A tense parking dispute has erupted between two neighbours after a family started reserving a public parking space with an orange cone.
Occupants of an Auckland home have been blocking other drivers from the parking space on a street in Milldale, 33km north of the city centre.
When one neighbour, who lives directly opposite the space, dared to park in the empty spot, he returned to find an aggressive note on his car.
‘Hey, you absolutely suck at parking. Flip over to see the reason,’ the note read.
When the man flipped it over, the author had ticked a box to say he had parked in a ‘reserved space’, and added the note ‘MOVE YOUR CAR’.
The man explained that street parking is limited near his home and that his neighbours are generally respectful, except for one ‘who’s a total pain’.
‘They’ve started placing a cone in front of their house to reserve a spot that can easily fit two small cars,’ he vented on Reddit.
‘And when they do park there, they make sure to take up the whole space so no one else can use it.’
The owner of a house on a residential street in Milldale, 33km north of Auckland city centre, often reserves a public parking spot outside their home with a cone (pictured)
An Auckland resident received an aggressive note on their windshield from their neighbour after parking in the ‘coned-off’ spot (pictured)
The aggressive note (pictured) accused the driver of parking in a reserved space (pictured)
The man claimed his neighbours who left the note live in a house with a double garage and a driveway that can fit four cars. He said the family has two cars parked in their driveway and use the ‘coned-off’ parking spot for a third vehicle.
The man responded by leaving his own note on his neighbour’s car in the coveted spot, which read: ‘Street parking is public’.
But his neighbour hit back, arguing the space was ‘allocated’ to her home.
‘It’s not really a public parking space,’ the woman told local media outlet Stuff.
‘People keep parking their cars on our spot, we’ve got three vehicles and this is the parking allocated for our home and that’s the only reason why.’
She claimed she told the man it was fine for him to park there during the day, but that it was ‘common sense’ they would want the space back from 5pm each day.
Auckland Transport told Daily Mail: ‘Considering the resident(s) in question have a double garage and a driveway to park in we consider this situation strange.
‘Reserving a parking space with a road cone is a no-go. Parking spaces on a public road are for everyone to use.’
