What was the worst experience you've ever had with having your car towed?
456215
The one and only time I ever had my car towed was because an old drunk pulled out from a liquor store parking lot in front of me.(I don't drink and was only driving past)When I hit him (no time to brake)the front of my car crumpled like an accordion.\nHe had a big old Lincoln and I had a sleek little Camaro.The Lincoln won,he drove home.Jerk.\nI'd say that counts as a pretty bad experience.
432067
What you need to do is file a police report and report the car as stolen.  Once that's done you'll get your car back.  You don't need anything other then the title to have a tow company tow the car.  Once they have proof of the title showing you as sole owner (if your ex is on the title you have NO right to take the car or report it as stolen) they can tow it and ship it for you.  If you don't want a lien to be placed by the tow company you MUST PAY UPFRONT ALL COSTS, otherwise they have the legal right to a lien until paid regardless of if you didn't sign allowing a lien.  (All states allow tow companies to claim liens until paid)
838497
In California, the police must mail the registered owner a notice of storage, to the registered owner's address held by the DMV, as soon as practicle, and no more than 24 - 48 hours after the tow is completed.  This notice will include storage location information, the legal authority to tow the vehicle and contact information for whoever is storing the vehicle.\n\nIf the tow is completed by a private party (such as it was towed out of a store parking lot because you left it there to long) you will need to get ahold of the business requesting the tow and deal with them.\n\nIf your tow was completed by the police, they should give you the information needed to recover your vehicle.  If you have problems with the desk clerk or officer, demand to talk to a supervisor.  You may get resolution through a supervisor when you can't otherwise.
817634
The slope belongs to whoever the ticketing officer says it belongs to.  I'm not trying to be funny, it's just the way it is.  If it got towed it must have been there quite a while or actually been blocking the driveway enough to cause someone to complain.\n\nYou can take pictures and fight, but without proof (you'd have had to take pictures BEFORE the car got towed) you might not have any chance.  If you do fight it in court, just showing up might enable you to negotiate to onl pay half of the fines, though.\n\nGood luck!
948572
50-75 dollars to park, what a f'in rip off...
974509
You could try, but it will probably just cost you more money in court costs in the end anyway, from experience I have learned that you could have all the evidence in your favor, and the judge will still side with the police, at least your car was not damaged and was in piece when you gt it back. I had mine towed unlawfully recently, and they really fucked it up!!!! Good luck!!!! I hope you don't live in Illinois, if so don't EVEN bother trying to fight it, no contest!!!!
283141
Mike Amman.  He was driving my car to the unit one morning and fell asleep.  My little car got flattened by a big truck.\n\nI remember a training weekend when his AAV brokedown.  I decided to tow him.  My driver kept jerking the throttle and the tow cables broke.  32 tons of tank with 3 Marines in it went nose first into a revine.  About 30 ft down the nose planted 3 feet into the ground.  It took 5 AAV's to pull it back up.  Everyone was OK.  Mike said it was the best ride he has ever been on.  From that point on people were threatned with getting towed by me if they broke down.  He will always live on in my memories.
1075406
i told u my worst moment, but i gotta joke:\n\nOne nite a blonde is driving on a road. She keeps on swerving back and forth. A police officer sees her. he puts his sirens on and she pulls over. the police officer walks up to her window and asks her y she was swerving. she says kindly, but frusturated that she was trying not to hit the trees in the middle of the road. the police officer replies, "those arent trees, that your air freshener"
748461
In my neck of the woods, private tows are documented by the tow company however they see fit.  If the tow is not a repo and is not a police tow, it is likely a tow at the direction of a private property owner.  If that's the case, the tow companies around here keep basic records.  They do have an internal dispatch log but I don't believe they have to provide you a copy.  If you feel you have been wronged, call a lawyer, get a court order and you will get the logs.
210953
Have had lots of funny moments but the one that pops up every now and then is when I got my friends son to ring a hooker agency and ordered one for my exhusband. Well what a hoot! My friend and I parked the car up the road and waited in anticipation. Next this car rocks up, a tall, slender, not so bad looking woman climbs out of the car and heads for the door of the house. She knocks on the door and we could see my ex come out and start talking to her. You should have seen us, we were speechless! We couldn't stop laughing. So much so that I cracked a fart! Anyway, after she had a quick chat with my ex, her driver got out of the car, went to the door and we could see a heated argument brewing. They soon left in a hurry, leaving us up the road cackling away. We have also sent him pizzas this way.  We found out down the track that he was very pissed off about the hooker but more dissapointed because he didn't have any money to buy the pizzas!
575526
Yes! But I didn't walk, I drove off and left her azz!\n\nShe kept farting in my car and left a brown streak on my seat! So, I saw it as we were getting on and went off! I told her, I was going to clean out my car and went some place else with my friends. Leaving her stranded!
784146
Worst situation: I accidentally crashed my brand-new car at the car dealership. Ouch.
1018102
I'm not married but two of my good buddies are - wait til ya hear this....\n\nOne had just flew home after spending Christmas with his folks and his car wouldn't start in the parking lot. He called a tow truck and as it arrived a lady came over and said her car wouldn't start so the tow truck driver told them both to wait in his cab to stay warm while he started his car, and then he'd do hers. The two stranded people were married years later.\n\nAnd another buddy had a few one night and decided to call up the old girlfriend to try and get her back. He dialed a wrong # and now he and the wrong # have three kids.
304599
past experience would say that, I woke up in the morning and went out to the garage just tinkering around.  Then all of a sudden I heard back up signals I went to the garage door opened it and behold there was a flatbed towing truck!!  On top of it was a 1937 dodge business coupe (a wreck!) as far as my wife was concerned one of the best memories I will ever have!! I had driving by this car in that field for 3 years and she took it upon herself without me knowing purchased it. So if  you really do listen to this person you will really know what to do! PS that was eight years ago it is on the road and we have completed 4 more good luck!!
765645
I went out to dinner with a guy who got extremely drunk.  He got up and started singing "Some Enchanted Evening" in the middle of the restaurant,  and was so screwed up he fell on top of the table next to us.  I was stupid enough to drive him home (even after that stunt), and he took all his clothes off in the car and threw them out the window.  \n(I swear to G*d I am *not* making this up).  When I got him to his house I (literally) kicked his a*s out of my car and left him on his front lawn naked as a jaybird.  Needless to say that was our first and last date!
679103
Those bastards.  It doesn't surprise me how they work.\nI guess you have 2 basic choices:\n1. Pay a steep fine and towing, storage & administrative costs to get your boat back and try to forget the incident, or\n2.  Pay big bucks and hire a lawyer and hope he can fight for you and maybe win only on principal.\n\nIn any event you have already lost and will continue to loose.\n(only your lawery will win $)\n\nI recommend # 1 above.
234117
It was raining one evening and my wife and I went to the drug-store. I pulled up front, into a handicap parking space to let my wife out. I was then gonna back up into the space directly behind me until she came out. When I looked in my mirror a cop was blocking me in. He walked up and sid, "you're not supposed to park here...I said,"I wasn't parked, I just let my wife out because of the rain. I showed him that it was in reverse, and it was still running. He said, he had been there for 20 minutes and so had I. I said that it was impossible because I had just gotten off work ten minutes before..I still had a computer chit to verify that. I tried to show it to him, and he slapped my hand and told me to shut-up. he said that no matter what I said I was going to get a ticket... so when I got my license, insurance and registration out I also handed him a pen and said hurry up because we are both keeping a handicapped person from parking here now. His face got really red and I could tell he wanted to say something. Then my wife came out of the store in her sheriff's office uniform (she is a 911 operator). After seeing this he said why didn't you tell me you were the police.I said, If you've been here 20 minutes then you would have seen here get out, so who's really being dishonest here. He handed me my paperwork (no ticket) and walked back to his car without saying another word.