As much as I agree with the fact that you don't own the street in front of your house; there's a difference between somebody just parking there once in a while, and somebody using it as their permanant parking spot.
Case in point- my cul-de-sac. We all have our unofficially designated parking spots, but sometimes I come home and find somebody parked in my spot. If it's a one of a kind type of situation; no big deal. But my next door neighbour who owns two cars decided 2 years ago to remove his back alley parking pad and make his yard bigger. Then last year his brother in law moved in, and I found myself without a parking spot in front of my house all the time. I called him on it, and he started parking a car in the back alley.
It wasn't that he was taking "my spot" so much as the fact that there's only one spot in front of each house, and he was taking up 3. Same as Prottotype's situation; the other guy is taking up more spots than he has to offer. It's just a matter of making sure the other guy has a community mindset. Neighbours have to live together; and to do so everybody has to be considerate. Sometimes we all have to be reminded that we aren't being considerate.
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