If you have a lawyer handy in your still unnamed state, why don’t you ask them, rather than inconveniencing the people of this board? Your lawyer will also tell you it’s a bad idea though, so maybe you’ll be better off finding a yes man who will agree with your position.
Ooh, boy. So OP illegally parks such as to block in the persons illegally parking. Calls a tow truck. Person being blocked calls the police. Everyone is standing there. Tow truck driver can’t tow because someone is in the car. Persona illegally parked just wants to leave. Police are there because OP is illegally detaining someone who wants to leave the premises. Who is everyone mad at?
Best possible outcome is the OP is cited / detained for an illegal citizens arrest or detaining someone against their will. That’s if he isn’t murdered or his ass beat first. Seriously OP run this scenario by your grandkids before you implement it.
OP scenario would make for a funny sitcom episode.
Not assuming, I know as the parking space is my property. I have papers on me that says I own that space so it is my property. When showed in court I would be laughing my ass of because you wanted to save 5 minutes of your time parking in someones space and I would hear cha ching.
According to this site:
- Does what you want to do fall under any of those qualifications?
- Do you understand that, even if what you want to do qualifies as a citizen’s arrest in Maryland, you have to detain them until they are handed over to an officer of the law, not just a tow truck driver?
Next time let the air out of all of their tires and then that person will have to call a tow truck, not you.
According to your sign, you’ll get towed for double parking. And they’d have to take you first to get access to the other guy. I assume your HOA has some procedure in place to deal with parking complaints; maybe you should check that out.
If you were only deprived of five minutes and had nothing better to do with that five minutes than block them in and throw a fit, I’d say the whole thing is a tie.
That is consider trespassing as that one parking spot that is assigned to me is mine until I move out.
What would you do if you caught someone letting the air out of your tires?
Are you a lawyer?
No-any lawyer willing to take money from you to pursue this will be the one hearing “cha-ching”. I certainly hope that yours is ethical enough to tell you to back off.
Do you understand the questions I asked you?
I am paying by law for that parking space so yes it makes it mine because all the legal shit is on paper that says I own that spot so likely yes its my property until I leave. Like I said park in a damn free space instead of parking in my space and I don’t care if you’re visiting your family,friends or clients.
Right, but it is your fault when you decide you want to address the the issue through extra-legal means. Wanting to teach someone a lesson is not a legally-recognized reason for much of anything.
This is America - you can sue anyone for anything. That said, your lawyer-waving will almost certainly fail out of the gate for All The Reasons - not the least of which is lack of standing: while you’re pissed-off that someone is in your spot, the amount of economic harm you’re suffering is probably grossly insufficient to persuade a court to take you seriously. Plus, you’re renting a spot: your redress should be through the individual or company whose lax enforcement of parking rules is leading to your distressed state. (NB: IANAL)
Finally, the law is what it is: a societal attempt to keep us all from killing each other on a daily basis for silly reasons. In a week or two I think you’ll have cooled off enough to see this. Or we’ll read about you in a road rage story with a depressingly predictable outcome.
I hope it’s the first one.
That’s a good point. What if the guy waits until the tow truck arrives and the car behind him moves, then he just backs out and leaves?
In what reality do you live in that you think such a case would make a ‘cha ching’ sound? As far as I know there are no statutory damages for occupying a parking space. That limits your damages to actual monetary loss you incurred. As allowing them to leave would mitigate your damages, you couldn’t include that additional time. Also nothing about your state or this situation would be an exception to the American Rule, so any attorney fees you accumulate are paid by you, not the defendant.
You are renting the space. It is part of your rental agreement.
I am not renting. I own the house.
Not the same as owning the parking space.
A repo is a completely different circumstance. With a repo there is a repossession order signed by a judge. But as you say, even then the driver will call the police and not attempt to tow with someone in the vehicle.