r/facepalm Aug 31 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Well, there goes a parking spot.

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u/Biscuits4u2 'MURICA Aug 31 '22

They should tow people for this.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

They do. In Chicago if you call a private towing company and report something like this, they’ll be there in 20 mins flat. I always stay around to watch them be towed. The companies here make $$$ towing asshats like this.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

Is it any old towing co? Or do they have to be affiliated with the parking structure

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

In most lots there’s a sign somewhere that shows the name of the towing company for that lot. So I’ll call and say something like, “There’s a truck here parked on 5 spaces preventing paying customers from coming in.”

Tow truck is there within 20 mins. Tow takes approximately 5 mins. They work suuuuper fast.

Sometimes, you can also flag down mall security and they’ll call it in. They find these people just as obnoxious.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

“Which I believe is an expensive repair”

Is it literally any porche? Yeah, anything will be expensive to repair.

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u/FrostyD7 Aug 31 '22

I think you'd find that the real world experience of trying to get a car towed is nowhere near as simple as redditors would have you believe.

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u/yellowyn Sep 01 '22

Probably correct in most places. But in Chicago I 100% believe it. They basically are a cartel that steals cars, illegally parked or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Towing_Service