On my street (suburban Phila), there is a family that has 5 cars for the 4 people that live there (and the 2 sons I don't believe even live there full time) . We all have a shared alley behind our homes where the driveway is. These folks NEVER park 1 of their cars in their driveway. In fact, they rarely even park in front of their own house. They usually have 3 of the cars parked on our block but in front of other people's houses. The other 2 cars are usually parked on a street perpendicular to ours.
With only 4 drivers of 5 cars and the sons PT status, it is not unusual for most of the cars to sit in the same places for weeks, sometimes month on end. Usually this is not a huge deal unless they are camped out directly in front of your own home. However, when we get snow, especially 40+ inches in the span of a few days like we had this week, parking becomes a little more of an issue - spots get limited on the street because of the snow piling up from shoveling the spaces and sidewalk and the driveways aren't as accessible. We all try to be civil with each other and not park in the spaces shoveled out by others, EXCEPT this family. There have 2 instances this week where their cars parked on other streets have been moved onto our street and taken spots shoveled out by others. In both cases, I saw where the cars had been parked and what they did was minimal shoveling to get their cars out of that space only to move into spaces where folks had worked for hours to clean for their vehicles. Both times, the people were challenged by the spot "owners" and both times they refused to move their cars. Everyone in the neighborhood despises these folks but there won't be any keying or tire slashing. We'll leave it up to the higher powers for that.
Tonight there was some little bit of justice served. A knock at my front door at 9:30pm from a woman who was driving on my street and hit a patch of ice and wound up side swiping a car. "Did I know whose car it was?" she asked. The car she hit was the naugthy neighbor who had stolen my other neighbor's spot earlier in the day.