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  • #31
    I want to know why so many of your stories include people attempting to drive their vehicles off of the tow truck when it's already strapped and ready to go?

    Are they smart enough to know you can't drive off with them in there, but just too dumb to realize it's only going to fark up their vehicle, or do they really honestly believe their little threats will work?

    Are they that stupid that they don't realize tow drivers and the police are like peanut butter and jelly?

    Ok, enough stupid questions, blas.
    You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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    • #32
      They're a horrible combination of being short-sighted and unable to control their impulses, and as soon as they see their car on the truck, the only thing that "computes" in thier mind is

      "MY CAR ON TOW TRUCK! I DO NOT WANT MY CAR ON TOW TRUCK! I WILL TAKE MY CAR OFF TRUCK! HULK SMASH!"

      ANd they do so, or try to, and like most people with poor judgement and rage issues, once they get started on it, they decide that since they're already comitted to a bad bet, they might as well go all in....

      It's just like those people who run from the cops, they make a snap bad choice based on nothing other than "I don't want to get pulled over" and run. It probably occurs to them shortly thereafter that it was a mistake, but by then, it's too late to really back down without consequence, so they keep going in the belief that if they can somehow get away with it if they can just get out of sight/off the truck.... then the cops can't prove anything!
      - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

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      • #33
        That does make a lot of sense.

        Still doesn't excuse stupid, though
        You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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        • #34
          I think some people get like that because, thanks to spineless managers who have caved on them at stores and companies, they think a "law" is the same as a "policy" in that if you bitch enough, you can get your way.
          "If we refund your money, give you a free replacement and shoot the manager, then will you be happy?" - sign seen in a restaurant

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          • #35
            Quoth Argabarga View Post
            I'm at a loss to explain it, but my current theory is that this is how they operate in life, they're bull-headed and contrary about everything, and for 99% of their daily interactions, it's works.

            It makes thier kids do what they want, thier relatives do what they want, thier friends, spouses, etc, do what they want. And it may even make thier bosses and subordinates do what they want.

            And those who don't do what they want can just be ignored until they cave in or go away.

            When presented with a situation where you are facing black-and-white government-sanctioned AUTHORITY, they just don't see why it's any different, and cannot see how thier "normal" approach won't work, until the guns come out.....
            I like to think of this kind of mindset as the "Lord Rust." They always believe they are firmly in the right, they're never wrong, they never back down, and always get their way. Thus, when someone comes up who doesn't immediately go along with them, their brains label them a statistical anomaly and thus ignore them.
            PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.

            There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!

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            • #36
              Quoth Mr Hero View Post
              How many of us here get to say they get paid to put SC's in their place?
              This is a paraphrase from another website, but it occurs to me that this man made the mistake of thinking that he was the customer. He was dealing with someone with whom he would have to give money in exchange for his vehicle.

              Unfortunately, when dealing with impound, the vehicle owner is not the customer. Technically, the police department or property owner is the customer. The vehicle owner is the INVENTORY.

              I would imagine our hero in this story can think of several occasions where the owner of the vehicle mistook himself for a customer and tried to act accordingly.

              Love, Who?

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              • #37
                Quoth LillFilly View Post
                Woooooooohhhh!

                I love your stories, cause you kick A** and take names!

                I shall leave you with this heart-wrenching link to a wounded soul who's vehicle is being sooooo unjustly taken:

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhwhFDC4ljE

                About 1:30 in...I can afford the tow, i;m gonna call my lawyer. I bet the tow is cheaper that you lawyer to get involved in this.

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                • #38
                  Ah, the "L" word.

                  It never ceases to amaze me how you can pick out one car at random in a parking lot, tow it, only to find out the owner is a lawyer, his dad's a lawyer, his cousin is a lawyer, his unlce is a lawyer, he hangs out with lawywers, his dog is a lawyer, he draws pictures of lawyers in his spare time, he was born and raised in a law firm office, he eats legal briefs for breakfast and craps subpeonas, you know how it goes..... YOu'd think there would be so many lawyers around here that they'd be thick as rosebushes the way these folks decribe it.
                  - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

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                  • #39
                    I understand being towed.

                    I don't fully understand trying to do an end run around the system and get your car back for free, but I can kind of see it.

                    What I can't in any way see is, if you just got your car towed and it cost you a Benjamin to get it back, all because you parked in Spot #44, why the hell you would park in Spot #44, EVER, let alone a few minutes later!

                    At Arizona State, several of my classes were in buildings that happened to be right next to a shopping mall. This shopping mall had signs everywhere making it very clear that if you parked there and you weren't a customer of the shopping center, your vehicle would be towed. The unwritten but very understood part of those signs was "Hey, students...this means you!"

                    One day, when running late, I parked in said parking lot for a quick class. Didn't get towed. Started doing it more often. Got lazy. Got stupid. Thought I wouldn't get caught doing this. Until one day I came out to find nothing. As in, no car. Well, lots of cars, but none of them mine. My car had vanished. At which point I uttered the immortal words, "I hope they towed my car." Since the alternative, it having been stolen, meant I was definitely NOT getting it back. "Luckily" for me, it had merely been towed. A phone call and a hundred or so hard-to-scrape-together-for-a-college-student dollars later, I had my car back.

                    Anyone wanna guess where I never parked my car again for class?

                    Quoth neecy View Post
                    ...it got the the point that the tow truck knew my number and all I had to do was say "The usual" and they'd come right over.
                    Honestly, one should only ever have to utter the phrase "the usual" in a restaurant, bar, or haircutting establishment.

                    "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                    Still A Customer."

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                    • #40
                      Quoth Jester View Post
                      Honestly, one should only ever have to utter the phrase "the usual" in a restaurant, bar, or haircutting establishment.
                      Or a brothel.

                      ^-.-^
                      Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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                      • #41
                        Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
                        Or a brothel.
                        Well that went a pervy direction really fast. O_O
                        Coworker: Distro of choice?
                        Me: Gentoo.
                        Coworker: Ahh. A Masochist. I thought so.

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                        • #42
                          Quoth Midorikawa View Post
                          Well that went a pervy direction really fast. O_O
                          I live in the sewer, don't you know. One stop past the gutter.

                          ^-.-^
                          Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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                          • #43
                            Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
                            I live in the sewer, don't you know. One stop past the gutter.
                            I'm still fairly new, so this is a side I haven't seen from you. Mine just nudges in that direction occasionally.
                            Coworker: Distro of choice?
                            Me: Gentoo.
                            Coworker: Ahh. A Masochist. I thought so.

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                            • #44
                              Quoth phantasy View Post
                              I would have loved to see some pepperspraying in action though.
                              That or a good tasering, like I got to see live on Wednesday night.

                              He won't be so tough then, will he after getting a good dose of either one? He'll be cowering and crying for his Mommy while finding out his Underoos aren't waterproof.
                              Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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                              • #45
                                Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
                                I live in the sewer, don't you know. One stop past the gutter.

                                ^-.-^
                                She even gets mail there. It's warm in the sewers.
                                Now a member of that alien race called Management.

                                Yeah, you see that right. Pink. Harness.

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