In 2007, I had my car stolen from the Richmond BART parking lot. The police recovered it at something like 2:30am the following Friday night. Since I slept thro

In 2007, I had my car stolen from the Richmond BART parking lot. The police recovered it at something like 2:30am the following Friday night. Since I slept through the call, my car was taken to an impound lot. I had to pay something like $225 to pick it up at 9am the next morning, which included a towing fee, a storage fee (rounded up to 24 hours) and a "fuck you its a weekend" fee. I was only working part time while going to college and it was a painful amount at the time, but I was fortunate enough to be able to put it on a credit card and pay that off from my savings. These impound places seem to be run by people totally devoid of compassion who are more than happy to ruin someones life if there is money to be made doing it.