Farmer Tired of People Parking Cars on His Land, Gets on Tractor And Blocks Them In
“If it doesn’t belong to you, don’t take it” is something most of us are taught in our childhood. It helps us understand the concept of personal property and ownership.
As we get older, that is often overridden by philosophies such as “it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission.” That’s sort of what this farmer was dealing with.
The farmer had a problem on his hands. Part of his property near Zagreb, Croatia, was close to a shopping area.
Seeing the empty field, people decided it wouldn’t hurt anyone to park there while they ran their errands. So they did. The field filled up with market-goers’ cars.
It doesn’t seem like too much of an issue, right? Open space, no one doing anything with it — why not use it as free parking?
Wrong. Davao Bedekovic wasn’t having any of that.
It’s not clear how well-marked his property was, or whether he’d asked people to move, but regardless of what preventative measures had or had not been taken, the result was still the same: Cars were parked on his property.
And he did not like that, so he plotted his revenge.
If you want to get revenge, you have to be careful how you do it if you don’t want to get in trouble. Damaging the cars themselves would have gotten him in trouble.
Chasing people off his land or yelling at them when they came back probably wouldn’t be too effective, and might get him labeled as a madman.
Bedekovic had to come up with something clever, harmless and annoying — but annoying enough to cause shoppers to seriously reconsider their parking choices the next time they were in the area.
So he took his tractor out for a spin and plowed deep trenches around the parked cars. The turned-over mud and uneven surface would make it nearly impossible to maneuver in the small cars that were now stuck on his land.
People watched as he made the rounds with his tractor, and they laughed. It’s probably safe to assume that the people laughing were not the ones whose cars were in jeopardy.
The people whose cars were affected were not too happy with the situation now, either. Someone called the cops on the angry farmer.
After a chat with Bedekovic, the authorities said there was nothing they could do, since the people were, after all, parked on the farmer’s property and trespassing.
Hopefully, these shoppers learned their lesson: don’t upset a farmer! And maybe Bedekovic might consider opening a pay lot on the field — it certainly would get used.
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