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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
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In college, the local towing company was notorious for stealing college students cars and ransoming them back. All of the college apartment companies "contracted" (received kickbacks from) this towing company. They were supposed to tow cars only after complaints, but it was well known that they would troll the lots around 4 am and steal any car without a parking sticker--even if you called it in to the towing company and got it cleared. (ESPECIALLY if you called it in to the towing company and got it cleared.)
My wife's car was towed on one of these occasions--despite the fact that we called it in. (Probably because of the fact that we called it in.) The towing company claimed they had no record of our call--too bad for us. This required going to one side of town to pay the ransom (where you waited in a line, 50 victims deep, to pay over $100), and going to the other side of town to get the car--it was an all-morning ordeal.
At the ransom-paying place, there was a lady sitting in the back, smoking, on oxygen. I always hoped that the inevitable would happen.
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