Posted on 02/06/2021 11:20:05 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
He had previously tried to dislodge the metal clamp by kicking it ineffectually with his trainer-shod foot.
An astonished bystander filmed the man as he put his car into drive and then reverse in an attempt to break free from the clamp.
The immobiliser remained stubbornly on the wheel and caused significant damage to the front fender as well as burning much of the rubber from his tire.
'Realising that he wasn’t doing much, he got back in the car and started to move it around. After getting stuck while reversing, he managed to drive forwards a bit faster, back up, and loosen the boot from the tire.
The car suffered significant damage as the clamp tore its way through the plastic front fender
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Exactly!
A good beater is one you can drive until it actually disintegrates into a pile of rust
What makes you think you have to be parked illegally to be booted?
Booting has become a scam in my local city. It’s a big money maker for the city, so they turn a blind eye to the booting of legally parked vehicles.
One of the reasons I no longer go downtown.
A guy I worked with lived on a boat, and in snow season, he had to run bubblers around the hull, so as not to be crushed by the ice.
he must have been heading back to Florida
Been living aboard and cruising for thirty years now. Sailed up to Alaska from Hawaii a few years ago. Been spending winters in Petersburg, cruising during Summer. Love it here.
Water temp here is around 40f year round. No sea ice.
Wow-—you got the cops to agree to address you as “Chuckster”?
Er...not exactly. It was more like "MISTER Chuckster" d;^)
That was an episode that featured a couple of buildings in NYC that were pretty famous before “some people did something”. There a college students who weren’t alive when the ‘something’ was done.
That was almost my first car. I heard that a few months after I sold it it cracked in half sitting in the driveway.
I’ve owned a bunch of cars. We’ve only sold one for more than $1000. That one was barely worth $1000 and got wrecked. The dad of the kid who hit it gave me $4,000.
I always had one of those behind my truck’s bench seat.
I wonder what makes the paper think it was his car?
I wonder what makes the paper think it was his car?
Are you suggesting a finance company might be holding the title?
OH MY!
Had it been stolen, they would simply tow it to the pound.
Yes, and that episode (The City of New York vs Homer Simpson) was removed from syndication because it was too traumatizing.
It may be back by now, I don't know.
“Mountain Dew or clam juice’’.
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