He Thought the Car Was Parked Too Close to His Driveway, So He Took Matters Into His Own Hands and Ends in Handcuffs

A long-running parking dispute in Dickeyville, Wisconsin, ended with a man in handcuffs after deputies said he intentionally rammed a parked vehicle twice because he was angry about where it had been left.

Midwest Patrol reported that the incident happened on March 17, 2024, when deputies responded to a complaint involving a vehicle parked near a driveway and a neighbor who allegedly decided to handle the problem with his own car.

According to the channel’s narration, the suspect was upset about a vehicle parked near his driveway, but witnesses told deputies the vehicle was legally parked and that he had enough room to get out.

What followed was not a parking ticket or a tow. It became a criminal damage to property case.

Witnesses Say He Hit The Vehicle Twice

When deputies arrived, they first spoke with a witness named Harry Burlage, who said he was outside smoking when he saw the confrontation unfold.

Harry told the deputy the suspect, later identified in the footage as Terry, had been sitting in his vehicle with a turn signal on. Terry got out, said he had called the cops, then got back inside his vehicle.

According to Harry, Terry then pulled forward and struck the parked vehicle with the front passenger side of his car.

At first, Harry said he wondered whether the first hit might have been an accident. But then Terry backed up, sat for a moment, turned the wheel harder, and hit the vehicle again near the bumper.

“He hit him on purpose,” Harry told the deputy.

The detail that made the second impact so important was the pause between the two hits. A single bad turn could be explained away as a mistake, but backing up and lining up again made the whole scene look much more deliberate.

A Bar Owner Says This Had Been Building For Years

Deputies then spoke with a woman connected to the nearby bar, who said she had been dealing with Terry’s complaints for years.

She told the deputy the vehicle had been moved forward before the crash because Terry had been complaining about where it was parked. She said it may have been slightly over the line before, but after it was moved, Terry had room to exit.

She also said she took a photo because Terry appeared to be sitting there as if he was planning something.

Then, according to her account, she stopped watching because she had customers. A short time later, Harry told her Terry had hit the vehicle.

The woman was visibly frustrated, telling deputies that the conflict had been going on for about five years and that Terry often complained about cars near the driveway.

“I have been dealing with this for five years,” she said in the footage.

She also said customers sometimes left because they did not want to deal with the neighbor’s behavior.

There is something very ordinary, and very exhausting, about this kind of dispute. It is not a dramatic feud over money or property lines; it is a small neighborhood conflict that appears to have been allowed to simmer until one person finally crossed a line that could not be ignored.

Terry Admits He Did It On Purpose

The deputy then walked over to speak with Terry.

At first, Terry said he had tried to get out of his driveway and claimed the other vehicle was blocking him. He said someone came out and moved it only about six inches after he blew the horn.

The deputy pushed back, telling Terry he had watched video of the incident and did not see another car coming, as Terry had suggested.

“It looks like to me you ran into the car on purpose because you were pissed,” the deputy told him.

When the deputy asked why he hit the vehicle twice, Terry said the witness had been laughing at him.

“He pissed me off,” Terry said.

The deputy then asked the key question: “So you hit it on purpose?”

“Yeah,” Terry answered.

The deputy told him plainly that he could not do that. Terry replied that the other person could not park in his driveway either, but the deputy explained that the vehicle was parked between the lines.

That admission changed the entire case. At that point, the deputy no longer had to rely only on witness statements or the video; Terry himself had acknowledged that he intentionally hit the parked vehicle.

The Deputy Calls It Criminal Damage

The deputy told Terry that even if he was angry about the parking situation, he could not smash into someone else’s car.

Terry insisted he had called police and said he also called to report that he had hit the car. But the deputy made clear that calling afterward did not undo the intentional damage.

“It’s not an accident,” the deputy said. “You did it on purpose.”

The deputy also noted that Terry’s own vehicle was illegally parked at that point, though Terry said he had not wanted to move it because of the incident.

At one point, the deputy asked Terry about drug use, including when he had last smoked crack. Terry denied current use and said he had been clean for years.

Later, the deputy told others he did not have enough to pursue an OWI angle based on the short distance Terry drove, but the criminal damage case was clear.

Terry was allowed to finish a nebulizer treatment and take needed medication before being transported. Deputies also helped secure his property, move his car, and gather insurance information.

That part of the footage shows a calmer side of the arrest process. Terry was being taken to jail, but deputies still worked through his medical needs, his locked door, his phone, and his vehicle rather than rushing him out without those details handled.

The Victim Learns What Happened

After Terry was taken into custody, the deputy spoke with the vehicle owner, identified in the footage as James.

The deputy told James that Terry had admitted to intentionally hitting his vehicle and that he had been arrested for criminal damage to property.

James said he had not gone outside to look closely at the damage because he had a temper and did not want to make the situation worse.

That was probably a wise choice. In neighborhood disputes, one angry reaction can quickly become another, and by staying away from Terry after the crash, James avoided turning the incident into something even messier.

The deputy asked James a required question for the report: whether he had given Terry permission to damage his property.

“No,” James answered.

The deputy then advised him that he was considered a crime victim under state law and provided information about victim services.

James estimated the damage could be around $500, noting that the vehicle was an older Ford Explorer but had been clean before the incident.

More Video And More Witnesses

Deputies also spoke with another neighbor, Nick, who had watched from his front window and recorded the incident on his phone.

Nick told the deputy he watched Terry back up and hit the vehicle twice.

“I don’t know if he did it more than twice, but I watched it happen twice,” Nick said.

The footage from neighbors appeared to help confirm what Harry and the bar owner had already described. It also gave deputies a clearer picture of the intent behind the impact.

The bar owner later told the deputy that Terry had done other things over time, including allegedly putting peanut butter on people’s door handles, and that this was part of a much longer pattern of behavior.

The deputy explained that Terry would be taken to jail for criminal damage to property and that if he committed another crime after release, he could face bail-jumping consequences.

For the bar owner, the arrest seemed to bring relief, even if she did not expect it to solve everything overnight.

A Parking Dispute Becomes A Criminal Case

Midwest Patrol reported that Terry was ultimately charged with one count of criminal damage to property, a Class A misdemeanor.

Court records cited by the channel show that he initially pleaded not guilty but later changed his plea to guilty after reaching an agreement with the state.

The court accepted the plea, found him guilty, and ordered him to pay a $150 fine plus court costs.

The case is a reminder that being angry about parking, even repeatedly angry, does not give someone the right to damage another person’s vehicle.

If a car is blocking a driveway, the legal path is to call police, request enforcement, or document the problem. Terry did call, according to the footage, but then he chose not to wait for deputies to handle it.

That choice turned a parking complaint into an arrest.

In the end, the deputy summed it up simply when speaking with Terry: even if he believed someone parked badly, he could not just hit the car because he was mad. The street dispute may have started with a driveway, a parked vehicle, and years of frustration, but it ended with Terry being taken to jail for damage he admitted causing on purpose.