‘Homeowner has a right,’ insists lawyer of truck blocking driveway – it was a safety issue but his revenge was ‘illegal’ | 88I24H8 | 2024-05-12 12:08:01
'Homeowner has a right,' insists lawyer of truck blocking driveway – it was a safety issue but his revenge was 'illegal' | 88I24H8 | 2024-05-12 12:08:01
AN attorney has reacted to a woman's illegal parking job while she was picking her child up from school – but she may not be the one liable.
As the lawyer said, two wrongs don't make a right – but the "double no-no" parking job may not be the legal loser.
Ugo Lord, also called "The TikTok Attorney" for translating legal jargon into more digestible terms, earned his internet fame for reacting to legally complicated scenarios and determining who would be the liable party.
In a recent video uploaded to his YouTube channel (@UgoLord), he reacted to a video of a woman parking her large Ford F-150 Raptor in front of a man's work van, illegally blocking his driveway.
The woman was picking her child up from a Saugus, Massachusetts elementary school and was one of the several parents who opted to block a homeowner's driveway instead of waiting in a long line of cars.
"[Parents] do this literally every day and it's really out of hand," said the homeowner with the work van, who opted to remain nameless when interviewed by CBS affiliate KCAL in April.
"This is an ongoing problem that has been going on for four or five years."
Lord noticed her truck was also blocking a fire hydrant – which is illegal.
In the video, the homeowner confronts the woman.
"You're entitled to block my driveway just because you're picking up your kids?" he asked her in the video.
Later in the video, it was revealed that he'd driven his work van into the side of her truck to get her to move.
"Legally speaking, you cannot block someone's driveway," said Lord.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> "Not for a minute, not for a second – because homeowners have a right to have ingress and egress out of their house."
Then he touched on the second legal violation of her parking job.
"Not only that, ladies and gentlemen, but this woman also blocked a fire hydrant, which makes it a double no-no," he said.
Despite her double-whammy of illegal parking violations, the homeowner may be the one who could be responsible for damages to her car.
"Two wrongs don't make a right. You can't hit someone's car simply because they're blocking your driveway," he said.
<p class="article__content--intro"> Blocking a driveway is illegal in the United States due to the limiting of access to emergency care. </p> </div> </div> "You don't have the legal right to cause someone else damage because they're inconveniencing your day, so it would make the van owner liable for all the damages."
In the new outlet's video, the man's work van left a dent in the bottom of her passenger's side door.
When sheriffs arrived at the house, neither party decided to press charges, though the woman was confused as to why the situation escalated so quickly.
"I am not doing anything with this damage because I don't want to cause him any more problems, but I don't know it's escalated as far as it has now," she said.
She wasn't ticketed for blocking the driveway or the fire hydrant, either.
Because his vehicle did damage to her car, he could have been liable for damages but she decided not to press charges[/caption]
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