If someone was parked in my personal parking place I wouldn't want them booted there.
That price seems high to me, but I know prices vary by location. Was the spot marked or in an obvious place like a driveway?
a) it was a parking lot in front of an apartment complex. Apparantly you need a permit to park there but there was no warning sign at all for this lot. There was one in an adjacent lot, but not this one/
b) there were several spots remaining in said lot, it's not like I was taking up space that a resident needed. There was, however, 0 space in the street where visitors normally park. At all.
c) Typical campus parking ticket cost = $20-$35.
d) I have parked in this lot numerous times before without being towed.
e) There were several (i.e., at least half a dozen) cop cars parked in the lot next to the towing company. POLICE EXTORTION RING? OH NO I'M SURE THIS ISN'T THE CASE I'M JUST PARANOID I MEAN THERE'S NO WAY THE POLICE FORCE GETS A CUT OF THIS
f) When I was picking the car up, there was an Asian girl there (who didn't speak English horribly well) who messed up her car rather bad (it was a ~$3k car, no collision insurance, probably not totaled but repairs would be very expensive). They managed to convince her to give them the title of the car in excahnge for towing fees. I'm 100% sure that the salvage value of the car >>>> the cost for the company to tow it.
Conclusion: The towing company is a legitimate, perfectly honorable business that has no hand in overpricing their "serivces" to screw over college students and over people with no power to fight them.
Conclusion II: I would not be able to say the above sentence with a straight face in person.
I mean, I can get back $140 from poker on a good day, it's just that I had much much better uses for that money and I didn't have a particularly good week to begin with. (The weekend, though, went quite well. :D )
