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In [[Real Life]], seeing someone park where they shouldn't (like a disabled parking spot) or stealing the parking spot you've been patiently waiting for is incredibly frustrating. In fiction, a character might choose to take immediate revenge on the parking infringer; often in a humorous fashion (giving the audience vicarious satisfaction). A type of [[Asshole Victim]].
Note that these actions are often things that could get you arrested in [[Real Life]].
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== Film ==
* At the end of ''[[
* In ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes]]'', Evelyn rear-ends six times a car that stole her parking spot. She uses the "older and more insurance" line from the [[Urban Legend]].
* In ''[[Backdraft]]'', a car is parked in front of a fire hydrant. The firefighters take a certain glee in smashing the car's windows so they can thread the hose through to the hydrant.
** Note that this is [https://web.archive.org/web/20140427215029/http://www.bannedinhollywood.com/this-is-why-you-dont-park-in-front-of-a-fire-hydrant/ truth in television].
* In ''[[
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** Also providing the necessary diversion to sneak into the Security office
** Xander Cage in ''[[XXX
* In ''[[Me Myself and Irene]]'', when Charlie sees a young football player drive a convertible up and park in the handicapped space (flaunting his unhandicapped status by leaping out over the door) it triggers Charlies rage-fueled alter-ego Hank, who goes to town on the car with a trash bin. The football player then emerges from the store, helping the owner of the car who is a man in a neck brace. The owner is none to happy to see what Hank did to his car.
* ''[[Office Space]]'': When Lumbergh is forced to park in the disabled parking space, the tow truck that tows his car away rips the rear bumper off.
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* There is an urban legend about an who older woman takes revenge on the sassy young thing who brazenly zips into the parking space she'd been waiting for. When she protests, the parking spot thief says "That's how it is when you're young and quick." The woman puts her car into gear, floors the accelator and rams the offending vehicle. When the sassy young thing screams in protest, the woman replies "That's how it is when you're old and rich" (or "and have more insurance"). You can check out the legend and its variations at Snopes [http://www.snopes.com/autos/insurance/richer.asp here].
== Literature ==
* An accidental example in ''[[Monster Hunter International]]'', when Owen Pitt throws his boss Mr. Huffman out the office building window in the opening Huffman lands on a double parked car.
== Live Action TV ==
* In the first episode of ''[[Crownies]]'', Ben's grandfather parks in an able bodied surfer who parked in a disabled spot. This one does not end well, as Ben's grandfather ultimately recieves a beating that results in his death.
* In an episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'', George parks in front of the hospital and ends up having his car flattened by a suicidal "jumper."
** In another ''[[Seinfeld]]'', Kramer covinces George to park in a handicapped space when they're in a hurry ("They don't want to be treated special!"). When they come back, it turns out that a wheelchair bound woman had injured herself as a result of not being able to park in the space, and an angry mob is waiting for the owners of the
* In one episode of ''[[Highway to Heaven]]'', Jonathan reproves a driver for parking in a handicapped space. When the driver demands, "What're you gonna do about it?", Jonathan (after apparently consulting Heaven) is forced to admit, "Nothing", and continues on about his business. However, when he later passes by the spot, the driver's car is upside-down.
== New Media ==
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== Video Games ==
* In the [[The Godfather (
== Webcomics ==
* Black Hat Guy of ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* In an episode of ''[[
== Real Life ==
* In Real Life in 2011 the mayor of a town in Lithuania posed for photographers after [http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/03/watch-lithuanian-mayor-crushes-illegally-parked-car-with-a-tank/ crushing what he claimed was an illegally parked car with a tank]. (Well, actually more of an armoured car since it had wheels rather than tracks.)
** Life imitating art, since [[Kenny Everett]] had done the same in [[The Kenny Everett Video Show|his BBC sketch show]] in the 1980s.
* Someone filmed himself crashing his bike into everything parked in a bike lane to point out how often they're blocked off. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/09/bike-lane-ticket-new-york_n_873790.html See here].
* In early 2017, several different photo sets and videos circulated on the net about the same incident where two pickup truck owners carefully parked within centimeters of a Mercedes-Benz whose owner had deliberately straddled two spaces in order to keep anyone from dinging it. Unlike many of these incidents, the entire event was documented, and after a brief fit of anger, the [[Villain Protagonist|Mercedes owner]] earned himself a small moment of [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]] by actually figuring out how to get into his car and drive away without damage to any of the vehicles involved.
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