'[My] boyfriend was wrongfully towed from our complex, I got revenge':Tenant gets one over on towing company in rare victory

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Jul 10, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

Parking is always a drama in hotly-contested high-density residential areas where there isn't nearly as much space as people are wanting to park their vehicles, leading to petty squabbles and growing resentment—all over a parking space that they might not even have an actual claim to.

Usually, things come to a boil when park and riders, looking to take advantage of parking spaces close to the city, wise up to the free parking and begin parking to walk or bus the remaining distance, taking up residential space, making it increasingly difficult for residents to park. The city, housing entities, and other governing bodies then need to instate permitted parking, which is often brutally enforced, making a reliable source of income for those entities.

Often it becomes the case that the tenants and residents themselves fall victim to blanket parking policy enforced with a large brush, becoming prey to less-than-honest for-profit towing companies and parking enforcement who have signed contracts with the governing entities. 

These parking mafias make a living by towing or ticketing unsuspecting victims' cars. Then—through sheer obstinance, incompetence, and bureaucratic loopholes—make it impossible to overturn said infringement… Charging exponentially increasing fines on top of the initial infraction in order to crush the victim into submission and get them to relent and pay the fraudulent fine under the mounting threat of debt. 

Seldom do tenants and homeowners manage to come out on top in these situations… but here's one that did. 

Read on for selections of the original story as originally shared on Reddit. Next, see this dude who parked his van in another dude's driveway, and the second dude made it mysteriously disappear.

 

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    Font - Posted by u/Ok-Willow-2109 9 hours ago Boyfriend was wrongfully towed from our complex, I got revenge About a year ago my boyfriend was towed from our apartment complex lot, I guess they didn't look for his parking permit before deciding to tow him in the middle of the night. After he explained it to the leasing office, they called the company and told them to release his car at no charge. When he showed up to claim his car, the employee spit in his face, threatened to call the cops if he
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    Font - ended up costing him $250 + lost wages. He called me to tell me all this when he finally made it to work, and I flipped my sht. My mom always taught me that sometimes you have to be a real btch to get things done, and for the first time in my life I decided to be a bit of a Karen. For context, the company that owns our apartment complex also owns hundreds in this area, and they have a contract with this towing company for most of their properties. After figuring this out, I called the mai
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    Font - absolutely appalled at what happened, and told me she would call them and give me updates. In the meantime, I called the tow company and chewed them out so bad they initially hung up on me until I called a second time and asked to speak to whoever was in charge. The manager told me he would review security footage and get back to me. After I spoke to the tow company, the leasing company called me back and said that they're at the end of their rope with the sheer amount of mistakes this to
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    Font - mentioned they're working on getting a refund, and to document if there was any damage to the vehicle. The manager of the towing company called me back moments later, apologized, and offered to hand deliver a check for the full refund amount. I haven't seen their tow trucks in our lot ever since!
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    Font - Remember Title Nine . 8 hr. ago So you're the person that actually won against a towing company. I thought you were a myth. 2.7k Reply Share
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    Font - jiivanili +1.7 hr. ago One of my friends got a win against a tow company that I helped her with. Her husband's truck was repossessed due to a clerical error and the company that took it had "24/7 retrieval" advertised on their physical trucks. When they went to pick it up on Friday (it was taken on a Thursday) they said they only release vehicles M-Th so they ended up having to pay almost $1000 between tow fees and storage. I helped her go through the BBB (surprisingly effective for a tow
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    Font - the city because they advertise as being able to retrieve your vehicle at any time but then wouldn't release the vehicle. She got back all of the money she paid even though we were only seeking the additional 3 days of storage fees. 690 Reply Share
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    Font - SheWho Loves To Draw +2.8 hr. ago Spitting on someone is assault. The cops should've been called immediately. Not to mention refusal to turn over a vehicle that has been illegally towed counts as grand theft in many jurisdictions. Reply Share 495 ... memesupreme83 - 7 hr. ago Came here to say this. I don't think people realize that spitting on someone is an actual/serious crime. 145 Reply Share
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    Font - beginnerjay+28 hr. ago Did the check cover the "They spit at me!" charge? 79 ↓ Reply Share butterfly-garden +2.8 hr. ago Thank you! That's the part of the story that my germophobic self zeroed in on. 26 Reply Reply Share
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    Font - Striving_Stoic. 8 hr. ago Being a Karen is throwing a fit over getting two ketchup packets instead of three What you did was completely warranted and I hope it all works out ↑ 299 Reply Share
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    Font - OO Cinemaslap14 6 hr. ago I had the same thing happen to me. I moved into a new apartment and hung the tag (as it was suppose to be hung) and went out an hour later to no car. I found out it got towed and I spoke to the office about how it was wrongfully towed. When the tow company told me I'd have to pay, I told them that they illegally towed my vehicle. They told me to kick rocks, which was when I showed them the lease... this did nothing and they told me to kick rocks again.
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    Font - That's when I went to the police station, told them what happened (in my state, if you tow someone, you need to alert the police), and then showed them my lease. They drove me back to the tow company and told them to release the car otherwise they'd be held responsible for a stolen vehicle (they told me that I could make a stolen vehicle report). Only then did the tow company release my car and remove any payment. I hate tow companies... there are a bunch of decent ones out there but ther
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    Font - ImpossibleLeek7908 7 hr. ago . edited 6 hr. ago Awesome, good on you!! We had our car towed alongside many others in our lot because our apartment manager did not change out the foyer notice signs in our building indicating we needed to move our vehicles so the lot could be repaved that day. I paid $200 to get my car back after having to call around town to find it and take a taxi across town to get there. I ripped the apartment manager a
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    Font - new butt when he changed the foyer notices to indicate the tow warning in front of me in an effort to cover his own rear end and I raised hell with the company which owned the complex. Although I wasn't refunded, the regional manager was shocked, a few days later she sent out an email indicating the apartment manager was in his final two weeks with our complex and to all wish him a blessed farewell. Your mother was right, sometimes you do have to be a bitch, bitches get shit done. Edited:
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    Font - spare_parts_bot. 6 hr. ago I had my car towed twice when I just moved in at one place. HOA I had wouldn't put my new parking permit in my mailbox. They wanted me to pick it up "between 10am- 2pm on Tuesdays or Thursdays IF theyre in the office". After multiple angry phone calls I ended up having to take time off work just to pick up my permit. I didn't forget that HOA bitch...or which car was hers (only one at the HOA office). So I waited a few months and in the middle of the night as I w
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    Font - CAShark-7. 7 hr. ago "My mom always taught me that sometimes you have to be a real btch to get things done" I can testify that this is correct. Always be very careful to pick your battles. You did, and bravo to you. Reply Share 29
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    Font - Mythical Moomoo 6 hr. ago Those tow truck companies are scammers! Do whatever they can to get money. My sister lived in this one big neighbor apt and she parked her car behind her garage. They towed her car and when she went to pick it up, the photos show where she parked at. And guess this, they took a photo of a no parking sign. That no parking sign was the next duplex apt across the street. The tow company doesn't even have any contract with the Apts my sister was living in. It was tha
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    Font - PhoneboothLynn 5 hr. ago Definitely the exception, I had a heartwarming experience in rural Texas when I hit a deer one night. The deputies found an antler for me to keep as a souvenir. Then called somebody's brother-in-law to come get the deer and process it. When the tow truck driver arrived, he took us to a hotel within walking distance of a restaurant that was still open. Loaded all of our stuff out of the car into the room for us! Later, when I got home, I realized that I had forgott
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    Font - +2.6 hr. ago In college a friend of a friends car was being towed for when it shouldn't have been, I guess there was some law about how "hooked up/raised" the car needed to be, they managed to catch the guy as he was mid-setting things up and he apparently had an air of "not my circus today" when dealing with the college students that were pointing out how it was wrong and let the car down. I've know people who have been forced to watch their car be set up/towed away so I think we were su
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