I had a neighbor that threw weekend parties with a dozen or so guests, but only had a 1-car driveway (the garage had been turned into another bedroom) and room for 2 cars in front of their house, if they parallel parked (legally), or about 4 if they illegally perpendicular parked (partially blocking the street, which they did often with no consequences). I had a 2 car wide, 3 car deep driveway, and over 120 feet of street frontage, set back significantly more than my neighbors so I could park perpendicular without blocking the street. I would come out and find cars parked either entirely in or halfway in my driveway, but rarely along the street in front of the house. No amount of asking would get them to stop, and since the cars were not on the street if they blocked my driveway I would have to pay for a tow company to come out as it was a civil matter.

Well, one day the offending driver left their SUV in my driveway with the sunroof and windows open.

So I proceeded to wash my cars in a very wet manner. Even though they were partying right next door, no one came out to close the windows or say anything. I got bored and I guess they just had to deal with wet buns when they left.

Did that get the point across? Nope. Next party, same thing. Different car, blocked half my driveway. They parked right next to my hedge that separated the 2 yards… so I proceeded to do some long overdue hedge trimming. Their car was quite camouflaged in laurel branches when I was done, as I just left them where they fell. That time I ended up with laurel branches all over my driveway, but again, no one said anything.

Next party I had gone somewhere and came home to a driveway half full of cars that weren’t mine. I’d taken my fullsize chevy truck and 20′ flatbed trailer, which had left a rather large opening in my driveway that the party attendants proceeded to fill. A chevy with a 20′ trailer is much, much longer than my driveway was wide so I just parked it across my own driveway, blocking 3 of them in. That ended up with the Sheriff’s department knocking on my door, asking me to move my truck so they could leave. No one got any citations, since again… civil matter due to it being private property (trespass would only count if there was criminal intent). But they did stop parking in my driveway.

Even with all that, they were still better neighbors than their predecessors.

In any case, I moved not too long after that. Now I’m separated from my closest neighbor by a horse pasture. Much better.