Nightclub promoter ignores hotel worker’s parking warning, gets towed, chases the truck down the street on foot, then has the nerve to demand refund: ‘I obviously refused, and told him to get out’

• Parking enforcement is one of those areas where the rules are always very clear, and the people ignoring them are always very surprised.

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  Representative image for the hotel employee involved in a dispute with a nightclub promoter over a towed vehicle.

• New Nightclub Promoter Meets the Tow Truck

  TheNiteOwl38

• Apparently the nightclub went and hired themselves a new promoter, and unfortunately he was unaware of my hotel's policy of not letting anyone from the club park in our loading and unloading lot. Over the weekend, the guard, just before I came in for my shift, spotted him trying to park in that lot and told him not to. And he listened... or so we thought. Because the next time the guard came in, which was about two hours later, he informed me that the new promoter's truck was back in the loading/unloading lot. He verified that he did tell him he couldn't park there. As far as I was concerned, that meant he didn't need to be told again.

• I called up the OM and appraised her of the situation and she gave me the green light to call the tow company. When they asked for what kind vehicle it was, I gave them the make and model, but also told them that it was a neon green lifted pickup that had a bad wrap job of a guy's face on the sides. It took about 20 minutes, but eventually the tow truck showed up, grabbed the truck, and started to drive off. I thought that was the end of it. But as the tow truck started making it's way down the street, which just happens to be the right next to lobby windows, giving me a perfect line of sight, what do I see, but the new promoter literally running after his truck. If you want a visual, imagine someone the same size as Gabriel Iglesias running down the street. I couldn't stop laughing.

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  Reference photo for the hotel worker calling about the tow, showing a man in a white shirt speaking on the phone.

• I'll give him credit though, he caught the tow truck. Though that was probably because the tow truck had to slow down for a sharp turn. The drop fee was paid because the truck was let down. But then, the promoter decided that he was owed money for his ignorance. He came in and demanded that we give him back his money that he just spent. I obviously refused, and told him to get out.

• Despite how much fun that was, I have a feeling this won't be the last time I deal with the nightclub's newest moron.

  TheNiteOwl38

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  Reference photo for the hotel parking dispute, showing a smiling model in a white shirt looking at his phone by a window portraying the hotel worker after the altercation

• A loading and unloading zone is not a gray area. It is not open to interpretation. It is not a suggestion left out for polite consideration. It is a specific piece of pavement with a specific purpose, and when a hotel guard explains that purpose to someone's face, the reasonable response is to park somewhere else. Not to wait two hours and try again like the lot has a short memory.

  The thing about people who park where they are not supposed to is that they always seem to believe the warning was the punishment. Like being told no once used up the hotel's entire supply of consequences and now they can quietly slide back in and nothing will happen. It is a fascinating theory. It is also completely wrong, and in this case it was wrong in the most cinematic way possible.

  A neon green lifted pickup with a bad wrap job of a guy's face is not a vehicle that blends into its surroundings. That is a truck that came to be noticed. It announced itself to the tow company before the description was even finished. And then it announced itself again to everyone watching from the lobby windows as its owner sprinted down the street after it in what had to be the most motivated he had been all weekend.

  The fact that he caught the tow truck is almost inspiring. That is genuine commitment. That is a man who made a bad decision and then put real physical effort into dealing with the consequences, which is more than most people do. The part where he then walked inside and demanded his money back is where the inspiration stops and the audacity begins. Being towed for ignoring a warning is not a billing dispute. It is just Tuesday.

  The truck got towed because the lot has rules. The rules did not change because he was new. They never do.

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