owadays, it’s not uncommon for a self-storage facility to offer parking spaces for outdoor vehicle storage. But occasionally people make their own unofficial parking spot, causing plenty of damage in the process. Here’s a handful of unfortunate instances.

An RV storage facility in Arizona had an unwanted (and intoxicated) visitor slam into the entrance gate at 2 a.m. Carlos Padilla, MSM’s circulation and online sales coordinator, who was the site’s property manager at the time, says the aftermath “was insane. We were out there with a forklift cleaning debris for an entire day.” Their security cameras even managed to capture the incident on video.

In April, a West Coast Self-Storage facility in Seattle, Wash., was the scene of an accident when a car crashed into the building. Law enforcement responded to the collision on Rainier Avenue South before 3 a.m. Though the vehicle smashed through the entrance, shattering the storefront glass, a structural engineer determined the integrity of the building was intact. The 28-year-old male driver was transported to the hospital as a result of the accident.

Most recently, this August, a crash caused a fire at Steve’s Self Storage in Thatcher, Ariz., when a truck wrecked into a neighboring utility pole. The broken pole caught the vehicle on fire before spreading to a nearby trailer and several storage units.

Although the driver said the truck hydroplaned due to wet conditions, the facility’s co-owner wasn’t convinced that was the cause. “There was very little if any rain since we haven’t had any, so we aren’t the only ones who feel that story isn’t quite true,” Debi Peterson, co-owner of Steve’s Self-Storage, wrote in an email to the Gila Herald. She stated that the truck also took out a brick wall, a pine tree, and two fences. “I can tell you though, that these diesel trucks, motorcycles, and many, many cars use this part of the highway as a speedway and racetrack all hours of the day and night. Rarely are they pulled over! Either way, he is guilty of reckless driving and is responsible for all the items that are lost. It would be nice if he could apologize at least to the woman who lost everything in her two storerooms and the man who lost everything in his. Not to mention the other storerooms with smoke-damaged items.”