SCREWED BY PARKING $600 in the hole
 

WEll i have a valid pass for a parking secion on my campus but it is a long way form my dorm. Long story short i ended up gettting a pass from a freind , which he had stolen i think and edited the number. BUnch of People had been using passes like this. I had been using it for about 2 weeks then one mornign i cam out and had a BIG BOOT on my car. Well not thinking right i called my friends and they felt bad about it since they convinced me it was safe. WEll we got the boot off enough to take my wheel off and put on a spare...and we were out of there. Well i had jsut gotten a new car and it was not registered on campus so i thought i was okay. BAD MOVE ..apparently if the fine is high enough parking must get access to motor vehicles records(even though they cant wioth just parking tickets). I intercepted to letters to my Dad(car under his name) that was a $160 bill for illegal parking then on bill for $430!!! to replace the parking boot. My sister told me not to return the boot and just pay the whole bill. Dang i shot myself in the foot. Guess it will be a long time now before i can start my Crx project >:( :( :'(

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find a price for a parking boot somewhere way cheaper and pay them that much... that's how insurance companies do it, and it's apparently legal for them... send them the info on where to get the boot.

i hate parking nazis.. my car got towed once. i have never screamed so many horrible things in the face of another human being as i did that day. i still feel bad about it..

$160 parking ticket is a bit excessive... towing costs about that much here in minneapolis..

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You thikn i should return the boot or would that incriminate me even further. I mean right now they have not linked my Dad with me as a student so i dont have to deal with the Dean of students.

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they already know your dads name...just send the boot in under his name

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I hate unexpected expenses like that. It seems like there is never enough money to go around as it is but when these things happen it just screws with everything you have planned. Sorry to hear about your loss, hope things start to look up for you! ;)

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maybe now you wont be so lazy and park where you were supposed to and walk ;) besides, the exercise cant hurt you!@

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this is almost funny.
yeah, i had a $120 burrito tonight. wasn't all that great either.
i was in the store for 5 ------- minutes. i stopped on my way home for work to get food. i parked in a completely empty lot, one i've parked in many times. came out to catch the ----------er putting the boot on. i almost kicked him in the head before he saw me.

seriously, parking 5 minutes somewhere that's not inconveniencing ANYONE. i feel your pain man, even more so than i did yesterday.

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Nice princess... The use of the word expenses surprises me... Not a word you see on an automotive forum at all.. ( im an accountant BTW... sorry)

Just an observation.

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I hate unexpected expenses like that. It seems like there is never enough money to go around as it is but when these things happen it just screws with everything you have planned. Sorry to hear about your loss, hope things start to look up for you! Tell me about it. My turbo install got pushed back three weeks heres the story. I'm a mechanic and my moms check eng. light was on in her Jeep Grand Charokee so me being a good son said I'd take it into work and have it checked out. Well it was 6:30am in the mornig and they were doing construction in my neighborhood and the turn coming out of me house is kind of a blind turn. Well I'm coming around the turn and then I see a MAC truck sitting in the middle of the road trying to back up into the construction site. Now if I was in my car I could have stopped in time ( My civic have slotted rotors , Axis Metal master pads , and integra booster and MC ) but it being a big as Jeep with shitting brakes there was no way. I hit the truck head on at 40MPH. The AirBags DID NOT go off and the seat belt DID NOT retract back to keep me in my seat. I flew foward and hit my head on the steering wheel. The only thing keeping me from going threw the windsheild was my lap belt. They said it was my fault cause I should have seen it but I told them it's a blind turn and they should have had spotters cause he was blocking the flow of traffic. I went to a lawyer to see if I could do something about the air bags and seat belt not working and he said No because since I didn't die or get seriuosly injured form them not working their High Price lawyers would find a way for me not to get anything. I had to pay for my moms $600 deductable...it was only fari I pay since I wrecked it and the total bill now is up to $5,500 in damage to her car with not a scratch on the Truck.

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http://www2.mailordercentral.com/pub...ource=overture

Apparently from what i see, if you have a low enough car,then they cant throw a boot on, look at the design of the boot, if you have a lowered car and a body kit then they wont be able to get it on, unless they damage the body kit, and if they do that then they are paying you money.

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It's not exactly a resident area it's a main road right outside my house. I was only about 3 blocks away from my house and even the Truck driver told the cops that I WAS NOT speeding. If you're thinking it was a straight 90 degree turn it's not and I wouldn't take a sharp turn that fast in my moms car. It was basicly a big U shape turn.

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thanks for the link forth gen looks like they booted me with the best boot on the market the one on my i think was the enforecer which explains why we had to cut a bolt to get it off. We are gonna weld back the pin and now maybe buy a key from this site and i can sell the whole package on ebay for say 200 bucks maybe. Thanks for helpin a brother out 4thgen!

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OMG I have never seen one of those ------- things before!!! I can't believe they put those on your car!! WTF is wrong with them?? I couldn't imagine coming out to my car and seeing one of those things on my car. Wow. I am just amazed at this. That is legal? That kinda ---- just wouldn't happen out here. This place is too small and the dude putting it on would have to be a ------- super badass ninja street fighter to make it out alive. Why are they so damn strict about parking in the wrong ------- spot? If I pull up to a store and the lot is empty I will pull right into the handi-crap spot without even hesitating. At the post office here every single spot within 25 yards is a handi-crap, but ---- that. I park right up front with the rest of them. This is crazy. You park in the wrong spot and they put that ------- monstrosity on your rim. Do they pay for the damage if it scratches the ---- out of the rim? What if you DID have ground effects? Would they just tear it to hell or what? Damn, sometimes I'm glad I live in such a small town.................
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First thing Is I've have been booted and got away. They never catch me.

1. First Never using real plates (if you buy a car from soneone out of state this works great or you got a brand new car)
2. Second cover your dam VIN number in the corner thats how the track your ass.
3. It seems you learned to get the boot off. All you gotta do is change tires and it comes off.


I been booted once and got another Sentra real close, but I happened to walk out and see them. The told so crap like I have to wait and he was stalling for time. I split. I've never been caught. :-) BTW I take all my cars on campus :-) never had a problems since they dont have any proof and my car does stand out :-) a new set of plates. I guess that illegal, but my school has fucked my a few times so I guess its just pay back.

---- the system.

Nick

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the asshat just used the alpha enforcer POS, but it wasn't my car, it was the work car. if it had been my car, i'd have taken the tire off and left with it, deflated the tire and returned the lock.

i'm thinking a note saying "karma's a bitch, ain't it?" STAPLED to the sidewall of his tires should make me feel a bit better... at this point, it's not that i lost the $120, it's that i don't want his sorry ass to be able to spend it.

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damn that enforcer is a bitch, they use the ----- ones around here.. do you just switch the plates on when you know your parkin illigaly? b/c if u got pulled over with those on u would be fucked.

Also havin your vin exposed is gay theres lots of thins ppl can do with a vin .. its like your cars ssn, but it is required by law to be exposed in some states. anyway thats cool as hell you got away from them.. would be funny to just get bags and put your frame on the ground and see what they would do.