BMW Driver Confuses Rooftop Car Park for Extreme Tetris Challenge — Casualties Include Common Sense

Riley Corbett | Crimes Reporter | Sutherland Shire Gazette

17 March 2025

A Sutherland Shire driver has been left questioning whether she’s the victim of a targeted attack or simply a casualty of next-level parking arrogance, after returning to her car to find a BMW 4WD wedged so close, it may as well have been trying to merge with her vehicle.

Despite an entirely empty rooftop car park just meters away, the BMW driver opted for a precision park between two already occupied spaces, leaving zero room for human access. 

"I honestly thought I’d been pranked," said the driver, who wished to remain anonymous (but whose Pilates class now knows the full story).

With no other choice, she performed an Olympic-gold-worthy move, effectively intentionally dislocating a hip to shimmy in through the driver’s side door. "I was half in, half out, thinking—this is how it ends. This is where they find me. Stuck in a half-squat position, wedged between a seat and a handbrake."

Witnesses described the maneuver as both "impressive" and "mildly traumatic to watch."

But in a moment of quiet revenge, the driver took decisive action - raising the BMW’s windscreen wipers in the universal symbol of "I see you, and I do not respect you." "It’s not much," she admitted, "but it’s enough to confuse them for a few seconds when they get back. And that’s a small win for the rest of us."

As for the BMW driver, they remain unidentified—but locals say it shouldn’t be hard to spot them. Just look for someone walking smugly through Westfield without looking back, radiating the unmistakable energy of a person who has never once used a reverse camera.