Medical student's car vandalized for being bright orange

A medical student living in Philadelphia has apparently been facing harassment over the colour of his car.

Allegedly, one nosy neighbour of his not only doesn’t appreciate him parking around the corner from his house, but also hates the bright orange the car is painted in.

According to The Philly Voice, Korey, the 25-year-old medical student whose last name he preferred remained anonymous, received a snarky note on his vehicle after parking it near his apartment.

“MOVE YOUR CAR!” it read. “No one wants to see your bright orange car every time they look out their window. Park on another street. You have no right to park here.”

But he did have every right to park there; when he moved into the building, he got a parking permit that says exactly that. The street his apartment is on doesn’t allow on-street parking, so he instead parks his 2007 VW GTI, a special Fahrenheit edition painted Fahrenheit Orange, around the corner.

He remarks that soon after he found the note, he had a bizarre encounter with a woman with a small dog: “It seemed she didn’t like the color of my car,” he says. “She seemed to already know where I lived, which I thought was strange.”

It’s now escalated beyond poorly-handwritten notes, into straight-up vandalism. Korey found his vehicle keyed and his licence plate spray-painted white. Soon after, he found a handwritten parking “violation” ticket that reads “Parking on a street you don’t live on.”

Korey has now given the names of the people he expects to be the perpetrators to authorities and hopes the police can help him. Hell is truly other people.