Reply To: Driveway Blocking In Borough Park

Helpful, I don’t understand why you are directing that comment to me. My point was that when someone is driving in the street, he has no way of knowing if a given driveway is legal or not. Are you suggesting something else?

Squeak, calling a private tow company is not mesirah since the company is not the government. I sincerely hope that you are not suggesting that when someone violates the law, as well as Halacha, by blocking another’s driveway, AND the property owner has no possibility of bringing a din Torah since he has no way of knowing the identity of the illegal parker, that the property owner is wrong in calling the police.

Better yet, please ask your rav if someone who deliberately blocks driveways under the cloak of anonymity is allowed to shout “Mesirah!” when the property owner uses the only remedy left to him which is calling the police.

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