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    Car Towed After Contractor Lifts Car, Paints Stripes

    Police Fall For Fake "No Parking" Signs, Write 200 Real Tickets
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    05/29/09

    In reply to Car Towed After Contractor Lifts Car, Paints Stripes
    No wonder they drive on the left, those right-hand lanes are plumb tight!
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    Image of mzs mzs
    05/29/09

    In reply to Car Towed After Contractor Lifts Car, Paints Stripes
    At least she had her towel with her:



    Almost three months to get her car back sounds about right for a large-ish council sadly.

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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    05/29/09

    @mzs: The plans for re-painting that parking space were clearly on display.. in a locked file cabinet in an unlit basement room (and the stairs had gone), behind a sign reading Beware Of The Leopard
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    05/29/09

    In reply to Car Towed After Contractor Lifts Car, Paints Stripes
    They actually lifted the car up to paint the stripes, and then put the car back down?


    And who says the British have no sense of humor?

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    Image of MaxSmart32 MaxSmart32
    05/29/09

    In reply to Car Towed After Contractor Lifts Car, Paints Stripes
    Actually looks like a Golf III to me...
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    05/29/09

    @MaxSmart32: Allow me to borrow from the latest issue of the always-entertaining SniffPetrol to make a comment to your point:


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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    05/29/09

    In reply to Car Towed After Contractor Lifts Car, Paints Stripes
    Wait a sec..


    They have tow truck CRANES..


    and here i though tilt'n'loads were cool..


    One of those would be awesome.

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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    05/29/09

    In reply to Car Towed After Contractor Lifts Car, Paints Stripes
    Hey, at least they used the Awesome Towing Machine AND they put the car back when they were done. Here in the States, the bureaucratic hassles would likely be less, but the car would have been flatbedded from its spot, tearing off your air dam and scraping flat spots onto your tires in the process. Six of one, half-dozen of another.
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    Image of Shadowguitar Shadowguitar
    05/29/09

    In reply to Car Towed After Contractor Lifts Car, Paints Stripes
    She takes the battery out every time she leaves the car? Wow. That's kind of obsessive.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    05/29/09

    @Shadowguitar: No, it's simply indicative of how little she needs the car and how dodgy VW electrical systems are.
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    05/29/09

    In reply to Car Towed After Contractor Lifts Car, Paints Stripes
    Holy sh*t! And I thought the parking enforcement here were a-holes.
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    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    05/29/09

    @Jo Schmo, *Now with 110% more garlic!: They are... but they aspire to be as big of assholes as these guys.
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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    05/29/09

    In reply to Car Towed After Contractor Lifts Car, Paints Stripes
    WTF kind of crazy laws do they have over there!!!!
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    Image of mrton mrton
    05/29/09

    In reply to Car Towed After Contractor Lifts Car, Paints Stripes
    Damn those British are complicated
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    05/29/09

    @mrton: I was going to use the phrase "idiotic," but yours is nicer.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    05/28/09

    In reply to Police Fall For Fake "No Parking" Signs, Write 200 Real Tickets
    When I was in high school, a local supermarket had a "No Parking" that was simply on a pole on a heavy base. I probably liberated that thing 5 times, and it always found its way home.


    Then, late one summer night, I placed it in front of this guy's car, which was parked in front of his parents' house, in a subdivision.


    Yep. He got a ticket. Legend ensued.


    The next time I took that sign, it was while visiting from college, and it went with me. It's probably still in McDavid Hall at Mizzou, painted in fluorescent colors. But that's another story.

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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    05/28/09

    In reply to Police Fall For Fake "No Parking" Signs, Write 200 Real Tickets
    What I really want to know is who put all these fake Stop-Signs up around my neighbourhood.
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    05/28/09

    In reply to Police Fall For Fake "No Parking" Signs, Write 200 Real Tickets
    Oh sure, everyone falls for this guy's fake "No Parking" signs but I don't get a single bite with my "Free Candy" sign painted on my tradesman van...
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    05/28/09

    @Cognitive Friction: Did it look like this?


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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    05/28/09

    In reply to Police Fall For Fake "No Parking" Signs, Write 200 Real Tickets
    Fake parking signs? YOU CAN'T DECEIVE ME, ASSHOLE, I KNOW.
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    05/28/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: YOU FUCK I KNOW YOU BOUGHT THOSE FUCKING SIGNS OFF THE INTERNET, YOU CAN'T FUCKING TAKE ME FOR A FOOL, YOU VESTIGAL IDIOT!


    /angryguy


    Is that accurate?

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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    05/28/09

    @Plecostomus will never win COTD... but has a: Unfamiliar with today's GALVENIZING meme?
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    Image of Steeb2er Steeb2er
    05/28/09

    In reply to Police Fall For Fake "No Parking" Signs, Write 200 Real Tickets
    I want to give him benefit of the doubt, and assume there was a good reason to install the signs. Like, maybe the street parking blocked the restaurant parking or exits. Or street parking caused accidents because people couldn't see around the parked cars.


    Looking at the restaurants website doesn't make me sympathetic. Coupon "coming soon"? Two events buttons, both linking to a blank calendar? He's not firing on all cylinders ...

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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    05/28/09

    @Steeb2er: As far as I know, Mr. Bronson isn't affiliated with The Tarpon Turtle.
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