re: RiversideTowing= TPOS

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so you and the rest of the 1% live your pampered sheltered lives, never knowing what it's like to live in the shadows, illegal parkers exploited and used, living every day in fear that they will be discovered and sent back to driving svhool.

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I have no idea what you are talking about. I grew up dirt poor. I bought my first car for $2,500.00 with money I earned working on my great uncle's farm picking vegetables and working in Perique tobacco. I am not in the "1%," not even close.

The reason I do not live in fear I have been towed is I am willing to walk a few extra feet or even blocks to make sure I am parked legally.

Being towed sucks. I get it.

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Riverside once moved my legally parked car to get to an illegally parked car. I did not appreciate that.

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That is something I can agree is not cool. They could have let that illegally parked car go until you moved the car yourself.

Tell me what you thought of my post. I'm not against towing, as I said. I am against them and what they do

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IIRC, the state sets the max towing fees at like $115-125. You pay less than that at LSU (IIRC somewhere around $60 for your basic tow). Riverside fees for being towed for less than a day are typically between $200 and $300. How does that work?

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I do not know enough about the fees set for tows but assuming $125 is the max I believe the City of New Orleans is in violation as well. A friend of mine was towed for blocking a sidewalk and I remember her tow was about $230 (although that may have included the blocking sidewalk fine). Is Riverside allowed to collect fines on behalf of the City or it's customers?

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They have been caught CONSISTENTLY overcharging by LSP, towing cars that were properly parked, moving cars from good spots to bad ones, and then starting the video of the tow, staging cars, etc. This has been happening since I started LSU in 2002, and probably long before that. The fact is that they consistently break the law and get away with it. They are more than likely paying a bunch of people in the government off, or are directly related to someone important. There are way too many legitimate towing companies that do none of these illegal things to continue allowing Riverside to conduct business. What they do is illegal, and they do not get penalized for it.

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I have no knowledge of this practice. If true, it makes me wonder how they are still in business. The reason they are still in business is because local business (including LSU apparently?) give them contracts to tow vehicles. The only way you will put them out of business is if they stop getting contracts. If I had to guess I would think that's why they are so aggressive. They want to keep those contracts.

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frick, I went and took my truck back twice when they were staging cars at the Circle K on Brightside

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I have no problem with them "Stalking" the parking lots they are contracted to "protect" from illegal parkers. It's pretty simple IMO. Do not park illegally.

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Eta: I was also towed once out of Southgate Towers parking lot. Problem was that I lived there, and had a sticker. It took forever for them to give my truck back, and I had to get a ride to the place

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Mistakes happen. Did you have to pay to get your truck? If so, I have a problem. If not, it sucks but mistakes happen (not that it makes it okay).

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Eta #2: I got towed from ECA once, and didn't have a problem with it at all. Sure I was unhappy, but I knew that I parked illegally, so I had no basis to be mad at anyone but myself. I walked up, paid, and got my truck back. Easy peasey

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I agree you were parked illegally and I have no problem with you being towed.

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jesus christ, go to bed already

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I get it dude. The sign was not clearly marked and you still have sand in your vagina for having to pay $230 to get your Geo Metro back.

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Its clear to me that you're missing the point of this thread. Riverside has every right to tow cars that are parked illegally. But how can a company take only cash and not give change to give you your car back?

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I heard more bitching about being towed than being required to pay the exact amount in cash. There are no laws requiring a business to accept checks. I certainly would not accept checks in their business. I do not blame them for not taking credit cards either - no worries about charge backs.

The not giving change thing - yea that's weird.

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I get it dude. The sign was not clearly marked and you still have sand in your vagina for having to pay $230 to get your Geo Metro back.

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There is NOTHING cooler than spending your entire Sunday white knighting online for a company- a towing company- you have no familiarity with. Congratulations on a well spent day of your adult life.

For the record, I have never been towed by them.

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You sure it's not cooler to point out grammatical errors online?

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I didn't point out your embarrassing fail, someone else did. I just laughed at it.

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it's ok because people park in his driveway in New Orleans

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My whole point is that most people bitching about being towed parked illegally. It really is that simple.