Neighbor Wars·
THE PARKING SPOT THREAT
A Texas street parking dispute spirals into threats against a wheelchair-bound neighbor, drawing police confrontations and a tense neighborhood watch.
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A 40-year-old neighbor turned a parking dispute into a threat against a person in a wheelchair.
It started with a car blocked in the street. The poster's roommate had parked on a residential street in Texas, and the neighbor decided he wanted that space instead. He drove up behind her car and laid on the horn for 15 minutes, yelling that she needed to move so he could park in front of their house, not his own.
She didn't move. She had done nothing wrong, and eventually he gave up and parked in his usual spot.
About 15 minutes later, he came onto the poster's property and started screaming about property lines. The poster says that on this kind of street, street parking isn't affected by property lines, and the argument went nowhere. For another 15 minutes, he kept yelling.
Then he called the cops.
When police arrived, they explained that he was wrong and told him to "stay inside and cool off" because other neighbors were watching. They left after saying they would make a report in case anything happened again.
About 30 minutes passed before the next escalation. The neighbor blasted CeeLo Green's censored song "FU" from his backyard surround system. A few neighbors laughed, and that clearly did not help.
He stormed back over and confronted the roommate face to face, trying to degrade her. Then he spotted the poster in a wheelchair.
That was when the threat turned explicit. He said they could not stand up to fight him. He said they could not run. The poster later repeated the line more bluntly: "I can't stand up to fight him," and, "he'll have fun beating the shit out of me while I can't run."
Neighbors called the cops again.
This time, the man ran inside before officers could speak to him. He called his parents to come home. Police later talked to them and asked them to "keep an eye on him," saying he seemed unstable, but had not actually done anything yet that would let them intervene further.
Officers also spoke with nearby neighbors and asked them to save any camera footage, because he was still shouting about "getting revenge."
Since then, he has been peeking through his window and watching the poster smoke outside. He moved his car back in front of their house. Police have continued driving through the neighborhood every few hours, and neighbors have been checking in on the poster and the roommate.
The poster says they later learned the family is disliked by many other neighbors, too. They allegedly dump trash in other backyards, are rude to contractors, refuse to get a mailbox, and had even been having the poster and roommate deliver their mail.