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When my Dad was a kid the and the rest of the basketball team picked up(actually they bounced it) some guys little Citroen and placed it strategically between two trees in the park so he could neither pull forward or back up.
They laughed like crazy when the poor fellow discovered his plight then they moved it back out for him. :0) Wise acres!