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Well we're already off to a rollickin' month of June!
Forgery Failure
Did you folks ever pay attention in 1st grade? Like maybe when they taught you that little poem? You know:
"Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,"
All the rest have thirty-one,
All the rest have thirty-one,
Guess you slept through that part, or were too busy eatin' the glue and crayons, because when you hatched that brilliant scheme to "bump" your parking permit ahead a month and score some free days, you neglected to consider that June doesn't have a 31st day.....
I'd plea entrapment personally
I mean, that "5" in the "EXPIRES 5/31/2013" part of the permit is just soooooooooooooo close to a "6" it practically BEGGED you to try and fill in that one measly little open side, didn't it? It was sooooo tiny! You're soooooooooo close to a free month! You'd NEVER get caught doing that, would you?
Darn, wonder how your cover got blown so easy, there must be a mole in the system!
Return of the Forgery Failure
As for you, you at least knew there were only 30 days in June. Only problem was apparently that since the "31" was in the middle of the "EXPIRES 5/31/13" part of the permit, you didn't have a lot of real estate to turn that "1" into a "0". In fact, you had so little, I'm amazed you managed to fit anything in there at all. Nevermind the result was the skinniest "0" I've ever seen, that poor thing looks like it hasn't eaten for weeks! Or maybe it's doing an impression of a paperclip?
Either way, that's going to be $130 to get your car back, the extra $15 is for the ticket, the reality office that runs that particular complex lets me ticket you guys as well as tow you, they REALLY don't like freeloaders when I find em' , imagine that!
Attack of the Mole Man
So, I open the gate to the impound yard and come face-to-face with a yammering loon. I mean, this guy was yelling and screaming and doing both at such a volume and intensity that it was completely impossible to tell what he was saying....
With the aid of another driver, we got him calmed down to where he switched from speaking Yosemite Samish to English, and it became apparent that the reason he was mad is he'd been standing outside the gate to the impound for almost half an hour waiting for it to open up.
Seems our daytime dispatcher, as he's unfortunately wont to do, released his car from impound because he paid, but simply FORGOT to radio us that this gentleman was coming around for it.
Accordingly, the gate he expected to be open was closed, so he waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and finally got so angry that he LAID DOWN IN THE GRAVEL/MUD AND WIGGLED HIS WAY UNDER THE GATE
Not the cleanest or most practical solution, but it at least worked
Once he calmed down some more he apologized, as did we for dropping the ball like that and he left with his car complacent enough....
I just can't wrap my head around the fact that after the first 5 minutes, he didn't think that maybe he ought to go back and ask if there was a problem. Or that he waited a full 30 minutes and then decided to tunnel to his objective a' la The Great Escape. Wouldn't it have been a better idea to go back around front and ask the guy at the counter what's up? At least he didn't try going OVER the top, that's a nasty 8 foot fall, and depending where you vault it, you may end up landing in the bodyshop's scrap pile of assorted rusty and sharp edges... hope your tetanus shots are in order if you do.
Forgery Failure
Did you folks ever pay attention in 1st grade? Like maybe when they taught you that little poem? You know:
"Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,"
All the rest have thirty-one,
All the rest have thirty-one,
Guess you slept through that part, or were too busy eatin' the glue and crayons, because when you hatched that brilliant scheme to "bump" your parking permit ahead a month and score some free days, you neglected to consider that June doesn't have a 31st day.....
I'd plea entrapment personally
I mean, that "5" in the "EXPIRES 5/31/2013" part of the permit is just soooooooooooooo close to a "6" it practically BEGGED you to try and fill in that one measly little open side, didn't it? It was sooooo tiny! You're soooooooooo close to a free month! You'd NEVER get caught doing that, would you?
Darn, wonder how your cover got blown so easy, there must be a mole in the system!
Return of the Forgery Failure
As for you, you at least knew there were only 30 days in June. Only problem was apparently that since the "31" was in the middle of the "EXPIRES 5/31/13" part of the permit, you didn't have a lot of real estate to turn that "1" into a "0". In fact, you had so little, I'm amazed you managed to fit anything in there at all. Nevermind the result was the skinniest "0" I've ever seen, that poor thing looks like it hasn't eaten for weeks! Or maybe it's doing an impression of a paperclip?
Either way, that's going to be $130 to get your car back, the extra $15 is for the ticket, the reality office that runs that particular complex lets me ticket you guys as well as tow you, they REALLY don't like freeloaders when I find em' , imagine that!
Attack of the Mole Man
So, I open the gate to the impound yard and come face-to-face with a yammering loon. I mean, this guy was yelling and screaming and doing both at such a volume and intensity that it was completely impossible to tell what he was saying....
With the aid of another driver, we got him calmed down to where he switched from speaking Yosemite Samish to English, and it became apparent that the reason he was mad is he'd been standing outside the gate to the impound for almost half an hour waiting for it to open up.
Seems our daytime dispatcher, as he's unfortunately wont to do, released his car from impound because he paid, but simply FORGOT to radio us that this gentleman was coming around for it.
Accordingly, the gate he expected to be open was closed, so he waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and finally got so angry that he LAID DOWN IN THE GRAVEL/MUD AND WIGGLED HIS WAY UNDER THE GATE
Not the cleanest or most practical solution, but it at least worked
Once he calmed down some more he apologized, as did we for dropping the ball like that and he left with his car complacent enough....
I just can't wrap my head around the fact that after the first 5 minutes, he didn't think that maybe he ought to go back and ask if there was a problem. Or that he waited a full 30 minutes and then decided to tunnel to his objective a' la The Great Escape. Wouldn't it have been a better idea to go back around front and ask the guy at the counter what's up? At least he didn't try going OVER the top, that's a nasty 8 foot fall, and depending where you vault it, you may end up landing in the bodyshop's scrap pile of assorted rusty and sharp edges... hope your tetanus shots are in order if you do.
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