Homeowner sparks backlash after complaining about petty act outside his house

An angry homeowner has divided Australians by lashing out at a driver for touching the edge of his nature strip while parking in front of his home.

The Melbourne trader filmed the vehicle with part of the front and rear wheels barely touching the grass.

“Here we go again, it’s a double wheel assembly. Thanks a lot mate, I appreciate it, just what the lawn needed,” he said in the clip.

‘Thank you very much for parking in the middle so I couldn’t park my van.

‘You are a thinker. It looks like you have the IQ of a five-watt light bulb, but I’ll still mow the lawns in your honor.

‘Usually I wait for these random cars to move on before I wipe dirt and s*** all over the car, but today we keep driving and I do what I want.’

The tradie was then seen mowing the lawn next to the offending car before parking his own car just inches behind.

“We’ll just give him a little message here and for fun I’ll park it right in front of his ass and get him thinking,” he said.

“You’d be an absolute idiot to park on a lawn like this, regardless of who owns it – stick that up your ass.”

The complaint sparked a backlash from hundreds of viewers, who said the driver had a right to park in the spot since a nature strip is considered public land and not part of the property.

‘Why do it [people] as if you think you own the municipal nature strip and the parking lot on the public road?’ wrote one person.

“You’re complaining about government-owned grass,” said another.

“Mate, you don’t own the nature strip,” agreed a third.

Others disagreed, saying homeowners usually take care of the nature strip outside their homes, regardless of whether it is public land, and motorists are not allowed to park there.

“Some people don’t understand courtesy…just people who take care of their lawn,” one person wrote.

“People don’t have common courtesy. I’m with you bro,” another person wrote.

‘Even if you don’t own the nature strip, if you see such a lawn, common sense would prevail not to park on it, right?’ said a third.

Others suggested the driver had done the right thing by driving onto the nature strip on a narrow road so that other vehicles could pass more easily.

‘If the road is narrow and I can park my car on the gutter to minimize the chance of a collision, I will do that every time. My car is way more important than a lawn,” one person wrote.

“Isn’t that what rolled curbs are for?” another person wrote.

“Those gutters are designed to be fitted for parking,” a third added.

Motorists in Victoria are not allowed to park in nature lanes under rule 197 of Victoria’s Road Safety Rules Act 2017.

This violation carries a fine of $576.93. Parking on a nature strip is also illegal in other states and territories in Australia.

Motorists are also not allowed to park on a bicycle path, sidewalk or a divided lane.

Motorists are exempt from the rule if the municipality allows motorists to park on a nature strip or if parking control signs state that motorists may park on the grass.