Two women who used an axe and metal rod to smash up a parked pickup truck that was blocking their driveway in Prawet district of Bangkok are facing charges of property damage and intimidating the owner.

The incident was videoed and the clip went viral on social media.

The driver, meanwhile, faces a fine for parking the vehicle in a way that blocked traffic.

Pol Col Alongkorn Sirisongkhram, chief of Prawet police station, said on Monday the truck driver lodged a complaint with police on Sunday.

Rachanikorn Lertwasana, 37, told investigators she parked her vehicle directly in front of the entry gate to the house on Sunday, before going shopping at a nearby market. She claimed that she thought the house was unoccupied and returned after only 10 minutes to find onlookers surrounding her truck and the two women smashing it up.

One woman used an axe and the other used a long metal rod, Ms Rachanikorn said. When she tried to calm them down, the two women threatened to hurt her.

Pol Col Alongkorn  said the owner of the house had filed police complaints over parked cars blocking the driveway on four occasions over the past three years. No such violence had been reported before.

The two women in the video clip, later identified by police as Ratanachat Saengyoktrakarn, 61, and Ranee Saengyoktrakarn, 57, were being summonsed to answer charges of damaging private property, intimidation and carrying weapons in public.

Ms Ratanachat and Ms Ranee called a press conference on Tuesday morning in front their house, saying the family had been suffering from the problem of irresponsible parking for nearly a decade.

“We had to smash up the truck to protect our rights,” they argued. 

The two said they had first called police, but no officials came to the scene.

In previous cases, sick family members could not be rushed to hospital simply because someone had blocked the driveway, they said.

They also claimed they had first waited about half an hour for the truck driver to return, and then honked their car horn repeatedly for another half an hour to draw the truck driver's attention.

The two women also refused to pay Ms Rachanikorn compensation for the damage to the truck. They said the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration had to pay it, for its failure to enforce land use laws in the housing estate.