligent... She was very lucky it was your spot she parked in.
  • @dawsie
    Lol I remember years ago I had parked in my spot and when I came out to go to work there was a car parked in front of me in the drive way so I was not able to get out, because I had a Suzuki softtop 4WD I was able to get a couple of friends over with rolling jacks and jacked my car up and out of the way into the empty parking bay next to me yep empty 😹😹😹 once we got my little 4WD free I then wrote on all the windows with red lipstick (very expensive mind you) asking him to next time to leave me the can opener so I could get out easier as he was parked in front of my car across the parking bay 😳😤😵 I just wish I had been the fly on the wall to see his face when he saw my car missing from the parking bay but most of all trying to get an oil based lipstick off all of his windows. When I got home from my 12 hour shift the bugger was then parked in my parking bay. It has my flat number on the parking bay so he knows it’s not his so I did what he did to me 16 hours earlier I parked in front of his car and then went to bed 😹😹😹 I mean I was on night shift again in 10 hours 😹😹😹 Around 10am he knocked on my door actually he hammered on my door I was fast asleep so when I woke up and opened the door he tried to bully me 😳 told him to call the tow company and see if he could get my car moved 😹😹😹he did just that so I waited until the tow truck showed up and then went down and spoke to the guy explaining what had happened in the last 24 hours explain the guy had parked me in the night before and then when I was gone parked in my parking spot... Well he was asked to show his ID for prof of living in the building as the sign on the wall states “NO Visitor Parking” 😹😹😹😹 he could not because he did not live in the building 😹😹😹he lived wait for it ........... he lives across the road from me and they have no parking in their units at all😹😹😹😹 he got towed instead 😹😹😹 for illegal parking 😹😹😹 and had to pay the fine and also pay for calling the tow truck out in the first place 😹😹😹
  • @shyone968
    A very creative way to solve a sticky situation. She had already been towed from another space. She knew the spots were assigned and paid for. A few notes to remind her to be considerate of other condo owners is nothing. She needs to use her spot. Well played sir, well played.
  • A couple parked in my step-daughter's assigned numbered spot a few times. Their reason was that they had a longer distance to walk to their apartment ( only about 50 more feet). After the third request my daughter had their car towed...twice! After the second tow they finally got the idea that walking 50 feet was cheaper than paying for a tow bill.
  • @tobyturcott
    Jeff - I've worked in the parking industry for 13 years. This kind of behavior is an ongoing problem. People see a spot, they need a spot, so they take the spot. They don't look at signs, they are wrapped up in their own little world and don't for a second consider that the big red, blue or whatever sign that is clearly posted has any bearing on their immediate needs.
  • @brianwarner6793
    Check it out people... This guy wasn't trying to destroy but rather prove a point... he pays for that spot. This was funny. She parked there and he was inconvenienced for a few hours. Damaging her car would have meant him being just as assinine as her. Geez people.
  • @johnscully1924
    I did something similar when someone kept parking in my space at work, except that I went to Staples, purchased some full sheet "extreme adhesive" labels and printed my note on about ten of them, then stuck them all over his windows after using alcohol to clean the glass. Probably took him hours to get them off.
  • People who think it is no big deal to park in someone else's RESERVED parking spot are people who think the rules don't apply to them. They are also people who think they are entitled to things they don't deserve. I PAY for my parking spot, it clearly says RESERVED. If it isn't reserved for YOU then don't park there. Also, tell your friends and family NOT to park in someone else's spot. Why should I park somewhere else when I PAY for my spot, it is actually in my property deed!
  • @wootgirl596
    I appreciate how you briefly explain the situation and jump right to it instead of spending a huge majority of the beginning of the video explaining every little detail and begging me to subscribe, like, etc! Made the video much more enjoyable! Idk what kind of videos you make but ill sub just for that reason.
  • @paulgeyer1067
    Good that she apologized. Perhaps just a dumb airhead mistake. You did good...far better for her than a tow or (heaven forbid) a mysteriously flattened tire.
  • That's awesome man! I have a similar problem everyday were I work operating rides. We have two designated employee parking lots. And everyday at least half of those spots are taken by tourists, even though there's a sign on every tree, and posts everywhere saying "EMPLOYEE PARKING ONLY" and they even have arrows pointing to the customer parking.
  • @siriosstar4789
    Congratulations for being one of the few people on youtube that did an update to their story . So often now , we get baited with a story that has no context or no ending via an update. Thanks ! 👍
  • @KatyBauer1
    I'm glad she was gracious about it and didn't try to harass you for calling her out.
  • @chogg611
    Came home from a 2 week vacation and there was a relatively new 7 series occupying my spot. I have a bike which was parked at the end of the spot, so there was no confusion that the spot belonged to someone. Security said there was nothing they could do, unless it was blocking the public driveway. Called my brother, went to the parents house and picked up 2 floor jacks, went back to the condo and the POS was still there, used the floor jacks to move the car into the driveway, called security and they had it towed. Quick and easy. As an FYI, I have 2 parking spots, so I used the spare for a few days after. Sucked because I had to walk further, but it was worth it.
  • That's a very calm and nice way to handle it. Sad fact is there are lots of people out there who are either not bright enough to know they parked in someone else's spot, or they just don't think it's a big deal...maybe don't care. That attitude can be a big inconvenience for everyone else who's parking spots they take, etc.