Man avoids parking ticket by refusing to get out of car
This has got to be karmically bad, but you still have to admire the guy. Mr. Shah, a personal trainer living in West London, had illegally parked his E39 5-Series due to a misinterpretation of the parking signs near his home. The reason for the infraction was no matter to tow truck operators, who started winching the BMW up on a flatbed in order to cart the offending vehicle off to the pound. Thinking fast, Shah hopped on the truck and snuck into his vehicle's back seat, pretending to have been sleeping in the car the whole time. Rather than pay the £250 fine, Shah refused to leave the car, and instead listened to music and ordered a sandwich from a local cafe. After a couple of hours, the standoff eventually stymied both the owner of the tow company and the police, ultimately ending in the release of the vehicle. Shah may have dodged a bullet this time, even though he's on the hook for a £60 parking ticket, but the fickle finger of fate may yet to deal his payback. [Source: Daily Mail, Photo by Scuddr | CC 2.0]
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Torrent 2:17PM (9/23/2008)
lmao. way to go.
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Torrent 7:13PM (9/24/2008)
ZOMG Brad. Stop posting this spam.
Michael 3:01PM (9/23/2008)
I kinda did this once. Columbus has a lot of predatory towing companies.
I was parked in a apartment complex that I did not have a pass to. I came out and the tow truck was backing up to my jeep. I ran over hopped in the drivers seat.
The tow truck drive came over and knocked on my window. I just shouted "I got all day" and reclined my seat.
He took off after about 20 minutes.
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Rocketboy 8:43AM (9/24/2008)
Umm, did nobody read this before they thumb'd up the above post:
"I was parked in a apartment complex that I did not have a pass to."
Ya, way to stick it to the people who actually are suppose to park there, err, I mean, the tow truck guy who was going to tow your illegally parked car.
Rocketboy 4:12PM (9/24/2008)
Boo hoo, I got low ranked again. The PRIVATE parking lot where I work has a lot of people who are just running to a nearby store 'just for a few minutes'. So maybe I'm a bit touchy about people who illegally park on PRIVATE property. Then again, I think you'd be ticked if I parked on your front lawn as well. Humm, wait, as I was low ranked, I guess that everyone who thumbed-down me wouldn't mind one single bit.
Ward 3:34PM (9/23/2008)
This man is my hero.
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DJFriar 4:06PM (9/23/2008)
he didn't avoid a parking ticket, he avoided a tow according to the article.
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k.w.a 5:10PM (9/23/2008)
gotta love BMW drivers... true assholes! lol The thought of a guy in a BMW stubbornly sleeping in his car to avoid a towing while the honda and toyota drivers feverishly find an atm and a cab to take them to the impound lot is just hilarious to me!
Money aside, the next most irritating thing when getting your car towed is seeing the tow truck driver covered in grease and driving your car back to you! ugh!
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E92Owner 6:01PM (9/23/2008)
Don't be made, it's obvious that BMW drivers are smarter than you lowly plebeians....no way I would own a honda or a toyota much less pretend to sleep in one, I'd let them tow it and do me a favor.
Big Rocket 8:09PM (9/23/2008)
@E92Owner: Please. A 3-series was just the entry-level model until the 1-series came along. A new 3-series is only about $40K, hardly that impressive nowadays. And a used one that's just a year old can be had for around $25K per Yahoo Autos. With all that, you can drop your act about having arrived in the world in your shiny BMW; otherwise, you are just reinforcing the stereotype about BMW drivers being jerks.
Torrent 8:19PM (9/23/2008)
Like you said. BMW drivers are true assholes. The guy above me, for example. That is probably the only stereotype that is true.
If it were my money, I'd buy a Mazda3 over a BMW. If it were someone else's money, I'd still take the Mazda3.
Spiel 1:54PM (9/24/2008)
Love it! Love the comment about the 3 Series being the entry level up until the 1 Series came along :-) I've been saying that for so long.
I've owned two $35-$40K cars (new) back to back, and neither time did I even once give BMW a thought. Why? Because the stereotype is true, and I'd hate to be labeled as such. Not to mention, BMW makes good cars, but they're not the best, nor is that the only reason to buy a car.
London Traveler 2:11PM (9/24/2008)
Hate to burst your bubble here, but in the U.K., the BMW is about as respectable a car as the Kia is here. They are a dime a dozen, any idiot can own one. They have a plethora of other car companies you've never even heard of that cost far more than the BMW (and are often better built).
They also have their own brand of asshole drivers there, they don't need to borrow any of ours.
Jon 7:40PM (9/23/2008)
Kudos to this guy. Anything to make a code-enforcing tow truck driver's life a little more miserable is okay by me.
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Orlando 9:55PM (9/23/2008)
It sucks for the tow driver, if people are going to be assholes at least throw the tower SOME cash. Most guys work off commission and have to pay for fuel out of their own pocket. At least make it worth their while, I mean, you are getting out of a tow bill.
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Rocketboy 8:45AM (9/24/2008)
"due to a misinterpretation of the parking signs near his home"
So, he lives there, but he has no idea on how to read the signs in his own freakin neighborhood? I think it's a lot less to do with a "misinterpretation", and a lot more to do with a 'screw you' attitude.
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Darrin 10:05AM (9/25/2008)
All you guys have some cars and intelligent issues...So what does it matter what kind of Vehicle you drive?...It's the person that makes the car not the car that makes a person..If driving a certain vehicle makes you feel like you've "arrived"..Then you have a serious disorder..Feel good about whom you are ..not what you drive.
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Sonny 2:29PM (9/24/2008)
Haha. Indian guys like Shah are true Heroes. I'm Indian, 26 yrs old and I drive a Mercedes GL-450 Truck and a Mercedes S500.. I'm not an a**hole.. lol.
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cooper 4:06PM (9/24/2008)
want to bet???
FallenCow 7:14PM (9/24/2008)
I see what you did there ...Douchebag.