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Someone literally just spent 40 minutes arguing with us, the police and called her Mom to try and get HER on her side as well during the whole mess.
What where they arguing?
That we are mistaken to tow her for a no permit violation and she was NOT going to pay us a drop fee.
In fact, she told her Mom that she was willing to GET ARRESTED before she gave us a cent.
Their claim? The permit for the lot they were in was hanging up on the rearview mirror just like it was supposed to be, but, when we picked their car up (for being called in for NOT having a permit, BTW) it must have fallen OFF, fallen BACK into the passenger's seat, and then SQUEEZED underneath a fairly substantial textbook that was resting there, which is where this young lady pulled it out from to show all of us once the officer had arrived.
Almost like she KNEW it was there...... wow, almost makes you believe in psychic powers huh?
MOAR LIK PSYCHOTIC! LOL! AMIRITE?!
Yeah, she's claiming it fell BACK and DOWN despite the car being lifted UP and tilted FORWARD.
You really don't get how physics work, do you? (and to be fair, it wasn't a PHYSICS textbook it was under, that would have just made it that much sadder)
And, sadly, neither did the cop, who it ALSO had to be explained to, since he wasn't quite sure she didn't have a point.
Fortunately, after a 10 second crash course on how it was highly improbable that gravity had suddenly ceased to work in just this particular parking lot for the night, and an assurance none of us had used any Jedi Mind Tricks to make it move back there, he agreed and told her to pay up and take up any dispute with the office in the morning since she'd failed to put the permit up.
And that's just the abridged version, there was a lot of threats of suing, refusing to sign the papers because she wasn't going to be "tricked" into signing way her right to contest
and general irascibility as she stretched the whole affair out to 39 minutes and 10 seconds longer than it really had to be, just to get the same answer in the end.
Silly Rabbit, ye' cannae break the laws of physics, Captain! Unless there's only 5 minutes to go in this week's episode, that is.
What where they arguing?
That we are mistaken to tow her for a no permit violation and she was NOT going to pay us a drop fee.
In fact, she told her Mom that she was willing to GET ARRESTED before she gave us a cent.
Their claim? The permit for the lot they were in was hanging up on the rearview mirror just like it was supposed to be, but, when we picked their car up (for being called in for NOT having a permit, BTW) it must have fallen OFF, fallen BACK into the passenger's seat, and then SQUEEZED underneath a fairly substantial textbook that was resting there, which is where this young lady pulled it out from to show all of us once the officer had arrived.
Almost like she KNEW it was there...... wow, almost makes you believe in psychic powers huh?
MOAR LIK PSYCHOTIC! LOL! AMIRITE?!
Yeah, she's claiming it fell BACK and DOWN despite the car being lifted UP and tilted FORWARD.
You really don't get how physics work, do you? (and to be fair, it wasn't a PHYSICS textbook it was under, that would have just made it that much sadder)
And, sadly, neither did the cop, who it ALSO had to be explained to, since he wasn't quite sure she didn't have a point.
Fortunately, after a 10 second crash course on how it was highly improbable that gravity had suddenly ceased to work in just this particular parking lot for the night, and an assurance none of us had used any Jedi Mind Tricks to make it move back there, he agreed and told her to pay up and take up any dispute with the office in the morning since she'd failed to put the permit up.
And that's just the abridged version, there was a lot of threats of suing, refusing to sign the papers because she wasn't going to be "tricked" into signing way her right to contest
and general irascibility as she stretched the whole affair out to 39 minutes and 10 seconds longer than it really had to be, just to get the same answer in the end. Silly Rabbit, ye' cannae break the laws of physics, Captain! Unless there's only 5 minutes to go in this week's episode, that is.
No kidding! What gets me is, she had the permit, why did she NOT have it where it belonged?! That's the type of stupidity that's deliberate. And it's absolutely baffling.
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