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    Here is a story about my car getting REPOssessed.

    It happened to me once, Martial impounded my 94 Firebird.

    Here is the Story: (Beware its long, but you will understand what I went through)




    I park on the streets and go to school; after my class was over I had to walk 3 blocks towards the car. I had a CompuStar alarm system and I tried to Auto Start the car, but the remote pager was telling me that the car was out of range. 2 Block away, still out of range, 1 block away still out of range. WTF I though, this Alarm works 1/2 mile away. It was one of the best alarms back then on the market.

    So I finally get to the street where I parked and I see a Sting Ray Corvette parked there. I parked right behind it, but now there is a Volvo parked in my spot. Where the Volvo is parked i see 2 tire marks, it looked like my car did a burn out before it got stolen. (That’s what I though).

    So I call the cops and report it. (I was going nuts, Never been in a situation like that.) As I wait for the Cops to arrive, I see a Tow Truck Driving Towards me. He passes me and makes a U-Turn. Across the street there was a Ford Escort parked, and next thing you know the Truck back in with an angle, lowers the arms, lifts up the front of the car, and drives away. My Jaw just Dropped.

    As the Town truck drives away, I see an undercover Crown Victoria. I though it was the cops. I come up to the car and ask them if they are here about my car. He asks me what’s my Plate Number and I give it to him. Apparently he is not a COP, he is a Martial and he has a list of all the cars he had/have towed away. With my luck my car was #1 on the list.

    Now I am going nuts, WTF did I do wrong? My car is paid off and I don't have any tickets. He tells me he just gets the list, and tows them away. He gives me a Number to call on why my car got towed away.

    So I call the Number and I find out I had 12 Unpaid parking Tickets. Total worth of $1,400. It was ridiculous. I call my friend Ilya and he picks me up.

    Now here where it got even worse. My car and others that been towed are all lighted up somewhere in Brooklyn. They all gather them around and then town them away to a Repo Yard. I had to find my car before that, because I needed my House Keys that were in the car. If I can't get into my house I cant get the Money to pay the Martial Office.

    Here is where my state of the art alarm system comes in handy. As we were driving around Brooklyn I kept on pressing the Pager button on the remote and finally I get a signal. My car was with in the 1/2 mile radius. Little more driving and we find it. I find another Martial and tell him that I need my keys from the car. So he follows me to the car to make sure I don’t drive away with it. I get the keys and we start heading home (Flying Home) for the money. I needed $700 for now to get my car back.

    So we get the money and we head out to the Martial office, which in on the other side of Brooklyn. We pay the Martial and fly back to the other side of Brooklyn to my car before it gets towed to the Yard.

    We arrive at the car and I show the Martial the receipt, he says ok and I was on my way. I had to go to work. I was already 2 hours late.

    (I though everything was fixed, oh boy I though wrong)

    So I finally pull up to my job and about to reverse into a parallel parking. I put it into Reverse and the car goes straight. I put it in Neutral and give it gas and the car goes straight. I put it into Park and give it gas and the car struggles to go straight. The God Damn Transmission was stuck in forward gear. Those Tire marks that I saw where my car was towed were actually Drag marks. The pulled the front up and dragged my car out of the parking spot.

    I continue to drive straight to a shop and I drop off the car. I get into another car and I drive to the other side of Brooklyn again, because of the remaining Total of $700 of tickets I had on the car. I get to city court and wait. Finally after 2 hours waiting in line I see a Judge, out of the 12 tickets I was only able to beat one out because it said Chevy instead of Pontiac. I tell the Judge that I never got the tickets in the first place and I had no idea where I got them from. She said, "I don't believe you, because for every ticket you get and is unpaid you get 3 letters in the mail regarding each tickets and you should of got 36 letters total." but, I pleaded with her and I swore I never got any letters from the court. She still didn't believe me.

    So now, I still had a Remaining balance to pay with was still $700 and on top of that I requested copies of every ticket I apparently got. The first 3 copies of the tickets were free, but the other 8 were $2 each. So I coughed up $16 more.

    So what do I see? Every single ticket was written by the same cop. Every single one of them. Some are double parking, some parking next to a hydrant and some are standing to close to a hydrant. All of the tickets were issued at my work. I was a Pizza delivery guy and I always Park in front of the Pizza Parlor.

    Now the Cop who wrote me up, He was on the force for like 18 or 19 years. Nobody and I mean nobody liked him, not even other cops. What he did the whole day was stand on the corner of the block where the Pizza parlor was and he would talk on the phone the whole day. I mean in a 8 hour shift, he would talk for 7 hours, because the other hour he would be on a break. Next to the Payphone was a garbage can. As you can guess it, that’s where all my tickets went as he wrote them. He would write them up and throw them away. That’s why I never got them in the first place. Other cops never bothered me because they knew that I worked for the Pizza parlor and I constantly move my car. It never blocked anyone.

    So later I do some investigation to find out why I never received 36 letters from the court. What I find out? The city court had my address wrong. They had a "9" instead of the "6" All the letters were going to some neighbor I never knew and nor did he. He probably threw those letters out not realizing to whom they were to. I try to appeal all the tickets because the city court had the wrong address and they deny me. They clamed it was my fault for providing them the wrong address.

    So how was my Day that day? Pretty crappy. I don't think I deserved anything like that. I went to school full time and I worked full time. College was expensive and so does the cost of living in NY. That day cost me $1,500 and to make things even better I was out of work because my Transmission was out and it cost me $1,800 to fix it.



    TOTAL: $3,300

    Yeah, life sucks. Thanks for reading.
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    Dude that sucks ass! Is the towing company going to pay for your tranny....since they lifted the front on a rwd car. If I was you i'd go to the court and try to get the cop that wrote the tickets in there...maybe he'll fess up and tell the judge he tossed'em Or see if your cop g/f can help...maybe she can see if he has a past of people not paying tickets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SeVeReDiStOrTiOn
    Dude that sucks ass! Is the towing company going to pay for your tranny....since they lifted the front on a rwd car. If I was you i'd go to the court and try to get the cop that wrote the tickets in there...maybe he'll fess up and tell the judge he tossed'em Or see if your cop g/f can help...maybe she can see if he has a past of people not paying tickets.

    Whats done is done. All of that happened back in 2001. that cop is long time retired.

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    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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    FSANE-- Man, that sucks.

    Short similar story. In '01 I was living in Chicago for school. I was also in the Army Reserve. Well, my apartment complex had a policy that no vehicle was allowed to sit in the same spot for more than 3 days consecutively. I told them that I was going to be performing my Annual Training (2 weeks a year) for the Army Reserve and would not be around to move my car as I would be in Germany. They said there would be no problem.

    When I got back I find my car had been towed. So I contact the tow yard who tells me that I must first settle things with the city. Without missing a beat I went to the police station, then city hall to raise hell. Not only did they wrongfully, and illegally tow my vehicle while I was serving the Federal Government under oblilgation, but they also damaged my vehicle.

    The tow truck put a "stinger" tow bar under the front of my Caprice and bent the lower radiator support moving it upward, which cracked my radiator and busted the fan shroud. When the tow truck driver put it in the impound lot, he backed it into another vehicle with front end damage that resulted in the tearing of my rear bumper skin. I took pictures of all of it.

    Without going to court they released my car for free and the towing company cut me a check for $2000 to cover the damages.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FSANE
    It happened to me once, Martial impounded my 94 Firebird.

    Here is the Story: (Beware its long, but you will understand what I went through)




    I park on the streets and go to school; after my class was over I had to walk 3 blocks towards the car. I had a CompuStar alarm system and I tried to Auto Start the car, but the remote pager was telling me that the car was out of range. 2 Block away, still out of range, 1 block away still out of range. WTF I though, this Alarm works 1/2 mile away. It was one of the best alarms back then on the market.

    So I finally get to the street where I parked and I see a Sting Ray Corvette parked there. I parked right behind it, but now there is a Volvo parked in my spot. Where the Volvo is parked i see 2 tire marks, it looked like my car did a burn out before it got stolen. (That’s what I though).

    So I call the cops and report it. (I was going nuts, Never been in a situation like that.) As I wait for the Cops to arrive, I see a Tow Truck Driving Towards me. He passes me and makes a U-Turn. Across the street there was a Ford Escort parked, and next thing you know the Truck back in with an angle, lowers the arms, lifts up the front of the car, and drives away. My Jaw just Dropped.

    As the Town truck drives away, I see an undercover Crown Victoria. I though it was the cops. I come up to the car and ask them if they are here about my car. He asks me what’s my Plate Number and I give it to him. Apparently he is not a COP, he is a Martial and he has a list of all the cars he had/have towed away. With my luck my car was #1 on the list.

    Now I am going nuts, WTF did I do wrong? My car is paid off and I don't have any tickets. He tells me he just gets the list, and tows them away. He gives me a Number to call on why my car got towed away.

    So I call the Number and I find out I had 12 Unpaid parking Tickets. Total worth of $1,400. It was ridiculous. I call my friend Ilya and he picks me up.

    Now here where it got even worse. My car and others that been towed are all lighted up somewhere in Brooklyn. They all gather them around and then town them away to a Repo Yard. I had to find my car before that, because I needed my House Keys that were in the car. If I can't get into my house I cant get the Money to pay the Martial Office.

    Here is where my state of the art alarm system comes in handy. As we were driving around Brooklyn I kept on pressing the Pager button on the remote and finally I get a signal. My car was with in the 1/2 mile radius. Little more driving and we find it. I find another Martial and tell him that I need my keys from the car. So he follows me to the car to make sure I don’t drive away with it. I get the keys and we start heading home (Flying Home) for the money. I needed $700 for now to get my car back.

    So we get the money and we head out to the Martial office, which in on the other side of Brooklyn. We pay the Martial and fly back to the other side of Brooklyn to my car before it gets towed to the Yard.

    We arrive at the car and I show the Martial the receipt, he says ok and I was on my way. I had to go to work. I was already 2 hours late.

    (I though everything was fixed, oh boy I though wrong)

    So I finally pull up to my job and about to reverse into a parallel parking. I put it into Reverse and the car goes straight. I put it in Neutral and give it gas and the car goes straight. I put it into Park and give it gas and the car struggles to go straight. The God Damn Transmission was stuck in forward gear. Those Tire marks that I saw where my car was towed were actually Drag marks. The pulled the front up and dragged my car out of the parking spot.

    I continue to drive straight to a shop and I drop off the car. I get into another car and I drive to the other side of Brooklyn again, because of the remaining Total of $700 of tickets I had on the car. I get to city court and wait. Finally after 2 hours waiting in line I see a Judge, out of the 12 tickets I was only able to beat one out because it said Chevy instead of Pontiac. I tell the Judge that I never got the tickets in the first place and I had no idea where I got them from. She said, "I don't believe you, because for every ticket you get and is unpaid you get 3 letters in the mail regarding each tickets and you should of got 36 letters total." but, I pleaded with her and I swore I never got any letters from the court. She still didn't believe me.

    So now, I still had a Remaining balance to pay with was still $700 and on top of that I requested copies of every ticket I apparently got. The first 3 copies of the tickets were free, but the other 8 were $2 each. So I coughed up $16 more.

    So what do I see? Every single ticket was written by the same cop. Every single one of them. Some are double parking, some parking next to a hydrant and some are standing to close to a hydrant. All of the tickets were issued at my work. I was a Pizza delivery guy and I always Park in front of the Pizza Parlor.

    Now the Cop who wrote me up, He was on the force for like 18 or 19 years. Nobody and I mean nobody liked him, not even other cops. What he did the whole day was stand on the corner of the block where the Pizza parlor was and he would talk on the phone the whole day. I mean in a 8 hour shift, he would talk for 7 hours, because the other hour he would be on a break. Next to the Payphone was a garbage can. As you can guess it, that’s where all my tickets went as he wrote them. He would write them up and throw them away. That’s why I never got them in the first place. Other cops never bothered me because they knew that I worked for the Pizza parlor and I constantly move my car. It never blocked anyone.

    So later I do some investigation to find out why I never received 36 letters from the court. What I find out? The city court had my address wrong. They had a "9" instead of the "6" All the letters were going to some neighbor I never knew and nor did he. He probably threw those letters out not realizing to whom they were to. I try to appeal all the tickets because the city court had the wrong address and they deny me. They clamed it was my fault for providing them the wrong address.

    So how was my Day that day? Pretty crappy. I don't think I deserved anything like that. I went to school full time and I worked full time. College was expensive and so does the cost of living in NY. That day cost me $1,500 and to make things even better I was out of work because my Transmission was out and it cost me $1,800 to fix it.



    TOTAL: $3,300

    Yeah, life sucks. Thanks for reading.

    Sorry about your bad day. That was rough.

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    something should still be done about that. sorry to hear , thats f'ed up

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    My friend, its not too late. Contact a lawyer to find out if there is anything which can be done. Many lawyers offer free 30 minute initial consultations. Let's face it, you already threw $3000 into this, why not throw in another couple thousand for legal fees if it might make things right. You should have taken photos of those drag marks. I really sympathize for you. Things like this make people feel like the world is out to get them. You need a good lawyer. These are the situations we hire lawyers for and trust in their expertise. Do it, don't let this slide. At least get the money back for them fucking up your tranny. My god, what a bunch of dyslexic fools from the tow truck driver to the martial to the judge and to most of all, the SOB ticketing you and throwing out the tickets.

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    A dozen parking tickets, wrong address, and you wonder why the judge doesn't believe you?

    What about the tickets that are left on your window?

    Have you EVER let someone else drive your car?

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    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

    -IMPEACHED PRES. BUSH'S ALLOCUTION & FINAL STATEMENT TO THE COURT AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY OF HIGH TREASON & WAR CRIMES.

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    I would have definatly taken the towing company to small claims court and had them pay for the tranny atleast. Is there any way to appeal your ticket to a higher court or have you gone thru all that already?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZO6Guy
    A dozen parking tickets, wrong address, and you wonder why the judge doesn't believe you?

    What about the tickets that are left on your window?

    Have you EVER let someone else drive your car?

    Did you READ the part where the cop was throwing out the tickets he was writting so the kid didnt know he was being written up?!?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Aerialist
    -IMPEACHED PRES. BUSH'S ALLOCUTION & FINAL STATEMENT TO THE COURT AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY OF HIGH TREASON & WAR CRIMES.


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    that's exactly why I use a flatbed when we get rwd cars on the list...or put it up in the air with the wheel lift and disconnect the shifter on the side if the trans and put it in neutral, cuz I'm not trying to damage anyone's car...I treat it like it was mine....oh and your car was impounded, not repo'd...that's what I do, lol.... sorry to hear you went through that...

    I do have a couple of questions though...I find it strange that a cop would target you and only you to write tickets and then throw them away, but then turn them into the court (I used to write a lot of fire lane tickets and some folks would come to court and claim they didn't get them)...was the cop there (court)? I really find it hard to believe that you received tickets on a car that was legally parked as well. Not blocking anybody and being legally parked are not always the same thing. I always think about the money I'd be throwing away if I got a parking ticket and got to experience it 2 times in my 19 years of driving...

    I'm not flaming you, not saying you're not telling the truth, just the investigator in me (arson squad for the the past 5 years)...seemed a little strange to me, is all.

    they should have been more careful towing your car and paid for the damages imho...
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    I have seen this before did you ever post this on ls2?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigrus
    I have seen this before did you ever post this on ls2?

    Not sure, maybe.

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