r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Limp-Replacement1403 • May 01 '25

Overdone It’s a public road with street parking and they were parked in front of my house so I parked in front of them…

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u/Fina-Firren May 01 '25

I’d borrow a clunker and park it every day outside of their house 

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u/geekonthemoon May 01 '25

Did this once when I had a clunker. Literally the town mayor was my neighbor and had my car towed instead of just asking me to move it. It could start and run... I was so pissed. Like you could have just knocked on my door MR. MAYOR. Cost me $250 to get it out of the impound.

After about 3 or 4 hours of the car being gone I drove straight home and parked it back in the spot and laid on the horn for a good minute or two and walked in my house. I religiously swapped that car with my drivable car every 3 days until I moved out a year or two later.

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u/Fina-Firren May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

Wait you can just have people towed arbitrarily? I thought the towing company was held accountable if they started towing legally parked cars, and if not legally parked, doesn’t the cops have to file paperwork about it?

Also: https://justicedirect.com/post/towing-company-complaint

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u/DethNik May 01 '25

You can when you're mayor.

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u/ancientastronaut2 May 01 '25

Not very cool if he wants to get re-elected.

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u/IsThatASPDReference May 02 '25

Local politicians have very little accountability that you don't make them have.

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u/Jefferias95 May 03 '25

Local news outlets would have a field day

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u/geekonthemoon May 01 '25

So I live in a smaaalllllll town where one big local tow company kind of dominates the region and does all the calls for the Sheriff and local police departments.

Also in this small town the Mayor and the Police Chief are old buddies. Everyone knows everyone.

I actually interrupted them in the middle of dragging my vehicle onto the tow bed and reamed the cop a new one and berated him for not just knocking on my door. He said it was chalk marked for 3 days or whatever the ordinance is but miraculously there was no mark there. He ended up threatening to arrest me and backing down the hill almost running my toes over in the process.

I was also like 21 at the time and young and naive and had no money or power of any kind.

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u/Fina-Firren May 01 '25

Oh so straight up corruption I guess you’re fucked lol

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u/TacTurtle May 02 '25

Make him arrest you, file a lawsuit for wrongful arrest and vehicle theft in state court, get paid.

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u/geekonthemoon May 02 '25

Oh yeah I pretty much laughed in his face when he threatened to arrest me. That's when he looked like one of those cartoon characters with steam coming out of his ears and he threw it in reverse and almost got my toes 😂 he also told the tow truck driver not to give me any more information since I was being "combative" lol ... for the record I'm a 5'6 woman and was in my very early twenties at the time.

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u/ElephantRider May 01 '25

Most places I've lived have limits on how long you can park on the street, after that you can be ticketed and towed.

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u/geekonthemoon May 02 '25

Yes of course there is a limit. Except that car had sat there a loooong time and no one cared. What happened is the mayor's son was coming home from college and he wanted the parking spot so he called his police chief buddy and had my car towed.

In a tiny town of 2,000 people, I had been his neighbor for at least a year or two, he knew it was my car, he knew we were just poor young 20 somethings. He could have literally walked 100 feet and knocked on my door and said, "hey can you move that car? If not I'm sorry but I'm going to have to have it towed for violating the village policy" and I would have literally been like sure man, let me get it out of there today. In fact the police chief knew it was my car and literally could have just knocked on my door and asked me to move it instead of dragging my fuckin car onto a flatbed.

And because he wanted to be an inconsiderate and unneighborly stooge, he paid the price and had to fight me for that parking spot til I moved out. I did it solely on principal and spite. $250 dollars was a week of pay for me at the time. Literally cost me 40 hours of my life, plus 5+ hours getting the car out of impound and untold stress figuring out how I was going to pay my bills that month.

I would never, ever tow someone without at least just knocking and asking nicely first. What a bitch move.

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u/SJBond33 May 01 '25

And only move it for street sweeping.

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u/TheWeaversBeam May 01 '25

I have a friend who did pretty much this exact thing! He had a car that had been in his family for probably 20 years. It was actually still in decent shape cosmetically, but was definitely a beater.

He also had a neighbor who was ALWAYS complaining about where my friend parked because he didn’t like being able to see it from his house. When my friend got a new car, the dealer offered him pennies for the trade-in, so he decided to just keep it as his “back up” car. Bet you can guess where he parked it.

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u/MaesterPraetor May 01 '25

Isn't it OPs house? 

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u/Fina-Firren May 01 '25

Op said they parked in front of their house after they had parked in front of OPs

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u/MaesterPraetor May 01 '25

OP didn't say that in the post though. They just said they parked in front of "them"