so last night, I parked my car where I always park it. about 3 blocks away and on the correct side (there's Tuesday afternoon street cleaning on the other side of the street). when I walk out this morning to get in my car to go to work, it's gone.
I've parked in this spot on a pretty regular basis for the past year that I've lived in this neighborhood, and I don't have any overdo tickets, so my first thought is that it was stolen. I call 911, cause I can't really think of anything else to do to report a stolen car, and the guy answering the phone gives me the only attitude. jerk wouldn't even give me the correct number I was supposed to call.
I called the police station, and after 10 minutes of being bumped around between desks, I find out that my car had been towed. turns out that they were planning on doing roadwork on the street this afternoon. I saw nothing to indicate that any work had been done as I was standing out there on the street, and the lady on the phone is treating me like I'm the scum of the earth, insisting that there were signs all over the place.
wtf. I saw no signs. and to make matters worse, I'm completely out a day of work now. because I'm not the registered owner of the car (my dad is), I can't pick it up.
I walked around for a bit while trying to get in touch with one of my parents, and eventually saw ONE sign. at the end of the block.
pic to indicate:
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/loki8481/wtf.jpg
the red arrows indicate the path that I drove, and the blue arrows indicate the path that I took to walk back to my apartment. there's no way that I, or any reasonable person in my situation, could have seen the arrows. especially at 1 am with half the street lights out.
it fvcking pisses me off that they'd only put up one sign for an entire block when they're going to be towing away cars in the morning :|
update: the place where the car was locked up was closed by the time my dad got out of work. it's going to cost me at least $200, plus whatever they're going to charge for keeping the car overnight. that's about what I'd be paying for an entire month of private parking at work; too bad there are no private lots by my house. heh. I took a couple pics to indicate where my car was parked and how far away/small the sign was.
my parents had an appointment with the family lawyer early next week anyways about some problems they've been having with their neighbors, so they'll ask him if he thinks it would be worth it to try and get any money back from the town (figuring the costs to get my car out of the lot plus the few hundred I lost by having to call out from work). it's probably not worth the time/energy/money, though. I'll just suck it up and continue looking for an apartment in another town (I've been looking to move for awhile because of the crappy parking situation).
I've parked in this spot on a pretty regular basis for the past year that I've lived in this neighborhood, and I don't have any overdo tickets, so my first thought is that it was stolen. I call 911, cause I can't really think of anything else to do to report a stolen car, and the guy answering the phone gives me the only attitude. jerk wouldn't even give me the correct number I was supposed to call.
I called the police station, and after 10 minutes of being bumped around between desks, I find out that my car had been towed. turns out that they were planning on doing roadwork on the street this afternoon. I saw nothing to indicate that any work had been done as I was standing out there on the street, and the lady on the phone is treating me like I'm the scum of the earth, insisting that there were signs all over the place.
wtf. I saw no signs. and to make matters worse, I'm completely out a day of work now. because I'm not the registered owner of the car (my dad is), I can't pick it up.
I walked around for a bit while trying to get in touch with one of my parents, and eventually saw ONE sign. at the end of the block.
pic to indicate:
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/loki8481/wtf.jpg
the red arrows indicate the path that I drove, and the blue arrows indicate the path that I took to walk back to my apartment. there's no way that I, or any reasonable person in my situation, could have seen the arrows. especially at 1 am with half the street lights out.
it fvcking pisses me off that they'd only put up one sign for an entire block when they're going to be towing away cars in the morning :|
update: the place where the car was locked up was closed by the time my dad got out of work. it's going to cost me at least $200, plus whatever they're going to charge for keeping the car overnight. that's about what I'd be paying for an entire month of private parking at work; too bad there are no private lots by my house. heh. I took a couple pics to indicate where my car was parked and how far away/small the sign was.
my parents had an appointment with the family lawyer early next week anyways about some problems they've been having with their neighbors, so they'll ask him if he thinks it would be worth it to try and get any money back from the town (figuring the costs to get my car out of the lot plus the few hundred I lost by having to call out from work). it's probably not worth the time/energy/money, though. I'll just suck it up and continue looking for an apartment in another town (I've been looking to move for awhile because of the crappy parking situation).
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