Don't Hire These Guys

[Argabarga]

We're prepping another batch of abandoned/illegally parked cars that the owners have refused to claim for disposal.

One of them is a older SUV we've had since November.

Stuck to the windows of said vehicle are several signs. Not joke signs you sometimes see, but professionally prepared and applied high quality signs,] that state it belongs to the "PARANORMAL RESEARCH CENTER"

No phone number is listed, I guess we're supposed to contact them through ESP?

Anyway, THAT should tell you all you need to know about how competent the people in THAT line of work are.

Finding ghosts?

Finding UFOs?

Finding Bigfoot?

Heck, it's been three months and they have yet to solve the MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE of their OWN TRUCK!!!!

[BrenDAnn]

They probably figure a ghost drove off with it. Yes, I'm aware that was a groan-worthy response. Sorry!

[Argabarga]

Who you gonna call?!

[LillFilly]

Sooo,

So you guys get first dibs on buying the cars?

[Argabarga]

If you want them.

I really don't want what looks to be a 97' Chevy Suburban with rusted out fender arches, 4 flats, and inspection/safety stickers out for several years.

Remember, there's usually a DARN GOOD REASON nobody comes to pick em' up!

[blas]

That damn ghost did it!

[Sheldonrs]

Perhaps excessive acquaintance with certain
Spirits erased memory of the car.

[TheSHAD0W]

They probably figure a ghost drove off with it.

Actually, no; more likely, a ghost took off with *them*, and that's why no one claimed the truck...

[Argabarga]

Hmmm, never thought of that possibility......

[creepy old guy voice] They were warned, THEEEEEYYYY WERE WAARRRNNNNNEDD!!!![/creepy old guy voice]

[Jay 2K Winger]

Actually, no; more likely, a ghost took off with *them*, and that's why no one claimed the truck...

A ghost... or something...

(NOTE: That link is to a short film on YouTube called "No Through Road." Creepy and scary.)

[Arcus]

It sounds like people are using towing as a way to get rid of their old worthless cars without having to pay for it.

As for the car in the story... I think they were trying to set up an investigation for themselves.

[Deserted]

It sounds like people are using towing as a way to get rid of their old worthless cars without having to pay for it.

As for the car in the story... I think they were trying to set up an investigation for themselves.

I dunno. I once sold a car to the friend of the son of a friend. He never paid me, but I had only asked for $100. Fast forward 6 months later, and I find myself paying a fee ($50?) for "my" abandoned car that had gone thru the whole tow -> auction thing. Sigh.

[Deevil]

I dunno. I once sold a car to the friend of the son of a friend. He never paid me, but I had only asked for $100. Fast forward 6 months later, and I find myself paying a fee ($50?) for "my" abandoned car that had gone thru the whole tow -> auction thing. Sigh.

Many years ago, I had traded in my Caravelle for a newer used car at a new and used car dealership. Fast forward two or three years, and I got a call from the police impound (or at least I think that was who called it's been almost 20 years) telling me my car had been towed for being abandoned. After I figured out what they were actually talking about I told them I had traded it in years ago. An hour or two later I thought, "Damn, I should have paid the tow/impound fee and resold the car."

[Arcus]

That has happened to me too. A car I had traded in when I bought a new car turned up latter as still being mine when it was towed. All I had to do was show them the paperwork from when I traded in it to a dealer. It seems that people like to buy older cars, never register them and then drive them till they break down.
I told them that I most likely would have taken it back if they had called me before the storage fees had hit $1800. The car just wasn't worth that much with the now blown engine.

[Geek King]

When I sold my truck, I drove the guy over to the title office myself to transfer it. It served to make sure it got done, and to give the fellow proof that everything worked as I said.