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Some years back, a friend of mine came home from work to find that a large utility truck and crane were in his back yard. They'd cut across his front lawn, across his driveway (which ran alongside his house) and parked in back to work on a transformer. It turned out that the utility hadn't maintained their actual right-of-way/easement, which was the equivalent of an alley adjoining the back of the property, so they cut across my friend's yard.

The workers got nasty when he pointed out the damage they'd done to his yard.

So . . . he parked his car on his driveway - which blocked the truck's egress.

When the utility workers decided to leave, they confronted my buddy with a profanity-laced tirade demanding he move his car.

He didn't take kindly to that.

Police were called by the utility workers, who informed them that since the guy's legally-registered car was legally parked on private property, they had no authority to make him move.

Utility executives became involved, a couple of utility workers lost their jobs, and the utility company ended up re-sodding his entire yard plus some "additional considerations."