Driver amused by absurd parking note found on 4WD in busy suburb: 'Idiot'

Zoe May was shocked by the extreme reaction to her parking on the busy inner-city street where she lives.

The 'angry note' scribbled on the canvas (left) and Zoe May smiling at camera (right).
Zoe May found an 'angry note' written on a canvas on top of her 4WD in Summer Hill, Sydney on Thursday. Source: Supplied

Residents continue to battle for limited parking in busy inner-city suburbs and this week the war of words continued, not with an over the fence dispute or a stern word on a crumpled-up piece of paper, but in the form of a "huge" canvas left on top of an unsuspecting driver's car.

Zoe May was making her way to the gym on Thursday morning around 6 am when she spotted the addition to her 4WD ute outside her home in Summer Hill, in Sydney's inner west.

Scribbled on the canvas were the words, 'Watch where you park idiot! Two spaces!!!!!! You take up too much space."

May suspects one of her neighbours is behind the canvas and said she was "amused" they had gone to such lengths to express their frustration.

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"Some budding artist was so enraged by my parking that they sacrificed their next artwork to point out my idiocy," she told Yahoo News. "After all, it was a handwritten art canvas with the plastic wrapper still attached." The canvas was allegedly "as big as the windscreen", measuring roughly 50 x 45cm.

May's silver 4WD ute parked on the street outside her home on another day.
May's ute parked on the busy Summer Hill street on another day. Source: Supplied

May has lived in the suburb for almost four decades and has never received an angry note like this before.

"I've been in Summer Hill for 38 years and not even an angry note! Delighted my first one was a canvas," she said.

Other Aussies confirmed online they've been subjected to "petty" and downright wrong behaviour from neighbours over parking bays, with one claiming a neighbour had keyed their car, while others have received notes on their windscreen. However, May hasn't ever experienced anything like it until now.

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"It's usually a pretty quiet, boring street," she confessed.

The handwritten canvas is the latest in a long list of questionable behaviour residents have been subjected to in recent months, while neighbours battle it out over limited parking spaces.

Earlier in the month a resident cordoned off street parking by using cones in Leichhardt, a stone's throw away from Summer Hill, in the hope of reserving parking outside their house and stopping others from taking it.

Neighbours have even taken to dobbing on each other over questionable or illegal parking in busy suburbs, using Snap Send Solve — an app that flags community concerns to the council — to free up parking spaces.

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"It's sad to see that my parking had tipped this person's already probably bad day to worse," May said, speaking about how difficult it can be to get parking at times. "Sydney is difficult in lots of ways to live. This person had obviously been terribly stressed out to have such an extreme reaction."

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