![]() ![]() The cop was like “well, she doesn’t have a right to leave her car here so we’re going to tow it, she’s getting arrested, she has to deal with the consequences”Īnd thankfully (in this situation) my boss was an asshole and he was like “Look, man, I give free coffee to everyone who matters in town, the city council likes me more than they like you, the police chief knows me better than she knows you, if you bring a tow truck into my lot to take this car when I, the business owner, have not called to have a car towed and she, the car owner, has not called for a tow I’m going to go to walk into your station and file a report for grand theft auto.” ![]() When the cops put her in the back of their car they started to call the tow company at which point my boss was like “? Why? She’s in my parking lot? The car can stay.” A dipshit small-town cop was cruising around behind businesses and scanning license plates to see if he could get his quota up. One of my coffee shop co-workers got arrested at work once, she ended up having to spend three days in the county jail (unpaid traffic tickets leading to a suspended license getting pulled over on a suspended license that she didn’t know had been suspended leading to being charged with a misdemeanor failure to appear leading to a bench warrant and this is how you end up in jail for one traffic ticket the system is abusive and targets the poor). Maybe forty or fifty years ago anybody with a car could be reasonably assumed to have some savings or a friend or family who could help with this and it was just a “darn it! My poor wallet! Aw man!” situation but today it’s more often a “guess I need to beg for public donations or kill myself” situation. This can take away someone’s only mode of transportation and cost them their entire job and ability to live. The fees start in the hundreds and increase every day the car isn’t retrieved. You could DIE while you’re out with your car and your family will have to pay impound fees. You could park legally, get injured or mugged or lost or otherwise unable to get back to your car before the parking expires and have to pay impound fees. ![]() You could be driving, suffer a heart attack or stroke, have to abandon your vehicle to go to the hospital and have to pay impound fees. Your car can get STOLEN BY CAR THIEVES and you still have to pay impound fees. Your car could break down or get wrecked and you still have to pay impound fees if you can’t get back to it fast enough. Not to make a funny cool video into a “topic” but how about we start talking more about how tow companies are part of a predatory system in which trivial errors are given harsh legal penalties for the sole purpose of generating money? ![]()
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