An angry homeowner has divided Australians after he whipped a driver for parking his car on the nature strip outside his home.
The Melbourne trader filmed the offending vehicle on the grass in front of his home, which had part of its front and rear wheels on the grass.
‘Here we go again, it’s a double wheel stand. Thank you very much friend, I appreciate it, exactly what the grass needed,’ he said in the clip.
‘Thank you so much for parking in the middle too, so I couldn’t park my truck.
‘You are a thinker. From the looks of it, you have the IQ of a five-watt light bulb, but I’ll still mow the lawn in your honor.
“Normally I wait for these random cars to move forward before I throw dirt and shit all over the car, but today we’re going to keep moving and I’ll do whatever I want.”
The trader was then seen mowing the grass next to the offending car before parking his own vehicle just inches behind it.
“Here we’ll just give him a little message and, as a joke, I’ll park right in his butt and make him think,” he said.
“You’d be a complete idiot to park on a lawn like this, regardless of who owns it; shove that up your ass.”
The complaint sparked negative reactions from hundreds of onlookers, who said the driver had the right to park there since it is considered public land.
‘Why do (people) like you think you own the municipal nature strip and on-street parking?’ one person wrote.
“You’re complaining about grass that’s government property,” said another.
“Dude, you don’t own the nature strip,” a third agreed.
Others disagreed, saying drivers should not park there if the property owners had made an effort to maintain the nature strip.
“Common courtesy that some people don’t understand…only people who take care of their lawn,” one person wrote.
‘People don’t have common courtesy. I’m with you brother,’ another person wrote.
The clip showed the vehicle parked on the sidewalk in front of the man’s house with part of the front and rear wheels parked on the freshly cut grass (pictured).
“Even if you don’t own the nature strip, seeing a lawn like that, common sense would prevail to not park on it, wouldn’t it?” said a third.
Others suggested the driver had parked on top of the grass to prevent his car from being damaged on the narrow road.
‘If the road is narrow and I can park my car on the shoulder to minimize the chance of being hit, I will always do it. “My car is much more important than the grass,” one person wrote.
—Isn’t that what rolling curbs are for? another person wrote.
“Those gutters are designed to be mounted in parking lots,” added a third.
Victorian motorists cannot park on nature strips in accordance with rule 197 of the Victorian Road Safety Rules Act 2017.
The offense carries a fine of $576.93. Parking on a nature strip is also illegal in other Australian states and territories.
Drivers also cannot park in bike lanes, pedestrian paths or divided strips.
Motorists will be exempt from the rule if the local council allows them to park on a nature strip or if parking control signs say motorists can park on grass.