My ex boss had this happen,even after the police told the HOA it was illegal,then used a torch to cut the boot off. We spent the next couple of days cutting boots off the neighbor's cars. If a boot popped up,we cut it off. We collected the remains and dropped some on the HOA presidents lawn and some on the lawn of the self appointed "parking enforcement officer". They called the cops and said we destroyed their property and the cops said that since they were already told that booting cars was illegal,people can remove them anyway they can.I miss that miserable old bastard boss.He always was good for a laugh.

And since people who live in HOA communities have to pay dues to the HOA, you're literally paying them to oppress you.

HOA is nothing more than the landlord for the house that you purchased. It's literally the worst of both worlds, you still have to go through all the hassle of buying a home and being responsible for it AND all the hassle of living under the rules of someone else and abide by strict regulations of how you live in your home.

What kind of a person wants to live in an HOA? I live in the country with no neighbors just to get away from fights. Who makes these silly rules anyway

Car blocks sidewalk Solution: *Boots car to continually block sidewalk*

I would never move to an HOA neighborhood. I’d be getting 20 to life within the first couple weeks. 😆

I cannot tell you how many times I bumped heads with my previous HOA. It almost made living in my home oppressive. They had me remove rocks that were placed at the bottom all around my outside fence even THOUGH the original builders designed it that way. They never said a word about it until I moved in with my family. I spent 2 hours carrying those heavy rocks one by one. Then a couple months later they said I had to cut the bushes of my small tree outside where they were starting to impede people walking on the side way and cars on the street. It wasn't that long and I was walking right under them just fine, but I thought fair enough. So I cut them, about 3 feet above my head and I'm 6 ft. And on the street same, about 6 ft above my SUV. They sent letters again saying I had to cut it shorter. AND I had to fix a golf ball sized hole in my white fence. I swear I saw red after those letters. I patched the hole with White tape. Took an Axe and chopped the tree down, loaded it in my truck and dumped it. They sent an angry letter with a fine for chopping the tree and I called them and played dumb. Asking I thought THEY did that? And they continued to accuse me of chopping the tree to which I kept stating I did not and thought it was HOA so I thought nothing of it. And I got very defensive and said if you think I chopped it down then show me a video of me chopping it down, otherwise I'm calling the cops for harassment. They withdrew the fine and never sent me a letter again. Long grass. Weeds. Even painted parts of my house different color. Never said shit after that about anything. Lol

From someone living outside the US I find this absolute outrageous, what is the HOA even for? This is a classic example that power corrupts.

i had a little event occur with my HOA a few years back. im a certified welder and have a welding truck which i use for work. i always parked it in my driveway. this went just fine for over 4 years. suddenly we have this new parking enforcement company. i got my truck booted ,i went to the office as i had peremission to park in my driveway. the company refused and i paid 85 bucks. i began parking the truck in the garage. well i was doing some work in the backyard and the front garage door was open. i was floored to find my truck booted inside mydamn garage. i went to the office and im pissed ok. they refused saying that no one wants to see that truck. now i might add that my truck was beautiful. new paint chrome everything and always clean. before i left the office i said i will not pay. i was then told that i should enjoy my time off as im not going to work. how stupid that guy was is astounding. i have extensive metal working tools and i took my cutting torch out cut that damn thing off .i drove to the enforcment office and booted the bosses car but i welded it together.no key was opening that one. well guess what people i was never bothered again. they underestimated my level of contempt and revenge.

I think about 90% of those HOAs are corrupt. I’d never buy a house that requires you to be a participant.

As a Security Officer, I would sooner quit and turn my "bosses" in to the police, than carry through with unlawful commands. The piglets that go along with this sort of thing, make a bad name for the rest of us.

I could never live in an HOA, the second someone I pay the salary of comes onto my property and tells me what I can and can not do is the second I face 20 to life.

I Agree. HOA's need to be outlawed. PERIOD.

Blocking the sidewalk? Boot the car so it can't be moved. Seems legit...

"Hey HOA, I am just calling to remind you: Booting cars on public streets unless you are a law enforcement is a crime. If you do not stop, we are going to arrest you. Indeed you better refund *everything* that was paid, or we go and get you for every case retroactively."

"Hi this is the lock picking lawyer and today we will be returning a lost tire boot to the vehicle of the of the president of the neighborhood Home Owner's Association."

This is why I won't even look at a home that is part of an HOA.

You blocked the sidewalk so now we won't let you move it off the sidewalk.

This is one of the many reasons why I don't know why people live in a home with HOA. I never had this problem. My home and yard is mine. Got to love the country life.

I love when HOA’s can’t even bother to abide by laws and constitutional rights. When, they make their own decisions and bylaws.

If you own a home before the establishment of a HOA You can use a Grandfather-Clause to your advantage. Ex: My grandmother had a small vegetable garden in her front yard for almost 27 years, Then a HOA was established in 2007 and tried to enforce their rules and standards. Eventually removing the garden without permission after my grandmother’s refusal over the course of 8 months. After a long legal battle and an undisclosed legal settlement, My grandmother at age 96 still has a vegetable garden. The end.

Man I love living in the sticks. On my own land, shooting guns while cops drive by and wave. :)

Do exactly what my friend in Texas did when going to the HOA office building. Tell the "lady" that she calls the HOA owner to respond NOW or every building that the HOA uses as offices and every employee that lives in the HOA that works for it will also somehow mysteriously have a home "accident" the next day unless they fix their problems. He had had it with the 12+ problems in the past month from them and then made it their problem. Weirdly; two hours later, all the problems were solved, all employees of the HOA were gone, and the whole community had no more problems. Nice when you play on their rules and they don't like it.

That tire boot would be flying through the companies window before the shift was over.

HOA logic: A car is blocking the sidewalk? We better boot it so it can't get out of the way.

Makita grinder with a cut off wheel would solve the problem.

I can never and will never live in a neighborhood controlled by HOA. I will never allow some civilian tell me how to live. My old supervisor was president of her HOA and she was so proud of it. She was the worst and most evil and spiteful and coniving employee in our entire company. She feels so privilege and feels she has so much authority, even more than the CEO and vice president of the company. It was sickening. I left because of her. May God have mercy on her soul. It must be so tiring for these power hungry people to be so evil all the time.

When I moved to another state and temporally lived with relatives while finding a house the number 1 rule I told the real estate agent was, "No HOA"!

"Hes blocking the sidewalk" "What should we do about it" "Boot his car that way he cant go anywhere" "Wouldnt he still be blocking the sid-" "Shhh, No more talky" Edit: HOLY SHIT, 845 LIKES

Had an HOA boot my welding rig one night when I stayed at a friends house. Long story short the boot got to meet my plasma cutter.

The last time An HOA tried this on me, I cut it off and then threw it through the front door window of their office, and then sued them for my lost time, harassment, and fraud. The HOA is no longer in business, they went bankrupt from all of the home owner lawsuits that were filed along with mine. I won.

1:29 I have never understood the logic behind this. "The car is blocking the pavement. I am going to make sure it continues to block the pavement by attaching a clamp."

A girl I know works for a attorney that specializes in hoa's . Some of the stories she told me were so unbelievable. One that comes to mind is the hoa going after homeowners that worked 2nd shift, and started rules about what time you could start your Vehicle, and no guests or visitors allowed after 10pm, no one was allowed to leave or return home after midnight. That case the president of the hoa and board members were sued and they had to pay out of their own pockets for lost wages and attorney fees!

I recently had a run in with the local HOA in my somewhat nice neighborhood. They quickly left me alone after I laughed hysterically and obnoxiously over the phone when they tried to tell me I needed to resod my yard with a different type of grass. Although it did take them three separate calls over a months time, needless to say the laughing got more and more obnoxious and grotesque as the calls came. Edit: I should also mention that I signed no contract, and am not technically any part of their little lame-ass wannabe fascist state. Nonetheless I live close enough to where they felt they could tell me what kind of grass goes in the yard of the home I pay taxes on. Fuck.That.Shit.

What really sucks is that as I look more and more to move, I find less and less houses that are not HOA. Almost every house I've looked at that's under 10 years old is run by an HOA. Of course, I want to live in a nice neighborhood. But I don't mind somebody changing their own oil on the weekend in their own driveway.

They would have been really shocked when I went at my house and got a grinder and cut their damn boot off of my vehicle. It is amazing how nice people are when dealing with crooks. I am not nice and I don't play.

That's when I take out the angle grinder to cut the boot off.

It's going to take a little longer for my angle grinder to get thru that thick one

Simple solution if you have a spare tire is just jack the trailer up and replace the tire . Then take the tire and boot into you garage and work on it in your spare time. As a blacksmith that is some good metal to work with. I wonder how many knifes I could make out of a Boot ? You know them boots can be expensive to replace. Once they attach it to my car it belong to me.

Neighbor: *breaths incorrectly* HOA: *VIOLATION! REEEE!!!*

I have yet in 40 years to hear about a single good HOA.

I don't understand why so many people buy a house in an HOA neighborhood. You already put up with Federal Government, State, City, County... and that's not enough? So you want more regulations and fees?

I hear so often, "just don't live any place with an HOA"... it's not that easy when they are EVERYWHERE. The States need to start putting limits on these organizations.

I have a drawer FULL of cutting discs to go with my angle grinder for just the occassion that someone tries THIS on me. LoL!!!

I hate HOAs, I had a flats boat in my drive way which is a down hill drive way and 75' from the road. I get a letter in the mail for the HOA saying they are going to fine me $250 a day for every day it sits in my drive way because it's a danger to other drivers... man I hate them with a passion.

One of the best things about homeownership is exhilaration of owning your own land and house. HOA robs you of that

It is time to force jail time on all private entities that take the law into their own hands, even those that have a business name attached. If one person can get into trouble with the law for doing it, all must share the same liability. The CEO of Hoamco should receive at least a year in jail for each offense his company committed.

You get to boot my car once, the next time you get shot. Get the hell outta here😂

*gets booted for blocking the sidewalk in his own driveway* *is now unable to move from said sidewalk* LOGIC

First mistake living in a HOA.

NO HOA ever under any circumstances.

I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever live in a community with an HOA. It’s absurd and unconstitutional.

You know, when I was a kid and car blocked the sidewalk...I walked around it.

I've been called to remove illegal boots, by the time I'm done they're junk. Lots of little pieces. Plasma cutter is quick

When looking for homes in the west I found so many yet my husbands first question was “is there a HOA?” And if there is we won’t be living there. We been married 41 years and he has kept his word…never ever live anywhere near a HOA.

We have no HOA. My house is straight out of the early 1980s, including bathrooms and kitchen sink but I dont care. Im free to do what I want on my own property. I am happy to support my neighnors' freedoms, too.

If they have no authority to boot your car, then they have no authority to stop or punish you for cutting off that boot.

A friend of mine had his car booted by his HOA, I came to his house and picked the lock. I then put said boot on the car of his neighbor who was the head of that HOA, and was parked on the street like my friend.

The guy who booted his car committed a crime and should have been charged.

The HOA is literally that one bully in school that immediately backs off and shuts up when you call the teacher.

When my dad was alive back in the 80's , his work truck was booted. Yea it took about 1 min for him to leave a pile of bits there

We had Parking Nazis at our HOA. We had to elect a new board to finally get rid of them.

If private booting was a crime how did nobody get in trouble?? Seriously? Now HOA's are above the law? Wtf?

I told my neighbor to keep watch while I fire up the oxyacetylene rig

park all of your cars on the street, wait for the boots to come, and use an angle grinder, they will eventually run out of boots and wont want to buy more

I've heard so many horror stories about HOAs. I would never move into a neighborhood where I had to pay to live in my own house under an insane, greedy Home Owners Association. What a racket. Dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

Reason #76 to never ever piss away money in an HOA.

Ive had a neighbor (wasnt even a HOA neighbordhood) report my car to the city as “Abandoned” because they didnt like that i would park in front of their house somedays (only street parking was available on this street) How do i know they did it for that reason? They LEFT AN ACTUAL NOTE TELLING ME THEY DID IT FOR THAT REASON!!!! Some fucking people …..this planet…..

When your Home Owners' Association has their own office, logo, etc. you know you're getting screwed.

if u live in the vegas area and has a boot from your HOA. give me a call. ill come with my plasma cutter/angle grinder and OXY/ACY torch. i only charge a Double Double IN & OUT combo. lol...

When we were house shopping in GA, one of the stipulations that we made was no HOAs.

It's good to live in the country.

When I am house-hunting, my first question for the real estate agent is: "Is this property infected with an HOA?" If yes, I walk. Simple as that. It's time to outlaw HOAs and imprison their executives.

I love hearing when a homeowner wins over an HOA

I would have walked in my garage with a bolt cutter, take it off, put in my garage and say “thank you for the boot.”

We need to start putting HOA board members in jail for at least 10years with NO parole and a $50,000 fine.

the HOA needs to be outlawed in this nation

I'd never buy a house where I will be told what I can and can't do.

Prison for the hoa people. Then fine the individuals....the gov needs to jump in on this.

Bolt cutters are not that expensive. Everyone should own them. They don't come in handy often but when you need them they are really handy. That lock is history in seconds.

Seems like fun.. I’d keep parking on the street and keep cutting the boot off..

I own an angle grinder, they would have only booted me once, I promise you that.

I live in an HOA community in Florida. I'm also a board member. Florida has exceptionally clear statutes regarding the powers, conduct, and responsibilities of HOAs. I'm surprised more states don't. Our street is city owned, too. If our HOA had pulled a stunt like that, our city police would have had a field day writing up citations for all the parties involved in this illegal act.

Always describe HOA Saying “ i get to pay them to piss me off” Never again

Was buying a house during all this crap Told the realtor, under no circumstances will we buy in a HOA allotment.

If a boot turned up on my vehicle in front of my house,I wouldn't think twice about cutting it off. Another reason to NOT BUY PROPERTY run by an HOA.

Im thinking the HOA was legally charged for violation of a city ruling and could face legal charges and imprisonment of their president.

Homeowners associations should be illegal

I wish I could have seen the conversation between the city and the HOA about their illegal booting.

I DARE any HOA come tell me what I may or may not do with my property. Eff 'em.

When municipalities in France started booting vehicles people would just fill the locks with superglue. The companies were obliged to cut their own boots apart, and since no one could prove who had added the glue the vehicle owners were not obliged to pay for it. Booting wasn't economically viable so they stopped.

Booting my car at my own house? Heeell no, big mistake because my garage is a machine shop, it's going to be cut into a million pieces

Boot my Truck in my own driveway? The Dewalt grinder, or sawsall is coming out and its getting cut off. And if I know who put it on my truck, lets say there going to receive it back as a gift, most likely through their car's windshield.

Angle grinder cut lock off use to socket loosen... You now own a wheel boot!

I worked security for several HOAs, and let me tell you, they were terrible. No self respecting security company would be caught dead booting vehicles. If you want a security company to do that, find the shady ones because they don't care. I only had the ability to call for a tow truck if the vehicle was parked in a fire lane, no parking zone, in a handicap parking space without plates or placard, or any other no designated parking areas. We were never allowed to boot cars because it is illegal. Even if it's in an HOA area, it's illegal. They are only allowed to have vehicles towed. I would've contacted the BBB, and a few other places to report the security company, then sued the HOA for allowing the illegal act.

I'm sure if you smashed the guys head against the boot hard enough it would eventually come off.

why would anybody waste money buying a house to live under this tyranny. No way would I live in a HOA. Even if brand new houses 15k. My freedom more valuable.

That's why I carry a battery operated grinder with a cutting wheel in my truck at all times.

the HOA needs to be removed from the united states of america in total! anyone who catches someone booting their car should detain the person and contact the police the person caught should then be charged with grand theft auto!

.....I'm just spiteful enough that I'd get something to cut the thing off, then go drop it on the HOA's front desk with "fuck you' painted on it... That is utterly ridiculous...