r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Trippin_Witty • 2d ago
How I woke up to see my car this morning...
It got towed... Maybe. Still trying to figure it out.
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u/TeuthidTheSquid BLUE 2d ago
It must have been scared when they came to tow it, looks like it pissed itself
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u/Trippin_Witty 2d ago
These comments are great but this one repos the cake
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u/Elawn 2d ago
repos the cake
Took me a sec lol good one.
Also sorry OP :/
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u/swiftsorceress 2d ago
It also took me a second to realize they were not referring to a GitHub Repository. My brain is too programmery
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u/Grand-Diamond-6564 2d ago
Me too, I was thining 'damn, am I bad at programming?'
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u/Isumairu 2d ago
What other repos are there aside from git ones? I am still confused.
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u/swiftsorceress 2d ago
I'm pretty sure they're shortening repossesses.
Sidenote: that word just has way too many S's
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u/B4USLIPN2 2d ago
favorite word of snakes.
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u/btveron 2d ago
I think 'sustenance' or 'Mississippi' or 'businesspersons' rank pretty high up there as far as 'sss' sounds go
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u/swiftsorceress 2d ago
The Mississippi businessperson repossesses food for sustenance.
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u/UndauntedCandle 2d ago
The Mississippi businessperson repossesses food for sustenance
The Mississippi businessperson repossesses salsa for sustenance.
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u/ViolinistMean199 2d ago
Ya I’m dumb and won’t get it. Can you explain
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u/GItPirate 1d ago
Instead of "takes the cake" it's "repos the cake" because the car was repossed
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u/crod4692 2d ago
Why have you settled for this solution? Walk into the office and ask that your car be logged as a resident.. Does the lease say you must have plates that match where you are right now? If not they should be paying for the tow and resolving the parking lot issue.
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u/shapesize 2d ago
This comment is 100% correct. Unless your lease states you can only use a parking spot for cars with in state plates, they cannot exclude your vehicle. But they may need to know that so they know it is your vehicle. Now they can update the lease to say “for safety reasons non-local vehicles, including those with out of state plates, will be towed at the owner’s expense” and the you’re stuck.
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u/GardenTop7253 2d ago
What are the rules for the parking lot then? Might look over your lease agreement, see what it says. If they changed things after you signed to agree to them, you might have some options
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u/becausemercy 2d ago
This happened to me when I lived in Maryland and PA stopped giving out registration stickers for plates so my apartment complex thought my registration was out of date. Thankfully I wasn't charged for the tow/storage, but I did have to take an Uber about 20 minutes to get my car back
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u/JustAChubbyWife 2d ago
Call your local police department, the non urgent #. If it was towed I do believe they need to be notified.
Or call your property manager office and ask for the number to the towing company they use and call them
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u/PrethorynOvermind 2d ago
Might also be worth raising the concern to the property manager and filing a police report for any video surveillance if an investigation is needed.
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u/UltraWeebMaster 2d ago
Thank you for your helpful advice, Prethoryn Scourge. Please eat the rest of the galactic community first c:
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u/PrethorynOvermind 2d ago
"ONLY WHEN WE HAVE FINISHED CONSUMING THIS GALAXY SHALL WE DEPART TO CONTINUE OUR LONG JOURNEY."
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u/siccoblue 1d ago
Oh fuck please consume me first I'm so over this shit
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u/Existing_Reading_572 2d ago
Prethoryn Scourge 😍😍😍
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u/PrethorynOvermind 2d ago
"THEY HAVE MADE US THE LAST OF OUR KIND, AND THEY HAVE HUNTED US, THE SURVIVORS, FOR EONS. THEY WILL COME HERE ONE DAY."
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u/Existing_Reading_572 2d ago
What if we kissed under the Prethoryn Queen?
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u/PrethorynOvermind 2d ago
It would probably go something like:
"NO PEACE, WE MUST FEAST"
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u/blasney 2d ago
My car was towed once from the apartment complex in NJ I lived at. I called the non-emergency number and they sent an officer. He said that no, tow companies do not need to notify the police.
I ended up having to find the placard that shows the tow company information and prices completely covered by bushes and when I bitched at them they just told me to pay the fees to get my car back and pound sand.
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u/CubicDice 2d ago
I once parked outside my girlfriend's apartment on the last Sunday of the month. I stupidly did not realize they do street cleaning the first Monday of the month. When I went outside in the morning my car was gone and I started panicking. Turns out I was towed, but I was not towed to a yard. They towed me to the next available parking spot (nice of them). However the parking warden came and clamped my car. They said I didn't pay for a ticket, which they were correct. However I did not physically park my car there, hence why I've no ticket. I had to pay to have the clamp removed. An angle grinder would've been cheaper.
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u/Weird1Intrepid 2d ago
Lock pick set off Amazon. You can legally remove a wheel clamp, but you can't legally damage it.
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u/Rathwood 2d ago
If they never get the boot back, they'll have no way of knowing if I damaged it.
On the other hand, perhaps it would be better to "impound" their boot and send them a bill. My impound fee is the same as my rent payment, and I charge by the hour.
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u/d3photo 2d ago
Sauce.
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u/Weird1Intrepid 2d ago
Ranch
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u/d3photo 2d ago
Eww. That’s gross.
Cite your source.
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u/Weird1Intrepid 2d ago
Okay then, garlic mayo
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u/Electric_Bagpipes 2d ago
Seriously? How are they allowed to straight up steal a vehicle and get away with charging you to get it back?
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u/MrLanesLament 2d ago
Ask the local police who tend to be in bed with tow companies.
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u/9bpm9 2d ago
Yep. My brother in law used to run a tow yard and was very good friends with the police.
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u/RandomGuy_81 2d ago
A city near me, mayor’s family history was notorious mob background. His office colluded with a private company for street enforcement and the city gets a portion of the fake fines collected.
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u/SalaavOnitrex 2d ago
Oh you're so innocent and wholesome. Even if they aren't allowed, it's more common they'll do it anyways and bank on the fact that people not take them to court over it.
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u/thedankening 2d ago
Takes more money and time than most people have to fight them in court over it. Particularly bad police departments (aka a depressingly large number of them) are also often in bed with the scummier tow companies who pull this shit.
If you've got definitive proof (video evidence and whatnot) that they straight up stole your car then you might have a fighting chance. Otherwise yes you're pretty much fucked and don't expect the cops to help.
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u/survivorr123_ 2d ago
its funny to me that in USA people sue very easily and usually win, but seems like anyone can just tow any car for no reason and get away with it, while in europe if someone does something to you then you're fucked even if it's serious, but if someone towed your car and damaged it then it's an easy win for you so cars are never towed at all
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u/hammr25 2d ago
Tow companies need to have a government license to tow so they actually have a license to steal. The government is picky on who they let steal cars.
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u/amanon101 2d ago
I think it depends on state. In California the cops need to be notified to enter it into the vehicle database, I believe the requisites are if the owner wasn’t contacted (repo/private property tow) or if the cops ordered the tow (crime, involved in wreck etc). It causes issues if no notification is made, for example if it’s not entered people not knowing the tow happened report it stolen, car gets auctioned off by tow company after a while, new buyer is screwed when they try to register it and it’s a massive mess.
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u/Miserable_Plum_8108 2d ago
In 2010 it was like 400 bucks to get my car back from an apartment complex. My friend was just like oops I forgot to tell you you’re suppose to park in guest parking.
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u/Grayboosh 2d ago
They are suppose to. I had a hertz vehicle that they took back ( dealership was covering and renewed the day before...) . They never reported it and they came at 530 am Christmas eve morning. I spent 6 hours with police and an additional 5 days of screaming at people to finally track it down.
Since it was Christmas eve then Christmas day everything was close and it was a giant pain in the ass.
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u/Socratesticles 2d ago
Tow company my apartment complex has a contract with lives to prowl the lots on long holidays people are likely out of town
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u/GingerrGina 2d ago
Serious question. Why not report it stolen?
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u/Ping-and-Pong 2d ago
This would be my go to too - I mean like unless you it would get towed at which point, why park there? And this looks like it's OP car park outside their flat or house or whatever soooo...
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u/Silly_Swan_Swallower 2d ago
That's why tows are reported to cops. You call to report it stolen and they say "no, it's just been towed."
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u/joemaniaci 2d ago
Considering OP made a repo joke in the 'best' comment, I'm thinking they know exactly what happened to their car.
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u/BobGnarly_ 2d ago
Where's your car Dude?
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u/ManicFirestorm 2d ago
And then?
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u/V-music_Productions 2d ago
If you say and then one more time...
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u/CapnBio 2d ago
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u/osudude80 2d ago
You don't know, Walter?
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u/AccountNumber478 2d ago
One day woke up to find my wife's classic '80s Cutlass Supreme similarly gone (stolen, not towed) from our condo complex parking lot. Probably chopped up for parts. Not a trace ever found.
Law enforcement is so useless in these cases.
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u/Trippin_Witty 2d ago
Someone sideswiped me while driving and got away. I got a picture of the truck with a clear picture of the license plate from a witness. Law enforcement never took action.
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u/-BlueDream- 2d ago
Insurance will probably investigate more than the police would unless the guy that hit you didn't have insurance (which is likely cuz he ran). Insurance companies hate paying our claims and will do anything to get the other guy if they're at fault.
Had a car stolen and the police didn't bother investigating, it was the insurance company's legal team that pulled security footage from the mall and surrounding areas by subpoena, not the cops. Cops didn't do shit.
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u/CallyThePally 2d ago
It feels funny to me cause it's like they're supposed to be the ones handling law and you'd imagine that includes evidence gathering and stuff like this (or I would imagine at least for my first guess) but we've somehow shifted the responsibility to insurance companies??? This sounds like a weird prediction of the future going wrong. Same idea: "in the future you will not only have everyone work in Walmart, thanks to Walpartments you can now live in the basement beneath the Walcomplex for cheaper than anywhere else!" (More like Amazon for an actual real life thing that may happen but yeah)
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u/nineinchgod 2d ago
It feels funny to me cause it's like they're supposed to be the ones handling law
This is part of the mythology we're indoctrinated with in this nation. In reality, cops exist to protect the institutions of capital, i.e., the owners of everything.
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u/JonLongsonLongJonson 2d ago edited 1d ago
Years ago my Integra + all my possessions were stolen(homeless). I was drunk which is how my keys were stolen and walked the streets in despair for like an hour until I saw some cops.
I told them it was a red ‘92 Acura Integra, license plate XxxxxX, showed pics on my phone, gave the full name and description of the thief, location/time of theft and more. They basically said whatever, call tomorrow. My car showed up totaled 2 weeks later in the next state over with $600 in tow fees. Come to find out thief was cruising around town for 3 days before leaving the state and it was posted online, parked in his driveway… they never followed up with me.
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u/drunkondata 2d ago
In what cases aren't they?
They clear about 50% of murders (that includes "solving" a murder with the wrong suspect, they only care about convictions, not justice), the less severe the crime, the lower the number.
They refused to take a report when my car was stolen, they have no fucks to give those on the other side of their blue line.
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u/workhard_livesimply 2d ago
Did you try removing the invisible cloak ?
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u/glade_air_freshner 2d ago
I'd rather sneak under the cloak, and get inside with the cloak still covering the car. Makes robbing a bank pretty damn easy.
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u/Iwas7b4u 2d ago
You may have parked in the alternative universe of your apartment
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u/Trippin_Witty 2d ago edited 2d ago
Last time I smoked dmt my couch turned a different color and it still hasn't come back. Maybe I smoked myself into the alternative reality where I don't owne a car.
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u/old_homecoming_dress 2d ago
wake up, trippin_witty. your family misses you. we've been trying to reach you.
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u/sh4olinshadowboxer 2d ago
What has posting a photo of John Cena got to do with your car?
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u/aryzkryz 2d ago
At least yours got towed. Mine doesn't exist, at all
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u/TarnishedDungEater 2d ago
at least yours doesn’t exist, i drive a Ford…
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u/glade_air_freshner 2d ago
So your car exists in theory, but not in practice.
Source: ex Ford owner.
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u/TarnishedDungEater 2d ago
pretty much lmfaooo
on a more serious note, i have a 2014 Escape i’ve owned for 4 years now. i’ve genuinely had no issues with it and it was my first (and to this day) only car. despite being FWD it actually does pretty good in the Canadian winters. F-150’s on the other hand, my dad said he’ll never buy one ever again and he wishes he went with GMC or RAM.
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u/DarkoNova 1d ago
This is "mildly infuriating"?
If I woke up and my car wasn't where I'd parked it, I'd be fucking pissed.
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u/a1ien51 1d ago
I woke up to find my car gone. Tow company towed it saying my tag was not visible. It was handing on the farking mirror where it belonged. The office and the company would not admit they were wrong. They even claimed I somehow put it on after the fact. Not sure how I broke into their 10 foot fenced in impound lot. lol
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u/lothcent 2d ago
start with 1) am I current on my car payments? 2) call local PD to see if the car was reported as towed for a private impound or a repo. 3) if not found in 1 or 2 above- tell the police operator that you want to report the car stolen.
4) while waiting for the officer ( mileage will vary as to if they send someone or just take the report over the phone ) but think hard on your activities leading up to this moment of discovery? did you go out and get blinding drunk and catch an Uber home? Can you even find your car keys ? ( yes- these are things the police are gonna ask and even more fun questions like who else has keys to the car? have you ever loaned your car out in exchange for drugs? any exes that still have a copy of the key? is the parking lot being striped and perhaps the management just had your moved to a different part of the complex.
and yes- get the oil leak fixed
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u/BatmansBigBoner 2d ago
Towed or stolen?
Cause I know someone who may be able to help
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u/ModeratelyAverage6 2d ago
Did you get the invisible batmobile upgrade? Damn man, good luck.
In all seriousness, did you report it stolen?
Nevermind. I saw it was towed. Damn man. That sucks.
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u/Desperate-Ad-6463 2d ago
I was gonna say how good a j/k it would have been if you just revealed you don’t own one.
Sorry about your predicament
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u/bophed 2d ago
Hmmm. Only 3 possible reasons.
Stolen
Towed
Repossessed
Which one is it for you?