Neighbour vandalises car in spat over rubbish bin

A woman whose neighbour was furious she parked in a spot he says is for his rubbish bin has shared a video of the man’s brutal act of revenge.

A woman has shared a video revealing the major damage inflicted on her car by a neighbour after she parked on the street outside their homes.

While the US TikTok user – who goes by Lena Cuisine on the social media platform – hadn’t done anything wrong, her disgruntled neighbour claimed she had parked in the spot for his rubbish bin.

As a result, he decided to stick an aggressive note to the window of her car and scrawled a furious message on the side of her white vehicle in purple Sharpie pen.

“You illegally occupied our garbage canister location, please move your car ASAP,” both messages read.

In the video Lena said she tried to talk to her neighbour who wouldn’t answer the door and asked for tips because the pen wasn’t coming off her car.

“This is where I’m legally allowed to park, but my neighbours like to leave lots of notes saying I’m illegally parking where their garbage can goes – it’s not even garbage day,” she explains, showing the green bin pulled up right behind her car.

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A woman found a note taped to her car from her furious neighbour. Picture: TikTok/LenaCuisine

He had also scrawled the same message on her car in purple marker. Picture: TikTok/LenaCuisine

Reaction to the video – which has been viewed over 4 million times since it was shared on November 17 – was huge, with most blasting the neighbour’s behaviour.

“A garbage can doesn’t get a reserved parking space,” one person raged.

“This is so wrong, people can’t just write with permanent ink on your car,” another stated.

While another said: “I don’t understand why they’re upset with you when you’re literally parked outside your own house.”

Lena later shared a second video, showing footage of police arriving and asking the neighbour if he had written on the car with a marker – to which he can be heard replying: “Yes, they occupied my garbage location. I cannot put my garbage on the location.”

He was annoyed she had parked in his rubbish bin spot. Picture: TikTok/LenaCuisine

But police said vandalism was illegal. Picture: TikTok/LenaCuisine

The police officer informs him the scrawls on the car were illegal to which the neighbour tries to argue she had broken the law first by parking in the spot – a point police state “no” to.

After calling Lena a “bad woman”, the clip cuts to her neighbour – whose identity has been protected – cleaning her car.

In an unexpected twist, he tries extremely hard to make amends, not only removing the marker but also dabbing perfume onto the vehicle to make it smell nice.

Lena thanks him for going the extra mile and in a final act of goodwill, he gifted her the perfume.

Many praised Lena for being kind when she could have been rightly angry.

“He is clearly old, was bitter and confused. You handled it with grace and maturity, I’m honestly inspired,” one said.

“This kind of hurts my heart, the confusion in old age is hard. Be kind always,” a woman wrote.

“Aww, he sounded like a grumpy old man, he was so nice to give the perfume,” another said.

“I think he feels bad now,” someone else mused, while one declared the update was “nothing I expected and everything I needed”.

The video went viral and Lena updated everyone with what happened next. Picture: TikTok/LenaCuisine

The neighbour was forced to clean the car. Picture: TikTok/LenaCuisine

Many others agreed they were torn, writing he was in the wrong but couldn’t help but feel bad for him.

Lena later shared another video updating everyone saying she was nice because she only ever wanted to have a “civil conversation” with her neighbour and for him to “clean up my car”.

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