Car owners in Nanjing are familiar with a situation which unfolded of late. Someone parks their car in front of another, blocking the latter’s exit. Sometimes they leave a phone number; sometimes they don’t. And for one woman in our city, sometimes that’s all just too much.
It was one evening in the past few days in Nanjing’s Yuhuatai District that the lady in question took her child out for dinner, and subsequently her anger, in quite the unusual way.
Finishing their meal at about 20:00, the two returned to their parking space to find a white Porsche in front on their car. There was no way to go home.
Many drivers leave their telephone number on their vehicle’s dashboard for entirely this purpose. It’s handy when there are no parking spaces available and they are planning on leaving sometime very soon anyway.
But that was not the case with the owner of the Porsche. With no phone number displayed, the lady remained at the scene for fully 3 hours, waiting for the offending vehicle’s owner to turn up. No one came.
During this time, together with an eyewitness at the scene, a Mr. Wang, the two attempted to contact the Porsche’s owner via China’s 114 directory inquiries. But the car owner did not answer their phone.
With the driver of the Porsche nowhere to be found and the traffic police not present on the scene, the lady decided it was time to take matters into her own hands.
Purchasing three packets of sanitary pads from a nearby supermarket, the lady returned to the parking lot and proceeded to plaster the Porsch with the pads.
All in, she stuck a total of 18 sanitary pads to the car’s front windscreen and the two side windows of both driver and passenger.
Nevertheless, the stalemate was only addressed around 23:00 when shopping mall security staff assisted to manhandle the Porsche to the side so that the lady could drive home.
Mr. Wang also left a note for the car owner, explaining the situation. He told media later that the Porsche owner had subsequently apologised to the lady, reports The World Journal. Nevertheless, commenting on the vehicle’s one-of-kind decoration in a video posted online, its maker can be heard to say, “That’s the price of illegal parking”.