A parking row escalated into a furious four-minute confrontation between a driver and homeowners who demanded he not park his car in front of their home.
Steve Haas found a note urging him, ‘Please do not park in from of our home, thank you,’ while visiting a friend in Santa Clarita, California.
Sharing details of the incident on TikTok, Haas said he went up to the neighbours’ house in question and knocked on the front door to speak with the owner.
He said: “I’m parked at my homeboy’s crib and I get this letter. So I went and knocked on the door and asked why.
“It’s a public street. And she says she owns this parking spot. She owns it?”
The woman then proceeded to follow Haas back outside, seemingly filming him on her phone and speaking as if to describe what was happening.
She said: “This guy right here is on my property, coming and knocking on my door, and causing us problems. I don’t know who this guy is, but he needs to leave.”
As the woman told Haas to, “leave my property,” he refused and pointed out he was on a public sidewalk, moving his camera to show his feet on the concrete.
After telling him she had had enough of their row, the woman walked back to her property but doubled back when she noticed Haas laughing and demanded to know why he was.
He replied: “Because that’s the rudest s**t I’ve ever seen in my life.” The woman’s husband then proceeded to join in, also asking him to leave and noting, “you don’t live here, sir.”
He also quickly turned to name-calling, branding Haas a “jerk” after he joked that he “might park here every weekend.”
As the two men’s skirmish over the parking spot continued, the woman walked back inside to make a phone call.
She returned minutes later to pull her partner back into their Spanish-style house, informing Haas that “sheriffs are on their way.”
Haas’s account cut off after four minutes and it was unclear whether the police had effectively intervened.
The man’s followers sided with him and questioned the woman’s gall for trying to get him to move his car.
One wrote: “I don’t like ppl parking in front of my house but I definitely ain’t gonna act as I own it and gonna tell them to move. You just deal.”
And another suggested the woman brought her husband back inside after police informed her she did not, in fact, own the parking spot on the street.
They wrote: “She called the police and they told her that the street doesn’t belong to them that’s why she took him inside.”
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