Car accident on my street, car left in front of my house (pics now included post #28))

[BudAshes]

Tickets, schmickets, MPLS will tow your ass.

I wish they would sometimes. There has been someone's subaru parked in front of my house for 3 weeks and it's snowed several times.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Here they love to give tickets for that. They will ticket people for blocking snow plows even if there is no snow or snow plows. Their reasoning is "the law is the law" basically.

 

[Muse]

Zing, Clouseau!

Car's still there. Today's the 3rd day. If still there when I get home tonight I'll call the police again.

So, I get home tonight and the car's gone! There's a fair mess in the street and I clean it up immediately, broken this and that. Took me 10 minutes or so to clean up using my hands, a broom and a dust pan. There's no trace now.

I haven't seen a snow flake here ever! It happens, I guess, maybe every 30 years on average, but significant build up of snow in the flatlands of Berkeley, CA? Maybe every couple hundred years. AFAIK, the law here is that you can't leave your car parked in one place on the street longer than 3 days. This afternoon came to 3 days. I left about 1PM, maybe an hour or two before 3 days were technically up. If it were still here and I called the cops now, maybe they would have started counting from when they came and checked it out, maybe they'd have taken my word that the car had been there since Saturday, I really don't know. The woman I talked to at the police phone line on Sunday seemed to suggest that if I called today they'd tag it, but it seems doubtful to me. Anyway, it's gone.