I've seen people do that thinking it will stop the snow plow from pushing snow into the driveway. The snow plow driver says "F U" and passes close anyway and the cars end up stuck. Pretty funny.
Isin't there a law in lot of cities in the states where you can't park within a certain amount of feet from the road? I recall hearing of people getting fines for misparking in their very own driveways. Of course in this case they're actually partially on the road so that would probably be a ticket here too.
At work we have a very small parking lot, a full size pickup truck cannot park straight without sticking out on the sidewalk. Sometimes there will be an anal bylaw officer that will come and ticket every single car. Now we have less people at the office as one department moved to another building, so the trucks just park in an angle and cars park at the beginning. When I had my older car, which was a boat of a car, I would just back up slowly till I am touching the building lol. That car was a tank, never got a dent from doing that. A modern car would practically explode into tiny little bits of plastic if you tried that.
The latest thing now is they gave us trouble because there's no proper handicap spot. We're going to give them lot of trouble with that one, such as waiting till it's -40 out and asking them to come indicate exactly where they want it, and explain everything, while standing out in the cold. Screw bylaw officers with their idiocies.