My neighbour’s not moved his car for 14 years…he’s wasting parking spaces

A MAN has blasted his neighbour who is refusing to move two cars which have sat parked in his driveway for 14 years.

The neighbour is now using a third vehicle to park on the road in front of the man’s house – occupying what he says is his driving spot.

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The dispute prompted the man to offer to help his neighbours donate their idle motors – but to no avail.

In a Reddit post, he outlined the dispute.

He wrote: “I need some advice.

“This might make me sound petty, and maybe I am. I have a neighbour in the suburbs who has had two cars in their driveway, unused, since 2009 as seen on Google Maps (one actually since at least Sept 2007 but the street view only goes that far back).

“As a result, they park in the road in front of their house, but also in front of my house on the only part of the street where our guests would naturally park.

“Most of the other spots on our street are taken up by other people who have rear garages and don’t use them for cars, or have too many cars to fit on their own property.”

The Canadian resident explains that he spoke to the neighbour two years ago – offering to arrange for collectors from Donate-a-Car to relocate the dusty vehicles.

He continued: “One’s an early 90s Pontiac Grand Am with flat tires and an open window for at least six years) and an 80s Chev Pickup truck that had a tree growing into the open passenger window for years until somebody finally trimmed the tree.

“I heard from the Donate-a-car people that they never responded to multiple calls and messages.

“These are not vehicles of value and having them sit in the driveway clogs up an already full street. Of course, this is also the house on the street in the number one position when it comes to needing repairs and being visibly in decay.

“I know everyone’s financial position can’t allow for a perfect property, but ditching old cars valued at $0-50 (£0-29.70) to free up street parking would be nice for everyone. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?”

However, sympathy was in short supply as many on the forum dismissed the user’s reasoning.

One wrote: “Unfortunately, you have no claim over street parking, including the spots where your guests ‘would naturally park’.

“Even if the cars were removed, they may still choose to park on the street rather than in their driveway.

“Plenty of people in my neighbourhood do.”

A second agreed: “They don’t want to, you can’t force them to”.

A third dismissed the value of going behind the backs of his neighbours, arguing: “If you report them, they’ll probably know it was you, and they probably won’t like that.”