If You Park in a Spot You Didn't Shovel in Boston, You Might Wake Up to Find Your Car Looking Like This

Don't mess with a Bostonian's winter parking space — or else things could get really ugly.

In a winter of absolutely massive snowfall, the people of Boston are going to great lengths to protect their hard-shoveled parking spaces and, as WHDH-TV reported, sometimes those lengths are criminal.

A smashed car window with the words "Not OK" scratched in the paint below, the result of a Bostonian taking revenge on someone who took their shoveled-out parking space. (Image via WHDH-TV)

A woman found her car destroyed in South Boston after she parked it in an open spot overnight while visiting her boyfriend.

Three windows were smashed and the words "not OK" were carved into the paint.

“Honestly, karma is going to get them, I don't even have to do anything to them," the woman said to the news station. "I feel bad for them, more or less, because bad things happen to bad people.”

But she's the one who violated a time-honored tradition in the chilly Northeastern city.

Spot-saving is technically illegal in Boston, but convention allows for 48-hour holds on shoveled-out spots after a snow emergency — and this particular winter, in which Boston has been hammered with close to 100 inches of snow, Mayor Marty Walsh has actually endorsed spot-saving.

“People can hold their space for a couple more days just because there's no place to put the snow, there's no place to open spaces on the street,” Walsh said.

Watch WHDH's report below:

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The woman with the smashed car in South Boston is not alone in facing retribution from the people whose shoveled-out spot she took.

A few weeks ago, a Bostonian took to Craigslist to complaint about the New Yorker who took their parking space — and to share the picture of how things looked after they "put the snow back" on the New Yorker's car.

Image via Craigslist

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