OT: I got towed in front of my house by the HOA today

[ryan roopnarine]

life begins at 24, don't buckle under to the forces of age fascism

give it a month, and if you can't get your money back in a non-extra-judicial way, pop homeboy's license plate off the next time he parks somewhere "public" like the street (i'm assuming he's running a florida plate with only one on the rear), call the towing company from a payphone, and report an abandoned vehicle. one month's time is usually enough for these types of fascists to have towed a bunch of vehicles, so he wouldn't have any reason to suspect you, per se.....

[Dave M]

life begins at 24, don't buckle under to the forces of age fascism

give it a month, and if you can't get your money back in a non-extra-judicial way, pop homeboy's license plate off the next time he parks somewhere "public" like the street (i'm assuming he's running a florida plate with only one on the rear), call the towing company from a payphone, and report an abandoned vehicle. one month's time is usually enough for these types of fascists to have towed a bunch of vehicles, so he wouldn't have any reason to suspect you, per se.....

Not a bad idea Ryan.....

Dan, sorry to say it, but reading this thing makes me laugh. Nothing personal of course, but I guess that stuff I done seen on the picture box really does come true?! If I parked my work truck in your neighbourhood for 10 minutes, I'm pretty sure a team of 'ghost busters' specializing in toxic spill cleanup would 'remove it'.

If I got no love from your "HOE" I wouldn't be opposed to something akin to Ryan's scheme. Good luck wid it.

Dave

[DanDombrowski]

Ha! I know what you mean.

The oil slick in my driveway is the worst one by far. Its a combination of the Camry leaking oil for months, my sister getting me the wrong filter for her car when she changed the oil (and all the oil poured pas the seal), and me once forgetting the drain plug when changing the oil in the camry. So....I tried to pressure clean it.

Let me tell you this- pressure cleaning concrete that has oil stains works.

Pressure cleaning oil stains on ASPHALT digs a hole. A big one. So now I have a huge hole in my driveway thats black. It looks like ****. I thought for sure they were going to give me a fine, but didn't. Now they're repaving, which is the cause for this fiasco in the first place.

I'm renting, so I don't get to go to the HOA meetings. My neighbor does. My neighbor that I've replaced the battery on her car, inspected a car she was going to buy, and built a computer for out of spare parts. My neighbor loves me. She has offered to give him hell for me. In fact, all the neighbors in my cluster were outraged over it.

Im definitely going to file a complaint, write letters, yada yada. Assuming they go nowhere, I like the idea of the abandoned car, but he never parks anywhere but his one spot. I think I might just make a few "complaints" of my own about him that may or may not be substantiated- loud parties at night, doesn't pick up after his dog, swears at children, speeds through the neighbor hood, those type of things. If anyone else on the HOA board sees them, well, I'm hoping that will take his little power trip away. Mabye, mabye not.

My other idea was to get one of those BIG orange decals that they put on abandoned cars as a warning (huh, a warning, what an idea) right before one of the HOA meetings, so he doesn't have time to take it off, and everyone sees that he's parked somewhere he doesn't belong.

I dunno, the whole thing just sucks. At this point, I feel rather lucky I got out with only a bill for $130 and not a damaged tranny or a busted qtr panel from the trucking company. I'll let you know how it goes.