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  • Mr. Mouthy Learns How Not to Leave the Impound

    I’ll give you a wild guess why I named this guy Mr. Mouthy….. he was one of those guys so amped up and pissed off that you could HEAR him approaching the back gate to the impound lot from around the corner before he even got there. When he actually gets to the gate, instead of saying something pleasant or at least emotionally neutral like “I’m here for my car, let me in please” he points a finger right at the face of the guy at the gate and says “I *bleeping*hate you!” Wow, what a way to start a conversation. Mouthy then stomps his way to where his car is parked and finds that since he left his windows down when it was towed, we crash wrapped them. Crash wrap is a self-sticking plastic sheet that can be cut to size to fit over open windows on wrecks/impounds to keep rain and other stuff out. It doesn't hurt anything, it pulls of as easy as cellophane wrap if you tug on it. Despite the fact we did this to protect the car, Mouthy doesn't like it.

    “What the hell is this *bleep* on my car?!” he yells, of course, it’s a rhetorical question because as soon as one of us tries to explain he cuts us off with a brisque “Whatever, shut the *bleep* up you bunch of losers!” He rips off the crash wrap, balls it up, and then tries to stick it to the roof of the car he’s parked next to. One of the other towers yells at him that we have a garbage can he can use, and failing that he can just let it on the ground and we’ll pick it up, but DO NOT go sticking that on someone else’s car.

    “*Bleep* you!” says Mr. Mouthy, we tell him we’ll shut the gate on him if he doesn’t do as he’s told, he begrudgingly tosses the wrap on the ground. Angrily gets in his car, revs it up defiantly, and starts to back out. As he does, he sticks his melon out the window, determined to get in the last word….

    “You guys *bleeping* suck *bleep*! I hope you enjoy working in this dirt hole you *bleepers*! You’re all a bunch of …” *CRUNCH!* Suddenly Mouthy’s car rocks violently, cutting him off mid sentence.

    Oh my, apparently Mouthy was so busy yelling and cussing at us that he forgot to look where his car was backing up and he sideswiped that Pontiac Grand Am that was parked next to him, which now has a very large dent all the way down the driver’s side that wasn’t there before. Oh dear, now we’ll need to call the cops and fill out an accident report. Mouthy makes like he’s going to leave but we quickly pull the gate shut on him. Backup arrives within 5 minutes.

    Mouthy tries to blame us for the accident saying we parked the cars too close. The Cop pulls his much larger Crown Vic into the spot without a problem to prove the point that Mouthy was clearly at fault, the Cop then asks Mouthy for his registration. Uh oh, it’s expired. Mouthy has a lot of excuses, but the Cop doesn’t want to hear em’ and just cites him. Mouthy starts getting, well, mouthy again and swearing up a storm. (Note to people, have you ever, EVER in your whole life known of a time when mouthing off at cops made things BETTER???) No surprise, the Cop in this case isn’t amused, and cites him a second time.

    So, instead of just paying $105.00 to get his car back, Mouthy now has a court date for a pair of citations for driving without current registration and disorderly conduct, if the damage to the other car is in excess of $500, he is actually facing jail time.

    Say “Hi” to turd biscuit out there if you see him, he might even be a distant relative.
    - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

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    Carma is great isn't it
    I am the nocturnal echo-locating flying mammal man.

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    • #3
      Being in the towing business and having actually driven a tow truck for a year...I am familar with impound lots. The people who run those places are subjected to all sorts of abuse. It doesn't matter how much you curse, rant, rave, scream, hollar...you get the point...they don't care. You messed up and got your vehicle impounded...pay the price.

      BEFORE I was in this business...a long time ago when I still frequented drinking establishments. I was living in Dallas and went out with some friends to one of the downtown bar areas (you know, a street that was several blocks long, lined with various liquid refreshment of the alcoholic variety establishments) My friend, being impatient, decided to park in the lot of the taco stand where there were SEVERAL signs indicating that would be a bad idea....he thought it didn't apply to him. Several hours and drinks later, we went to where the car USED to be. It had been towed. Of course.

      We had to take a cab to the impound lot, he had to pay over $200 to get the vehicle out...I didn't get home until almost 5am. I had to work at 10am for a double the next day! UGH!
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      • #4
        Quoth RayvenQ View Post
        Carma is great isn't it
        I see what you did there! Hilarious.

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        • #5
          Impounding Fees: $150.00

          Court Fees, Fines Tickets: over $150.00 total

          Karma handing your ass to you for being a tool: pricesless

          Mouthing off: gets you nowhere you want to be.
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          • #6
            And you better believe his insurance premiums are going to increase quite a bit. He'll be paying for this act of idiocy for a LONG time.

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            • #7
              When we repossess a car, it gets put in one of the several impound lots that we do business with. Guess how much the SC loves being told that in addition to the late payments they owe us, they have to also pay the 1)towing bill 2)bill for the employee time spent to find the car and 3) impound storage fee? I can only imagine how the poor impound employees are treated. The customers often bring a small amount of politeness to my table simply because they know they have to work something out to find out how to get their car back.

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              • #8
                Mr. Mouthy? Is that one of those Mr. Men books? Don't think I had that one...
                I don't go in for ancient wisdom
                I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
                It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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                • #9
                  and disorderly conduct, if the damage to the other car is in excess of $500, he is actually facing jail time.
                  Cops in America like to call those kinds of additional citations "attitude tickets". Basically, if you're being pulled over by a cop or detained and you get ticketed, you take the ticket and be polite. If you don't agree with it you go to the courthouse and plead "Not Guilty" and ask for a trial date. You don't argue the ticket there or get an attitude. Pissing off a cop will then likely cause them to find other things to ticket you for.

                  I'm guessing if that idiot had just kept his mouth shut he only would have been ticketed for expired tags and that would be it.

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                  • #10
                    In my state, several people have found out the hard way that cursing out a cop will not only get you a ticket, it is actually a (potentially) spend-a-few-days-in-jail-illegal act of CS-ery here. Gotta love those slow news days. Gawd bless 'em for bringing us stories like this that truly brighten up my days...

                    I believe the idea behind the law is that a verbally abusive person in a vehicle is just slightly short of being physically abusive. That would be bad.
                    Last edited by EricKei; 05-02-2009, 09:58 PM. Reason: elaboration and correction
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                    • #11
                      I believe it. My buddy's an ex-cop and he said there's lots of ways for a cop to get back at an asshole. Mouthy and uncooperative. That's obstruction, a misdemeanor. Ah, a misdemeanor is probable cause for a search. Let's have a "looky-looky in the car". And when they search your car and even if they find nothing they can leave all you shit dumped out everywhere for you to clean up.

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                      • #12
                        Hope the police officer's car camera was recording. I just love seeing a loud-mouthed jerk/defendant have to eat his words when he says in court that "I did not use any foul language or obsene gestures, Your Honour."

                        By the way, A&E's "Parking Wars" is a great show for events like this.
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                        • #13
                          Quoth RayvenQ View Post
                          Carma is great isn't it

                          What you did there. I see it.

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                          • #14
                            Gets even better, he had his day in court this week. I wasn't there, I didn't get called as a witness, but 2 of the other guys did.

                            He was acting as his own lawyer, and had to be warned a few times to not interrupt other people while they were testifying.

                            WHen it was all over, Mr. Mouthy was found guilty of all the charges, forced to pay all the fines, and $1700 in damages to the owner of the guy who's Pontiac he hit.

                            Then he cussed out the Judge who had the Sheriff drag him downstairs for being in contempt of court
                            - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Argabarga View Post
                              WHen it was all over, Mr. Mouthy was found guilty of all the charges, forced to pay all the fines, and $1700 in damages to the owner of the guy who's Pontiac he hit.

                              Then he cussed out the Judge who had the Sheriff drag him downstairs for being in contempt of court
                              And Carma came back and ran him down a second time. As if getting his ass handed back to him once wasn't a lesson learned.
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