'He had it coming': Resident gets car towed from neighbor's driveway after parking it there for days, resulting in $3000 fines

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Feb 26, 2024 8:00 PM EST

What does one should do when a strange car all of a sudden gets parked in one's private parking? Should they look for the car's owner and get them to move it? Should they hold tight and see if the owner will simply move their car on their own? Or should they get the car towed right then and there and let the owner deal with the rest?

The Redditor who wrote this petty revenge story tried a few of the ways listed above when their neighbor decided to park their car in the Redditor's driveway. OP (original poster) first tried to give the neighbor a chance to move it, but when two days went by and the car stayed put, OP had the car towed. That action revealed just how much the neighbor will have to pay to get their car back, since they have several unpaid parking tickets and other debts.

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    "He had it coming"
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    Towing Your Car for Blocking My Driveway and the Major Cost to get it Released
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    One of my neighbors, decided to park their car and block my driveway. My household decides to call the city's parking department to leave them a $108 ticket; we opted not to tow
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    just to see if they'll pay attention and move it. The next day, the vehicle was still there, so we called the city again and told them to tow it; it came with a second $108 blocking driveway
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    ticket and a tow truck to take it away. The penalty for towing is a $347 administrative fee ($293 if first offense), and $286 tow truck fee, and more fees the if the vehicle isn't retrieved within
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    the first four hours. Hopefully they learned their lesson. But they had it coming at the tow lot... other than the two blocked driveway tickets and
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    towing charges, in order to get their vehicle out of the lot, they had to also pay all their outstanding parking tickets, totaling $1,800.
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    How did I know they had a bunch of unpaid parking tickets? They haven't paid their vehicle registration to the California DMV for two years; and the DMV won't issue new tags until you
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    paid off all your parking, toll evasion, and other debts. I took a look at the public information posted on the city's online citation portal, and with an easy search, found out they had
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    several unpaid tickets and how much they owed. They decided to ignore every parking ticket they were given because they were fined heavily for failure to pay on-time.
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    Missed first payment deadline: $38, missed second payment deadline: $53, and for missing the second payment: $40 and sent to collections.
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    If they paid their tickets in a timely manner, they would have paid a mere $752 (excludes the two new $108 driveway tickets), but for failure to pay, they owed $1,800. To get their vehicle
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    released from the tow lot, they had to pay $2,649 ($2,595 if first time tow). I find it amusing that they can afford a new fancy electric car in
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    their driveway, but the other car [that was towed] refused to pay their parking tickets and vehicle tags. As of today, they still haven't paid their vehicle registration.
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    CoderJoe1 4 hr. ago Stupidity has a steep price. Some people never listen, but you towed them.
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    Grouchy-Ad4338 · 3 hr. ago Good one. Financial rate of return on their stupidity look to be huge :)
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    OP noted that they still haven't renewed their tags - may be the city is gonna make some more easy money in fines when they do.... So 'to be continued'...
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    Late-Cod-5972 - 4 hr. ago Interesting. If towed by CHP, they won't release the vehicle unless the registration fees are current.
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    GrumpyBachelorSF OP. 4 hr. ago I'm actually surprised they haven't been hit with an second ticket for expired tags at the time they got ticketed for street sweeping, yellow and red zones, etc. They
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    have their 2022 green tag on their plate. They're even luckier they didn't get the boot for five+ unpaid tickets; that's an extra $550 to get the boot off.
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    TootsNYC 3 hr. ago I knew of someone in NYC who would buy a used beat- up car and park it wherever, and never pay their parking tickets. Eventually it would get towed, and they'd then abandon it, and buy a new one.
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    Starbuck4 4 hr. ago Please follow up and let us know if the neighbor ever confronts you on it! That would be my one hesitation because you have to live next to the and are
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    likely to run into them at some point. Bravo though, you petty revenge madlad! That bill is satisfying!
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    saint_aura 3 hr. ago Sounds like a way for the owner to have an old unregistered and unwanted car disposed of, without having to pay someone to come to collect it. Scrap value can be so little that it's not worth the price of the tow.
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    JamesM777 4 hr. ago Did you try knocking on their door before you called the cops?
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    GrumpyBachelorSF OP . 2 hr. ago The parking cop did, no response. The city also has a program that will text message those about to be towed to get a chance to address the problem before the tow truck arrives.
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