Towed

>Parked in front of my girlfriends apartment for no more than 15 minuetes

No means no. Next time tell the cunt to meet you on the street while you wait.

Next time tell him to suck you off in the car

How can you steal something you already own?

The fact that the police consider that a possibility would have me cruising by every tow company in town's lot, as well as of course checking the unfenced lot of the official impound yard.

Because there are fees attached to it. Towing is a sweet racket. You park in a tow away zone so legally you've agreed to be towed. The tow company tows your car so you owe a towing fee. Then they store it so you owe a lot fee for every day. If you even got a ticket, that's also holding your car. A significant number of cars end up belonging to the impound company because people don't have savings to use for emergencies and/or are huge procrastinators. Any business that relies on these elements of human nature will be successful but will also piss people off. The current artistry is keeping the victims from getting to pissed off. It's amazing to hear how the girls at this payday loan/pawn shop I shop at all the time handle these debtors. A combination of gentle language, gradual milking and implied shame.

If you steal the car back without getting caught and burn down the towing company's office you're in the clear, right.

>parking in a towaway zone
You got what you deserved senpai

>How can you steal something you already own?
Under modern corporate law, possession of the title doesn't mean you truly own the car. If there is a lien against a title or deed, the lienholder is the one with the whip hand. You merely have possession of the title or deed at that point. If you sell the item, the sale is not legally valid if the lien holder is a corporation or the government. If the lien holder is an individual, an illegal sale might work (if you manage to delay the opponent's response out of the statutory time limit) because president bush (senior) didn't modify the laws to favor the people but to favor the corporations, instruments, and institutional investors that purchase debt paper.

>Parked in front of my girlfriends apartment for no more than 15 minutes
>modern towing is super quick

Modern towing is cellphone dispatched. What makes it far quicker is that tow truck drivers don't always wait at the tow yard far the next call. They are aware of the locations of all the other tow trucks. So they wait out there parked somewhere in the city in a good distribution. Thus, the closest tow truck handles the next call for a tow. That way a tow can show up within 5 minutes of a call.

Because angry car owners confront the tow truck operator and even beat them up, most states enacted laws protecting tow operators. In my state, once the tow has started, the car owner cannot interfere. The penalty is more severe than mere assault and battery because the car owner can be charged with theft because at that point, the car is legally in possession of the tow operator. So any attempt to steal the car is grand theft auto if the car is worth over $5000 (your GTA dollar limit varies by state). Having GTA on your criminal record will suck if it is a felony in your state. It's a law that has real bite. So once the tow operator arrives AND HAS GOTTEN OUT OF HIS VEHICLE, the car is legally in his possession even if he has not touched your car yet. If you drive off, that is theft plus intereference with a legal tow. It is a jailable arrestable offense.

To further protect tow operators from needing a police officer to validate the tow, laws made tows immediately legal if a towing sign is displayed at the property. That's fairly standard in every state. Additionally, many areas don't need signs because laws were passed designating certain areas as automatic tow zones such as waiting areas, freeways, certain ramps, HOA, etc. In those areas, a tow driving passing by can immediately stop, report the tow has started for car make/model/plates to the office, and one minute later is winching the car.

Someone else posted in a past thread that three days of impound yard storage, the tow fee, misc fees, and ticket cost approx $800. Someone else commented that impound yards have no need to compete to lower fees to attract customers, so they charge as much as they can legally get away with.

>*having GTA on your criminal record would be cool af
ftfy

Oh sorry a rebadged accord

>having GTA on your criminal record would be cool

until you need a job that refuses to hire felons
until you try to vote
until you try to sign a legal petition
until you try to get a scholarship (most deny felons)
until you try to enter state college (lowest admission priority)
until you try to legally own a gun

your CCW is revoked
some types of occupational licenses are revoked
you can be kicked out of your apartment
some HOA prohibit felons staying as guests
some HOA prohibit felons renting a home

your ability to get credit can be harder
your insurance rates can go up
your spouse or significant other (SO) may leave you
your kids can be mocked at school
your family and children can lose respect for you

But then, you remind all those people and company that it's no big deal that you have GTA on your record. So what if you are registered by the gov't as the Grand Theft Auto game player champion of 2015? When you tell them that, everyone breathes a sigh of relief. Ohhh, so it's that kind of GTA.

>Grand Theft Auto game player champion of 2015?
>2015
I have some bad news for you...

yeah, yeah, i know the release dates are wrong. I used 2015 for sake of discussion as I didn't feel like looking up the most recent last year of GTA release before the company got bought out.

My meter expired in Houston.

Did you leave it there for a week? I've gone over on a meter and all they do is ticket you for like 20 bucks

So like, what would they do if you had a bagged car, and just put it on the ground.
You could even go as far as to have one like an old hotrod that has covered tires.
It's not like they can legally cause thousands of dollars in damages?

>Did you leave it there for a week?
More and more of our meters are digitized now and will check the parking space to see if a car is there or not. As soon as the car is there without time remaining on the meter, a signal is sent to parking enforcement. They ride up on either a scooter or the old three wheeled thing (being phased out). All overdue meters are flashing on the wireless tablet the parking officers have. With all the computers monitoring the drivers' parking, the police know where to go right away to issue tickets.

If you make your car "unbootable" then they will just tow it. Over here, if you have unpaid tickets over 6 months. then the system gives you scofflaw status. Since traffic and parking tickets are not criminalized, they don't come to your house to arrest you. But the next time you need any gov't service, license, or get stopped for a ticket, you will have problems. For example, your license tabs aren't renewed. Your driver license is not renewed. If the police officer is there giving you a ticket in person, a mandatory tow is ordered for your car. The officer is not obligated to help you but will remove you from the freeway to the nearest offramp. You can call for a taxi then to get to the impound yard to pay to get your car out. At that point, they tell you there are parking tickets liened on your car, so you have to clear the tickets first and verify your car no longer has impound status before they release the car to you. That's how impound works. If you don't remove all the statuses causing impound, then the yard won't release the car to you. The limit here is 21 days (your area may vary) before they can auction the car off. Procrastination hurts. If the auction is not enough to cover all the fees (impound yard included), then you will still owe fines after you lose the car at auction. You will not be able to get another car (since its license/tabs are not processed until you pay fines off).

This. The pale negro who sold it to me had a bunch of parking tickets and I didn't know because I hadn't tried to register it yet.

That is a bad ass rig. Wish we had one of these at my company. All I got is flatbed and wreckers.

you fucked up, thats what happens

a couple years back i parked facing the wrong way infront of my house for literally 2 minutes to get something and i got a bylaw ticket for it, shit sucks