I live in a small town in northern Canada. I live in an apartment. A few weeks ago I complained because our parking lot was full and only a couple people here have cars. We have abandoned cars and a boat and trailers. They got a couple things moved but the abandoned car is still here. They thought if it is uninsured and not running they could tow it. No, town laws say they cannot tow without the owners permission. She's been gone 8 months but the car is still here.
I gave Factor a shot after you last promoted them. It sounds like a cool idea, but its pretty poorly executed. The meals are stupidly expensive, and they've very small. I had trouble not eating something else in addition to the factor meal. I wouldn't recommend Factor, you'd be better off getting some frozen dinners or something.
These warrents aren't signed by judges. They are signed by city/county 'Magistrates' who are not elected; they are appointed by city/county officials. Magistrates are city lawyers who are assigned paperwork cases considered too inconsequential for the notice of a sitting judge. Joe blow lawyer getting a sinecure from his cousin on the city/county council as a 'Magistrate' is one of the cushiest jobs a lawyer can get.
1st off!! U pay for ur own place ur own house ur own land IF UR AN OWNER!! IF NOT U PAY A FN GD FORTUNE IN RENT TAXES U NAME IT!!! THE GD POS GOV HAS IT'S HANDS IN ALLLL UR GD POCKETS!!! U SHOULDNT HAVE TO PAY FOR UR LAND FOR THE REST OF UR FN LIFE WHEN URRRR THE ONE WHO FN BUYS IT WHEN UR THE ONE WHO FN WORKS UR ASS OFF ON UR LAND UR HOME!!! U WORKUR GD ASS OFF AND THEY CHARGE U TONS OF TAXES EVEN ON FN FOOD!!! AND IF U DONT PAY IT THEY TAKE THE FN LAND HOME U FN BOUGHT U IMPROVED U WORKED UR ASS OFF ON! IT'S FN WRONG BY GOD!!! AND NOWWW SOME POS WANTS TO TELL U WTF U MUSTTTT DO WITH UR OWN GD VEHICLE UUUU FN HAD TO PAY FOR!!!! AND HEY!!!! COME DN ON THE FN TAXES COME DN ON THE GDMF TAGS AND MAYBE JUAT MAYBE FOLKS LIKE HER AND ME CAN AFFORD TO FN GET THEM!!! TAGS OR STICKERS HERE R LIKE 185! I NEVER HAVE THAT!!! SO IT DONT GET DONE!!! I CANT AFFORD TO PAY HIGH AND RISING RENT KEEP THE POWER ON HAVE WATER.....HELL GDIT I CANT EVEN FN AFFORD FN FOOD!!!! BUT IM SUPPOSED TO FN PAY WHEEL TAXES TAGS INS STICKERS ALL THIS HIGH PRICED SHIT THAT ITHE OLDER I THE DISABLED I THE UNHEALTHY CANNOT AFFORD!!! WELL IF WE R SUPPOSED TO AFFORD ALLL THIS DN SHIT THEN STOP VOTING FOR FN HITLER AND OTHER POLITICIANS WHO NEVERRRR EVERRR DO ANYTHING FOR THE OLDER FOLKS THE DISABLED FOLKS THE POOR FOLKS!!!! U FN GD TAX THE POOR FOLKS TO FN DEATH!!!! ROOD SOOO GD HIGH WE CANT AFFORD TO FN EAT!!! AND NOOOO ONE WHO IS RICH OR HAS MONEY WANTS US DISABLED AND OLDER FOLKS TO FN HAVE ANY MONEY!!! WE R SUPPOSED TO WORK 3 FN JOBS TIL WE DROP FN DEAD AND STILL NEVER HAVE SHIT!!!! IF UR GD VEHICLE BREAKS DN U CANT AFFORD TO DN FIX IT!!! THEN U GOTTA FN WALK FOR MONTHS JUST TO FN SAVE UP THE GD MONEY TO FN AFFORD TO FIX IT!!! MY SLUMLORD HERE HAS THIS RULE TO!! BUT YET HE KEEPS GOING UP ON THE RENT SO U CANT AFFORD TO FN FIX UR SHIT!!!! AND ONCE SOMEONE LIKE HER LIKE ME LOSES OUR VEHICLE THAT'S IT!!!! WE'RE DONE! WE'RE DEAD!!!! WE CANT GET TO THE DOCTOR CANT GET MEDICINE CANT GET TO THE STORE TO GET FOOD!!!! AND SHE CANT GET TO FN WORK!!! SO HTF CAN SHE EVER GD PAY TO GET IT OUT WHEN THEY KEEP TACKING ON ALLLL THIS GDMF MONEY TO IT!!! THE MORE THEY TACK ON THE MORE SHE CANT FIX IT AND THE MORE SHE CANT GET IT OUT!! I MEAN THEY BASICALLY STOLE HER GD CAR LIKE A GD STINKIN THIEF!!!! AND SHE WILL NEVERRR EVERRR GET THIS CAR BACK!!!! THEY R FORCING HER TO FN MOVE AWAY!!!! BECAUSE NOW SHE CANT GET TO WORK SHE CANT MAKE A LIVING CANT DO FN SHIT!!!! AND IF GF SHE WENT TO SOME GD RTO LOT AND GOT ANOTHER ONE!!! IT WOULD BE FN USED WORN OUT HAVE HIGH ASS MILEGE!!! AND SHED BE PAYING 30 TO 100% INT!!!! AND ANYYY VEHICLE U FN HAVE WILL FN GD BREAK DN!!!! SO GDIT SHE GOES OUT GETS ANOTHER MAKES A FN PAYMENT ON IT BREAKS DN THEN THEY TAKE IT TO!!!! THENNN SHE FN OWES THEM OWES THE FN CAR PLACE THAT FN SELLS HER ONE! NOW SHE WONT GET ANOTHER ONE!!! I MEAN THEIR GD PUTTIN NAILS IN OUR COFFINS!!! AND NOOO ONE CARES EITHER!!!! NO ONE GIVES A FUCK!!!! AND SOME STUPID FN IGNORANT SOB WILL FN SAY RETARDED SHIT TO HER LIKE.... WELLLLL GET A JOB BITCH!!!!! SHE HAD ONE BITCH TIL THEY FN TOOK IT BITCH! ORRR THEN THEY'LL SAY WELL.....PAY UR BILLS BITCH!!!! AS THOUGH SHE'S SOME GD DEAD BEAT!!!! WHICH SHE AINT! I MEAN FOLKS WHO DONT KNOW FN SHIT ABOUT U WILL JUDGE U HARSHLY AND TELL U STUPID RETARDED DUMB ASS IGNORANT DUH SHIT!!!! AS THOUGH DUH U COULDNT HAVE THOUGHT OF ALLL OF THAT ON UR OWN BITCHES!!! AND AS THOUGH UR SOME DEAD BEAT LOSER!!! GOV AND OTHERS FN FORCE U INTO SOME GD IMPOSSIBLE SHIT U CANT FN GET OUT OF AND THEN U CANT DN GET HELP BECAUSE ALL U GET IS FN RETARDS WHO FN SAY DUMBASS DUH RETARDED FN SHIT TO U TRYING TO BEAT THE FUCK OUTTA U WHEN UR ALREADY BEAT THE FUCK UP AND DYING ALREADY!!!! SHE WILL GET 000 HELP 0000 COMPASSION!!!! BUT HEY!!!! WELCOME TO AMERICA!!!!! THE HOME OF THE SUFFERING AND THE POOR AND THE NEEDY....THE OVER TAXED....THE UNDERPAID THE FN SCREWED ALL TO HELL....BY THE RICH AND THE FORTUNATE AND THE POWERFUL!!!! THE LAND OF THE IMPRISONED!!!!! AND THE HOME OF THE STUPID THE RICH THE RAPERS KILLERS OF OTHERS!!! THE LAND OF 0000 COMPASSION!!!! 000 KINDNESS!!!! 000 HELP!!! WHERE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE ANYTHING INCLUDING FOOD OR RISE UP UNLESS UR FN RICH AND AND PRIVALIGED AND AT THE TOP ALREADY!!!! SORRY BUT TALK ABOUT THE GD GOV OVER REACHING!!!! IF I PAY RENT OR IF I PAY FOR MY HOME MY VEHICLE OWN MY OWN LAND ETC THEN NOOOO GDMF BODY HAS A GDMF RT TO TELL ME WTH TO FN DO WITH IT!!! AND I GET THE TRUE TRASHY PEOPLE WHO JUST HAVE SLUMS AND TRASHY PLACES AND WHO NEVER UPKEEP ANYTHING AT ALL!!! WHO JUST HAVE A FN JUNK YARD!!! AND YES!!?? I MUST AGREE THAT THESE PEOPLE MUST BE DEWLT WITH SOMEHOW!! BUT GD!!! AT LEAST GIVE A REASONABLE TIME FRAME FOR FIXING REPAIRING ETC.... I MEAN U GOT ELDERLY DISABLED POOR FOLKS AND IT TAKES TIME TO SAVE MONEY TO DO SHIT!!! GIVE THEM??? A YR!? OR PROVIDE SOME KIND OF GOV ASST TO HELP THESE FOLKS GET THEIR VEHICLE REPAIRED!!?? AND WE NEED BREAKS ON TAXES TAGS INS ETC! BACK IN TN I COULD TAKE IN PROOF OF MY SSD SSI AND FILL OUT A FORM AND GET A NICE BREAK ON MY TAG! TAGS WERE ONLY 65 NOT 185 LIKE HERE!!! AND WITH THE BREAK THAT MADE MINE 25 35!? AND I COULD AFFORD THAT!!!! HERE U GET 0000 BREAKS 0000 MONEY OFF!!!! 185 PERIOD!! AND EVERY FN MO UR LATE ON UR TAG THEY JUAT GO UP!! THEM UR SUPPOSED TO HAVE VEHICLE CHECKS AND CERTAIN THINGS UP TO CODE!! INS ETC!!! BUT I DONT EVEN HAVE GD MONEY FOR GD FOOD!!! SO HTF CAN I FN HAVE MONEY FOR ALLL THAT SHIT TO!!!! ANDDD KEEP IT RUNNING!!!! HELL IM CHEAPER TO JUST GET A GD 300$ SCOOTER AND NOT HAVE TO DO SHIT!!! BUT FN PUT 3 BUCKS OF GAS IN AND FN RIDE IT!! I MEAN GD!!!! THE RICH ALWAYS HAVE HAVE HAVE HAVE HAVE HAVE!!! AND R ALWAYS TAKING AWAY FROM THE OLDER THE DISABLED AND THE POOR WHO JUST KEEP GETTING OLDER AND OLDER AND MORE DISABLED AND MORE AND MORE POOR!!! AND THE MORE WE DO THE MORE WE GOTTA PAY AND THE MORE WE GET PUNISHED IF WE DONT!!! AND SINCE WE CANT THEN WE JUST ALWAYS GET PUNISHED!!! GOV NEEDS TO STAY THE FUCK OUTTA HER FN BUS AND MY FN BUS!!!! AND THEY SHOULD BE FORCED TO GIVE HER HER GDMF CAR BACK!!! AND FIX IT FOR HER SINCE THEY FN STOLE IT! AND SHE NEEDS TO SELL AND MOVE ASAP!!!! THEY R NOT KEEPING FOLKS THERE!!!! THEIR DRIVING THEM AWAY!!!! WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE IDIOTS!!!!???? I was in the band with this boy from Minnesota!! He was like the stupidest boy I ever met!!?? And he told me about all this dumb shit they have there do there!!?? I think their all retarded there!!?? I know I ain't ever going to fn live there!!!😮😢😮😢😮😢😮
I once lived across the street from a college art professor who was trying to restore a Citron. The city finally made him move it. The next semester he had his students build a paper mache' replica of the car up on blocks in his front yard.
If this applies to any private property and there are no exceptions then every car dealership and auto shop is in violation. Absolutely ridiculous law and I can't imagine that it won't get overturned
Any car at a repair shop is included in this. Wait for the mayor to take his car to the shop and call the police to have it towed as it is "Inoperable."
@@rhoonah5849 Those don't count, the car lot has special insurance on all the registered cars, plus they can drive their cars with dealer plates. Obviously it's only at someone's house. IDK why people are making a big deal. Where I live they've been doing this for as long as I can remember, since I was a kid. I'm 48. Cape Coral, FL has all kinds of crazy laws. They'll measure your grass and crap.
@@mikeworkman3593 First, how do you know they don't count? Are you familiar with the actual town ordinance? Second, what's the big deal? It's theft on private property. That's the big deal. I can't believe anyone would be ok with this. Third, who cares if it has been done for years? Wrong is wrong. Lastly, I'm surprised you're ok with someone measuring your grass and then crapping on it ;)
We just had 2 properties taken without notice by the village boarded. In addition to the real property, they removed and destroyed all the personal property as well. The most significant was a 5th Wheel camper that was in the fenced in backyard that we were using for storage. It had probably 50k worth of my husband's work tools and lots of other valuable items. They didn't even tow it to storage, they smashed it, and hauled it away. We were not served that they were doing this until 2 days after it happened. Ugh. What a joke
The theory is this, if the person doesn’t have the money to pay for a tag then the person won’t have the money to pay an attorney to fight this unconstitutional seizure. It’s free money to the city
This would be an unconstitutional takings issue. She should report this to the state police as theft as they should know that they couldn't tow it from private property because of state law.
yes. my town has this. but if your car has expired tags, even if its a carport. then you just get the fine. no tow. that way, if you are on vacation, the worst that happens is the unpaid fine and then the city puts lien on your house and sells it for 120 bux in unpaid fines. (sold to the mayors cousin)
@@timrosencrans7955 except that it says that the vehicle has to have tags and that it covers locations in your property inaccessible to the public. Standard blight ordinances just say that the vehicle cannot be in a state of disrepair and that it has to be resolved within a reasonable time frame. The other issue is that the state has a law that prohibits them from towing a vehicle off private property. The only thing that the town could legally do is issue a fine or a correctional order. Towing the vehicle outside of the legal authority to do so is auto theft. The state police and the DA can order the city to deliver the vehicle back to the lady's property and that they have to eat the towing and storage fees due to the illegal tow. If this is common practice by the town, someone is bound to be arrested for criminal conspiracy.
I had a neighbor repeatedly call code enforcement on my old truck sayin it didn’t run and violated city ordinance. It did run and was fully legal. That didn’t stop the town from trying to get rid of it though. That neighbor died alone and miserable.
Copy the paperwork you got over the years. Place a copy of that paperwork in front of his tombstone every anniversary.🤣🤣🤣🤣 A gentle wave goodbye to the old enemy.
I had a similar neighbor like that once. I had to use restraint to keep myself from really retaliating against them. Some people just are not happy unless they are miserable. I always say it’s easier to just get along with your neighbors. And it does not take much effort. But some people just cannot help themselves.
This happened to my neighbor when I was living in Volusia County, Florida. Our other neighbor was a cop, saw his expired tags and had his car towed in the middle of the night. She said he was robbing the state of it’s money.
It's just collateral damage. People who're self aware enough to realize they can move from their current town (and also have the means) are just a small proportion.
I will say. Living here. St Louis has had tons and tons of expired or stolen plates and tags on the street. The story here does take it slightly out of context. Removing a vehicle from private property is absolutely wrong. But with thousands of expired tags for a long time on the road in st Louis this push is just part of the city finally trying to crack down on it in the past few months, after many years of neglect. They pulled back on the swing so far on one direction that when it fell and they started enforcement it went back up the other side.
Using the same laws wouldn't the cities impound lot and the tow trucks lots be subject to the same fines and fees since they have unlicensed autos on their properties?
@@gierrah Part of the problem is charging $2,000 per year to register. The correct amount is something like $30 to $50 per year. If that means we need to let go a few thousand useless government workers, so be it.
@@johnpublic6582 She had a temporary tag. You get that when you buy a car. Steve read that the $2000 were for taxes. That's sales tax, not a registration fee. You have to pay sales tax before you're allowed to register.
Amen yup town of Lexington doing the same thing right now they come in two my yard complained about my vehicle and some of my stuff so I got rid of everything now there complaining about my trailer ramps and and 5/8 3.5"X7 foot board they have nothing better to do funny part is my nabor has large attorney in he's family they don't say anything to him they go after the easy money and peaple easily harassed they where going after a mom with kids car while he was over seas pretty messed up my tow trucks are gone spare vehicle I live 1.5hr away from work kids nice to have options to get to work differently no HOA I own my property but I cant have anything in my yard pretty nasty if I could find attorney with knowledge like these guy I would let him keep the money just have him sweep are nasty corruption here
Like what are you supposed to do if your car can't pass emissions or something like that and you need to fix it before you can bring it back in? I'm so sick of this, they keep coming up with new scams every time we deal with the old ones
@@no_peace Simple. It's about POWER. Get involved. Vote the bums out. Most people don't know even who "represents" them on their local school board much less their senator or house representative. SELF GOVERNANCE FORFEITED. Who's to "blame"?
My town in a neighboring state also does the expired tags in the driveway thing. I had a decent looking car that I was in the process of fixing sitting in my driveway. I got a letter for expired tags. I figured I had an angry neighbor so I filed a foia request for any ordinance violations on my street and they said it was "too vague" so I found a list of every address on my street and resubmitted my request for every single address listed within a one year time span. It shook up the code enforcement guy so badly he came to my house to apologize.
That is how you deal with power crazed functionaries. Bury the lazy, entitled bums in paper-work. We all know they are allergic to anything with the word work related to it.
This happened to me several years ago here in California. It was a brand new car with a temp register tag in the window but it had fallen off the window. Cop towed it out of my driveway. Went to police department and blew them up and eventually got my car back without having to pay anything. It was 100% illegal for the police to do that to me. I ended up suing them as well and won a substantial settlement.
@@MrDLRu If you represent yourself (you have to in small claims court) it costs about $100 to file the suit. I think the limit you can win is 25k though.
I had a car taken once where the cop wouldn’t let me remove a disabled car with my own towing service (AAA), it HAD to be the company they called. When I went to get the car, the company said I needed a release order from the police. BTW, the towing company office had a calendar hanging on the wall from that police department. The car was eventually auctioned and I guarantee those cops got a cut. They prey on people who don’t have the means to get their property back.
Luckily every time I've had that happen I told the police I already have a truck coming and they leave me be. If they insisted it had to be removed, I wouldn't let them pick the towing provider.
Happens all the time. One of my friend owns a tow truck and he's gotten in fights with the police multiple times because they won't let him tow the vehicle for customer, because city has a contract with another tow company. It's ridiculous.
@@RhizometricReality LOL, towing a crappy car that's a blight on a nice neighborhood isn't violence. Keep your crap in the garage like a normal person.
In Vallejo, CA, Code Enforcement issues violations for expired tags EVEN if there is already an "In-Op" filing with the DMV. The fines are around $500.00 per violation per day past the deadline to correct. The same is true for having car parts on your property. An air filter? Wiper blades? Yep. My tenants' car was stolen and recovered with the ignition punched. The tags expired while it was stolen and it was due for smog. The ignition would crank with a screwdtiver but the fuel pump wouldn't turn on. The tenant diligently worked on it, replacing the fuel pump twice. The code violation notices were issued nonetheless. Its ridiculous. He couldn't very well drive it to the smog place, so he non-op'd it with DMV. The violations state that a non-op status with DMV is irrelevent as far as Code Enforcement is concerned.
@@ChewyChicken589 - The success and prosperity of any state city county township or jurisdiction is inversely proportional to the amount of libtards running it. I'm not sorry LOL
Steve speaks the truth! I had a mouse infestation in a vehicle in my driveway. I went and registered the vehicle and got a new license plate. When I got back and waved the registration towards the car and showed the mice the license, the mice abandoned their homes and ran away. +1 would license again!
@@foremanhaste5464 I guess he got sued as he evicted a single mother of 15 children without proper notice and then got sued by the local government for housing such a large family in a property which was not up to code and not periodically inspected. On top of that he probably also now has to pay extra taxes + fees for late payment.
So they're stealing your private property....that is ON YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY?!?!? Sounds unconstitutional. I happen to have my very first car (1967 Cougar) in our garage. Have owned over 40 years. It's not running at this time. Watch my fury if it got impounded!!!!
So, if somebody follows the mayor, and he is having a tire replaced, it can be towed, because it is inoperable. What about repair shops? This is beyond crazy. The mayor has hired an attorney that agrees with him, not the law. I hope the city is sued for multiple civil rights violations (they will definitely lose)
I'd be putting pebbles under a slightly tightened valve stem cap to release the air from his tires everywhere he went. I've done it plenty of times and when the cops get there they laugh because you didn't damage anything and they can't charge you with anything.
These ignorant, abusive bureaucrats! In these cases, the tow company is typically a private company, and, inevitably, the owner of the tow company/tow yard, who's getting all of these fees, is connected to the mayor (relative, campaigne doner, crony, etc.), and, after 30 days, they get to keep the car and/or the remaining funds after it is auctioned off. - Crooks!! - Replace that mayor!!!
But bureaucracy can also be abused. So if the tow yard currently towing these cars is inside Calverton Park, then create a tow company outside the town boundaries. Then get warrants to tow all the unregistered cars from the Mayor's mates yard and charge them 200% of their storage fee because they were in possession and thus liable for the storage fee. If they agree to waive tow and storage fees against the vehicle owner, think about waiving the charges against the Mayor's mates yard. Needs someone with land outside the town, a sense of humor and a tow truck. And probably some decent legal advice that can hopefully figure out a way to get around the abatement tax.
They trespassed on her real estate to hook the car to a tow truck. They violated her car ownership rights by taking it without cause. The purpose of automobile licenses and licensing fees were to maintain roadways on which the vehicle might move. If her vehicle is not using these roadways, then she owes no licensing fees. One man's eyesore is another man's masterpiece... Jackson Pollock made that point.
Not being on the roadways is why tractors and riding lawn mowers don't have to be licensed or fully operable for road travel. I wonder if the law is broad enough to allow them to be seized from private property too.
This case did make me angry, but technically if the city had a warrant they did not trespass. Where the accountability breaks down is that a judge can issue as many egregious warrants as he or she fancies...
@@davidtauriainen9116 it's funny you think driver's licenses, registrations, and insurance is required for cars though. It's not. The constitution protects our right to travel. No license no registration and no insurance. Those things are only required if you're doing commerce, not traveling. Read up. We've all been eating the propaganda for too long.
I live in Portage County, Ohio in a small rural town. Our city code controls your yard. No litter, vehicles that run, vehicles tagged, grass cut. I got a harassing notice about my grass from the city dept. My husband had cut the grass over the weekend and couldnt grass whip due to rain coming. It was not long and we mowed every week. This was obvious harassment because we did not interact with our neighbors. Small towns are power centers. The bad kind.
My brother had this happen 20+ years ago. He got compensated for his loss. Court rulings in ohio have said license is ONLY for identifying a vehicle while operating on a public roadway and 4th amendment applies to car on private property. Many construction companies use unlicensed vehicles on job sites for on moving materials around. Same is true of many large industrial plants.
Missouri has ruled against the cities every time this happens. We had a similar issue on my Grandparents farm in Kansas City area. They would put old cars on the from half of the farm along the road for decoration. City came out and towed the cars one afternoon and Grandpa got a lawyer. I not sure what all went down, but he had the cars back in about a month, and he had money to buy a new truck.
Imagine if every mechanic in a city knows what these a hols are doing then they start asking for the a hols cars to be impounded every time they go to the mechanic, that would be even funnier.
@@Catkinson3580 Nope, I didn't forget anything - you on the other hand, don't understand what qualified immunity does. Qualified immunity is a court rule in civil court that allows the defendant to have the judge dismiss a civil lawsuit before the lawsuit gets to the point it's super expensive. Qualified immunity ONLY applies to civil lawsuits in civil court. Grand theft auto, on the other hand, is a felony charge in criminal court. Qualified immunity doesn't protect against criminal charges, and any defendant asking for a dismissal of charges due to qualified immunity will be looked at as if they were particularly stupid by the judge, possibly even laughed at. And then their motion for dismissal would be rejected.
Civilians can't file felony charges, they can only file a complaint. Only the district attorney office can file criminal cases. If the DA doesn't agree with the complaint, no charges are filed. She can sue in civil court, but without the criminal conviction from the DA there's no evidence of the crime. The legal system is heavily stacked against you when the government abuses you.
These warrants aren't signed by judges. They are signed by city/county 'Magistrates' who are not elected; they are appointed by city/county officials. Magistrates are city lawyers who are assigned paperwork cases considered too inconsequential for the notice of a sitting judge. Joe blow lawyer getting a sincure from his cousin on the city/county council as a 'Magistrate' is one of the cushiest jobs a lawyer can get.
@@StanleyKubick1 In this situation, I write as I speak. I would say "sin-kyur" not "sign-kyur", therefore that is what I typed. I didn't think to check the spelling here because doing so would be pretentious IMHO. In any case, how much does the social media grammer police pay these days? Bud.
My dad was harassed endlessly because he had too many cars on his property. He was an auto mechanic and had cars in line to be fixed or used for parts. They finally left him alone but he fought long and hard to get them to bug off. This was in Utah, but these stupid money grabbers are everywhere
If you're a bloodsucking bureaucrat that harasses mechanics you should be put on a blacklist where every mechanic they take their car for maintenance will just unplug the fuel pump and say "Sorry, declined repairs."
If I were his neighbor, I wouldn't want to live next to what sounds like effectively an informal junkyard. Maybe he had an incredibly well organized and appealing "line of busted cars", but that seems a little unreasonable on his part.
Depends on whether it was in an area zoned for business or residence. It is a little unreasonable to have dozens of cars parked around a neighborhood street for your business. But if it was ALL actually on his property (zoned for business), and not some line going down the street, then no reason to harass him over it.
Utah has a rule that cars must all be current on license, insurance, etc, even on private property. I do NOT live in UT and the code officer was using those codes. The judge was not happy when I explained what she was doing. Was even less amused when I made that information public and started talks of class action lawsuit. She was caught entering peoples homes many times. After video of this was presented she 'retired' from being a police officer.
If a car is inoperable at a mechanics shop or lot, then legally they can tow that car because there is no exemptions. Then they also can search salvage yards, garages, parking lots, storage units in order to find unlicensed cars and tow them because there is no exemptions.
Hey Steve! Thx for the post. I live in St. Louis city. Calverton Park is in a part of STL where there are many small villages that use these types of scams to embezzle their citizens and people that are passing through. The tax base in these villages is so small that they can not operate proper public services and resort to this type of extortion under the guise of "public safety" to raise money for the cities empty coffers. It is also very likely that these "government officials" are also siphoning off funds for personal enrichment, which happens regularly in these fiefdoms.
This type of thing is very common in a community that has an HOA. They are very strict about unregistered vehicles in the HOA where I live. Serious ago we had a nasty HOA president. She actually came to our door and told us that we had two weeks left that she was watching all of the stickers on everybody's Vehicles parked in the driveways. I was actually shocked when she came and rang the doorbell and gave us a verbal warning about our registration for the car and that it would be towed the day after the registration expires if we did not register it. Meanwhile at the time my wife was very sick and in and out of the hospital so we just did not have the time to get to motor vehicle at that particular time. So I was forced to make time to go re-register the vehicle before the deadline. But because I am old school Italian and I do have a tendency of getting revenge on people let's try to do me wrong. So this nasty Karen president of our HOA got just what you deserved. It just so happens that somebody that did not like her took a gallon of furniture stripper the strong type that is in jelly form and poured it all over her SUV in the middle of the night. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
I don’t believe there was a mention of ongoing litigation or any decision by a judge mentioned in this video. This ordinance hasn’t been challenged legally from the looks of it. So uh… while I agree, it’s not really relevant to this situation yet. Edit: I did forget about the judge signing the search warrant, but is that not simply a result of the bad law? I don’t believe the search warrant is where a judge can’t question the constitutionality of a law.
@@diablominero ah that part, yea I forgot about that as the video went on. But also, there’s not really that much a judge can do, is there? It’s a valid warrant subject to a law on the books. The law shouldn’t exist, but it does. The search warrant process isn’t where a laws validity is challenged. In the case of the warrant, I don’t think the judge is the one out of control. It’s the people who passed the law and the council members defending it.
@@bradenculver7457 by this same logic, you would be justifying not just this, but all abuses of power so long as its a "law", especially the many, many horrible crimes committed by the government...such as the genocide that the US government signed off on, that killed 9-10 million native americans, by killing off the bison and poaching EVERY other animal they hunted, as well as publically castrating the men to prevent them from being able to have kids again, so they could wipe out the native americans and their culture. _but it doesnt matter because it was legal right?_ get the fuck outta here with that shit.anything can be justified in law, even straight up genocide, rape, and murder.
Norfolk Virginia has had that law too. The city inspectors couldn't keep up with the number of inoperable, uninspected or unlicened vehicles so they started saying police offices could tag vehicles parked on private property for tow if not moved or made operable and legally tagged. The only exception to the rule is keeping the vehicle in a garage or other enclosed building where it could not be seen. The city also had a rule no cars could be parked on the grass of private property.
This happened to me several years ago. I had a 1963 impalla in my driveway. It was tagged and insured. The sticker on the tag was old but i had paid for the new registration and i had the new sticker in my house. The city towed it even though the registration was current and insurance was current. I had to pay a fee to the towing company. I went into the lot, put the new sticker on it, and drove it home. I was so angry. Really made me consider doing something illegal.
Should have put the sticker on the tag while in impound, taken a pic, and claimed it was there the whole time. Make them prove otherwise. Play their little game in accordance with their own unethical rules. (There are no rules)
I had a junker towed in Seattle - which would have cost me ~$2k. To avoid this fee, I reported that it had been sold to the tow yard, and informed the tow yard of their new ownership to be in conformance with WA state law. They would then owe any fees due in connection with the car. They threatened, etc., but they ended up owning my old junker without my having to pay any money.
@@MrDLRu Pretty sure his notification to relinquish/surrender ownership to company is sufficient legal xfer of interest. Just spit ballin' here... A tow/storage yard does not need a bill of sale to gain full ownership/title for a vehicle they have "stolen", eh? (they gain ownership thru "Lien(s)") Note: Called it "stolen" because it's the term that MANY tow companies use. 🤨(source: Lizzard Lick Towing and other similar Reality TV shows, plus an aquaintance that ran a tow company)
Oh, one more thing: I am an insurance adjuster currently, who did automotive paint/ auto body repair for over 20 years. WTF happens when someone is involved in an accident and the vehicle is towed to the customer house?? I JUST finished up writing an estimate on a vehicle in someone's driveway!!! This will get ugly if the town does not act quickly. I will leave it at that lol. Keep us updated on this if possible. Have a good one man
Hopefully you and most insurance adjusters are better than the adjuster that I dealt with most recently. Back in December right before Christmas in my 2011 Camry got hit in the rear relatively low speed but I was completely stopped and they hit my vehicle hard enough that the force of the impact sheared the bolts for the right rear brake caliper although that was not readily Apparent at the time it didn't start to be apparent until several days after the wreck which itself the body damage was minor enough I was waiting till after Christmas to tackle because the rest of the body was just cosmetic around the bumper. But it would start grinding into the wheel in reverse until it would no longer move on that wheel. The adjuster for the insurance company tried to claim that there's no way that that caused the damage. Front-wheel-drive unibody car impact all absorbed on the rear as best I can understand it
What happens to any vehicle that goes to a local repair shop? Does the city immediately seize it because it’s inoperable on the lift? Or parked in the lot waiting to be repaired?
No, thereis nothing legal about seizure from private property for expired tags. Registration is thru the state and only qualifies the vehicle for operation on public roads. This law is unconstitutional, period. Any official or employee involved in this scheme needs to be taken out.
Exactly the same corruption starting at the top with the Federal government all the way to state and locally. It depends on their agenda and not constitutional rights.
Qualified immunity. It's not just for cops, it's for all government officials. They just need to come up with schemes that are so brazen or so insane that they have never been adjudicated. Then they never will be.
@@MrDLRuExactly. When you sue them they don't have to spend a dime. Literally you pay for it with your taxes. But you have to find your own legal help. And given the immunity that they have from prosecution it's a no-lose situation for them. They either win or they will not be punished because of immunity
I figure that they dont attack people who have ability to sue or hire lawyers. Most normal people are just trying to keep their job and pay the bills week to week
Rebuilt a junk classic for a friend in my garage. I admit, when the car arrived, anyone would have said, "Junk It!' After body and paint restoration, all my neighbors said, "What a beautiful car."
Lexington, KY will do the same thing. I've had cars that were just sitting(tagged and operable but just sitting for a while) that were threatened to be towed by the city on multiple occasions. I'm a beekeeper and I only use my pickup when I go check my bees, and sometimes that's months. I discovered that some of this comes from "property management" groups because one bought a house 2 doors up and someone called about my truck sitting on the street in front of my house for over a week. When an officer showed up to ticket it, I protested and one of the guys from the management group was there and heard me explain how i use the truck. Suddenly he was super apologetic and said he thought it was junked or something(right, with insurance, plates, etc. current). I told the cop if he were going to try to ticket me that I expected him to do the same to the other cars on the street that do the exact same. He looked at me and was like "which ones?", which then got him a full list and I said I'd be happy to call in the complaints if I had to. Suddenly it was all about "de-escalation" and nobody wanted to write me or anyone a ticket or even a warning. He'd have been there all damn day AND I'd have called every week to waste their time and money on ever considering messing with me again. I'll happily take everyone down with me if they wanna play that game. These days I drive through expensive neighborhoods and look for code violations so I can keep code enforcement busy with people who will lose their minds over being cited.
The same thing can happen in an HOA neighborhood. I had an a-hole resident in my subdivision report my licensed, registered and insured vehicle that was under a store bought fitted car cover in my driveway saying it was an inoperable vehicle under a tarp. Not to mention it's my daily driver when I'm home. (Commercial Truck Driver) Some people just have to be a Karen.
I owned a 1972 Lodestar 1600, it was fully licensed, operable, and insured. It was also ugly, having been hand painted black over an awful puke green. City code enforcement officer rolls up one day and simply says the city code says this vehicle is junk. I explained that the truck was licensed and insured but she said, doesn't matter, city code says it is junk. no matter what I said about the trucks usefulness or legality her answer was always, doesn't matter, city code says it is junk. And it must be disposed of, or the city will have it towed. Not having funds for a legal battle, and not wanting to be stuck for towing and storage fees, I sold to a scrap yard. Still makes me angry, it was a perfectly usable truck for hauling trash and building supplies.
I was told my antique truck was “abandoned”, sitting on my driveway. I had to sell it. The township only pursues a new ordinance if someone complains. There are “abandoned” cars all over the township. I was saving up to get motor and transmission work.
how is it abandoned if its personal property sitting on the owners private property? abandoned would imply it was left on public property or someones elses private property
My late brother-in-law had a number of tickets he got while he worked which he failed to pay, and he lost his Driver's License. This was in NY years ago. They pulled the registration on their pickup truck, so my sister had no way to get to work, do food shopping, get to appointments, etc. They had no way to pay for the tickets, and all of the fines that kept adding on, so for the next 17 years my sister didn't have a car! My brother-in-law passed away during that time, making it even harder for my sister to get any car. These idiots in MO who are taking working peoples' cars and charging them all of the extra fees they'll have to pay are disgraceful! They should all be fired, including that judge. Do any of them have any compassion, or common sense? Stop being so money hungry, and HELP your citizens for a change!
Whenever you feel the urge to abuse your position of power to ruin people's lives, remember the "Killdozer". When you push people into desperate situations, expect the most desperate reaction. And it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong when the suicidaly desperate person is driving a bulldozer through your living room, over your car and then into your office...
What most don't know that "CERTIFICATE OF TITLE" is the lesser of the two. If you have either the MSO (Manufacturer's Statement/Certificate of Origin) or Clean/Clear Bill of Sale without the VIN being in the Corporatocracy data base (DMV), then you have full and complete control of the automobile. FTR: car is short for "carriage"; Motor Vehicle is a contract term specifically used by DMV for the top control of all autos regardless of variety. There is no such item any longer as a "Motor Vehicle", yet Carriages still do exist. Unless you have Land Patent for your house/soil, you "real property" is not Private. If the item (land/auto) is registered, thus conveying control over that item to another entity, then it is controlled on the higher title by that entity. Anything that's Registered gives control over. The Corporatocracy is Babylon.
My brother's township told him he needed to get rid of his vehicles that were hard to see from outside the property. Said they were coming to fine him. He told them he will register every one and park them in the front yard. Never heard back from them. Been like 15 years since.
this was the Only way we got the code off of us after he harassed us for 2 years and then tried to lie about us to the town board. literally we even registered Campers too.( musclecars,projects,racecars,trucks,and campers ) it didnt hurt that we caught him on tape breaking into our shop either,while it pissed us off,it was also a big asset that we never had to deploy. our New code guy,is just the nicest guy.........not a power tripping troublemaker.
A former mayor of my little Idaho town tried to do something similar to this several years ago. When the cooler heads of reasonable staff members told her what would result if she tried to pull a stunt like this, she backed down. The city council attempted to pass some broad "junk" ordinances a few times, but myself and others attended meetings and spoke out about how ridiculous the rules were as proposed, and they backed down, too. As it stands, the only time things like this are enforced now are when a proper complaint is filed, and contact is made with the landowner and they are given time to mitigate the situation. As it should be.
@@TheInsultInvestor That is all well and good until someone opens a puppy mill next door. Or maybe an all night auto repair shop. I build cars and I love dogs, but that shit don't fly.
Imagine if all the mechanics get together and start calling a tow on a hols cars that made this law every time they need service, it would be overturned pretty quick.
Even if you spend your entire life working on a car because it brings you calm...and never bring it to working condition...I don't think that should be made an infraction! Too many laws!
One thing i always wondered is why do we discourage blue collar activity in society? This topic of working on one’s car seems to fall under that category.
The town where I previously lived defined abandon as a vehicle that had not been driven for 8 consecutive days. My vehicle got ticketed because the weather was nice and I was riding my motorcycle every day to work. I told them that was an unreasonable requirement and they had no right to tell me which vehicle I had to drive to work. They never followed through on it and nothing became of it.
@@reginaschellhaas1395I have moved friends’ cars from one spot to the other every few days when they have gone on trips. In my city, a car can’t be parked in the street for more than 72 hours without being driven at least 1/10 of a mile. You can be ticketed or towed.
@@mkuti-childress3625 I live out in the boonies. But I may remember some such from in-law relatives who lived in Queens or Brooklyn areas of NYC. I seem to remember that cars had to be moved from one side of the street to the other? Anyway, your friends are lucky to have you! Seems bizarre to me that ppl can't go on vacation or make an emergency trip without relying on a trusted friend. Sadly, not everyone has such a person in their lives.
crazy, crazy rules. Can't understand how a town comes up with such a weird definition and why would they care wether a car was driven (around the block or elsewhere) or not. Tsssss. What if you were ill? Or on vacation?
When you said Saint Louis County I understood what was going on immediately The county is filled with tiny little cities that have been having trouble meeting their budgets. Their people are poor. Property taxes can't cut it. They';ve been using the cops as a way to generate revenue. Calverton expects (probably rightly) that whomever they do this too won't have the resources to fight it in court. This is just more of that it seems
This is exactly the case. Calverton Park was always this way. When I lived there, they kept New Florissant just south of 270 night & day, and would ticket anyone 2-3 mph over the limit. A "police department" for a village of less than 500 homes is ridiculous, and they do nothing but generate revenue to maintain their own existence. St. Louis County PD would take over that duty for far less cost.
Yep. "Calverton Park draws 66 percent of its revenue from fines and fees on the local population, which represents the highest percentage of any municipality in St. Louis County."
I had something similar happen in Missouri near KC, they enforce the same code as STL, the IPMC or international property maintenance code is adopted by some localities as their code basis for these actions. The specific section is 302.8, a section of code about building exteriors. I had a vehicle out of my garage to sand, actively at the time, and another older licensed operable vehicle. Without asking me or speaking with me the official wrote up the letter printed it and then walked up to me to hand it to me. Even after showing him the vehicle is parked in the garage and that the second vehicle ran and was licensed he refused to edit the complaint. His argument was that I could have the vehicle outside for any amount of time “because he doesn’t have time to be going around to see how long vehicles are outside”. The code allows minor repairs, it disallows major repairs which Missouri defines as removing the body from the frame for work on either and removal of engines from commercial trucks. I threw him off my property, researched the laws and wrote them a letter for appeal. It centered on the interpretation of the code as defined by the code, to promote health, safety, property protection and general welfare. It goes on to say that sections without definitions will be interpreted using commonly accepted meanings in line with the purpose of the code. Missouri law allows me to build a car from scratch, take it to be inspected, and get a new title/registration for the vehicle. If that is true, then the requirement to never have an unlicensed vehicle “parked, kept, or stored” outside (the limit of the code) prevents me from building a car in my garage and then loading it on a trailer, because I couldn’t possibly do that if I couldn’t ever have it outside. Oddly enough, this specific jurisdiction allows recreational OHV to be kept outside for 7 days. So in theory I could buy a CAN AM OHV of the same size as my truck, have it unlicensed outside for 7 day increments, performing the exact same work. My biggest issue with the whole process is that the code was designed to keep neighborhoods safe, major repairs in a yard could cause someone to get hurt. Sanding bondo for an hour does not have any inherent risks. So in my appeal I asked the city to append the code so that there is a reasonable amount of time that a project vehicle can be outside so as to avoid an undue burden that prevents me from building a registering a custom vehicle in accordance with Missouri law. In the meantime, I’ve been recording myself moving the car in and out of the garage each morning and driving the licensed and insured FJ.
I used to live in La Mirada, Ca. and there was a teenage boy that saw my 1974 CORVETTE in my garage, it was running but it needed electrical so I had not driven it for nearly 3 yrs. This boy asked if it was for sell, I said no, he asked again about a month later, again I said no, a few days later his dad knocked on my door and asked about the car, I told him not for sale, mean while a neighbor down the street had 2 none running 1963 buicks sitting on jackstands in his driveway, the city law says VISIBLE non running vehicals are subject to be towed, well one morning 4 car loads of L.A. County Sheriff Deputies and a tow truck showed up to take my car. They ordered me to open my garage because they were taking my car because it was visible with overdue tags, of course I refused to open the garage, I then put a lock on the latch right in front of them, they threatened to break the lock, I walked down the street took a picture of my neighbors car then came back and said " I dare you to break into my garage". They left , nothing else said. I must say, I am a black man, this city at that time was 90% white plus others and only about 3% black. Well that afternnon I decided to go to city hall to file a complaint and lo and behold the boy's dad was in city hall, he saw me and turned is face away quickly and disapeared into a door with no marking, I went behind him to try to see where he went but the door was locked, I had no way of figuring out who he was, so I put in a complaint about the incident. 3 days later, again 4 carloads of deputies, one knocked on the door, of course he was the only black out the other 15, when I went out to talk with them my neighbors were out there and they were furious because they had seen the first incident ,but there was the station commander, he had come to apologize and he told me a city official had given them incorrect information about me and my car, he even had an already completed form that had all the details and report of the incident and he offered to deliver it himself if I wanted to sign it, but I said no, so he gave copies which he signed right there, he apologized again to and to my neighbors, I discovered who the man was that initiated everything, he was a city councilman that lived 2 blocks away. I was not going to get involved with politics, but I wrote him an email to let him know to never use his position for extortion again. 🇺🇸 AMERICA IS GREAT
It's the leftist mentality that has taken over nearly every single city in this country that's at fault. These people seek power for power's sake and become absolutely corrupt. It doesn't matter what state you're in, but if you live in a rural area you're less likely to face such evil, and in a city more likely. This country used to be better, but evil has always been around and it's pervasive and quite capable of infecting the minds of our youth. Soon, the only solution that will allow us to escape this will be to find another planet.
You are one fortunate guy. I was being systematically harassed by the town code 'officer', and when I countered each of his accusations, he did not know how to proceed, so went over to talk to the local COUNCILMAN, who was seated in his car next door [to observe] and ask advice. Said councilman went very pale when he saw me walk up behind the 'officer' [on a public street mind you] and stammered out something about jogging in the park and stopped to say hello..... yeah, in your suit. He suddenly had to be somewhere else. Bastard had COMPLIMENTED me on my [fully legal] antique truck, as I was "preserving town history"... of course that was a year prior when he was running for office.
The town I live in has been doing the same thing (Lamberton Minnesota) - apparently where I live it's "Do unto others as they do to you" - because from what I hear, people have been stealing stuff from the mayors yard.
they had a search warrent, so its all goood, not sure if the judge should be charged with theft sence he sined an extremly ovious illegle search warrent tho.
The tow truck drives are backed up by cops. So yes cops with absolute power can take anything they want. Just wait civil asset forfeiture will include a person.
Sure would be a shame if something untoward happened to these corrupt city officials and the oathbreakers that are complicit in their violation of the rights of their constituents.
City was after my neighbors project car. Every time he turned around they were griping about something. In the mean time stepson had a van with a blown engine sitting in my driveway for three years. Tags and inspection sticker were expired but he kept it clean. He sold it and the new owner towed it off. Every time he got a letter from the city about his car we took a picture of the letter with the expired inspection sticker and plates on the van clearly visible. I went to court with him and took the pictures as evidence. We got a new code enforcement officer a few days later.
Steve. Question. When the car gets towed to a privately owned tow lot. wouldn't the tow company have to register or have the vehicles towed off the lot?
This law is not limited to dissassembled cars in a pole barn, or un-licenced antiques in museums, it also applies to vehicles in repair shops, if it is in-operable, such as in the process of an oil change while in the state of having its oil drained, it can be impounded.
It's sounds like they're targeting lower income households. That's probably why the mayor pointed out that he's trying to keep people in the city. When he says people, he means the wealthy population. He might be trying to remove and expell less desirables in order to keep and make room for higher class residents.
Had to laugh at this one. I'm from Northern California and I can say that snakes (?), mice, chipmunks or squirrels don't give a damn whether a car is registered or not. I really feel sorry for this woman. I truly hope she gets justice.
Yeah I agree. I live in California, and at one time lived on a ten acre spot where mice, and snakes and other things would routinely camp under the hood of a running and usable car. Those people are just greedy nazi's.
Can I get video of every cat dog, squirrel, mouth, snake, and any other varmint in the community going down the street checking the license plate on all vehicles to make sure it’s safe for them to make a home in… LMFAO
I've been junking cars for decades, there's only been 2 times, out of thousands of cars, that I've had a snake encounter. The idea that a car on a property that has regular activity around it ever having a serpentine occupant is ver very unlikely, moot point. Other than that, your private property is your private property, period. The city/state has no substantial interest in your private property sitting on your private property. Personally, i'd have everything they own, their properties,bank accounts, pensions, everything. People need to stop believing that you can lawfully be required to tag, register,insure their private property, for goodness sakes, stop believing government garbage.
Los Angeles has done something similar, towing cars out of driveways for expired tags, parking tickets, etc. They probably still do it. Happened to friends of mine who were going to gift me and my (then) better half their old car. That was around 33 years ago. The only real crime in this country is not having (enough) money.
In the Netherlands a car needs to be licensed if its parked on the public road or adjacent to it. So if unlicensed in the drive waynyou will be fined and eventually towed. If you move it of the driveway behind the home or into a garage you're fine. That of course leaves a grey area, where are you no longervadjacent to a public road. Inoperable vehicles will eventually lose the license , but until they do you are fine parking them.
I have bought many vehicles that were basically junk, fix them to give them to people that could not afford a vehicle. I did/do try to keep them from public view i.e., in my garage, or behind a fence. When I purchase these vehicles, I don't know who the person maybe that I am going to give it to. Once I fix it, get it licensed, insured, I drive it for several months to see if there are any other items that need to be repaired. Often new tires are needed, broken lights need to be fixed or replaced... I really do not like these laws that prevent a person from helping other people. I agree that there generally someone calls the cops and complains. I seek to get to know my neighbors (have a root beer float party in my front yard once a year with a handwritten initiation given to everyone on the block) to allow them to know that they can talk to me, tell me if I am being a jerk. They do not have to call the cops; they can just tell me. Civility seems to be absent in our society. I do not buy a house in an HOA because I do not want all the “extra rules. If somebody wants these “extra” rules, then buy in the HOA or gated community or move to a city that makes it crime to do any of these things. PS I once lived in the beautiful city of Pasadena, to determine where Los Angles is, and some other city is very hard to determine unless you live there. I did first live in San Marino (A city, within a city, within a city) where you had to have a special sticker on your car otherwise you would get pulled over and asked what you were doing in their city.
I heard that if you put the house address number on the vehicle, has to be somewhat permanent..like paint stick on windshield, it's a part of the property....Heard this back in mid 90's from someone that an attorney told her this. Not sure what the legal argument actually is if it came to it.
@@Writ3r_Dude Sure, cops ignore Constitutional law, laws all the time...Look at all the vagrancy laws still on the books and they arrest many for doing just that.
This very same thing happened to my son in Grand Prairie, Texas. The city sold the car without providing any compensation. The car was in the driveway being repaired.
Back in the late 1980's my dad had a 1966 Mustang in his driveway under a car cover. It was licensed and insured, but was not running for a while. He got a notice from the DMV that his tags were expired. That would have meant someone came on the driveway and lifted the car cover to check his plates. As he was not currently driving the car he didn't put on the new stickers. California has always been a "great state to live in". Not to be weird, Steve, but your videos are just long enough to enjoy in the morning during my shower. Beats the morning news. Thanks.
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So Steve...😎...you dig into this and low and behold, the mayor and his brother-in-law "owns the towing company along with the impound storage lot"...what a racket...
Something like that happened here. It's under Federal investigation because they eventually impounded the daughter of the state's attourney general. Look up the racket Brookside, Alabama police were running!
I have heard of this happening systematically in the St. Louis area for many years. They do this only in poor areas, they wouldn't dare enforce this in rich areas because that would be like enforcing this in the million dollar home neighborhoods in Warren Michigan, it would never fly.
The Wealthy areas should help the other neighborhoods. I lived in Benton park. I would not call it wealthy. I thank Archangel Michael that my car wasn’t towed.
Wealthy people are generally able to license, insure, and pay taxes on their cars. It's actually a very common ordinance in rich and poor towns, at least in Missouri.
@@RMSTitanicWSL Missouri seems to do things to keep blacks out of their neighborhoods. I experienced Missouri’s racism directly. And i am not black. I love Missouri, unfortunately racism is alive there.
in Australia the only problem having a unregistered vehicles on your private driveway is okay, a unregistered vehicles must not be parked roads or highways...100mtres from my home theres this man who as about ten unregistered vehicles on his land on council footpath two camper vans on the road had three boats on trailers all have number plates but unregistered, from what I gather local council has done nothing about it. p.s all are visual from the road. i,m sure even the police have done nothing about it, i would like to do so but i think is it thr right thing to do.
My city does the same thing. My handicap van with my wheelchair ramp was licensed, insured, and would have passed an inspection. But the transmission went bad and was taking too long for me to get help with installing a used transmission. This conversion van was in my back yard, well away from the street. There were no snakes, rats, or extra terrestrials living in it. I know, because I wouldn't allow it. So I was forced to junk my beloved diesel handicap conversion van for a couple of hundred dollars before being forced to pay the city hundreds of dollars for them to steal and tow it away at my expense. But they didn't mind charging me property taxes on it's supposed perfect condition blue book value every year as if it had a perfect transmission. Something is definitely wrong with these rules or Ordinances.
@@JP-gi7dw Every time. It doesn't help when those that vote in the greater numbers vote by party. The same as their parents, their parent's parents and their parent's parent's parents and so on voted. To many of these kinds of voter do care, know, or understand what their voting for. They vote like zombies that are programmed. Otherwise government employees could never survive long, treating their constituents like slavery is still legal and that everyone that's not law enforcement or in government are the slavery class. Color has nothing to do with any of this. WE BE IN THE SOUTH. outnumber those that think
@@JP-gi7dw I'm also one of the people that got an invalid fraudulent voting ballot when President Trump ran. I know something was wrong with it, but didn't fully understand what, untie I got home and had time to look at the sample ballot I grabbed at the door walking in. There was no line 10 minutes before the end of voting. There is no way my voting form was recognized as valid by the voting machine. Also the machine only showed me my voting counter number. But no where could I find a vote excepted message or any other message. The vote was corrupt. Just as President Trump claimed. I'm proof
Fun story this happened to me. I wasn't driving my cadillac because it needed a new exhaust. Wake up and it was gone from my assigned parking spot. The complex apparently had it towed claiming it was broken down. It ran fine. I walked 4 miles to the impound lot and proceeded to start a fight for stealing my car. Since the office people didn't open the gate I went into the shop and told the crew I was gonna leave with my car or there was going to be blood spilled. The office called the cops, the sheriff rolled up. I told him what happened that they stole my car and are extorting me for money. I told him they better open the gate or I would get my car and plow through it. They refused unless I paid I told them I'm not paying and they would be buying a new gate. I walked down the lot to my car and pulled up in front of the gate with my exhaust dragging - office and shop crew standing there with the cop in disbelief I stopped got out and told the cop, now I'm opening my trunk and getting a very large knife. I'm crawling under this car to cut off my dragging exhaust pipe (they damaged it further during the tow) AND you aren't gonna do a damn thing about it. So I did just that. I cut and grabbed the hot exhaust pipe and threw it in the trunk hands steaming angry as fu**. When I got back in the driver seat the sheriff told them they better open the gate because I was dead serious. They opened it, I left, it never happened again.
Should have then found out who in the complex had your car towed and then donated the remains of the exhaust system inserted up their mule. Not the right word but related to the A word.
@@katjoe1974 I had a similar story happen when I was much younger, turned out that the tow truck business in question was running a scam, and not only did I get my car back for nothing, the owner and the tow truck driver were arrested and charged. It was a fun experience seeing crooked people actually be held accountable. They are no longer in business.
Chicago suburb sent inspectors into people's private property including garages that happen to have the door open to check for City stickers. If project car or any vehicle on property did not have a sticker, a large fine was assessed. Never mind the trespassing issue.
This happened in my town in Virginia. The owner had a stroke and had been sent to a rehab center across the state months earlier. Church members knew and told the city. Officials did not care. I was able to buy the 2nd inoperable vehicle from the daughter, who had a POA, to give the sick lady some money. It was a real mess.
@@kenbrown2808 This is Pre-Crime. They weren't on the road, they weren't being driven. They were off the road on Private Property. It's government theft.
the local ordinances usually exempt repair facilities, junkyards, etc. at least my local ordinance does my project car runs, drives and is legally tagged, but looks so rough that I could see a vindictive person reporting it. I have good neighbors, but a guy one street over had to remove on of his Land Cruisers (only one of which runs) after the developer of new infill townhouses were approved to be built next door 😡 no one bothered us before… meanwhile a ~2016 Nissan Versa with a blown transmission sits in the same street (IN the street, not a yard), but it looks new and they wash it so the developer turns a blind eye
I had my car in the driveway for 2 weeks while the engine was rebuilt. We kept the front yard next and tidy and the mess was in the garage. Isn't that my right as an American to fix my own car? (Actually the neighbor did it in exchange for cleaning, painting, and beer )
I lived in Mesquite, Texas for over 33 years & they had a city ordinances for everything one could think of inc. untagged cars even if they were covered & in a driveway. I was so glad to be able to move from there in 2002. Here it's only a problem if the grass is more than 6 inches tall.
do they write you $100 ticket/dandelion too? thats still ridiculous, sounds like the they got little dicks. who will save us from the 7" tall grass? call the government!
Why not just sit at the mechanic shop and pick up every car with a no crank situation? Then send them a letter saying you need to fix the car before you can remove it from the storage yard. Also, we get to charge you for every day it sits at the towing yard. These people are not stealing as well as they could steal , I'm sure the people are fleeing the county because of shame.
This is just theft. She needs a good pro bono lawyer cause for poor people this is a no win situation. What's she supposed to do? This is insane. Good video DC
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Isn't this a rights violation?
I live in a small town in northern Canada.
I live in an apartment.
A few weeks ago I complained because our parking lot was full and only a couple people here have cars.
We have abandoned cars and a boat and trailers.
They got a couple things moved but the abandoned car is still here.
They thought if it is uninsured and not running they could tow it.
No, town laws say they cannot tow without the owners permission. She's been gone 8 months but the car is still here.
I gave Factor a shot after you last promoted them. It sounds like a cool idea, but its pretty poorly executed. The meals are stupidly expensive, and they've very small. I had trouble not eating something else in addition to the factor meal. I wouldn't recommend Factor, you'd be better off getting some frozen dinners or something.
Please name this judge & add a pic if possible.
Too often these judges make horrible, tyrannical judgments & we refer to them as "a judge"
Theft is wrong. And government theft should result in charges for the officials who violated the law.
Ha ha ha. When is the government ever held accountable table? And who charges them? Themselves? Lol.
@@mikepalmer1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski wrote a pretty interesting book on this subject.
@mikepalmer2219 It's about time we do. Nobody is above the law... unless you cannot bleed.
@@Saint_SigismundI'm quite the author.
@@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916 Oh wow, it's an honor to meet you, Sir!
The Judges signing these warrants need to be recalled.
Tar and Feathers Riding a Rail
@@johnjmacejak dragged by horse back
No he needs to be in jail for theft.
These warrents aren't signed by judges. They are signed by city/county 'Magistrates' who are not elected; they are appointed by city/county officials. Magistrates are city lawyers who are assigned paperwork cases considered too inconsequential for the notice of a sitting judge. Joe blow lawyer getting a sinecure from his cousin on the city/county council as a 'Magistrate' is one of the cushiest jobs a lawyer can get.
1st off!! U pay for ur own place ur own house ur own land IF UR AN OWNER!! IF NOT U PAY A FN GD FORTUNE IN RENT TAXES U NAME IT!!! THE GD POS GOV HAS IT'S HANDS IN ALLLL UR GD POCKETS!!! U SHOULDNT HAVE TO PAY FOR UR LAND FOR THE REST OF UR FN LIFE WHEN URRRR THE ONE WHO FN BUYS IT WHEN UR THE ONE WHO FN WORKS UR ASS OFF ON UR LAND UR HOME!!! U WORKUR GD ASS OFF AND THEY CHARGE U TONS OF TAXES EVEN ON FN FOOD!!! AND IF U DONT PAY IT THEY TAKE THE FN LAND HOME U FN BOUGHT U IMPROVED U WORKED UR ASS OFF ON!
IT'S FN WRONG BY GOD!!!
AND NOWWW SOME POS WANTS TO TELL U WTF U MUSTTTT DO WITH UR OWN GD VEHICLE UUUU FN HAD TO PAY FOR!!!!
AND HEY!!!! COME DN ON THE FN TAXES COME DN ON THE GDMF TAGS AND MAYBE JUAT MAYBE FOLKS LIKE HER AND ME CAN AFFORD TO FN GET THEM!!!
TAGS OR STICKERS HERE R LIKE 185! I NEVER HAVE THAT!!! SO IT DONT GET DONE!!! I CANT AFFORD TO PAY HIGH AND RISING RENT KEEP THE POWER ON HAVE WATER.....HELL GDIT I CANT EVEN FN AFFORD FN FOOD!!!! BUT IM SUPPOSED TO FN PAY WHEEL TAXES TAGS INS STICKERS ALL THIS HIGH PRICED SHIT THAT ITHE OLDER I THE DISABLED I THE UNHEALTHY CANNOT AFFORD!!!
WELL IF WE R SUPPOSED TO AFFORD ALLL THIS DN SHIT THEN STOP VOTING FOR FN HITLER AND OTHER POLITICIANS WHO NEVERRRR EVERRR DO ANYTHING FOR THE OLDER FOLKS THE DISABLED FOLKS THE POOR FOLKS!!!!
U FN GD TAX THE POOR FOLKS TO FN DEATH!!!! ROOD SOOO GD HIGH WE CANT AFFORD TO FN EAT!!!
AND NOOOO ONE WHO IS RICH OR HAS MONEY WANTS US DISABLED AND OLDER FOLKS TO FN HAVE ANY MONEY!!! WE R SUPPOSED TO WORK 3 FN JOBS TIL WE DROP FN DEAD AND STILL NEVER HAVE SHIT!!!!
IF UR GD VEHICLE BREAKS DN U CANT AFFORD TO DN FIX IT!!! THEN U GOTTA FN WALK FOR MONTHS JUST TO FN SAVE UP THE GD MONEY TO FN AFFORD TO FIX IT!!!
MY SLUMLORD HERE HAS THIS RULE TO!! BUT YET HE KEEPS GOING UP ON THE RENT SO U CANT AFFORD TO FN FIX UR SHIT!!!! AND ONCE SOMEONE LIKE HER LIKE ME LOSES OUR VEHICLE THAT'S IT!!!! WE'RE DONE! WE'RE DEAD!!!! WE CANT GET TO THE DOCTOR CANT GET MEDICINE CANT GET TO THE STORE TO GET FOOD!!!! AND SHE CANT GET TO FN WORK!!! SO HTF CAN SHE EVER GD PAY TO GET IT OUT WHEN THEY KEEP TACKING ON ALLLL THIS GDMF MONEY TO IT!!! THE MORE THEY TACK ON THE MORE SHE CANT FIX IT AND THE MORE SHE CANT GET IT OUT!!
I MEAN THEY BASICALLY STOLE HER GD CAR LIKE A GD STINKIN THIEF!!!! AND SHE WILL NEVERRR EVERRR GET THIS CAR BACK!!!!
THEY R FORCING HER TO FN MOVE AWAY!!!! BECAUSE NOW SHE CANT GET TO WORK SHE CANT MAKE A LIVING CANT DO FN SHIT!!!! AND IF GF SHE WENT TO SOME GD RTO LOT AND GOT ANOTHER ONE!!! IT WOULD BE FN USED WORN OUT HAVE HIGH ASS MILEGE!!! AND SHED BE PAYING 30 TO 100% INT!!!! AND ANYYY VEHICLE U FN HAVE WILL FN GD BREAK DN!!!! SO GDIT SHE GOES OUT GETS ANOTHER MAKES A FN PAYMENT ON IT BREAKS DN THEN THEY TAKE IT TO!!!! THENNN SHE FN OWES THEM OWES THE FN CAR PLACE THAT FN SELLS HER ONE! NOW SHE WONT GET ANOTHER ONE!!!
I MEAN THEIR GD PUTTIN NAILS IN OUR COFFINS!!!
AND NOOO ONE CARES EITHER!!!! NO ONE GIVES A FUCK!!!! AND SOME STUPID FN IGNORANT SOB WILL FN SAY RETARDED SHIT TO HER LIKE....
WELLLLL GET A JOB BITCH!!!!!
SHE HAD ONE BITCH TIL THEY FN TOOK IT BITCH!
ORRR THEN THEY'LL SAY WELL.....PAY UR BILLS BITCH!!!! AS THOUGH SHE'S SOME GD DEAD BEAT!!!! WHICH SHE AINT!
I MEAN FOLKS WHO DONT KNOW FN SHIT ABOUT U WILL JUDGE U HARSHLY AND TELL U STUPID RETARDED DUMB ASS IGNORANT DUH SHIT!!!!
AS THOUGH DUH U COULDNT HAVE THOUGHT OF ALLL OF THAT ON UR OWN BITCHES!!! AND AS THOUGH UR SOME DEAD BEAT LOSER!!!
GOV AND OTHERS FN FORCE U INTO SOME GD IMPOSSIBLE SHIT U CANT FN GET OUT OF AND THEN U CANT DN GET HELP BECAUSE ALL U GET IS FN RETARDS WHO FN SAY DUMBASS DUH RETARDED FN SHIT TO U TRYING TO BEAT THE FUCK OUTTA U WHEN UR ALREADY BEAT THE FUCK UP AND DYING ALREADY!!!!
SHE WILL GET 000 HELP 0000 COMPASSION!!!! BUT HEY!!!! WELCOME TO AMERICA!!!!! THE HOME OF THE SUFFERING AND THE POOR AND THE NEEDY....THE OVER TAXED....THE UNDERPAID THE FN SCREWED ALL TO HELL....BY THE RICH AND THE FORTUNATE AND THE POWERFUL!!!!
THE LAND OF THE IMPRISONED!!!!! AND THE HOME OF THE STUPID THE RICH THE RAPERS KILLERS OF OTHERS!!!
THE LAND OF 0000 COMPASSION!!!! 000 KINDNESS!!!! 000 HELP!!!
WHERE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE ANYTHING INCLUDING FOOD OR RISE UP UNLESS UR FN RICH AND AND PRIVALIGED AND AT THE TOP ALREADY!!!!
SORRY BUT TALK ABOUT THE GD GOV OVER REACHING!!!! IF I PAY RENT OR IF I PAY FOR MY HOME MY VEHICLE OWN MY OWN LAND ETC THEN NOOOO GDMF BODY HAS A GDMF RT TO TELL ME WTH TO FN DO WITH IT!!!
AND I GET THE TRUE TRASHY PEOPLE WHO JUST HAVE SLUMS AND TRASHY PLACES AND WHO NEVER UPKEEP ANYTHING AT ALL!!! WHO JUST HAVE A FN JUNK YARD!!! AND YES!!?? I MUST AGREE THAT THESE PEOPLE MUST BE DEWLT WITH SOMEHOW!!
BUT GD!!! AT LEAST GIVE A REASONABLE TIME FRAME FOR FIXING REPAIRING ETC.... I MEAN U GOT ELDERLY DISABLED POOR FOLKS AND IT TAKES TIME TO SAVE MONEY TO DO SHIT!!! GIVE THEM??? A YR!? OR PROVIDE SOME KIND OF GOV ASST TO HELP THESE FOLKS GET THEIR VEHICLE REPAIRED!!??
AND WE NEED BREAKS ON TAXES TAGS INS ETC!
BACK IN TN I COULD TAKE IN PROOF OF MY SSD SSI AND FILL OUT A FORM AND GET A NICE BREAK ON MY TAG! TAGS WERE ONLY 65 NOT 185 LIKE HERE!!! AND WITH THE BREAK THAT MADE MINE 25 35!? AND I COULD AFFORD THAT!!!!
HERE U GET 0000 BREAKS 0000 MONEY OFF!!!! 185 PERIOD!! AND EVERY FN MO UR LATE ON UR TAG THEY JUAT GO UP!! THEM UR SUPPOSED TO HAVE VEHICLE CHECKS AND CERTAIN THINGS UP TO CODE!! INS ETC!!! BUT I DONT EVEN HAVE GD MONEY FOR GD FOOD!!! SO HTF CAN I FN HAVE MONEY FOR ALLL THAT SHIT TO!!!! ANDDD KEEP IT RUNNING!!!! HELL IM CHEAPER TO JUST GET A GD 300$ SCOOTER AND NOT HAVE TO DO SHIT!!! BUT FN PUT 3 BUCKS OF GAS IN AND FN RIDE IT!!
I MEAN GD!!!! THE RICH ALWAYS HAVE HAVE HAVE HAVE HAVE HAVE!!! AND R ALWAYS TAKING AWAY FROM THE OLDER THE DISABLED AND THE POOR WHO JUST KEEP GETTING OLDER AND OLDER AND MORE DISABLED AND MORE AND MORE POOR!!! AND THE MORE WE DO THE MORE WE GOTTA PAY AND THE MORE WE GET PUNISHED IF WE DONT!!! AND SINCE WE CANT THEN WE JUST ALWAYS GET PUNISHED!!!
GOV NEEDS TO STAY THE FUCK OUTTA HER FN BUS AND MY FN BUS!!!!
AND THEY SHOULD BE FORCED TO GIVE HER HER GDMF CAR BACK!!! AND FIX IT FOR HER SINCE THEY FN STOLE IT!
AND SHE NEEDS TO SELL AND MOVE ASAP!!!!
THEY R NOT KEEPING FOLKS THERE!!!! THEIR DRIVING THEM AWAY!!!!
WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE IDIOTS!!!!????
I was in the band with this boy from Minnesota!! He was like the stupidest boy I ever met!!?? And he told me about all this dumb shit they have there do there!!?? I think their all retarded there!!?? I know I ain't ever going to fn live there!!!😮😢😮😢😮😢😮
Never underestimate how tyrannical a government can be.
Tyranny is the natural state of government.
It's time to water the tree of liberty.
Vote these aholes out.
@@SchemingGoldberg I'm guessing that you know that it's not water being used on the tree.
You mean I'm not the only one pissing on the tree...😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I once lived across the street from a college art professor who was trying to restore a Citron. The city finally made him move it. The next semester he had his students build a paper mache' replica of the car up on blocks in his front yard.
LOVE that one !!
Sounds like something an HOA would do. A city gov’t with an HOA mentality… hmm, interesting.
If this applies to any private property and there are no exceptions then every car dealership and auto shop is in violation. Absolutely ridiculous law and I can't imagine that it won't get overturned
But not before they manage to steel hundreds of thousands of $$ worth of cars.
Nah just residential i think
what about the tow yard that they tow the car to? wouldnt that be subject to this bullshit to?
This is an extortion racket and they aren't even trying to hide it. Clear as day this government is stealing money from it's citizens.
Isn't Sarah Huckabee Sanders the governor there? Expect cray cray and bonkers laws and rulings!
Any car at a repair shop is included in this. Wait for the mayor to take his car to the shop and call the police to have it towed as it is "Inoperable."
Just posted the same thing, you beat me by 14 hours.
I had the exact same thought. How about used car lots? They aren't registered either.
@@rhoonah5849 New car lot, all those are not registered or plated.
@@rhoonah5849 Those don't count, the car lot has special insurance on all the registered cars, plus they can drive their cars with dealer plates. Obviously it's only at someone's house.
IDK why people are making a big deal. Where I live they've been doing this for as long as I can remember, since I was a kid. I'm 48. Cape Coral, FL has all kinds of crazy laws. They'll measure your grass and crap.
@@mikeworkman3593 First, how do you know they don't count? Are you familiar with the actual town ordinance?
Second, what's the big deal? It's theft on private property. That's the big deal. I can't believe anyone would be ok with this.
Third, who cares if it has been done for years? Wrong is wrong.
Lastly, I'm surprised you're ok with someone measuring your grass and then crapping on it ;)
This happened in my town once. The code enforcement officer ended up in the hospital. They can't find a new one to harass people.
He got assaulted by an invisible band of thugs and no one saw the incident?
That is the best way to stop the thieving thugs.
He ran into a brick wall, multiple times then?
Would be nice
Bet he got bit by a snake.
We just had 2 properties taken without notice by the village boarded. In addition to the real property, they removed and destroyed all the personal property as well. The most significant was a 5th Wheel camper that was in the fenced in backyard that we were using for storage. It had probably 50k worth of my husband's work tools and lots of other valuable items. They didn't even tow it to storage, they smashed it, and hauled it away. We were not served that they were doing this until 2 days after it happened. Ugh. What a joke
There HAS to be a hungry lawyer who would take this on with no $ up front. damn
Fourth amendment violation
Sooo,what a joke is all what you said? Thats it?
There's more to this story than you are telling us.
Didn't happen
The theory is this, if the person doesn’t have the money to pay for a tag then the person won’t have the money to pay an attorney to fight this unconstitutional seizure. It’s free money to the city
I agree this absolutely makes it ok
Just wait for the city to realize they can pull up to the local tire discounters and take every car on the lot.
This would be an unconstitutional takings issue. She should report this to the state police as theft as they should know that they couldn't tow it from private property because of state law.
yes. my town has this. but if your car has expired tags, even if its a carport. then you just get the fine. no tow.
that way, if you are on vacation, the worst that happens is the unpaid fine and then the city puts lien on your house and sells it for 120 bux in unpaid fines. (sold to the mayors cousin)
Astounding when a town goes full HOA.
Don't go full HOA.
This is a pretty standard blight ordinance.
@@timrosencrans7955 except that it says that the vehicle has to have tags and that it covers locations in your property inaccessible to the public. Standard blight ordinances just say that the vehicle cannot be in a state of disrepair and that it has to be resolved within a reasonable time frame. The other issue is that the state has a law that prohibits them from towing a vehicle off private property. The only thing that the town could legally do is issue a fine or a correctional order. Towing the vehicle outside of the legal authority to do so is auto theft. The state police and the DA can order the city to deliver the vehicle back to the lady's property and that they have to eat the towing and storage fees due to the illegal tow. If this is common practice by the town, someone is bound to be arrested for criminal conspiracy.
As fellow members of the 'blue brotherhood', the state police would NOT do a fking thing.
I had a neighbor repeatedly call code enforcement on my old truck sayin it didn’t run and violated city ordinance. It did run and was fully legal. That didn’t stop the town from trying to get rid of it though.
That neighbor died alone and miserable.
GOOD RIDDANCE
Copy the paperwork you got over the years. Place a copy of that paperwork in front of his tombstone every anniversary.🤣🤣🤣🤣 A gentle wave goodbye to the old enemy.
I had a similar neighbor like that once. I had to use restraint to keep myself from really retaliating against them. Some people just are not happy unless they are miserable. I always say it’s easier to just get along with your neighbors. And it does not take much effort. But some people just cannot help themselves.
Glad to hear it sounds like they couldn’t find any Evidence.
...under mysterious circumstance... 😂
This happened to my neighbor when I was living in Volusia County, Florida. Our other neighbor was a cop, saw his expired tags and had his car towed in the middle of the night. She said he was robbing the state of it’s money.
Someone needs to visit that officer in middle of the night. Teach him to harass people.
Mayor: Are people leaving town because we enforce unreasonable laws that cost people a lot of money? No... it's the citizens who are wrong.
It's just collateral damage. People who're self aware enough to realize they can move from their current town (and also have the means) are just a small proportion.
I will say. Living here. St Louis has had tons and tons of expired or stolen plates and tags on the street. The story here does take it slightly out of context. Removing a vehicle from private property is absolutely wrong. But with thousands of expired tags for a long time on the road in st Louis this push is just part of the city finally trying to crack down on it in the past few months, after many years of neglect. They pulled back on the swing so far on one direction that when it fell and they started enforcement it went back up the other side.
Using the same laws wouldn't the cities impound lot and the tow trucks lots be subject to the same fines and fees since they have unlicensed autos on their properties?
@@gierrah Part of the problem is charging $2,000 per year to register. The correct amount is something like $30 to $50 per year. If that means we need to let go a few thousand useless government workers, so be it.
@@johnpublic6582 She had a temporary tag. You get that when you buy a car. Steve read that the $2000 were for taxes. That's sales tax, not a registration fee. You have to pay sales tax before you're allowed to register.
Never let them get away with this. Tolerate it and will get worse. Private property rights need to be enforced.
Get rid of mayor, city attorney, code enforcement chief, etc. make them suffer at next election.
I believe that right to property needs to be returned to the people. Because it has been stolen from us
@@nicholasmercorella5318 yup.. let's keep VOTING for the corrupt system then HOPE for CHANGE.. 😊😊😊
in a country with soo many guns people need to start using them for the right thing
@@Woodie-xq1ew People don't take this seriously enough. It's not just our right, it's our responsibility to overthrow tyranny.
You can't have a car to restore, can't get sick and hospitalized or many other scenarios without being harrased by these power freaks.
But if you restore old things you won't CONSOOM NEW THING
Trust me, my property is worth more to me than the life of the asshole coming to steal it.
Amen yup town of Lexington doing the same thing right now they come in two my yard complained about my vehicle and some of my stuff so I got rid of everything now there complaining about my trailer ramps and and 5/8 3.5"X7 foot board they have nothing better to do funny part is my nabor has large attorney in he's family they don't say anything to him they go after the easy money and peaple easily harassed they where going after a mom with kids car while he was over seas pretty messed up my tow trucks are gone spare vehicle I live 1.5hr away from work kids nice to have options to get to work differently no HOA I own my property but I cant have anything in my yard pretty nasty if I could find attorney with knowledge like these guy I would let him keep the money just have him sweep are nasty corruption here
Like what are you supposed to do if your car can't pass emissions or something like that and you need to fix it before you can bring it back in? I'm so sick of this, they keep coming up with new scams every time we deal with the old ones
@@no_peace Simple. It's about POWER. Get involved. Vote the bums out. Most people don't know even who "represents" them on their local school board much less their senator or house representative. SELF GOVERNANCE FORFEITED. Who's to "blame"?
It is hard to find any entity of the government or law enforcement that actually do the right thing.
Apparently yes it is
OSHA does great work. They may be pedantic, but that is kind of their job.
My town in a neighboring state also does the expired tags in the driveway thing. I had a decent looking car that I was in the process of fixing sitting in my driveway. I got a letter for expired tags.
I figured I had an angry neighbor so I filed a foia request for any ordinance violations on my street and they said it was "too vague" so I found a list of every address on my street and resubmitted my request for every single address listed within a one year time span.
It shook up the code enforcement guy so badly he came to my house to apologize.
Good for you 👍
That is how you deal with power crazed functionaries.
Bury the lazy, entitled bums in paper-work.
We all know they are allergic to anything with the word work related to it.
lol
@@albertstephen2426 or just bury them
They know must folks won’t take the time and jump through huddles like you had to do, so they keep getting away with ish like this.
This happened to me several years ago here in California. It was a brand new car with a temp register tag in the window but it had fallen off the window. Cop towed it out of my driveway. Went to police department and blew them up and eventually got my car back without having to pay anything. It was 100% illegal for the police to do that to me. I ended up suing them as well and won a substantial settlement.
How much did it cost for lawsuit and how much did you get?
@@MrDLRu If you represent yourself (you have to in small claims court) it costs about $100 to file the suit. I think the limit you can win is 25k though.
Case number?
@@zpvnrt Why do they have to prove anything to you? 😂
@@zpvnrt None of your business, buddy. Try harder next time. 😂
I had a car taken once where the cop wouldn’t let me remove a disabled car with my own towing service (AAA), it HAD to be the company they called. When I went to get the car, the company said I needed a release order from the police. BTW, the towing company office had a calendar hanging on the wall from that police department. The car was eventually auctioned and I guarantee those cops got a cut. They prey on people who don’t have the means to get their property back.
Luckily every time I've had that happen I told the police I already have a truck coming and they leave me be. If they insisted it had to be removed, I wouldn't let them pick the towing provider.
Happens all the time. One of my friend owns a tow truck and he's gotten in fights with the police multiple times because they won't let him tow the vehicle for customer, because city has a contract with another tow company. It's ridiculous.
Corruption
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
@@RhizometricReality LOL, towing a crappy car that's a blight on a nice neighborhood isn't violence. Keep your crap in the garage like a normal person.
In Vallejo, CA, Code Enforcement issues violations for expired tags EVEN if there is already an "In-Op" filing with the DMV.
The fines are around $500.00 per violation per day past the deadline to correct.
The same is true for having car parts on your property. An air filter? Wiper blades? Yep.
My tenants' car was stolen and recovered with the ignition punched.
The tags expired while it was stolen and it was due for smog.
The ignition would crank with a screwdtiver but the fuel pump wouldn't turn on. The tenant diligently worked on it, replacing the fuel pump twice. The code violation notices were issued nonetheless.
Its ridiculous. He couldn't very well drive it to the smog place, so he non-op'd it with DMV. The violations state that a non-op status with DMV is irrelevent as far as Code Enforcement is concerned.
It’s money, the greedy fuckers can’t careless what happens, except to them…
This is just another example of the authorities treating citizens like atms and forever dooming them into a debt hole.
There's one small tribe to blame but we're not supposed to talk about them
@@ChewyChicken589 coward
@@ChewyChicken589 - The success and prosperity of any state city county township or jurisdiction is inversely proportional to the amount of libtards running it. I'm not sorry LOL
@@ChewyChicken589Ah yes, the "I'm going to blame ze jews in spite of my elected officials being baptists!" mentality.
@@ChewyChicken589 thin blue line gang.
Steve speaks the truth! I had a mouse infestation in a vehicle in my driveway. I went and registered the vehicle and got a new license plate. When I got back and waved the registration towards the car and showed the mice the license, the mice abandoned their homes and ran away. +1 would license again!
Ha,ha,ha, funniest one yet!!!
You didn't even have to apply to Mouse Housing Court for an eviction? Lucky.
@@foremanhaste5464 I guess he got sued as he evicted a single mother of 15 children without proper notice and then got sued by the local government for housing such a large family in a property which was not up to code and not periodically inspected. On top of that he probably also now has to pay extra taxes + fees for late payment.
So they're stealing your private property....that is ON YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY?!?!? Sounds unconstitutional.
I happen to have my very first car (1967 Cougar) in our garage. Have owned over 40 years. It's not running at this time. Watch my fury if it got impounded!!!!
They "had a warrant"
Unfortunately most people don’t have the money to fight it in court
@@gcanada3005 probably what corrupt politicians & judges are counting on.
@Michael Stahl property rights are implicitly protected by the 3rd, 4th, and 14th amendments plain text, as just a few examples
@michaelstahl3325 Don't be ignorant.
Private property also includes automotive repair shops where nonoperable vehicles are being worked on, or waiting for parts to arrive.
So, if somebody follows the mayor, and he is having a tire replaced, it can be towed, because it is inoperable. What about repair shops? This is beyond crazy. The mayor has hired an attorney that agrees with him, not the law. I hope the city is sued for multiple civil rights violations (they will definitely lose)
Repair shops aren't residential property, so no.
@DonziGT230 what makes you think this law only applies to residential property? "So no?" Dude just grow up
Imagine if somebody diabled the mayors car
I'd be putting pebbles under a slightly tightened valve stem cap to release the air from his tires everywhere he went. I've done it plenty of times and when the cops get there they laugh because you didn't damage anything and they can't charge you with anything.
They will have to sue the city government in a federal court.. It should be pretty much an open and shut case.. This is straight up theft..
These ignorant, abusive bureaucrats! In these cases, the tow company is typically a private company, and, inevitably, the owner of the tow company/tow yard, who's getting all of these fees, is connected to the mayor (relative, campaigne doner, crony, etc.), and, after 30 days, they get to keep the car and/or the remaining funds after it is auctioned off. - Crooks!! - Replace that mayor!!!
But bureaucracy can also be abused. So if the tow yard currently towing these cars is inside Calverton Park, then create a tow company outside the town boundaries. Then get warrants to tow all the unregistered cars from the Mayor's mates yard and charge them 200% of their storage fee because they were in possession and thus liable for the storage fee. If they agree to waive tow and storage fees against the vehicle owner, think about waiving the charges against the Mayor's mates yard. Needs someone with land outside the town, a sense of humor and a tow truck. And probably some decent legal advice that can hopefully figure out a way to get around the abatement tax.
They trespassed on her real estate to hook the car to a tow truck. They violated her car ownership rights by taking it without cause. The purpose of automobile licenses and licensing fees were to maintain roadways on which the vehicle might move. If her vehicle is not using these roadways, then she owes no licensing fees.
One man's eyesore is another man's masterpiece... Jackson Pollock made that point.
Not being on the roadways is why tractors and riding lawn mowers don't have to be licensed or fully operable for road travel. I wonder if the law is broad enough to allow them to be seized from private property too.
This case did make me angry, but technically if the city had a warrant they did not trespass. Where the accountability breaks down is that a judge can issue as many egregious warrants as he or she fancies...
@@davidtauriainen9116 it's funny you think driver's licenses, registrations, and insurance is required for cars though. It's not. The constitution protects our right to travel. No license no registration and no insurance. Those things are only required if you're doing commerce, not traveling. Read up. We've all been eating the propaganda for too long.
I live in Portage County, Ohio in a small rural town. Our city code controls your yard. No litter, vehicles that run, vehicles tagged, grass cut. I got a harassing notice about my grass from the city dept. My husband had cut the grass over the weekend and couldnt grass whip due to rain coming. It was not long and we mowed every week. This was obvious harassment because we did not interact with our neighbors. Small towns are power centers. The bad kind.
What town is that?
My brother had this happen 20+ years ago. He got compensated for his loss. Court rulings in ohio have said license is ONLY for identifying a vehicle while operating on a public roadway and 4th amendment applies to car on private property. Many construction companies use unlicensed vehicles on job sites for on moving materials around. Same is true of many large industrial plants.
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Same goes with farms
@@Helladamnleetand thankfully John Deere is losing their fight against right to repair. Farmer Dowell can soon repair his own tractor
Missouri has ruled against the cities every time this happens. We had a similar issue on my Grandparents farm in Kansas City area. They would put old cars on the from half of the farm along the road for decoration. City came out and towed the cars one afternoon and Grandpa got a lawyer. I not sure what all went down, but he had the cars back in about a month, and he had money to buy a new truck.
Being a government official doesn't shield anyone from a grand theft auto charge.
Imagine a city where they can impound any undrivable car going after the mechanics, that seems fun.
Imagine if every mechanic in a city knows what these a hols are doing then they start asking for the a hols cars to be impounded every time they go to the mechanic, that would be even funnier.
@@bergmanoswell879 you forget qualified immunity.
@@Catkinson3580 Nope, I didn't forget anything - you on the other hand, don't understand what qualified immunity does.
Qualified immunity is a court rule in civil court that allows the defendant to have the judge dismiss a civil lawsuit before the lawsuit gets to the point it's super expensive. Qualified immunity ONLY applies to civil lawsuits in civil court.
Grand theft auto, on the other hand, is a felony charge in criminal court. Qualified immunity doesn't protect against criminal charges, and any defendant asking for a dismissal of charges due to qualified immunity will be looked at as if they were particularly stupid by the judge, possibly even laughed at. And then their motion for dismissal would be rejected.
Imagine taking your car to a mechanic's shop to be fixed and the local government tows it away because it's "inoperable" on private property.
They towed like 10 vehicles from a local mechanic shop. And basically forced him out of business. In Ozark Al
Imagine NOT taking your car to a mechanic’s shop, so you can fix it yourself and it gets towed for the same reason.
the lady should file a criminal felony theft charge in federal court against the city and the tow service that trespassed on her property
Civilians can't file felony charges, they can only file a complaint. Only the district attorney office can file criminal cases. If the DA doesn't agree with the complaint, no charges are filed. She can sue in civil court, but without the criminal conviction from the DA there's no evidence of the crime.
The legal system is heavily stacked against you when the government abuses you.
These warrants aren't signed by judges. They are signed by city/county 'Magistrates' who are not elected; they are appointed by city/county officials. Magistrates are city lawyers who are assigned paperwork cases considered too inconsequential for the notice of a sitting judge. Joe blow lawyer getting a sincure from his cousin on the city/county council as a 'Magistrate' is one of the cushiest jobs a lawyer can get.
*sinecure
spell big words correctly if you're gonna use 'em, bud
@@StanleyKubick1 In this situation, I write as I speak. I would say "sin-kyur" not "sign-kyur", therefore that is what I typed. I didn't think to check the spelling here because doing so would be pretentious IMHO.
In any case, how much does the social media grammer police pay these days? Bud.
@@ZaypharIt just makes you look uneducated and/or lazy. In this case, it seems you're both. And it's a volunteer position. Donations are appreciated.
@@TecnamTwin What a devastating counter argument! You're so right! I just changed my mind! Thank you for enlightening me!
My dad was harassed endlessly because he had too many cars on his property. He was an auto mechanic and had cars in line to be fixed or used for parts. They finally left him alone but he fought long and hard to get them to bug off. This was in Utah, but these stupid money grabbers are everywhere
If you're a bloodsucking bureaucrat that harasses mechanics you should be put on a blacklist where every mechanic they take their car for maintenance will just unplug the fuel pump and say "Sorry, declined repairs."
If I were his neighbor, I wouldn't want to live next to what sounds like effectively an informal junkyard. Maybe he had an incredibly well organized and appealing "line of busted cars", but that seems a little unreasonable on his part.
Unreal what happens
Dude, his property was a clear nuisance. The city was not harassing him they just wanted him to follow the same rules everybody else has to follow.
Depends on whether it was in an area zoned for business or residence. It is a little unreasonable to have dozens of cars parked around a neighborhood street for your business.
But if it was ALL actually on his property (zoned for business), and not some line going down the street, then no reason to harass him over it.
Utah has a rule that cars must all be current on license, insurance, etc, even on private property. I do NOT live in UT and the code officer was using those codes. The judge was not happy when I explained what she was doing. Was even less amused when I made that information public and started talks of class action lawsuit. She was caught entering peoples homes many times. After video of this was presented she 'retired' from being a police officer.
If a car is inoperable at a mechanics shop or lot, then legally they can tow that car because there is no exemptions. Then they also can search salvage yards, garages, parking lots, storage units in order to find unlicensed cars and tow them because there is no exemptions.
Hey Steve! Thx for the post. I live in St. Louis city. Calverton Park is in a part of STL where there are many small villages that use these types of scams to embezzle their citizens and people that are passing through. The tax base in these villages is so small that they can not operate proper public services and resort to this type of extortion under the guise of "public safety" to raise money for the cities empty coffers. It is also very likely that these "government officials" are also siphoning off funds for personal enrichment, which happens regularly in these fiefdoms.
Then a class action lawsuit will clean them out.
@@stevelawrence5123 Hopefully.
Sounds like the next voting cycle will be interesting…..
I don’t imagine many incumbents…..
@@JimsEquipmentShed this is St. Louis City, if the Mayor personally came and towed their car they would vote for them again in the next election.
A city with a population of 1293 and a few square miles... This is ridiculous... And yes they incorporated as a city in 2014..
This type of thing is very common in a community that has an HOA. They are very strict about unregistered vehicles in the HOA where I live. Serious ago we had a nasty HOA president. She actually came to our door and told us that we had two weeks left that she was watching all of the stickers on everybody's Vehicles parked in the driveways. I was actually shocked when she came and rang the doorbell and gave us a verbal warning about our registration for the car and that it would be towed the day after the registration expires if we did not register it. Meanwhile at the time my wife was very sick and in and out of the hospital so we just did not have the time to get to motor vehicle at that particular time. So I was forced to make time to go re-register the vehicle before the deadline. But because I am old school Italian and I do have a tendency of getting revenge on people let's try to do me wrong. So this nasty Karen president of our HOA got just what you deserved. It just so happens that somebody that did not like her took a gallon of furniture stripper the strong type that is in jelly form and poured it all over her SUV in the middle of the night. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
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Nice 😃 🇮🇹
Moral of the story, do not mess with Italians.
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Yeah like what are the chances she would ever come across this post right, right?. . .
Hey! Where is everyone going?
Judges are out of control. Personal property that is not on the street, so it is NOT in violation until on the street
I don’t believe there was a mention of ongoing litigation or any decision by a judge mentioned in this video. This ordinance hasn’t been challenged legally from the looks of it.
So uh… while I agree, it’s not really relevant to this situation yet.
Edit: I did forget about the judge signing the search warrant, but is that not simply a result of the bad law? I don’t believe the search warrant is where a judge can’t question the constitutionality of a law.
@@bradenculver7457a judge signed the warrant that allowed them to take the car.
@@diablominero ah that part, yea I forgot about that as the video went on. But also, there’s not really that much a judge can do, is there? It’s a valid warrant subject to a law on the books. The law shouldn’t exist, but it does. The search warrant process isn’t where a laws validity is challenged.
In the case of the warrant, I don’t think the judge is the one out of control. It’s the people who passed the law and the council members defending it.
@@bradenculver7457 by this same logic, you would be justifying not just this, but all abuses of power so long as its a "law", especially the many, many horrible crimes committed by the government...such as the genocide that the US government signed off on, that killed 9-10 million native americans, by killing off the bison and poaching EVERY other animal they hunted, as well as publically castrating the men to prevent them from being able to have kids again, so they could wipe out the native americans and their culture.
_but it doesnt matter because it was legal right?_ get the fuck outta here with that shit.anything can be justified in law, even straight up genocide, rape, and murder.
@@bradenculver7457 this law isn't on the books. It's taking even if it's in the driveway. Because it "looks" bad. f um it's his property.
Norfolk Virginia has had that law too. The city inspectors couldn't keep up with the number of inoperable, uninspected or unlicened vehicles so they started saying police offices could tag vehicles parked on private property for tow if not moved or made operable and legally tagged. The only exception to the rule is keeping the vehicle in a garage or other enclosed building where it could not be seen. The city also had a rule no cars could be parked on the grass of private property.
This happened to me several years ago. I had a 1963 impalla in my driveway. It was tagged and insured. The sticker on the tag was old but i had paid for the new registration and i had the new sticker in my house. The city towed it even though the registration was current and insurance was current. I had to pay a fee to the towing company. I went into the lot, put the new sticker on it, and drove it home. I was so angry. Really made me consider doing something illegal.
only if car is moving will they do the computer look up, stealing tags is big in cali
Should have put the sticker on the tag while in impound, taken a pic, and claimed it was there the whole time. Make them prove otherwise. Play their little game in accordance with their own unethical rules. (There are no rules)
You should move to a better state IMHO
You should. They wouldn't do it if they had to find a new code enforcement officer every other week...
@@tnwhitley confusion?
inebriation?
I had a junker towed in Seattle - which would have cost me ~$2k. To avoid this fee, I reported that it had been sold to the tow yard, and informed the tow yard of their new ownership to be in conformance with WA state law. They would then owe any fees due in connection with the car. They threatened, etc., but they ended up owning my old junker without my having to pay any money.
Amen, pretty good!
wouldn't you need a bill of sale to prove that it was sold to the tow yard?...just a thought there
@@MrDLRu Pretty sure his notification to relinquish/surrender ownership to company is sufficient legal xfer of interest.
Just spit ballin' here... A tow/storage yard does not need a bill of sale to gain full ownership/title for a vehicle they have "stolen", eh? (they gain ownership thru "Lien(s)") Note: Called it "stolen" because it's the term that MANY tow companies use. 🤨(source: Lizzard Lick Towing and other similar Reality TV shows, plus an aquaintance that ran a tow company)
Sounds a lot like fraud
@@BlackSmokeDMax you mean like the government does all the time? FU
Oh, one more thing: I am an insurance adjuster currently, who did automotive paint/ auto body repair for over 20 years. WTF happens when someone is involved in an accident and the vehicle is towed to the customer house?? I JUST finished up writing an estimate on a vehicle in someone's driveway!!! This will get ugly if the town does not act quickly. I will leave it at that lol. Keep us updated on this if possible. Have a good one man
Hopefully you and most insurance adjusters are better than the adjuster that I dealt with most recently. Back in December right before Christmas in my 2011 Camry got hit in the rear relatively low speed but I was completely stopped and they hit my vehicle hard enough that the force of the impact sheared the bolts for the right rear brake caliper although that was not readily Apparent at the time it didn't start to be apparent until several days after the wreck which itself the body damage was minor enough I was waiting till after Christmas to tackle because the rest of the body was just cosmetic around the bumper. But it would start grinding into the wheel in reverse until it would no longer move on that wheel. The adjuster for the insurance company tried to claim that there's no way that that caused the damage. Front-wheel-drive unibody car impact all absorbed on the rear as best I can understand it
What happens to any vehicle that goes to a local repair shop? Does the city immediately seize it because it’s inoperable on the lift? Or parked in the lot waiting to be repaired?
property values will go down
No, thereis nothing legal about seizure from private property for expired tags. Registration is thru the state and only qualifies the vehicle for operation on public roads. This law is unconstitutional, period. Any official or employee involved in this scheme needs to be taken out.
Just imagine the number of vehicles that could be towed from mechanics' shops! Time to get repairs done outside of city limits.
Exactly! It's outrageous
Until there is true accountability for these tyrants, complete with actual imprisonment, this crap will continue and get worse.
Therefore it will never change. This is why I have become more and more anarchist like as I have gotten older.
Come on my property and get shot.
There is. It’s called the second amendment. You better believe I’d be TAKING my property back and wouldn’t pay so much as a penny in fees.
@@EnthalpyAndEntropyno you wouldnt
Exactly the same corruption starting at the top with the Federal government all the way to state and locally. It depends on their agenda and not constitutional rights.
I don't understand how the city officials aren't sued personally and spend some time in jail for crap like this.
Qualified immunity. It's not just for cops, it's for all government officials. They just need to come up with schemes that are so brazen or so insane that they have never been adjudicated. Then they never will be.
because the average guy/gal doesn't have the kind of money needed to do that...and the govt lackey lickers know that.
@@MrDLRuExactly. When you sue them they don't have to spend a dime. Literally you pay for it with your taxes. But you have to find your own legal help. And given the immunity that they have from prosecution it's a no-lose situation for them. They either win or they will not be punished because of immunity
You don't get jail time for civil suits. Most of these people they are attacking don't have any money.
I figure that they dont attack people who have ability to sue or hire lawyers. Most normal people are just trying to keep their job and pay the bills week to week
Rebuilt a junk classic for a friend in my garage. I admit, when the car arrived, anyone would have said, "Junk It!' After body and paint restoration, all my neighbors said, "What a beautiful car."
They’d clean up removing all the new cars off the dealership lot, that are not registered.
Ooh! Good one!
Lexington, KY will do the same thing. I've had cars that were just sitting(tagged and operable but just sitting for a while) that were threatened to be towed by the city on multiple occasions. I'm a beekeeper and I only use my pickup when I go check my bees, and sometimes that's months. I discovered that some of this comes from "property management" groups because one bought a house 2 doors up and someone called about my truck sitting on the street in front of my house for over a week. When an officer showed up to ticket it, I protested and one of the guys from the management group was there and heard me explain how i use the truck. Suddenly he was super apologetic and said he thought it was junked or something(right, with insurance, plates, etc. current). I told the cop if he were going to try to ticket me that I expected him to do the same to the other cars on the street that do the exact same. He looked at me and was like "which ones?", which then got him a full list and I said I'd be happy to call in the complaints if I had to. Suddenly it was all about "de-escalation" and nobody wanted to write me or anyone a ticket or even a warning. He'd have been there all damn day AND I'd have called every week to waste their time and money on ever considering messing with me again. I'll happily take everyone down with me if they wanna play that game. These days I drive through expensive neighborhoods and look for code violations so I can keep code enforcement busy with people who will lose their minds over being cited.
wonder what the "A" in HOA stands for????
You're doing the lords work
@@billfusionenterprise Probably a close relative to a mule.
@Just Looking
So if you and your family go on vacation, you have to hire someone to move all of your other cars around every 3 days?
Utterly insane.
@@justlooking777 couldn't care less
The same thing can happen in an HOA neighborhood. I had an a-hole resident in my subdivision report my licensed, registered and insured vehicle that was under a store bought fitted car cover in my driveway saying it was an inoperable vehicle under a tarp. Not to mention it's my daily driver when I'm home. (Commercial Truck Driver)
Some people just have to be a Karen.
HOAs need way more scrutiny. Most of them are operating outside the law.
My hoa has the same rule about tarps on vehicles. It don't matter if its working. Just the cover alone is visually unappealing to them.
Sue the HOA for false charges.
I owned a 1972 Lodestar 1600, it was fully licensed, operable, and insured. It was also ugly, having been hand painted black over an awful puke green. City code enforcement officer rolls up one day and simply says the city code says this vehicle is junk. I explained that the truck was licensed and insured but she said, doesn't matter, city code says it is junk. no matter what I said about the trucks usefulness or legality her answer was always, doesn't matter, city code says it is junk. And it must be disposed of, or the city will have it towed. Not having funds for a legal battle, and not wanting to be stuck for towing and storage fees, I sold to a scrap yard. Still makes me angry, it was a perfectly usable truck for hauling trash and building supplies.
I was told my antique truck was “abandoned”, sitting on my driveway. I had to sell it. The township only pursues a new ordinance if someone complains. There are “abandoned” cars all over the township. I was saving up to get motor and transmission work.
how is it abandoned if its personal property sitting on the owners private property? abandoned would imply it was left on public property or someones elses private property
@@carlholland3819 township came out with a new rule. All vehicles must be inspected and registered. I said I was grandfathered in, but lost.
@@paulne1514 file a 1983 lawsuit in every name involved. If this is recent. Take it to supreme court.
My late brother-in-law had a number of tickets he got while he worked which he failed to pay, and he lost his Driver's License. This was in NY years ago. They pulled the registration on their pickup truck, so my sister had no way to get to work, do food shopping, get to appointments, etc. They had no way to pay for the tickets, and all of the fines that kept adding on, so for the next 17 years my sister didn't have a car! My brother-in-law passed away during that time, making it even harder for my sister to get any car. These idiots in MO who are taking working peoples' cars and charging them all of the extra fees they'll have to pay are disgraceful! They should all be fired, including that judge. Do any of them have any compassion, or common sense? Stop being so money hungry, and HELP your citizens for a change!
NAH ! ! ! Those politicians take their cue from the World's Greatest Grifter. If the Prez can do it any lowlife politician can too.
He should have sold the truck to her for a dollar so it could be registered in her name instead
They aren't interested.
Please don't refer to yourself as "their citizens" you are not their property or their slaves.
Sounds like they can't afford the vehicle even if it were legal to drive.
Whenever you feel the urge to abuse your position of power to ruin people's lives, remember the "Killdozer".
When you push people into desperate situations, expect the most desperate reaction.
And it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong when the suicidaly desperate person is driving a bulldozer through your living room, over your car and then into your office...
Marv should be a national hero
We need more people like that.
We should all be reasonable people pushed to do unreasonable things.
Our founders knew violence is the only language tyrants comprehend.
RIP Marvin.. ❤
What most don't know that "CERTIFICATE OF TITLE" is the lesser of the two. If you have either the MSO (Manufacturer's Statement/Certificate of Origin) or Clean/Clear Bill of Sale without the VIN being in the Corporatocracy data base (DMV), then you have full and complete control of the automobile. FTR: car is short for "carriage"; Motor Vehicle is a contract term specifically used by DMV for the top control of all autos regardless of variety. There is no such item any longer as a "Motor Vehicle", yet Carriages still do exist.
Unless you have Land Patent for your house/soil, you "real property" is not Private. If the item (land/auto) is registered, thus conveying control over that item to another entity, then it is controlled on the higher title by that entity. Anything that's Registered gives control over.
The Corporatocracy is Babylon.
This channel increases my blood pressure more than I thought it would
Me too, I am angry for that lady though I live in an area where no such laws apply.
Really.. how many times did you VOTE?? 😊😊
@@JP-gi7dw all the times
@@TheCarpenterUnion when you VOTED, you wanted the corrupt system to be your master so stop crying about the shit show.. 😂😂
@@RPSchonherr don't get angry, get smarter.. 💯💯
My brother's township told him he needed to get rid of his vehicles that were hard to see from outside the property. Said they were coming to fine him. He told them he will register every one and park them in the front yard. Never heard back from them. Been like 15 years since.
this was the Only way we got the code off of us after he harassed us for 2 years and then tried to lie about us to the town board.
literally we even registered Campers too.( musclecars,projects,racecars,trucks,and campers )
it didnt hurt that we caught him on tape breaking into our shop either,while it pissed us off,it was also a big asset that we never had to deploy.
our New code guy,is just the nicest guy.........not a power tripping troublemaker.
A former mayor of my little Idaho town tried to do something similar to this several years ago. When the cooler heads of reasonable staff members told her what would result if she tried to pull a stunt like this, she backed down. The city council attempted to pass some broad "junk" ordinances a few times, but myself and others attended meetings and spoke out about how ridiculous the rules were as proposed, and they backed down, too.
As it stands, the only time things like this are enforced now are when a proper complaint is filed, and contact is made with the landowner and they are given time to mitigate the situation. As it should be.
No, as it should NOT be. They should be allowed to have on their property what they want.
@@TheInsultInvestor That is all well and good until someone opens a puppy mill next door. Or maybe an all night auto repair shop. I build cars and I love dogs, but that shit don't fly.
@@corey6393come to WA state, the chop shops run all night!
@@corey6393 Ah yeah anything can happen so shut it all down! allow nothing at all, due to your extreme examples! Go stuff it
Imagine if all the mechanics get together and start calling a tow on a hols cars that made this law every time they need service, it would be overturned pretty quick.
So, you're allowed to have unlicensed and inoperable vehicle on PUBLIC PROPERTY. They stated it's only illegal on _private_ property.
Even if you spend your entire life working on a car because it brings you calm...and never bring it to working condition...I don't think that should be made an infraction! Too many laws!
One thing i always wondered is why do we discourage blue collar activity in society? This topic of working on one’s car seems to fall under that category.
The town where I previously lived defined abandon as a vehicle that had not been driven for 8 consecutive days. My vehicle got ticketed because the weather was nice and I was riding my motorcycle every day to work. I told them that was an unreasonable requirement and they had no right to tell me which vehicle I had to drive to work. They never followed through on it and nothing became of it.
That's insane! What if someone goes on vacation for two weeks, has a friend drive them to the airport?
@@reginaschellhaas1395I have moved friends’ cars from one spot to the other every few days when they have gone on trips. In my city, a car can’t be parked in the street for more than 72 hours without being driven at least 1/10 of a mile. You can be ticketed or towed.
@@mkuti-childress3625 I live out in the boonies. But I may remember some such from in-law relatives who lived in Queens or Brooklyn areas of NYC. I seem to remember that cars had to be moved from one side of the street to the other?
Anyway, your friends are lucky to have you! Seems bizarre to me that ppl can't go on vacation or make an emergency trip without relying on a trusted friend. Sadly, not everyone has such a person in their lives.
Doesn't using a vehicle contribute to the dreaded "climate change"? Sounds like people making you start a vehicle for no reason want to kill grandma.
crazy, crazy rules. Can't understand how a town comes up with such a weird definition and why would they care wether a car was driven (around the block or elsewhere) or not. Tsssss. What if you were ill? Or on vacation?
When you said Saint Louis County I understood what was going on immediately
The county is filled with tiny little cities that have been having trouble meeting their budgets. Their people are poor. Property taxes can't cut it. They';ve been using the cops as a way to generate revenue.
Calverton expects (probably rightly) that whomever they do this too won't have the resources to fight it in court.
This is just more of that it seems
This is exactly the case.
Calverton Park was always this way. When I lived there, they kept New Florissant just south of 270 night & day, and would ticket anyone 2-3 mph over the limit. A "police department" for a village of less than 500 homes is ridiculous, and they do nothing but generate revenue to maintain their own existence. St. Louis County PD would take over that duty for far less cost.
Yep. "Calverton Park draws 66 percent of its revenue from fines and fees on the local population, which represents the highest percentage of any municipality in St. Louis County."
Taxation by citation.
Coffee, Texas had 50 cops for a 250 population @@corvussheperd8046
I had something similar happen in Missouri near KC, they enforce the same code as STL, the IPMC or international property maintenance code is adopted by some localities as their code basis for these actions.
The specific section is 302.8, a section of code about building exteriors. I had a vehicle out of my garage to sand, actively at the time, and another older licensed operable vehicle. Without asking me or speaking with me the official wrote up the letter printed it and then walked up to me to hand it to me. Even after showing him the vehicle is parked in the garage and that the second vehicle ran and was licensed he refused to edit the complaint. His argument was that I could have the vehicle outside for any amount of time “because he doesn’t have time to be going around to see how long vehicles are outside”.
The code allows minor repairs, it disallows major repairs which Missouri defines as removing the body from the frame for work on either and removal of engines from commercial trucks.
I threw him off my property, researched the laws and wrote them a letter for appeal. It centered on the interpretation of the code as defined by the code, to promote health, safety, property protection and general welfare. It goes on to say that sections without definitions will be interpreted using commonly accepted meanings in line with the purpose of the code.
Missouri law allows me to build a car from scratch, take it to be inspected, and get a new title/registration for the vehicle.
If that is true, then the requirement to never have an unlicensed vehicle “parked, kept, or stored” outside (the limit of the code) prevents me from building a car in my garage and then loading it on a trailer, because I couldn’t possibly do that if I couldn’t ever have it outside.
Oddly enough, this specific jurisdiction allows recreational OHV to be kept outside for 7 days. So in theory I could buy a CAN AM OHV of the same size as my truck, have it unlicensed outside for 7 day increments, performing the exact same work.
My biggest issue with the whole process is that the code was designed to keep neighborhoods safe, major repairs in a yard could cause someone to get hurt. Sanding bondo for an hour does not have any inherent risks.
So in my appeal I asked the city to append the code so that there is a reasonable amount of time that a project vehicle can be outside so as to avoid an undue burden that prevents me from building a registering a custom vehicle in accordance with Missouri law.
In the meantime, I’ve been recording myself moving the car in and out of the garage each morning and driving the licensed and insured FJ.
I used to live in La Mirada, Ca. and there was a teenage boy that saw my 1974 CORVETTE in my garage, it was running but it needed electrical so I had not driven it for nearly 3 yrs. This boy asked if it was for sell, I said no, he asked again about a month later, again I said no, a few days later his dad knocked on my door and asked about the car, I told him not for sale, mean while a neighbor down the street had 2 none running 1963 buicks sitting on jackstands in his driveway, the city law says VISIBLE non running vehicals are subject to be towed, well one morning 4 car loads of L.A. County Sheriff Deputies and a tow truck showed up to take my car. They ordered me to open my garage because they were taking my car because it was visible with overdue tags, of course I refused to open the garage, I then put a lock on the latch right in front of them, they threatened to break the lock, I walked down the street took a picture of my neighbors car then came back and said " I dare you to break into my garage". They left , nothing else said. I must say, I am a black man, this city at that time was 90% white plus others and only about 3% black. Well that afternnon I decided to go to city hall to file a complaint and lo and behold the boy's dad was in city hall, he saw me and turned is face away quickly and disapeared into a door with no marking, I went behind him to try to see where he went but the door was locked, I had no way of figuring out who he was, so I put in a complaint about the incident. 3 days later, again 4 carloads of deputies, one knocked on the door, of course he was the only black out the other 15, when I went out to talk with them my neighbors were out there and they were furious because they had seen the first incident ,but there was the station commander, he had come to apologize and he told me a city official had given them incorrect information about me and my car, he even had an already completed form that had all the details and report of the incident and he offered to deliver it himself if I wanted to sign it, but I said no, so he gave copies which he signed right there, he apologized again to and to my neighbors, I discovered who the man was that initiated everything, he was a city councilman that lived 2 blocks away. I was not going to get involved with politics, but I wrote him an email to let him know to never use his position for extortion again. 🇺🇸 AMERICA IS GREAT
It's the leftist mentality that has taken over nearly every single city in this country that's at fault. These people seek power for power's sake and become absolutely corrupt. It doesn't matter what state you're in, but if you live in a rural area you're less likely to face such evil, and in a city more likely. This country used to be better, but evil has always been around and it's pervasive and quite capable of infecting the minds of our youth. Soon, the only solution that will allow us to escape this will be to find another planet.
You are one fortunate guy. I was being systematically harassed by the town code 'officer', and when I countered each of his accusations, he did not know how to proceed, so went over to talk to the local COUNCILMAN, who was seated in his car next door [to observe] and ask advice. Said councilman went very pale when he saw me walk up behind the 'officer' [on a public street mind you] and stammered out something about jogging in the park and stopped to say hello..... yeah, in your suit. He suddenly had to be somewhere else. Bastard had COMPLIMENTED me on my [fully legal] antique truck, as I was "preserving town history"... of course that was a year prior when he was running for office.
The town I live in has been doing the same thing (Lamberton Minnesota) - apparently where I live it's "Do unto others as they do to you" - because from what I hear, people have been stealing stuff from the mayors yard.
Today I learned that it's (apparently) not illegal to enter someone's property and steal their vehicle.
they had a search warrent, so its all goood, not sure if the judge should be charged with theft sence he sined an extremly ovious illegle search warrent tho.
The tow truck drives are backed up by cops. So yes cops with absolute power can take anything they want. Just wait civil asset forfeiture will include a person.
@@DefectivePotato95at minimum accessory
Only when the government does it they will investigate themselves and find they have done no wrong.
@@ziggenplays1208 enabling should be in there somewhere.
In LA city and County cars with expired plates become the problem of Building and Safety.
That's how they get around it being parked in your driveway.
Sure would be a shame if something untoward happened to these corrupt city officials and the oathbreakers that are complicit in their violation of the rights of their constituents.
I would be so sad.
Given that it's St Louis there's a decent chance of that just showing up to take the car
I love sarcasm, it is great.
Oath breakers will be taken to the underworld
Big ol' shame
This has happened around my neighborhood so people put for sale signs on them and ask a ridiculous price.
But doesn't your city ban "for sale" signs on cars? Many in my area do.
@@EXROBOWIDOW Write one it with soap then.
@@existinginaspace8347 yep, or spray paint.
City was after my neighbors project car. Every time he turned around they were griping about something. In the mean time stepson had a van with a blown engine sitting in my driveway for three years. Tags and inspection sticker were expired but he kept it clean. He sold it and the new owner towed it off. Every time he got a letter from the city about his car we took a picture of the letter with the expired inspection sticker and plates on the van clearly visible. I went to court with him and took the pictures as evidence. We got a new code enforcement officer a few days later.
Steve. Question. When the car gets towed to a privately owned tow lot. wouldn't the tow company have to register or have the vehicles towed off the lot?
This law is not limited to dissassembled cars in a pole barn, or un-licenced antiques in museums, it also applies to vehicles in repair shops, if it is in-operable, such as in the process of an oil change while in the state of having its oil drained, it can be impounded.
It can operate without oil ...... Until it locks up.
@@ding9633 It can operate wighout an engine, until you need to go uphill
Or getting the tires changed. As soon as a tire comes off the vehicle the vehicle is in-operable.
Nobody tell 'em about the planes at the airport
@@Tim.Stotelmeyer F1 cars can operate without a tire
It's sounds like they're targeting lower income households. That's probably why the mayor pointed out that he's trying to keep people in the city. When he says people, he means the wealthy population. He might be trying to remove and expell less desirables in order to keep and make room for higher class residents.
Had to laugh at this one. I'm from Northern California and I can say that snakes (?), mice, chipmunks or squirrels don't give a damn whether a car is registered or not. I really feel sorry for this woman. I truly hope she gets justice.
Yeah I agree. I live in California, and at one time lived on a ten acre spot where mice, and snakes and other things would routinely camp under the hood of a running and usable car. Those people are just greedy nazi's.
Can I get video of every cat dog, squirrel, mouth, snake, and any other varmint in the community going down the street checking the license plate on all vehicles to make sure it’s safe for them to make a home in… LMFAO
I've been junking cars for decades, there's only been 2 times, out of thousands of cars, that I've had a snake encounter. The idea that a car on a property that has regular activity around it ever having a serpentine occupant is ver very unlikely, moot point. Other than that, your private property is your private property, period. The city/state has no substantial interest in your private property sitting on your private property. Personally, i'd have everything they own, their properties,bank accounts, pensions, everything. People need to stop believing that you can lawfully be required to tag, register,insure their private property, for goodness sakes, stop believing government garbage.
Los Angeles has done something similar, towing cars out of driveways for expired tags, parking tickets, etc. They probably still do it. Happened to friends of mine who were going to gift me and my (then) better half their old car. That was around 33 years ago.
The only real crime in this country is not having (enough) money.
In the Netherlands a car needs to be licensed if its parked on the public road or adjacent to it. So if unlicensed in the drive waynyou will be fined and eventually towed. If you move it of the driveway behind the home or into a garage you're fine. That of course leaves a grey area, where are you no longervadjacent to a public road.
Inoperable vehicles will eventually lose the license , but until they do you are fine parking them.
I have bought many vehicles that were basically junk, fix them to give them to people that could not afford a vehicle. I did/do try to keep them from public view i.e., in my garage, or behind a fence. When I purchase these vehicles, I don't know who the person maybe that I am going to give it to. Once I fix it, get it licensed, insured, I drive it for several months to see if there are any other items that need to be repaired. Often new tires are needed, broken lights need to be fixed or replaced... I really do not like these laws that prevent a person from helping other people. I agree that there generally someone calls the cops and complains. I seek to get to know my neighbors (have a root beer float party in my front yard once a year with a handwritten initiation given to everyone on the block) to allow them to know that they can talk to me, tell me if I am being a jerk. They do not have to call the cops; they can just tell me. Civility seems to be absent in our society.
I do not buy a house in an HOA because I do not want all the “extra rules. If somebody wants these “extra” rules, then buy in the HOA or gated community or move to a city that makes it crime to do any of these things.
PS I once lived in the beautiful city of Pasadena, to determine where Los Angles is, and some other city is very hard to determine unless you live there. I did first live in San Marino (A city, within a city, within a city) where you had to have a special sticker on your car otherwise you would get pulled over and asked what you were doing in their city.
I heard that if you put the house address number on the vehicle, has to be somewhat permanent..like paint stick on windshield, it's a part of the property....Heard this back in mid 90's from someone that an attorney told her this. Not sure what the legal argument actually is if it came to it.
@@MrDLRu Trust me, the L.A.P.D. would ignore that....unless you lived in Bel Air, maybe.
@@Writ3r_Dude Sure, cops ignore Constitutional law, laws all the time...Look at all the vagrancy laws still on the books and they arrest many for doing just that.
This very same thing happened to my son in Grand Prairie, Texas. The city sold the car without providing any compensation. The car was in the driveway being repaired.
Some city employee or cop probably decided he wanted it so they went and towed it then sold it to him for 1.00.
Back in the late 1980's my dad had a 1966 Mustang in his driveway under a car cover. It was licensed and insured, but was not running for a while. He got a notice from the DMV that his tags were expired. That would have meant someone came on the driveway and lifted the car cover to check his plates. As he was not currently driving the car he didn't put on the new stickers. California has always been a "great state to live in". Not to be weird, Steve, but your videos are just long enough to enjoy in the morning during my shower. Beats the morning news. Thanks.
I have read, some years back, that car covers "must" have a clear window so that the plate is visible without touching the cover.
Great job with the ad for Factor, I actually watched and am interested. I've been skipping videos that try to slip in ads when I already pay for premium in order to not have to see ads. In this case, the ad was at the end, it was well stated ahead of time that it would be there with no shenanigans. Very professional and Factor looks fantastic. Nice job Mr. Steve Lehto.
So Steve...😎...you dig into this and low and behold, the mayor and his brother-in-law "owns the towing company along with the impound storage lot"...what a racket...
Something like that happened here. It's under Federal investigation because they eventually impounded the daughter of the state's attourney general. Look up the racket Brookside, Alabama police were running!
Does that city have any businesses that repairs cars?
I have heard of this happening systematically in the St. Louis area for many years. They do this only in poor areas, they wouldn't dare enforce this in rich areas because that would be like enforcing this in the million dollar home neighborhoods in Warren Michigan, it would never fly.
The Wealthy areas should help the other neighborhoods.
I lived in Benton park. I would not call it wealthy. I thank Archangel Michael that my car wasn’t towed.
Wealthy people are generally able to license, insure, and pay taxes on their cars. It's actually a very common ordinance in rich and poor towns, at least in Missouri.
Yeah, because they will get hit with a lawsuit before the tow truck even arrives
They might not tow it in wealthier areas of town, but I know from experience they'll ticket cars in driveways/apt lots if they have expired tags.
@@RMSTitanicWSL Missouri seems to do things to keep blacks out of their neighborhoods.
I experienced Missouri’s racism directly. And i am not black.
I love Missouri, unfortunately racism is alive there.
in Australia the only problem having a unregistered vehicles on your private driveway is okay, a unregistered vehicles must not be parked roads or highways...100mtres from my home theres this man who as about ten unregistered vehicles on his land on council footpath two camper vans on the road had three boats on trailers all have number plates but unregistered, from what I gather local council has done nothing about it. p.s all are visual from the road. i,m sure even the police have done nothing about it, i would like to do so but i think is it thr right thing to do.
My city does the same thing.
My handicap van with my wheelchair ramp was licensed, insured, and would have passed an inspection.
But the transmission went bad and was taking too long for me to get help with installing a used transmission.
This conversion van was in my back yard, well away from the street. There were no snakes, rats, or extra terrestrials living in it. I know, because I wouldn't allow it.
So I was forced to junk my beloved diesel handicap conversion van for a couple of hundred dollars before being forced to pay the city hundreds of dollars for them to steal and tow it away at my expense.
But they didn't mind charging me property taxes on it's supposed perfect condition blue book value every year as if it had a perfect transmission.
Something is definitely wrong with these rules or Ordinances.
So how many times did you VOTE?? 😊😊😊
@@JP-gi7dw Every time.
It doesn't help when those that vote in the greater numbers vote by party. The same as their parents, their parent's parents and their parent's parent's parents and so on voted.
To many of these kinds of voter do care, know, or understand what their voting for. They vote like zombies that are programmed.
Otherwise government employees could never survive long, treating their constituents like slavery is still legal and that everyone that's not law enforcement or in government are the slavery class. Color has nothing to do with any of this.
WE BE IN THE SOUTH.
outnumber those that think
@@JP-gi7dw I'm also one of the people that got an invalid fraudulent voting ballot when President Trump ran.
I know something was wrong with it, but didn't fully understand what, untie I got home and had time to look at the sample ballot I grabbed at the door walking in. There was no line 10 minutes before the end of voting.
There is no way my voting form was recognized as valid by the voting machine.
Also the machine only showed me my voting counter number. But no where could I find a vote excepted message or any other message.
The vote was corrupt.
Just as President Trump claimed.
I'm proof
@@JP-gi7dw Shut the [redacted[] up, spammer.
How would anybody know there's no transmission in it? Or if the trans in there is bad?
Sounds like an excellent opportunity for a class action lawsuit
Sounds like illegal search and seizure. According to federal law?
Fun story this happened to me. I wasn't driving my cadillac because it needed a new exhaust. Wake up and it was gone from my assigned parking spot. The complex apparently had it towed claiming it was broken down. It ran fine. I walked 4 miles to the impound lot and proceeded to start a fight for stealing my car. Since the office people didn't open the gate I went into the shop and told the crew I was gonna leave with my car or there was going to be blood spilled. The office called the cops, the sheriff rolled up. I told him what happened that they stole my car and are extorting me for money. I told him they better open the gate or I would get my car and plow through it. They refused unless I paid I told them I'm not paying and they would be buying a new gate. I walked down the lot to my car and pulled up in front of the gate with my exhaust dragging - office and shop crew standing there with the cop in disbelief I stopped got out and told the cop, now I'm opening my trunk and getting a very large knife. I'm crawling under this car to cut off my dragging exhaust pipe (they damaged it further during the tow) AND you aren't gonna do a damn thing about it. So I did just that. I cut and grabbed the hot exhaust pipe and threw it in the trunk hands steaming angry as fu**. When I got back in the driver seat the sheriff told them they better open the gate because I was dead serious. They opened it, I left, it never happened again.
Should have then found out who in the complex had your car towed and then donated the remains of the exhaust system inserted up their mule. Not the right word but related to the A word.
Hooray!
Yeah, that happened 🙄
@@katjoe1974yeah, you happened.🙄
@@katjoe1974 I had a similar story happen when I was much younger, turned out that the tow truck business in question was running a scam, and not only did I get my car back for nothing, the owner and the tow truck driver were arrested and charged. It was a fun experience seeing crooked people actually be held accountable. They are no longer in business.
Great Video.
Cars removed from people's Private property?
George Orwell is alive !
Chicago suburb sent inspectors into people's private property including garages that happen to have the door open to check for City stickers. If project car or any vehicle on property did not have a sticker, a large fine was assessed. Never mind the trespassing issue.
This happened in my town in Virginia. The owner had a stroke and had been sent to a rehab center across the state months earlier. Church members knew and told the city. Officials did not care. I was able to buy the 2nd inoperable vehicle from the daughter, who had a POA, to give the sick lady some money. It was a real mess.
So the city clearly stated that they are taking vehicles so people cannot travel? Sounds like a 4th ammendment violation.
sounds like "1984"
they are only taking vehicles that cannot legally be used to travel on public roads, so your argument is a failure.
@@kenbrown2808 This is Pre-Crime. They weren't on the road, they weren't being driven. They were off the road on Private Property. It's government theft.
@@kenbrown2808 didnt watch the video, did you? Your unqualified opinion based on absolutely nothing is noted.
@@SGarrett1979 The arrogance of believing to know more that a car law attorney lol
350 violations.....holly cow. there is only 1200 people in the town, its the size a postage stamp in north st. louis County.
I’d love to see tarring and feathering come back into fashion for politicians who think that this type of thing is acceptable.
AND un-elected busy-body magistrates and functionaries, most of whom are "appointed" by those who were elected.
By this logic, a car at a repair shop with its engine torn down can be towed.
the local ordinances usually exempt repair facilities, junkyards, etc. at least my local ordinance does
my project car runs, drives and is legally tagged, but looks so rough that I could see a vindictive person reporting it. I have good neighbors, but a guy one street over had to remove on of his Land Cruisers (only one of which runs) after the developer of new infill townhouses were approved to be built next door 😡 no one bothered us before…
meanwhile a ~2016 Nissan Versa with a blown transmission sits in the same street (IN the street, not a yard), but it looks new and they wash it so the developer turns a blind eye
Heck, a flat tire can allow it.
I had my car in the driveway for 2 weeks while the engine was rebuilt. We kept the front yard next and tidy and the mess was in the garage. Isn't that my right as an American to fix my own car? (Actually the neighbor did it in exchange for cleaning, painting, and beer )
@@intorainbowzOG Maybe it is a way to do an end run around the right to repair laws.
@@intorainbowzOG OMG tax dodger! Off with your head! Good thing it will take work to track you down, and government is allergic to doing actual work.
I lived in Mesquite, Texas for over 33 years & they had a city ordinances for everything one could think of inc. untagged cars even if they were covered & in a driveway. I was so glad to be able to move from there in 2002. Here it's only a problem if the grass is more than 6 inches tall.
do they write you $100 ticket/dandelion too? thats still ridiculous, sounds like the they got little dicks. who will save us from the 7" tall grass? call the government!
Cops use 6” grass to harass people. They use it to force entry into the house.
Why not just sit at the mechanic shop and pick up every car with a no crank situation? Then send them a letter saying you need to fix the car before you can remove it from the storage yard. Also, we get to charge you for every day it sits at the towing yard. These people are not stealing as well as they could steal , I'm sure the people are fleeing the county because of shame.
This is just theft. She needs a good pro bono lawyer cause for poor people this is a no win situation. What's she supposed to do? This is insane.
Good video
DC
Good luck, I have been fighting this in Colorado for months now. Nobody wants to help. Even local lawyers will not fight the county.
There was this one guy once .
But he's dead ...
This is so rediculous, I'm ashamed of my country, I'm ashamed that I fought for it and this bullcrap. Shameful horrible lawyers.
Mr. Steve Lehto
Let me start by saying how much I appreciate & enjoy ur videos.
Your dissection of the Law is so educational & fascinating!
I also laughed so hard at the mouse & snake theory! Thank you so much!!!! 💜💫