Snow parking zones are popping up all over as fed-up motorists defend their carved-put spots tooth, nail and shovel.
From “DIY” signs threatening to slash tires, to a fed-up driver warning anyone who takes his spot that they may not be able to find their car afterwards, people have been pulling out all the stops to reserve space for their vehicles on public roads.
But all is fair in love and war – and in times of snowy chaos, those grappling with the white heaps plaguing their crowded neighborhoods believe.
Rob Pepp, a Staten Island-based influencer who chronicled his parking woes on Tuesday, correctly predicted a “parking spot vulture” was going to snag up his spot once he drove off for work.
“I do have to say this is gonna be a phenomenal spot for one of the pieces of motherf–king sh-t that come along and take it,” Pepp told his social media followers, showing his car parked on the South Shore of the borough, which had been slammed with nearly 30 inches of snow.
“Whoever takes this spot I’m paying to have them buried back in it,” he cheekily captioned the post.
The scenario hit home for many engaged in not-so-neighborly feuds of their own.
“Put some lawn furniture in that spot!!!! I’d go NUTS if someone took my spot!’ one woman reacted on Facebook.
“Put some cinder blocks I’m sure they won’t move them!” another jokingly suggested.
The survival-of-the-fittest mindset has seen Staten Islanders using street cones and playing musical-cars to keep their spots, but a New Jersey neighborhood’s cut-throat tactics have warranted police intervention.
“Try another one. This one will cost you two flat tires,” read a resident-made sign in Elizabeth, as shared by cops Thursday on Facebook.
The crafty culprit wrote the warning on a white piece of paper taped to be a broken broom stick shoved into a crate.
But the creativity points did not hold up when a complaint was called in by someone looking for parking for their disabled mother, cops said.
Officers tore down the threat and replaced it with a message of their own.
“Shoveling earns cardio, not property rights!” the cops wrote, adding, “Public streets are not private property.”
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