History Main / ParkingPayback

* There is one sure-fire way to find yourself on the receiving end of this: Park in front of a Fire Hydrant. Firefighters have no time to politely ask you to move your car, so, they'll just smash the window and thread the hose through. Do we need to mention that fire hoses tend to spray water all over where they joined to the hydrant? Like ''all over'' the inside of your car? Or, they'll force your car out of the way with one of their trucks.[[note]]Which keep in mind, have more than enough horse power to shove your sedan out of the way.[[/note]] And for bonus points, if you think you can get away with suing the department for the damages... [[ShmuckBait good luck]]. Not only will you lose the case horribly, you'll also have to pay a hefty fine for your poor parking decision, on top of the repair cost. Oh, and did we forget to mention that your insurance rates may even go up as a result?

In RealLife, seeing someone park where they shouldn't [[StealingTheHandicappedSpot (like a disabled parking spot when they're not actually disabled)]] or stealing the parking spot you've been patiently waiting for is [[ParkingProblems incredibly frustrating]]. In fiction, a character might choose to take immediate revenge on the parking infringer, often in a humorous fashion (giving the audience vicarious satisfaction).

* Similarly, snow belt cities often have additional restrictions on parking during the winter [[note]]e.g., no on-street parking at night[[/note]] in order to more easily facilitate snowplowing. Violate these rules and a ticket may be the least of your worries; at best, you're likely to find your car trapped in an island of snow when you walk out to it in the morning. At worst? A snowplow at speed can generate a ''lot'' of momentum, and it doesn't have to even hit your car to cause significant damage - a solid chunk of ice flung off a plow blade with enough velocity can easily smash a window or put a serious dent in the bodywork.

* Part of the [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Lomak1581 "Stop a Douchebag"]] movement involves this. If you park illegally and refuse to move, they'll put a sticker on your windshield that reads(translated from Russian) "I don't care about other people, I park where I please."

* In the first ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' ChristmasEpisode, Peter gets fed up with searching for a parking space at the mall and just drives onto another car, crushing it like a monster truck.

* ''WebAnimation/TanabataManga'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr8PVvkPGq4 Miyuki]] finds her parking space being occupied by a car in the parking lot, she later decides to inform the landlord about the car, leading him to call a tow truck to have it towed. However, the woman who owns the car returns to the parking lot and starts kicking Miyuki's car out of anger and tries to steal her belongings as well, causing her to be arrested.

In RealLife, seeing someone park where they shouldn't [[StealingTheHandicappedSpot (like a disabled parking spot)]] or stealing the parking spot you've been patiently waiting for is [[ParkingProblems incredibly frustrating]]. In fiction, a character might choose to take immediate revenge on the parking infringer, often in a humorous fashion (giving the audience vicarious satisfaction).

[[quoteright:345:[[Webcomic/{{xkcd}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/parking_xkcd_7621.png]]]] [[caption-width-right:345: [[AccompliceByInaction Police reported three dozen cheerful bystanders, yet no one claims to have seen who did it.]]]]

'''Girl 2:''' Face it lady, we're younger and faster.\\

'''Evelyn:''' Face it girls, I'm older and have more insurance.

* In ''Film/MeMyselfAndIrene'', when Charlie sees a young football player drive a convertible up and park in the handicapped space (flaunting his unhandicapped status by leaping out over the door) it triggers Charlie's rage-fueled alter-ego Hank, who goes to town on the car with a trash bin. The football player then emerges from the store, helping the owner of the car who is a man in a neck brace. The owner is none to happy to see what Hank did to his car.

* There is an urban legend about an older woman who takes revenge on the sassy young thing who brazenly zips into the parking space she'd been waiting for. When she protests, the parking spot thief says "That's how it is when you're young and quick." The woman puts her car into gear, floors the accelerator and rams the offending vehicle. When the sassy young thing screams in protest, the woman replies "That's how it is when you're old and rich" (or "and have more insurance"). You can check out the legend and its variations at ''{{WebSite/Snopes}}'' [[http://www.snopes.com/autos/insurance/richer.asp here.]]

* In the season 1 episode of ''Series/BreakingBad'' "Cancer Man", Walt circles a parking lot in order to cash a check at the credit union for his cancer treatment. When one finally becomes available, he is about to pull in to it when a red BMW with the license plate "KEN WINS" races into the spot before him. Walt rages indignantly, but the suit wearing driver ignores him completely while obnoxiously talking into his headset. When Walt finally finds a spot, he walks into the bank only to find "Ken" there, still loudly yakking on his phone, to the intense annoyance of everyone there. Later in the same episode, Walt sees the same car parked outside a gas station. He shoves a wet squeegee in between the battery terminals of the BMW and nonchalantly walks away while the car bursts into flames.

* In the first episode of ''Series/{{Crownies}}'', Ben's grandfather parks in an able bodied surfer who parked in a disabled spot. This one does not end well, as Ben's grandfather ultimately receives a beating that results in his death.

* Upon seeing a person parked in a handicapped spot, the title character of "Super Cop" by Music/RayStevens shoots the owner of the car in the foot and says "You're handicapped now!"

* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oo4VUit4tw Azami]] tells her baking class students to park their car on other people's parking spaces without asking for their permission. Karin is annoyed by this as her parking space is often used by them when she returns home with her car, she decides to confront Azami about it, but she keeps insisting that the parking space is free when she is not using it. After being fed up with Azami's nonsense, Karin blocks her own occupied parking space with her car, preventing one of the students to leave. A few days later, another car shows up parked in Karin's parking space again, prompting her to do the same thing as she did before.
* ''WebAnimation/MangaWaido'': A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccdo_DTv5GY mom]] parks on Sho's private property. He tried to stop her several times with signs but she refused to heed the warning. Eventually he destroyed her car windows with baseballs but it was later revealed that it was all a prank and her car is fine.

* ''WebAnimation/RefreshingStories'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdMoy6BXQ9c Nobue]] kept parking her car on her neighbor Hiroshi's garage. She began to annoy Hiroshi and his wife by making noise even late into the night. So Hiroshi decided to get back at her when she went overseas by allowing the construction workers to destroy the garage on account of a typhoon that would have destroyed her car, so he allowed it to get flooded instead.
* ''WebAnimation/TroubleBusters'': Elisha parked her RV on Michelle and her husband's private parking space without their permission. Michelle locked the RV and the gate with chains and padlocks and left for her vacation. When they returned a week later, Elisha and her husband Joseph yelled at Michelle and her husband, saying that they had to carry all the equipment by foot. Michelle exposed the couple's trespassing on the neighborhood meeting and they were forced to move out due to nobody speaking to them after that.

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Opus}}'' (in the same continuity), Pickles was once interrupted while attempting to trim down a Hummer with a chainsaw to make it fit in the compact space it had been parked in.

* In [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-reap-what-you-tow/28961/ this ]] [[NotAlwaysRight/SisterSites Not Always Friendly]] story a young woman steals the submitter's assigned parking space at the apartment complex where the submitter lives. After reasoning with the woman just gets the submitter insulted, the submitter simply informs the manager who has the offending woman's car towed.

* WebAnimation/MangaWaido: A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccdo_DTv5GY mom]] parks on Sho's private property. He tried to stop her several times with signs but she refused to heed the warning. Eventually he destroyed her car windows with baseballs but it was later revealed that it was all a prank and her car is fine.