Found this message attached to m my truck. Parked at public space with no visible limitations, did I do something wrong?

by die_leuchte

36 comments

  2. it says that you are not supposed to park there for longer time and that you should move your car, otherwise they will damage it.

  3. (P+R) indicates a park and ride, is your parking spot close to a train station? You might have missed some signs.

    Otherwise it also sounds kind of threatening

  4. Without any pictures of the location, I would wager you did not park incorrectly. However, you have parked in a spot where someone else is used to park their car.
    Your car has to be road legal and in ready to drive state (no flat tires, etc.) and cannot leak fluids. If that criteria is met, you can park there indefinitely or until one of the criteria is not met anymore.

    EDIT: If you are bored and got time on your hands, you can probably use the OnlineWache (police webiste) to report a threat. They will not spring into action, but you have preemptively reported it in case the person posting this page decides to take illegal action.
    I would write “Polizei ist informiert” in waterproof marker onto the paper and keep it there, if I was planning to keep parking there.

  5. Nothing, that could be determined by those pictures. Sounds like a pensioneer with too much time to me.

  6. No, it just seems some random person is annoyed that you are taking the parking lot.
    You should check if there are any limitations for the parking lot which you might have missed. But if there aren’t any (which seems so) you did nothing wrong

  8. You probably did not do something wrong. He/She is just pissed you are taking up a public parking space with a vehicle you are rarely driving.
    IMO it’s a plaque that everyone assumes they can park their private fun mobiles on public ground.
    If you do not have a private parking space for it you do not have the means to own an recreational car

  9. This is not an official warning or a parking violation ticket. It looks like you parked outside someone’s house or business in a space they usually use. Most likely they are fed up with random people parking there so they’ve printed these warnings.

    If the place you parked on is a public highway and there are no other restrictions then you have as much right to park there as anyone.

  10. Someone is upset that you parked there longer than what they thought is acceptable. No mention of any “Verbot”. That it ends with “this is an imputence/impertinence/outrage” tells me that it is from a private person, not an authority. Some busybody.

  11. Write an answer with an edding on the paper: “You damage it, I damage you. Sincerely Yuri”

  13. printing out your complaint and putting it in a plastic sleeve is one of the most German things ever

  14. > … müssen sie mit größeren Schäden rechnen.

    Call the police and tell them to look for prints on that sign (I hope they’d be willing to do that). If someone messes with your car it was most likely the person who did this.

  15. Not legally. But it is very annoying when people misuse public parking as long-term parking for RVs etc. so I get why people are upset

  16. Please keep a close watch over your car! Someone once loosened the tires on my coworkers car because he took “someone’s spot”

  18. Is that area you parked in maybe somewhat close to the airport in Frankfurt? Or maybe close to a train station that has a direct train to Frankfurt/the airport there?
    I have read that a lot of areas around the Frankfurt Airport are having trouble with people parking along the streets and free parking lots and then take to the airport and thereby the avoid the expensive fees for parking in official parking lots for the airport. The people living in these areas are getting really fed up because they now have a lot of trouble finding a parking spot close to their homes. A few cars have even been damaged by frustrated residents.
    Maybe whoever put that paper on your car was one of these fed up people?

  19. Do you have a dashcam with 24/7 parking recording and two lenses front/rear? Because I am concerned about the threat to damage your car.

  20. He says that this is not parking and resting. He thinks you are camping there. If you do not use this as a camping place, and just park your vehicle there, then you did nothing wrong.

    Also, he is threatening to damage your car, might want to have an eye on that.

  21. I think many people nowadays live in vans and those kind of block the parking spaces cause they are quite big. To me that’s a bit annoying cause they should get a hotel like a normal person / tourist and not block the parking spaces which are very sparse. But I don’t write them letters. I just think it’s a bad habit. People love freedom but rarely think how it affects others. At least they don’t stay forever. Just a few weeks usually

  22. Your answer should be to stay parked for another week. Fuck these guys.

  24. The amount of entitlement in that piece of paper is ridiculous. Such actions and threats enrage me so much that I would literally watch the car 24/7, and when that entitled idiot shows up to act on his threat I will make sure I have him 8k recorded and will sue the fvck out of him for property damage, threats and hate speech.

    Safe civilized Europe 😂😂 …

  26. Go to the police and get that entitled asshole in as much trouble as you can. I’d make it my life’s mission.

    How miserable do you have to be to actually print and put a note in a plastic sleeve? It’s actually deranged.

  27. In a few days, an old, retired person will report it to local newspaper. Then we will see your nice Defender in r/rentnerzeigenaufdinge in full glory 🙂

  28. just get a dashcam if you are going to keep parking it there. there are a lot of mentally unstable people around.

  29. Many areas in Wiesbaden are limited. Than there is only a sign at the start of the area but not in every street.
    But without more information about the street (a name would be good) it is just a wild guess.

  31. The question should be if you want this conflict. It doesn’t look like it will be worth the stress.

  32. one time, visiting my ex girlfriend, as i stepped out to go to my car, someone smeared literally shit on my car. it was extremely hard to remove, and i was or am still speechless how some people can be so primitive. and all just because apparently my car was the one car too many on that public road, where all the other residents also parked. fuels me with rage to this day, might not have to do with it but it also was at a low income area with many pathetic people (regarding their mindset).

  33. I’d add with an edding pen:
    – “Achtung – dies ist ein legaler Parkplatz. Ihre Drohung nicht – Anzeige geht raus (Art. 240 StGB).”
    (Hopefully grumpy old person gets discouraged)
    – Or: “Achtung – Objekt mit Videoüberwachung gesicherr”.
    (They might get the cops and out themselves)

    Sorry for the warm welcome you got!

  34. Maybe you didn’t park in public space? Can you post a picture of the area you parked in?

  35. You didn’t do anything wrong, you’re probably parked in a spot that someone else regularly uses, or in an area with limited parking options.
    If you have the chance, consider changing to a spot a few meters over to avoid some frustrated person damaging your vehicle. Depending on your insurance you could end up having to pay for the damages yourself, that may not be worth it.

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