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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: WindAndConfusion on Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 02:11:44 AM
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So I was reading about the ambulance that got booted (which is an entirely fucked-up story in and of itself (http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/2008/112008/news112008_02.html)) when I stumbled upon this epic thread (http://www.parkingenforcementforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3).
As I told myself I'd never live in a HOA community here I am. After a year here they forced upon us that we had to pay for parking passes to park outside. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ There's over 700 homes.
Gee, I wounder why they did that?
So you have to display your pass or you get booted, by an outsider company not associated with the HOA, they just won the contract. As the schmucks drive though they look for the obvious outsiders looking to park (visitors) and boot them, and milk the cows. "That will be $140 Sir to remove the boot."
Well, it's just a long day @ work, your mind is busy, you park and don't put your pass on your rear view. They throw 2 boots on you, a large display sticker, phone # and $140 removal fee. I've parked in the same spot for 3 months, always displayed, they know the car, a extensively modified Audi parked in the same spot for 3 months with a displayed pass. It's a no brainier I have a pass.
Gee, I wounder why the pass isn't a permanent sticker?
Now, why wouldn't I always keep the pass hanging from my rearveiw? Being in the top 10 auto theft capitals in the country, I'm not comfortable DISPLAYING where I live when the community is displayed in the largest characters on the pass.
The plastered WARNING sticker on the window mentions you will be pentilzed to the fullest of law if you remove or damage the boots. So I called the cops.........only one.....but she said I can not damage the the boots, however nothing illegal about removing them.
You know the case, if you don't pay up evenly you'll get towed,so.......
I'm just going to get some f-ing dollys, install them and push the freaking Audi right into the garage you bsaterds. Give them a call to come get their num nut boots..........................and the Audi is undergoing a semi-rebuild....I don't need them off...they won't bother me keeping them on....I don't need to drive it.....a waiting game means nothing.
He actually does it. He moves the car into his garage and leaves it there, boots attached, for weeks. Mass drama unfolds. The cops refuse to get involved (so long as he doesn't steal or damage the boots, it's purely a civil matter and the police have nothing to do with it - and since he offers to let the parking nazis remove the boots from his car, it's not theft).
Eventually the parking nazis declare war on the entire neighborhood, booting cars for every violation they can think of. One truck gets booted for parking over the line:
(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/7241/hoabooteddaytimepicks00wq0.jpg)
I don't know how it ends yet. The thread is so epic me web browser can't render it properly.
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I don't understand what he wrote.
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- Guy buys house in neighborhood.
- Year after guy moves into neighborhood, homeowner's association contracts private parking enforcement firm.
- Parking firm requires residents to pay for permits to park on streets where they live.
- Cars that do not display permits are booted. Owners are charged $140 to have boot removed.
- Resident forgets to hang parking pass, gets booted. Parking enforcement refuses to remove boot unless resident with valid permit pays $140.
- Resident refuses, puts car on dollies and moves car into garage. Resident offers to let parking enforcement remove boot, but will not pay fine.
- Hilarity ensues.
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This may be the greatest thing I have read on the Internet in years.
It's seriously worth it.
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Blah.
Apparently not good news, if check the other thread on that forum. He's not allowed to speak of it for at least a year.
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I noticed that. I read most of it too. Got to the end, gag order. After that, silence. cue up spooky music. Did the boot nazis get him in the end? He sure got them in the end, over and over.
(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e259/Blakelikesfood333/Audibootedinthegarage3002.jpg) The masked avenger
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A shame if he didn't come out on top, but kudos to him for trying to do the right thing.
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That's absolutely awesome. But we need an equally awesome ending.
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Good stuff. Hopefully he ends up being victorious.
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That's pretty awesome, but you can tell the guy was borderline stupid and just a bit in over his head.