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While this company sounds shady, I think this is a little over the top until someone catches them in the act. Doesn't everyone hate tow companies in college ar
by watty 16y ago
While this company sounds shady, I think this is a little over the top until someone catches them in the act. Doesn't everyone hate tow companies in college areas?
"But claiming that the company scraped off the parking sticker" - seems like anyone could have taken his sticker off (or stolen it). I remember hearing on more than one occasion of stolen parking stickers at my school due to the ridiculous price.
I'm not on the tow trucks companies side, I just think this is way blown out of proportion for a hunch.
- jcnnghm 16y agoI don't doubt their story at all. A few weeks ago my girlfriends car was legally parked and towed. I know that it was legally parked because the night before, I parked next to her and noticed that her parking pass was a different color than mine, so I made a note to ask her about it in my cell phone. The next day, the car was gone. The issue is, you are essentially powerless to do anything about it, except pay the extortion. I spoke with a police officer about it after I had to call them a week or so later about an unrelated matter, and he suggested that if something like that were to happen again, we should get an officer to come out and order the parking management company to have the vehicle returned. He said that he had the towing company in question tow a car back to where it was parked before, and did believe that they frequently tow legally parked vehicles in the area. Unfortunately, it could be very difficult (impossible?) to actually get an officer to come out, if the vehicle has been reported towed.