Ok, we all know the scene:
You have your favourite parking space at work, you park there every day, you look after it, keep it clean, maybe even pluck out any weeds that may have somehow broken through the tarmac…… well, maybe!
Then, one day, you pull into the car park and someone has parked their car in YOUR spot, not only that this thing is a wreck, you try to compose yourself and convince yourself to park somewhere else but, whats this, OIL dripping out of the car onto your sacred parking spot!
So you march into the office and inform the ignorant cretin who has parked in your spot that it better not be there tomorrow.
Low and behold, you arrive for work the next day and there it is again. Staring you in the face, mocking you with it’s oil dripping all over the place.
You find the first sane person you can and inform them:
he better come and move it or i’ll move it for him!
Obviously the owner of the car thought these were hollow words, either that or he didn’t realise your were a Forklift Driver!
You go straight over to your forklift, drive over to the offending car and lift. Move it out of your beloved parking spot and drop it in the middle of the car park!
Job done and you can get on with the rest of your day, except now you are wanted on charges of second-degree criminal damage to property and on the run from the law!
Oh well, some things are worth fighting for!
A bit of a dramatisation obviously but as the story below shows, some people really are protective over their parking spots!
Police hunt man after car moved with forklift
Police are looking for an Augusta man who used a forklift to move his co-worker’s car Tuesday.
David Johnson, of the 2000 block of Country Place Drive, told a witness that the victim had taken his parking spot and that “he better come and move it” or that he would “move it for him,” according to a Richmond County sheriff’s report.
The witness told police that Mr. Johnson lifted the vehicle, which was parked at Southeastern Equipment Co. on Mike Padgett Highway, off the ground twice and then let it fall.
Mr. Johnson is wanted on charges of second-degree criminal damage to property, the report said.
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