I'm with BC on this. I hate HOAs and rent-a-cops as well but that guy forgot to put his pass in the window, it IS his fault. HE escalated the problem by moving the car.

If he had sucked it up like a man and admitted his mistake the whole ordeal would have been over with the next day.

They tried to pull that crap on me in a municipal lot in Great Neck.

Lucky I had my cordless Ryobi sawzall with a hacksaw blade

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I'm glad your with someone but you clearly have not read or at least comprehended the incident. Nothing is black and white, that is why we humans use judgment. He had every right to move his car into his garage, no if ands or buts about it....the Sheriff ruled on that.

Explain the tire damage the boot did.

It was not the right thing to do, what he did is known as poor judgment. There are lots of shady and nasty things I can do that are legal, that doesn't mean I should do it because I can.

Thats what small claims court is for.

It's good news for shady companies that there are plenty of people like you willing to take whatever they wish to give you.

-(Another APS officer) Hey man, I have this ticket for you, I've put down that you are refusing to pay, I just need your signature. I read it, above my signature it says, " Acceptance for services."
-Sorry man, I not going to sign it, you haven't offered me a service

Good one


I don't know I'm kinda on his side. Even though he did complicate the situation by moving his car.

Like he said, he's parked in the same spot for over 3 months, his car is known and he's always had his permit before. One day he just happened to not display it, but it was still valid and up to date.

This is almost like coming home one day and finding out that someone else is living in your house because "We didn't know you lived here."

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"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

Didn't we have a member who griped that he got a ticket because his car was parked in the wrong direction? I think his excuse was that he has been doing it for eons.

To whom? The company may not be sending the same person there every day.

And he was supposed to display his permit at all times. He knew the rules and broke it. Now he is upset that he gets into problems.

How so?

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I don't remember reading that one. I think it was more that he parked for an appointment and then decided to go to lunch and found a boot when he came back out.

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"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

IIRC, he went in to a strip mall, found the store was closed and went to the IHOP somewhere else, came back and found his car booted because it was for patrons only. Something which he wasn't once he left the strip mall.

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He did not break the rules. He forgot to display a permit that he already had. If I leave my license or proof of insurance at home I get a ticket till I go to court and prove I had it at the time of the infraction. This was out of line IMO

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True, happened to me before. I had the wrong insurance card in my glovebox, went to court, showed them the paper, he called them to confirm its status and the case was dismissed.

He forgot to display a permit he had which is an infraction of the rules.

But that is what the law allows you to do. However, the rules of the company might not be so lenient. Nothing says that they must give you a break.

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Yep, I don't have an issue with him moving the vehicle to his own garage.

The real question occurs if the boot company doesn't blink. Let's say they just leave the boot on the vehicle indefinitely. Sooner or later, he needs to use that vehicle or sell it. Both are impossible with the boot in place.

Either he cuts the boot off the vehicle (not legal) or he must then call the boot company and pay the company to remove the boot.

They could have played him just as easily as he played them.

Could he sell it with full disclosure?

So the buyer gets it and says to the boot company, "I bought this car and if you don't get your boot of it I'm going to charge you for depriving me of my motor vehicle."

Warning: I'm not a LAWYER!

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I'm sure he could.........but, the value of the vehicle would be severely reduced if the buyer cannot take it for a test drive prior to purchasing it.

So, it makes the scenario unlikely.

But, if it did occur, the resulting fallout would be quite interesting because the boot company doesn't have recourse to the new buyer, AFAIK.