It is not uncommon to see people leaving objects such as plastic chairs to reserve parking lots for their cars.

But a reader seems to have encountered an entirely new way of reserving parking lots - using the body.

The reader told Stomp she encountered a woman who tried to reserve a parking lot at a public carpark by standing in the lot with her mother. She daringly refused to move when he was backing into the lot.

When the reader questioned her where her car was, she replied that it was "on the way".

The reader said, "Since her car was nowhere in sight and not even in the line of cars being held up behind me, I continued backing into the lot."

The reader said another female driver who witnessed the incident intervened by telling the woman there were more empty lots further up.

The woman's mother then moved out of the way but the other stayed put and started banging on the reader's car boot.

It was at this point the reader decided to call the police.

Aware that the police could do nothing about it, the reader said the police report was a preemptive measure in case something happen to her or the car.

The reader added that she did not want these people thinking that they can get away with ganging up on a lone driver.