flavio
Banned
I've just had a couple crazy days...
A couple weeks ago I got pulled over for expired registration on my car. It had just expired by a week. I hadn't been paying attention to it and would have let it go awhile longer if the officer hadn't brought it to my attention.
The officer was nice and gave me a "fixit" ticket which he specifically told me effectively extended my registration until my court date of Dec. 7th. I just to get it renewed before the 7th and he said the judge would probably waive the fine.
So two days ago my car gets towed off the street in front of my house. Apparently whoever had it towed had no idea about the fixit ticket.
So I go to the DMV and get new registration, go down to the courthouse and pay $125 for the vehicle release, and today pay $185 for towing/impound/storage fees.
My car comes out and I see that my driver's side rear window is smashed out. I say "what the hell happened to my window" and the guy says he doesn't know I'll have to talk to the office.
(This looks exactly like my car)
I get in to move my car to a decent parking spot and immediately see that the whole thing has been gone through. The glove compartment is open and everything in it has been thrown on the floor, stuff from the hatch/trunk has been thrown into the backseat, my backpack is missing. In all it looks like $250-$300 worth of stuff is stolen.
So I go into the office and tell them about it. A manager comes out to talk to me and tries to tell me maybe it was broken into before it got towed. He keeps looking at this piece of paper he's holding so I ask "what do you got there?". He says "It's just the police report". So I demand to see it.
The police report in great detail describes every last scratch on my car but makes no mention of a smashed window. The kicker is it clearly states that a green and black backpack was visible in the passenger seat.
Now it's obvious this breakin happened after the car got towed at the tow yard. It's 99.9% chance it was an employee too. You should see this place it's freakin' fortress. 15ft high fences with razor wire, Rottweilers, cars are stored indoors in big warehouse.
The manager offers to fix my window and sends me to a place a couple blocks away. He tells me he'll call the officer that had it towed and to give him a call tomorrow. The place that fixes my window is obviously connected somehow to the tow yard and gives me a little problem about even getting the paperwork that my window was fixed.
The manager calls me a little later and asks what the value of the items stolen is. I tell him that my stuff is all over the place and I am not sure what all is missing yet. He says "Well depending on the amount we could take care of this quickly or it could be a long drawn out process". It really sounded like he's pressuring me to claim a small amount instead of an accurate amount.
I called the police and told them what happened. They told me "Somebody will call you within 48hrs to take a report over the phone for insurance purposes". I asked them if they were going to investigate at all and they said no. "There's no proof some one at A&B towing did this. It happens all the time". I said "How could it happen all the time if someone at A&B wasn't doing it? The place is a goddamn fortress." All she could say again was that someone would call me.
All I can think to do right now is claim the exact amount I lost and call my insurance company tomorrow to see what they can do.
A couple weeks ago I got pulled over for expired registration on my car. It had just expired by a week. I hadn't been paying attention to it and would have let it go awhile longer if the officer hadn't brought it to my attention.
The officer was nice and gave me a "fixit" ticket which he specifically told me effectively extended my registration until my court date of Dec. 7th. I just to get it renewed before the 7th and he said the judge would probably waive the fine.
So two days ago my car gets towed off the street in front of my house. Apparently whoever had it towed had no idea about the fixit ticket.
So I go to the DMV and get new registration, go down to the courthouse and pay $125 for the vehicle release, and today pay $185 for towing/impound/storage fees.
My car comes out and I see that my driver's side rear window is smashed out. I say "what the hell happened to my window" and the guy says he doesn't know I'll have to talk to the office.
(This looks exactly like my car)
I get in to move my car to a decent parking spot and immediately see that the whole thing has been gone through. The glove compartment is open and everything in it has been thrown on the floor, stuff from the hatch/trunk has been thrown into the backseat, my backpack is missing. In all it looks like $250-$300 worth of stuff is stolen.
So I go into the office and tell them about it. A manager comes out to talk to me and tries to tell me maybe it was broken into before it got towed. He keeps looking at this piece of paper he's holding so I ask "what do you got there?". He says "It's just the police report". So I demand to see it.
The police report in great detail describes every last scratch on my car but makes no mention of a smashed window. The kicker is it clearly states that a green and black backpack was visible in the passenger seat.
Now it's obvious this breakin happened after the car got towed at the tow yard. It's 99.9% chance it was an employee too. You should see this place it's freakin' fortress. 15ft high fences with razor wire, Rottweilers, cars are stored indoors in big warehouse.
The manager offers to fix my window and sends me to a place a couple blocks away. He tells me he'll call the officer that had it towed and to give him a call tomorrow. The place that fixes my window is obviously connected somehow to the tow yard and gives me a little problem about even getting the paperwork that my window was fixed.
The manager calls me a little later and asks what the value of the items stolen is. I tell him that my stuff is all over the place and I am not sure what all is missing yet. He says "Well depending on the amount we could take care of this quickly or it could be a long drawn out process". It really sounded like he's pressuring me to claim a small amount instead of an accurate amount.
I called the police and told them what happened. They told me "Somebody will call you within 48hrs to take a report over the phone for insurance purposes". I asked them if they were going to investigate at all and they said no. "There's no proof some one at A&B towing did this. It happens all the time". I said "How could it happen all the time if someone at A&B wasn't doing it? The place is a goddamn fortress." All she could say again was that someone would call me.
All I can think to do right now is claim the exact amount I lost and call my insurance company tomorrow to see what they can do.
