And his fate is still unlearned… 
Maybe, but the point is that it is not YOUR property or public property so what give YOU the right to park on it.
Note: I’m using “your” and “you” in the generic sense - not directed against gdave directly.
I think you said you don’t use the spot. So . . . Take that log and roll it to block the spot.
Or pound in a couple 2x2s and string a rope across.
Or make a wood horse.
Or put a sign in the center.
Or put a couple cheap cones in front.
Or park you own car there for a few days.
How many other simple solutions can others come up with? Let’s hear them. Rah!
Well. That escalated more quickly than I might have thought 
Ah! An excellent choice. I bet they could be made at home. By a crafty person. We’re trying to keep costs down.
I’m genuinely wondering if you’ve even read this thread. I’m not the only one who has said that it doesn’t clearly look like private property. Several posters, not just me, have said that spot looks like cutouts that we’ve seen that are public property. What gives me the “right” to park on it is the same principle that gives me the right to park anywhere on the side of a public street.
I’ve also, repeatedly, stated that I personally wouldn’t park there, but, like several other posters, I don’t think it’s entirely unreasonable for someone else to park there under the assumption that it’s an unused cutout.
No one in this thread, to the best of my knowledge, has actually contended that Pickup Truck Guy has the right to park there. Just that they may genuinely not realize it is private property.
At this point, it also seems like this is one of those “there are two kinds of people” things. You’re either one of those people to whom it’s self-evident that it’s a parking space on private property and it’s inconceivable that any reasonable person would believe otherwise, or you’re one of those people to whom the nature and legal status of that space is entirely unclear and it’s entirely conceivable that someone would mistake it for an unused cutout that is public space.
Well, that’s actually not quite true. The OP actually seems like they think it should be obvious it’s a private parking space but are willing to consider that a reasonable person might disagree. It’s kind of funny that the rest of us are still arguing about this and several posters are continuing to offer aggressive “solutions”, while the OP has already clearly indicated their preferred course of action and seems rather less upset about the situation than some of the other posters in this thread.
I have read the thread and that in no way looks (to me) like a public parking spot.
It is perpendicular to the road
in a residential area
for a single car,
as a peninsula into obvious private property
with nothing by it for public use (park, school, etc.)
with no signage indicating public parking.
Here’s the thing: that spot looks (to some people) like it is free parking.
Have you ever seen “Parking Wars”. I think people feel they can park in the OPs spot for no other reason than they want to park there and manufacture a reason afterwards.
I don’t think it’s entirely unreasonable for someone else to park there under the assumption that it’s an unused cutout.
Maybe it’s a regional thing. Can you find a pic of a cutout in a residential area that looks similar to the OP’s pic that is for public use?
Dude, I don’t know what to tell you, and I’m not going to continue arguing about this. I know it looks like a private parking spot to you. It looks like that to a lot of folks in this thread. No one is saying you’re wrong - it definitively is a private parking spot. What I, and numerous other posters have contended, is that the fact that it’s a private parking spot isn’t as obvious to us, because we’ve seen plenty of cutouts, pull-overs, over-looks, turn-arounds, and so on and so forth, that look a lot like that, and are public areas. If you don’t buy that, you don’t buy that, and I’m not going to waste anymore time trying to convince you.
many a ride neath the streets of Boston in my day, humming that song
Because it’s there. Not all social groups are so uptight about minor encroachments on property that every consideration involves invocation of “rights.”
No. “Because it’s there” does not give anyone the “right” to park on private property without the owner’s permission. That’s the most full of shit reasoning I’ve ever heard.
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Then I’ll have to restate the part of my post that you ignored … Not all social groups are so uptight about minor encroachments on property that every consideration involves invocation of “rights.”
I can’t fathom why what you wrote isn’t blatantly obvious. It’s completely reasonable that a person could be mistaken about the nature of that parking space. Very few people are going to purposefully park on private property uninvited.
The solution is absurdly obvious too. Put a simple and polite note on the car explaining that it’s a not public parking and please don’t park there again. There is no need for threats. 99.9% of people won’t park there again.
For the future, just put up a sign that says “Private Parking”.
For fuck sake, people love to over complicate the most simplistic things.
This is the one certain conclusion that can be drawn from this discussion. 
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Other social groups are irrelevant to this situation.
Why are you so sure that your point of view is the sole relevant point of view in this situation? Do you think everyone who exists in the OP’s location or who exists in this thread must necessarily share your perspective? Why?
Is the next step going to be that "This is America and this is the only conceivable American attitude towards personal property? Because I’m American, I always have been American, and I don’t share your uptight perspective on minor encroachments on property that “rights” must be taken into account for everything.
You’ve repeatedly made this sort of reference, to “other social groups,” whom you feel have less stringent concerns about property rights, in this thread, without being specific. Do you have particular “other social groups” in mind? Do you care to actually spell out what you seem to be saying in some sort of code?
They seem to when you count up all the people who disagree with you. Other social groups are irrelevant to my giving a shit about them wrt this situation. Private property has the force of law in the OP’s location, so a hypothetical social group’s opinion doesn’t matter. If you park on private property in my location, you’ll get towed and sucks to be you. We don’t live in Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood.
Maybe you should consider it. He sets a pretty good example for how to live life. You can always be the first. Change starts somewhere.