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Guy follows one of out drivers into the impound lot and tries to get into one of the cars.
He’s challenged to produce his pink slip, the carbon-copy half of the tow slip that acts as a receipt and proof of payment to get a car un-impounded.
“I lost it” he says.
A blatant lie. You pay for your car up front at the “office” part of the building, you go out the door, make a left, go about 25 yards to the green dumpster, make another left, and you’re at the big steel gate to the impound. There is no way you can lose your receipt inside of this 14 second walk unless you’re the victim of a broad-daylight alien abduction attempt. People who say this are just trying to toy with us.
Sidebar
See, some people who get their cars impounded aren’t happy until they’ve managed to “win” in some way against us. They’re desperately trying to break or skirt some rule in the course of getting their car out of impound to “prove” who’s got the REAL power in this tower-towee dynamic. (Hint: Which side of that barb-wire-topped fence is your car currently on? Yours or mine?)
I have a feeling these folk are the same people who, back in grade school, would enter something poorly-drawn even by 1st grader standards into an art contest, not win due to obvious lack of talent, and then retaliate by creating a poorly-drawn comic of themselves winning first prize anyway while Tyrannosauruses ate the other entrants and the school faculty. Remember that kid? Yeah, it’s exactly that kind of petty “I’ll show YOU! I’ll form a super-secret cool club, and YOU CAN’T JOIN! I WON’T LET YOU!” tantrum, only it’s coming from the mouth of a grown 40-something man, not a kid.
They’re the ones that threaten you with lawyers, city councils, lawsuits, calls to the Better Buisiness Bureau, etc. etc. and when that fails to help them and they agree to pay up, they then get passive aggressive. You need 3 simple things to get your car back, Photo ID, $105 cash/credit and a valid phone number. That’s it, takes about one minute to collect and process. Not for these folks. They suddenly can’t comply with the cash or credit rule because they “don’t have” a credit card or bank card, so we’ll just have to take a check… Wrong. Then they “don’t have” photo ID, or “You aren’t a Cop! I refuse to show it!” so we’ll just have to leave it blank/take their word for it that their name is “Assy McSrcrewyou Jones” That doesn’t work either. (There was the one guy who claimed “government regulations” prevented me from asking for his ID since he was employed in an “undisclosable” field. Ha! Should I write “Bond, James Bond” on the slip? Pft! Nice try Secret Agent Man, but even the FBI showed me ID when asked) Then, the next excuse is they “don’t have” a phone number they can be reached at. Uh huh, look, just give me a number, any number, it can be directory assistance for all I care, but until all the little boxes on this slip have some valid information in them, you DO NOT get your car back. It can take up to 45 minutes before all options are exhausted up front, so the “lost my pink slip” excuse when asked for it at the impound gate is the last-ditch attempt to frustrate you and get away with it. Truly fascinating seeing a 43 year old man playing this game. Usually, a gruff “well, you can’t have the car back until you find it” will make said pink sheet miraculously appear from a pants or coat pocket, with a nasty death glare. But, I digress, back to the show.
This guy, who strolled in like he owned the place, just keeps on walking and gets into his car, pretending not to hear, or at least not care repeated demands he show his pink slip.
Realizing the imminent drive-off, one of the drivers blocks the car in with his truck. Guy now angrily tells us to move, he paid for his car and if we don’t let him out, he’ll kick all our asses.
A quick radio call to the front office from the truck reveals that he hasn’t lost his pink copy at all, in fact, it’s still attached to the paperwork up front because he hasn’t paid for his car yet, big surprise.
We tell him to turn off the motor and go back up front and pay for the car, he ignores us and tells us “I can wait here all day, you’ve got to move sometime”
We tell him that he’s trespassing, and the cops will be called if he refuses to shut off his car and leave the impound and preferably go up front and pay.
Grumbling and cursing, he gets out and goes up front and pays. Returns to the rear, begrudgingly shows his receipt, (Towed out of space #44 at Some Apartment upon tenant request, no shock there) and then slings gravel on his way out, see ya later pal. One more psycho out of our lives for good…..
15 minutes go by, and we get a call for removal of an illegally parked vehicle. Space #44 at Some Apartment. Oh no you didn’t! Yes, he did. A driver heads on over and indeed the called in car is the one that just left. In the EXACT same space he was when towed the last time. Our driver starts loading up the car, but just as he’s pulling away, the guy comes running out the door and catches up to the tow truck at the exit to the parking lot.
Whipping open the door, he jumps in, starts his car up, and tries to drive it off the truck. This doesn’t work, it NEVER works, but Mommy always said some guys don’t learn until they piss on the electric fence for themselves. If it had been me, I’d have been tempted to just tow him right back to the impound while he futilely tried to resist, but DOT says it’s illegal to tow a car with passenger in it.
Our driver informs him that he owes us a full tow, that wasn’t a big hit, to put it mildly, and soon Officer Friendly and company are on the way.
Like “Silent Cal” from a few weeks back, this guy also thinks that he can make the cops go away if he just ignores them. They aren’t impressed. The Officers inform him that they don’t really want to turn him into a possible Police Brutality case, but, if he doesn’t pay for his tow or exit his vehicle, they won’t have much choice. Guy simply tells them “I ain’t payin’ nothing!” One of the officers asks us if maybe we could be diplomatic and knock it down to a drop fee for him, because if they have to forcibly remove him from the car, well, just imagine the paperwork…. Can we have a bit of sympathy for them? We inform them we’d love to, but, since this guy already tried to steal his car back from us earlier, he blew any chance at us being nice. Upon hearing this, the cops have a corresponding loss of empathy as well and give him an ultimatum, either he pays, right now, for a full tow, or the police get to find out if their pepper spray is still fresh. Guy cracks his window and passes us a credit card. After processing, we unhook him and as he drives away he yells,
“Next time I’ll get away free you bastards! Just you wait!”
That is, highly unlikely to say the least.
My advice to you buddy? The coffee pots with the orange handles are the decaf.
He’s challenged to produce his pink slip, the carbon-copy half of the tow slip that acts as a receipt and proof of payment to get a car un-impounded.
“I lost it” he says.
A blatant lie. You pay for your car up front at the “office” part of the building, you go out the door, make a left, go about 25 yards to the green dumpster, make another left, and you’re at the big steel gate to the impound. There is no way you can lose your receipt inside of this 14 second walk unless you’re the victim of a broad-daylight alien abduction attempt. People who say this are just trying to toy with us.
Sidebar
See, some people who get their cars impounded aren’t happy until they’ve managed to “win” in some way against us. They’re desperately trying to break or skirt some rule in the course of getting their car out of impound to “prove” who’s got the REAL power in this tower-towee dynamic. (Hint: Which side of that barb-wire-topped fence is your car currently on? Yours or mine?)
I have a feeling these folk are the same people who, back in grade school, would enter something poorly-drawn even by 1st grader standards into an art contest, not win due to obvious lack of talent, and then retaliate by creating a poorly-drawn comic of themselves winning first prize anyway while Tyrannosauruses ate the other entrants and the school faculty. Remember that kid? Yeah, it’s exactly that kind of petty “I’ll show YOU! I’ll form a super-secret cool club, and YOU CAN’T JOIN! I WON’T LET YOU!” tantrum, only it’s coming from the mouth of a grown 40-something man, not a kid.
They’re the ones that threaten you with lawyers, city councils, lawsuits, calls to the Better Buisiness Bureau, etc. etc. and when that fails to help them and they agree to pay up, they then get passive aggressive. You need 3 simple things to get your car back, Photo ID, $105 cash/credit and a valid phone number. That’s it, takes about one minute to collect and process. Not for these folks. They suddenly can’t comply with the cash or credit rule because they “don’t have” a credit card or bank card, so we’ll just have to take a check… Wrong. Then they “don’t have” photo ID, or “You aren’t a Cop! I refuse to show it!” so we’ll just have to leave it blank/take their word for it that their name is “Assy McSrcrewyou Jones” That doesn’t work either. (There was the one guy who claimed “government regulations” prevented me from asking for his ID since he was employed in an “undisclosable” field. Ha! Should I write “Bond, James Bond” on the slip? Pft! Nice try Secret Agent Man, but even the FBI showed me ID when asked) Then, the next excuse is they “don’t have” a phone number they can be reached at. Uh huh, look, just give me a number, any number, it can be directory assistance for all I care, but until all the little boxes on this slip have some valid information in them, you DO NOT get your car back. It can take up to 45 minutes before all options are exhausted up front, so the “lost my pink slip” excuse when asked for it at the impound gate is the last-ditch attempt to frustrate you and get away with it. Truly fascinating seeing a 43 year old man playing this game. Usually, a gruff “well, you can’t have the car back until you find it” will make said pink sheet miraculously appear from a pants or coat pocket, with a nasty death glare. But, I digress, back to the show.
This guy, who strolled in like he owned the place, just keeps on walking and gets into his car, pretending not to hear, or at least not care repeated demands he show his pink slip.
Realizing the imminent drive-off, one of the drivers blocks the car in with his truck. Guy now angrily tells us to move, he paid for his car and if we don’t let him out, he’ll kick all our asses.
A quick radio call to the front office from the truck reveals that he hasn’t lost his pink copy at all, in fact, it’s still attached to the paperwork up front because he hasn’t paid for his car yet, big surprise.
We tell him to turn off the motor and go back up front and pay for the car, he ignores us and tells us “I can wait here all day, you’ve got to move sometime”
We tell him that he’s trespassing, and the cops will be called if he refuses to shut off his car and leave the impound and preferably go up front and pay.
Grumbling and cursing, he gets out and goes up front and pays. Returns to the rear, begrudgingly shows his receipt, (Towed out of space #44 at Some Apartment upon tenant request, no shock there) and then slings gravel on his way out, see ya later pal. One more psycho out of our lives for good…..
15 minutes go by, and we get a call for removal of an illegally parked vehicle. Space #44 at Some Apartment. Oh no you didn’t! Yes, he did. A driver heads on over and indeed the called in car is the one that just left. In the EXACT same space he was when towed the last time. Our driver starts loading up the car, but just as he’s pulling away, the guy comes running out the door and catches up to the tow truck at the exit to the parking lot.
Whipping open the door, he jumps in, starts his car up, and tries to drive it off the truck. This doesn’t work, it NEVER works, but Mommy always said some guys don’t learn until they piss on the electric fence for themselves. If it had been me, I’d have been tempted to just tow him right back to the impound while he futilely tried to resist, but DOT says it’s illegal to tow a car with passenger in it.
Our driver informs him that he owes us a full tow, that wasn’t a big hit, to put it mildly, and soon Officer Friendly and company are on the way.
Like “Silent Cal” from a few weeks back, this guy also thinks that he can make the cops go away if he just ignores them. They aren’t impressed. The Officers inform him that they don’t really want to turn him into a possible Police Brutality case, but, if he doesn’t pay for his tow or exit his vehicle, they won’t have much choice. Guy simply tells them “I ain’t payin’ nothing!” One of the officers asks us if maybe we could be diplomatic and knock it down to a drop fee for him, because if they have to forcibly remove him from the car, well, just imagine the paperwork…. Can we have a bit of sympathy for them? We inform them we’d love to, but, since this guy already tried to steal his car back from us earlier, he blew any chance at us being nice. Upon hearing this, the cops have a corresponding loss of empathy as well and give him an ultimatum, either he pays, right now, for a full tow, or the police get to find out if their pepper spray is still fresh. Guy cracks his window and passes us a credit card. After processing, we unhook him and as he drives away he yells,
“Next time I’ll get away free you bastards! Just you wait!”
That is, highly unlikely to say the least.
My advice to you buddy? The coffee pots with the orange handles are the decaf.
Nothing in his behavior showed he has the basic ability to learn from past experience 
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