They need to go after the last driver for parking illegally. Yes, they need to respond to issues like this ASAP but the last driver should be fined or ticketed for what they do with the car.
@@DeputyNordburg He is letting it be moved but not by a renter. The company does not get to use his property for parking for free. They need to come get it themselves.
Just looked it up... he got them to pay him a settlement and remove their car in June. He didn't get everything he was asking for, but he said they reimbursed him sufficiently, apologized, and removed their car.
No, no liability issues, whatsoever. He just wants to fight with fists, so to say, rather then have it towed. This is a mere macho stand off between him and a company bigger than his little business.
@@warrwarrwarrwarr did you not hear him say he called the police and tried to have it towed but no one will touch it?! Or did your ears get blob in them🤣
@@warrwarrwarrwarr Any activity on your property involves your insurance thats the whole purpose of property insurance. Someone injurying themselves on your property makes YOU liable. Even if they were there to rob you.
To Car2Go: If you do NOT want your vehicles to be blocked onto someone else's private property, then you should NEVER park your vehicles onto someone else's private propery.
@@jamesthompson1202 It seems like this _was_ their _approved_ spot for the car. But yeah, fine the person who left it there if it wasn't the correct drop-off location.
Dear Michael: 50 years ago when I was a gas jockey in San Francisco, a certain customer whose car was broken down in our yard really got me angry. While he left his car overnight, I trashed his car in ways that weren't readily apparent, like pouring sugar down his carburetor. I've matured a lot since then, but I wouldn't blame this guy for "anonymously" trashing this car in the same way. He should leave Car2Go a wasted skeleton of what was once a car but now isn't worth taking to the junkyard. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
@@JosephKulik2016 If he had trashed their car they would have abandoned it and he would've had had to pay to have someone haul it away to a scrap yard. This way he got them to pay for storage fees, etc. His way wins, your way looses.
I live in a patio home with a very small front yard and no street parking allowed. One of the neighbors had a visitor that would park in my yard every time they came to visit. I asked them politely to please not do it, they still did it. I left a note on their car asking them to please stop parking in my yard, they still did it. The third time they did it I pulled my Ford Expedition out of the garage hooked a tow strap to my tow hook and to the tow hook on the back of the Corolla and I dragged the car down the street to the entrance of the subdivision and left it in the road. They never parked in my yard again! Problem solved
This is my brother's story. In 1995 my brother was living with is fiancé in a small apartment complex, 4 units total. There was no street parking, and every unit had two parking spots, but those parking spots were one in front of the other, making the parking 2x4 cars. The party girls in the neighboring apartment did NOT like to have to move for each other, so instead of parking behind their roommate would block in a neighbor's car. They would stay out all night drinking, and be super annoyed if you woke them up so you could drive to work. This was a common occurrence. Well, party girls left for Spring Break, blocking in my brother who needed to get to his first "real" job out of college. The city would do nothing. He then noticed that the girl's car was a manual, so he just backed into it until it popped out of gear, and pushed it into the street, then called the police about an abandoned car blocking traffic. 4 days later they got home to a missing car. They demanded restitution, which they never got.
See the problem here was that you were asking them not to do something. If you want results you don’t ask, you tell them what they need to do and what will happen if they don’t do what you’re asking them to do. It’s an extremely effective technique that seems to always work, well it has always worked for me. 😃
This happened in Texas years ago. A man lives on a sharp curve near me. He has a large oak tree near the curve and every month or so someone would go around the curve to fast and hit his tree. He got tired of the tow companies getting all the money. He started chaining the vehicles that hit the tree to the tree before the tow companies arrived and would charge storage until the owners came up with the cash. He would also make the owners sign a statement that if the tree would die because of them hitting the tree they would have to pay for the cost of the tree.
@@trentbrownstone1481 There's nothing illegal about requiring payment for storage. If they didn't want to pay they shouldn't have parked their cars on his property without permission
@@trentbrownstone1481 if anything, the principle of the matter is spot on - You own property. Someone causes damage to your property. A 3rd party arrives and get compensated for their time to remove instrument-causing damage. You get no compensation, and your property remains damaged.
@@trentbrownstone1481 - agreed. They didn’t park their vehicle in his property they had an accident. The man then stole their property by chaining it to the tree. The owner was in the process of removing the vehicle but now they can’t. You can’t charge for storage of stolen property, that you in fact stole. Signing a form to say you would be responsible if the tree dies is not considered under duress.
I'm shocked he couldn't get it towed. Had a neighbor throw a party and one of their guests blocked my drive way. After 20 minutes of trying to find someone to move the truck I called the police and they were more than happy to haul it off.
Here in Mexico, police will be happy to tow any car, not because they care, but because of the storage and transportation fees haha (or bribe, if the driver comes early enough, that's for sure)
I think there's a difference whether the car is blocking exit/entry on a public street or if they are fully in your driveway, which means the car is on private property, not public. Regardless, the law should allow cars to be towed in this situation.
Car left on my property for months. Filed abandoned property on title. It's mine. Good car too. Owners came to get car after filing. Showed the title. They cried😂
@@peterwalton6680 well it depends on the value of the item and what it is. Plus it isn't as simple as its yours if it's just left there for X amount of time. You have to run a ad in your local news paper saying you found this item or this item was on my property and the original owner of that property has x amount of time to retrieve the property or it will be considered abandoned and is legally the person that has the property. Like something simple as a wallet with some cash in it can be like 30 days, 3 months if the item has a certain grater value, and I believe 6 months and a court order if them item is work X amount of thousands of dollars. If the items is something big like a vehicle you can charge the owner a storage fees for each day the vehicle is on your property if the owner does come get home vehicle.
@@peterwalton6680 in some states if you can prove that you've done upkeep of a plot of land, boarding yours, for a year you can become the owner of that piece of land. It happens a lot in the state of South Carolina
He should have just never contacted anyone , dragged it off the property into the middle of the street, cops would have come and towed it no one would have known how it got there or why.
@@Voorhees-Jason This, if the rental company is big enough many tow companies fear trying to get involved. They are like school bullies that only pick on weak kids. No tow truck every tried to tow some one they knew could fight back. Not matter how illegally parked they aren't going to tow a cop car for instance.
@@JustaGuy_Gaming When I was a tow driver years ago, we would absolutely impound Hertz, Avis, Zipcar, etc. They almost never fought back. I'm sure most of the time they just billed the last person to use the car.
@@yzhang8629 they don’t prosecute much in Seattle unless they deem it a hate crime. Seriously.....damn near everything but murder is a misdemeanor now. The city council is behind that movement of lawlessness.
That or put case hardened chain and lock on it so they can't take it at night. That they would have the audacity to think they can get away with that? I think the company should have to give urinalyses for being that far from reality.
@@InterCity134 the tow companies told him to call the police, the police told him to call a tow truck. Nobody wanted to make the call to tow it knowing there would be liabilities involved. Yes, Seattle is that fucked up now.
I once heard a story about some girl always parking her car in some guys drive way across the street from her house. From what I remember he left notices saying the car will be towed if not removed. The house next door was having some work done to it and the people told the guy for safty reasons it would better to park on the street for the next couple of days. He did because of possible damage that could happen, the girl across the street parked there again. Part of the house that was being worked on fell and landing on her car. From what I remember she tried to sue him but lost her case because she was trespassing on private property. I heard this when I was a kid.
I live in a high rise in Maine. Spectrum (cable company) kept taking a neighbor's parking spot which is a handicap parking spot. After the guy did it the second time when my neighbor came home he parked right behind him. The guy from Spectrum could not go anyplace thetes a cemeny wall in front of that. It was also raining out that night. For over 2 hours many of us watch the recreational activity of how angry the guy from Spectrum was because he couldn't move his car. No doubt he called the police but they didn't help him. He was illegally parked being in a handicap space Plus it also said read Resident. Everybody in the building was told during a 2 hours Many had popcorn and beer and just enjoyed the show. It was the first time in a long time on every single floor people were getting along and laughing really hard. Now when Spectrum comes they park on the road like they supposed to. Mission accomplished.
A co-worker who lived near a church told of having this problem with church members blocking his drive. Talking to the pastor didn't help. When he called the police, they told him he could call a tow company and have it hauled off. He used a tow company from a town 30 miles away. Last time his drive was blocked.
He is right to worry about liability. I've been an Insurance Agent for over 17 years and he is being responsible. The driver could run over a pediatrician backing out and his business would be included in the resulting lawsuit. Good on him for being informed!
@@OregonCrow I lived in Detroit bitch try that again before you start I'm not talking that metro Detroit bullshit that you all see on TV I'm talking about Detroit Detroit that never gets shown on TV unless it's a crime report
@@OregonCrow something else to add on I'm not talking that SJW and NPC snowflake West Detroit I'm talking East Detroit the stuck in the old getified through all hell Detroit that everybody seems to stereotype especially with all its factory jobs minimum pay and middle finger fuck you to health and safety risk
@@OregonCrow Dude, that happens DAILY where I'm from. Maybe you ought to leave your posh and comfortable little suburb with your Starbucks book club meetings and actually see what life is like in other places in this country. No shock you've got 'Oregon' in your name.
Guess take and dismantle. Scrap it. I know nothing.....lol! Get a chain and drag it the road. Police will have to tow it. Who left the car there. Your neighbor? So many questions.
Robert Collins Back in the 70s I worked at a restaurant where if your car was in the parking lot more than 24 hours we simply broke in the vehicle and pushed it in the middle of the street. You would be surprised how quickly the city will tow a car blocking a city street.
Use a rolling jack, back it out halfway onto the street at an angle, then call the police and say some drunk guy parked it that way and walked off and that its a traffic hazard...that will get it towed immediately. :D
He's currently in the right. Filing a false police report (remember, he's already talked to them) puts him on the wrong side of the law. That would be a good way to turn a bad situation worse.
Don’t even need to call the police. Just make sure nobody sees you do it and surely someone else would call it in if it were just sitting in the road somewhere
What a ridiculous situation. I cannot believe that a property owner couldn't have it removed by law enforcement. I'd love to know the reasoning behind it.
Their vehicle was basically trespassing and he wanted removed from his property.🤷🏼♂️ If a tech school or college in your area has a class on tort law please take it. It will do you world of good and probably keep you out of trouble. How you feel if someone parked their vehicle on your property and wouldn't move it? He was being nice about it and I'm surprised law enforcement wouldn't do their job on it.
@@donotneed2250 Perhaps thoroughly reading a post by someone else would do you a world of good and possibly keep you out of trouble. :) I clearly stated that I didn't understand why law enforcement couldn't have removed it. I admit, my first sentence could have been clearer; the "ridiculous situation" was the fact that the police would not remove the vehicle, it was not the fact that the homeowner took matters into his own hands. Kudos to the owner for taking the measure that he did. I wouldn't have been nearly as nice about it as he was. It would have been towed away by a third party!
I lived near a high school that has limited parking so sometimes people would park in front of the house, the car would be parallel to the house so we weren't worried that they'd crash into the house but one time a guy tried to pay us to thank us for letting him park there(like 5 dollars) and we didn't take it because that would mean we would be held responsible if someone ran into his car.
Years ago there was a visitor to my buddies neighbor.. (apt living) that kept parking in my friends spot after being told several times that there is assigned parking and please don't park there. We found the car parked in his spot once again. It was a rather small car and we had four strong guys along.. we picked up the car enough to be able to slide it one way or the other. We turned the car sideways so that he was between a block retaining wall and another car so there was no way he could leave without tracking down the person who owned the car to move it. He called the police as we watched from inside the apt.. they knocked on doors to find the owner and the cops were cracking up over the whole ordeal. Needless to say.. he never parked in my friends spot again!
That reminds me of something that my co-workers did to another co-worker many years ago. The old VW Beetles only had a key lock on the drivers side. They picked up his car and moved it so the drivers door was against a wall. :-)
@@JM-ps6le It is more or less. That is cost that the company is not paying. Just the same if it was sitting in a lot they own. Only difference is they don't have to pay for it. They make the difference in storage cost. Also this was not the first time. Meaning they made money when the previous person dropped it off and another picked it up.
@@JM-ps6le if that car was left in a parking lot in downtown Seattle you're paying +$5/hour to keep it parked. They are saving money by keeping it on his property and therefore making a profit.
@@Bismuth00 Yep, so they should have to pay the man who owns that property equal to the profits they make. Just for, to quote Obama, "purposes of fairness."
There is a lot of this going around. Large corporations screwing over the little guy unless you can drag their “good name” through the mud on social media. It seems most people nowadays don’t do the right thing due to lack of accountability.
Activist, leftist judges only make these things worse. Feelings are the only thing that matters. We won't even have private property once the commies have had enough time to finish brainwashing everyone.
I'd write a notarized letter to the company saying if the fees and charges have not been paid or car has not been picked up in 30 days, you're seizing the vehicle left on your property for auction. Watch how fast they'll respond.
In the vein of teaching Car2Go a lesson - If the parking space is privately owned, then most states have a process for taking ownership over abandoned vehicles on private property. I.E. "Come get it off my property or it will legally become my vehicle." I personally used this process on my first motorcycle back in high school.
@@davidoswald6683 This is absolutely how I got my first motorcycle in high school, just like I said. I am not mistaken. As evidence, here is the relevant Virginia policy, Vehicle Licensing Guide 3.305, directly from virginia.gov: select.dmv.virginia.gov/select/help/vlic/vlic3305.pdf.
I heard something happened like this in Chicago in the early 70's. Someone was parking in a dude's backyard (adjacent to an alley). Property owner tried notes, police, everything. Property owner eventually applied for a permit for a brick storage shed and bricked the car in while the car owner was at work, Cask of Amontillado style.
There’s a Cheers episode that reminds me of this - when the new owner of the restaurant upstairs bricks in Sam’s pool room and bathrooms for payment and drives Sam out of his mind. It’s not exactly the same thing, but it’s funny and it’s just reminiscent enough to put you in mind of it.
This story is definitely a Chicago parable from that time. I grew up around a lot of people from that time in the city and that story has been around. There's always a gist of the story that they knew the guy in one way or another, and no matter the hyperbole or extrapolation, or what fantastic car it was that was entombed, you can't help but find it plausible
car2go isnt technically responsible for where the vehicle was dropped off at, that was the problem with the renter. ride sharing is a type of hassle-free renting where the parent company doesnt actually have a hub like avis, budget, or enterprise does. you rent a car, and go to where the previous renter left it. when you are finished you do the same thing. you drop the car in a "safe" location and confirm it via app/website that you are finished with your rental by completing the required checklist to show the vehicle is still in the same condition you picked it up in. then the next person who rents the same car goes to where you dropped it and the cycle repeats. and i put safe in quotes because you will have situations like this every now and then where a renter will drop the car somewhere they arent supposed to.
This reminds me of my water company. I still have their equipment. I’ve called them to set up a time for them to pick it up, they never came. Several times. I still have it and waiting for the time they try and say I stole it. It’s waiting for them! Lol
The Lincoln Park Pirates would drag that bitch out by the bumper tires squealing. I live near Wrigley Field, I have to use their services a couple times a year. They even wrote a song about them ua-cam.com/video/dE5HtTxxJRM/v-deo.html Better yet, buy your own Denver Boot and collect the revenue.
As an insurance adjuster, the man has a valid point that Car2Go is conducting business on his property - without permission - but not assuming any liability or property damage liability. That said, if a customer comes to pick the car up and steps in a grate, slips on ice, is attacked by a dog; they were not permitted a reasonable and safe place to conduct business and the property owner would be the liable party.
I love this person. I keep having to deal with these cars as well. The easy solution is to always just push it out into the road making it their problem.
He got $300 for fence supplies, $30 every 15 days for late fees, and “$500 renter harassment fee”. He also asked for $65 a day in impound fees, which he later agreed to waive.
@@jadoresophya ya what if I dent your car with my trash can. As a homeowner would that be my problem besides how can they get away with that what anyone can dictates how many parking space you can access on your own property 🤷♀️.
@@brendasanderson7538 I don't understand your argument. If my car was parked on your driveway and your trashcan dented my car, yes you could be held responsible. If someone was trying to retrieve the car, a brick from the house and injured someone, the property owner would be liable.
I had a neighbor who would park her car in front of my garage in St Pete Fl. I would have to ask her to mover her car so I could get out. Finally I told her,.."I don't even like my old truck that much, and the next time I leave my garage,.....I'm not even looking to see if your car is there, and I will back up at great speed, and if your car is there,...too bad for your new car" She never parked there again.
Lol. I live in St Pete. People from the hospital always park in my apt parking lot. If I catch them I’ll say, “hey they’ll tow your car here. I’ve seen it done a bunch of times” and they usually move it thinking I’m saving their ass.
luckily it didnt come to that but if you did, you would have LOST big time if you tried that. when operating a motor vehicle you have an obligation to make sure its safe to access and use any roadway. you cant just claim "ignorance" and say "oh officer i didnt see it there" as a good lawyer would argue in court what if a child or elderly person or animal was behind your car? do you not look behind you? ESPECIALLY with that comment "i will back up at great speed while NOT looking lol. ALSO, it would be the same as any other accident where an at fault party hits another party, it doesnt matter if you "meant" to hit a car, if you did and you are at fault, guess what get out the checkbook.
Funny seeing you here! If this was a smart man, hed just rent the car for five minutes and move it into the middle of the street or something. Clearly their okay with leaving it anywhere you please.
I had an adult foster care next to my home and the employees and family of the residents would drive across my lawn(granted about 25 feet but still mine) to get out instead of asking person blocking them to move. Cops would do nothing about it so I decided to pound nails through a bunch of 2x4s and lay them all the way down my property line. Got yelled at a lot and people pissed but they stopped.
Right I hope you're right it's kind of BS for them to act the way they are and then to act like he stole the car how about you teach your drivers not to park on private property and be civil and good to people
@@web1187 If they don't have his driver information connected to that car - it's a false statement, better have his DNA in side for they have cooked their own assholes.
@@brianwilless1589 I will speak as I please - you don't need to read your not my wife, nor my mother - an unlike my father have not my respect... This is public - if you wish to stay in grade school - don't enter a room full of adults. Stay in you country club cheap tea parlor tea
How can you steal something that's been abandoned on your property? The resident notified the car's owners of its location and they refused to retrieve it - hence it has been abandoned. Seems to me the resident now owns the vehicle.
I've heard of remote control pop up barriers that you can drive over. So when you are not parked in your spot, the barriers are up and then you remote them to fold down flat to pull into your spot. Seems like it would help here.
When you are seeking damages, you tack on everthing you can think of. When the judge asks why just don't be pompous, and explain you are only seeking reasonable consideration under the law.
I don't see any surprise there... Would you be willing to just do hard labour for at least 3 hrs (I'm guessing a lot more than that) just for free? Man is entitled to his compensation.
Its 5 years. Not 30 days You'll technically get the car, but the company can dispute it and claim ownership. If no one claims ownership within 5 years then it's yours. And the title will be sent.
@@SMD-si7fm what state is that? In Ohio, it is 15 days to send a notice; wait 15 days and apply for a title. Lienholders and owners must pay the storage fees.
@@briandfallon74 yeah in most states its usually 15-30 days at max (20 days where i am in NY) to complete an involuntary lien transfer. ive never seen something like this that takes 5 years anywhere. thats a bit too long to be keeping an abandoned vehicle on a property.
It was years ago before anything like this was a thing but we had someone park in our driveway blocking part of it. We contacted the person to come and move it and they said it would be a few hours before they could get there to take care of it. So we got the tow strap out of the pickup toolbox, tied it to the cars rear axle, and pulled it out into the street and down the block a little ways. Did not take long before the police had it towed out of the middle of the street. Guy was not very happy. The shotgun made him decide it was not worth worrying about.
Sounds like a dumpster that was left on our property from a tennant. After 2 weeks we just pushed it like 300 ft away and it was then the cities problem
Years ago I would have said there is no way this could happen but I had someone park in my single lane driveway blocking me and my wife in, and it took two days for City of Los Angeles to handle it. The person who parked was mentally incompetent and had lost it over conflicts with his family who lived a few doors down from me. What blew my mind was the hostility that City of LA personnel leveled at me. I was kind, patient and polite about it. My wife and I borrowed a card to get to and from work for the two days. We never raised our voice, never spoke bad of anyone. But you'd think I was committing a crime asking for help in resolving it (his family refused to even identify that they had any involvement, I didn't even find that out until a long time had gone by and one of their neighbors told me "you remember that guy who blocked your driveway? Well..." (etc).
Not how abandoned vehicles work down here in Texas. If you claim an abandoned vehicle they take it and put it on auction, no guarantee you'd get it. Not sure why the hell they worked that in.
@@Bramon83 after about 90 days you can get a registration from Oregon (they have weird laws), then use that registration to register it in your state. I'm a mechanic and that's how we get titles if someone doesnt pay
It's called a lien title in Oregon. But it's a legal nightmare if car 2 go pursues action for auto theft or fraud at that point. The 90 days gives the legal owner time to collect or respond to the lien
@@Mudbuttmoody yes true. It only works if the car wasn't reported stolen, as in the case of someone not paying their mechanic bill and knowingly letting the car go
Similar situation happened to me, not with a car but with a metal trash bin. Neighbor was placing it on my property and after several requests for them to remove it failed, I called the trash company and threatened to treat it as abandoned and would cut it up for scraps. The trash company picked it up the next day
I'm surprised he couldn't get it towed. I live in a condo and have found cars in my 2nd parking spot on a few occasions. I just call parking control and when they show up, I provide the documents to show it is my spot. They'll then ticket the vehicle and, if I wish, arrange for it to be towed.
Someone abandoned a small car on a man's property, and after reporting it to the Sheriff's department and asking if they would please get it towed, the Deputy said to just wait a couple days and they would probably come get their car. After two more calls a week later somebody broke a side window, tossed a cigarette in, and that smoldered overnight, destroying the back seat. Cops came the next morning and took pictures then towed it away.
will Car to go cant do shit once it park on private property like his place he can do whatever he wants with the car if they dont take it after been told then he sure keep the car
I was new to the neighborhood and my neighbor was used to parking his car in my driveway. I let him know I now lived there yet he still decided to park it. Whelp one day I came home early from work and his car was there. I kindly pulled my car as close as I could to his bumper and called my mother to pick me up. I stayed at my mom’s house a few days. When I came home I moved my car and he moved his. Never had a problem with him again. We actually became friends but he still doesn’t park in my driveway.
In the UK, car parking companies at airports dump cars on residential streets and driveways. They advertise safe parking and abandon your vehicle. Often they can't remember where they put it.
Last time someone parked in my driveway they got 4 flat tires and dragged into the street. "Dunno what happened Officer, the car came to a stop and I saw a tire flat and a couple got out and walked away"
I have hydraulic wheel dollies. Whenever someone parks in my driveway, I use the dollies to move their car into the middle of the road, completely blocking the road. It doesn't take long for the cops to come and tow it.
In college many years ago a visitor parked in the fire lane at the dorm. There was an alarm. Members of the wrestling team made way for the fire truck by picking up the car (it was small, like VW Beetle small) and put it between 2 trees - lengthwise with the trees front and rear. I didn't hear how it was later removed.
My mum saw something like that happen. On the way back from a football match some mini was illegally parked next to some bollards blocking the coach they were on. The team managed to get it onto the other side of the bollards. I would love to know how they got it out.
I always take it with a grain of salt when the news says "we contacted and got no response." I've seen former reporters admit that they often just leave a message less than an hour before reporting the story or call at closed hours for businesses and then leave that context out. If the news is going to be transparent, it should say when they actually tried to contact. Date and time. That way they are liable if they lie about it.
They're acting like he stole the car? Wow. If anything, they're the thieves - they've stolen a parking space. In many cities, one parking space for one day can cost an obscene amount of money. By not paying him for use of his property, they've pretty much temporarily stolen it.
Technically it is an abandoned car, he asked them to move it and while adding fee's for trouble caused and storage which seems fair as it shouldn't be on his land in the first place they just refused to to move it. I would take legal action against them and see how long until I could legally claim the car for being abandoned on my land, then all you need is to get new papers and a new key made. Even if they move it with or without your blessing you can still claim storage fees and if they walk onto your property without permission you have them again, also removing your fence to get the car out is criminal damage.
@@David53D Technically that's criminal damage and trespassing. Depending on local laws you have many different ways to handle it. In some places you can get shot for that and the land owner is well within his rights to do so. The car is an abandon vehicle that has been left on private property, that means the car's owner has to pay any reasonable storage fee's the land owner see's fit and can't collect the car until the matter is settled.
This happened to me. I have a two car garage with a driveway that can only fit two cars at a time, not much room to park. A dude literally parked his car, got out, and went to pick up bottles. Just went walking down the street. I live directed beside a store, about 50ft. Where there’s PUBLIC PARKING. And about a 10th of a mile the other way, another public building. I marched my ass right outside, stood beside his car, he saw me and came running back and said “I didn’t want to park on the street”. Where I live there’s side walks so no place to park or you’re in the road. I told him “well I’d appreciate it if you didn’t park on private property”. He got in his car and left. I put up no trespassing signs, and started parking my car sideways hanging half into the road. People would park blocking off my whole driveway so I couldn’t get in. Now no one can park here. I even had town workers take cones and block off the whole entire driveway so they could work. I tried coming home and was stuck in the middle of the road. I parked my car blocking the manhole. I have zero problems now.
Imagine that ! Folks who don’t own a car don’t want to go through the grief of driving around the neighborhood looking for a public parking space ( not a private space )
expect for the lowest of the low, who is really going to want to bug him? the most likely issue is too much fan mail. we have all had a neighbor throw a party and a guest park in or block our driveways. or lived in an apartment complex with our spot taken and no where to park. ive had both. worst was when i lived in a place where i had two spots, both in line. 2nd car blocked the 1st. if you went all the way in, you'd get blocked in. if you had two cars, you had to pull the 1st one out to the end to keep someone from parking there whend the front one left. if you only had 1, you had to park at the outer end all the time. and when someone stole your spot or blocked you in, management didnt want the stress of having it towed.... i had one neighbor it was a real issue with. one time he and a friend were both in my spot, i got home just in time to see friend leave. i parked 2" from his bumper, big old chevy truck, lowered rice rocket but done right. his suspension was worth more than my 3 ton chevy, nice custom paint on all his custom bumpers... i took the bus to work for a month, 7/11 100 yards down the street for quick needs, friends for rides. he didnt park there again. cops came a few times. but i was parked in my own spot, per my lease agreement, and always too drunk to drive. i did try to get written permission to be in public while intoxicated, and to operate a car while under the influence, but they werent stupid enough ;)
I don't know about the laws in Seattle but where I'm from it's illegal to block a vehicle from entering the highways doesn't matter if it's parked illegally on your driveway. But I'm on the side of the land owner reguardless of laws I'd do something 'irrational' and block it in myself.
Here in my neighbourhood in Victoria BC, we had a problem with coop cars being parked in no parking zones or resident only zones. I called the company and they told me to call our municipality to have the cars towed away. The car sharing company then had the drivers who parked the cars improperly pay all the fines and fees.
I live across the street from a crackhead motel. I install dual automatic spike strips in my driveway, they pop up with about 1,000lbs of pressure so nobody can step on one, but on a daily basis when i get home from work there's at least one car on camera getting flat's! and they always try calling the cops. There is a sign that says the driveway is spiked!
@@daisyy99 Did you read this in the comment? "they pop up with about 1,000lbs of pressure so nobody can step on one." So, a person would have to be grossly, impossibly obese to activate those spikes.
He should have just shoved it out into the street so the city would have to tow it and the owners would get jacked for some serious tow and storage charges.
your idea would be illegal and a lot of work, besodes not giving him any compenssation. He actually got paid for the inconvenience because he choose a clever and legal approach
@@stationcolossus Pushing? Easy, a jack and a set of car dollies. Pulling is equally simple with a snatch block and tree, or a larger vehicle with a winch. 😁
@@mvansumeren4313 , lol, do I know you? My friends and I used to shuffle cars around in parking lots. We used floor jacks, and dollies Then we would watch the confusion when people found their car in a different spot than where they remembered parking.
@@notahotshot I doubt we know each other, but I like your sense of humor! My favorite thing to do when I was younger was to rearrange the work vans at the supply house using their forklift. The employees at this certain location would play along and stall for time while I picked up the back of a fellow contractor's van and place it around the corner, or across the parking lot, etc. We would all play innocent and gaslight my poor confused colleagues and convince them that they did, in fact, park waaaay over there. Come to think of it, have you ever visited an electrical supply house and come out to your van moved from the back lot to the front? If so, maybe we do know each other! 😁
Seems more logical that a client of car2go put it there because they were too lazy to find a parking space on the street. in which case car2go should have immediately sent someone to move the car. they are complete assholes for not doing so.
Way to go man!! There is NO reason for him to justify his position regarding liability concerns. It is 100% the obligation of this company to explain its assertion of right to leverage his property for their shareholders profit. They should have to pay as though they took the property through a confidence scheme (with malicious intent)! We have become desensitized to the way these companies contractually buffer themselves from responsibility to the communities they profit from.
I think it’s appropriate for him to act like an impound lot. He now controls the car, is entitled to storage fees and will release the car when they are paid. Works for me.
@@ThePeterDislikeShow Hmm... not sure the 1st amendment would get you out of a fraud case. You have the right to lie, and the Government can't stop you... If you deliberately try to mislead someone into stealing a car then that part of it isn't covered by your free speech rights.
Whoever is parking the car doesn’t own the vehicle, so I don’t think that would be very effective. It’s also illegal to vandalize a vehicle even if it is on your property (unfortunately)
@@samsaasen4922 move it in back to the shed and use an oxy torch to cut it up and recycle it. As long as you dont try to recycle the vin number plate your good!
this is already implied with private property. The reasons why the signs are put up at stores and malls and such because it allows for public parking so you have to be clear who the parking is for. Private homes are automatically implied since it is attached to the home and anything on that land is private use only.
So in Washington there is a 30 day grandfathering period for abandoned property. You have to show that you went through all outlets to return the abandoned property. After this, it is legally yours. This applies with cars as well.
That’s what I would do. The whole process takes about 60 days though. The first 30 days, you filing and the process of the paperwork and the state also tries to contact the owner. After 60 days if the state does not receive a response, they issue a new title free and clear to you. The timely matter within that 60 days starts the moment they seal the envelope. Even if the envelope sits in the mail box there. Most owners get 48-72 hours to contact the state to stop the process. I know this cause my brother use to drive a tow truck. People would refuse to pay the tow bill thinking they would wait till it goes to court. Their lot is small so after 30 days they apply to the state, showing that within the 30 days they contacted the owner by certified mail and the owner either refused the letter or responded with a no I will not pay. Thus making their vehicle abandoned on their property. Every 2 months they would hold an auction. The nice cars were always picked up before the 60 days were up. If not by the owner/driver but by the bank that held the loan on it.
I'd remove the wheels and store them away, leave the car on blocks and then call Car To Go and tell them there will be a $100 impound charge per day starting from the date he called them. No impound fee, no car.
My F350 dually would persuade that car right off the property, right up that embankment across the street, where it suddenly becomes fair game for tow trucks.
He did the right thing just fencing it off. If he touches the car he could be charged with theft or vandalism. But I agree with most of the comments that he should just move it to the street when no one is looking.
@@bonga1353 if you have posession of the vehicle and the owner dose not contest it. Then you can start the process and make the vehicle yours without a pinkslip.
Kind of reminds me of the E Scooter and bike garbage piles when they first became a big thing. Tons of companies having those rental bikes around the city, and users just dumped them all over the place. Forcing businesses and home owners to deal with them being just left lying around.
Exactly lol, storage fees, and charging for the fence, of course they don't want to pick it up. Cut the BS, drag it into the street, then the police will have no problem towing it lol.
The thing with that is that the ride share company can then charge the property owner for all fees and fines. They left it safely in a parking spot, the property own took matters into their own hands and moved it without permission.
@@motoxguy7 - all they have to prove is that it was moved from where they left it. Then it becomes the property owners responsibility to care for it. Why do you think Tow truck drivers and the cops didn’t want to touch it or deal with it? It’s the same law that Mechanics have to follow when they take a car for repair. It has been to court before and that’s how the courts ruled. I can’t remember the year it was ruled, some time back in the 90’s.
He should check his state laws. There are laws where cars are abandoned in private property with or without the owners permission may file a claim for the vehicle.
Agreed most states has some kind of law related to this. What you do is file a police report or a certified mail to the owner if able to prove some kind of time stamp. Then after what ever time it states in the law in some states is 30 days for example, take all that to the DMV explain the situation, if it is within the states law, you get issued the title and now the car is yours to sell. If then Car2Go tries to take the car, they are now stealing the car. lol
This reminds me when I moved into a house. The previous owner left a ton of items. I donated most of their belongings after waiting 30 days. What do they do? They show up a year later asking for their stuff back.
Were they renting or had a mortgage? Sometimes when people can't pay the mortgage the company claims all assets in the house, and it takes up to year before things get settled.
Can't imagine why they wouldn't tow it unless it's because it's an expensive car, but there are tow rigs that can handle that. Or, just boot it and/or impound it since it's parked illegally and they are trespassing; then file the lien, get ownership & auction it. I'm really surprised nobody would tow it, tow companies go through impound-lien-title, then auction process all the times, big moneymaker for them.
I tow your ass off my apartment bldg. Lot even helped the driver, expensive cars too. Same for my house off my driveway some towed a few I let loose to roll back into the street. Some would leave cars parked in front of my house for weeks and weeks I had a camper just hugging the driveway opening you couldn't see anything, then I learned about abandoned vehicles 3days it doesn't move call it in they mark it then ticket it then tow it. Bye bye ...
@Calypso Eros - you are correct. My Brother worked for a towing company thereErin Seattle for years. He put up signs on my Mother’s property and told her the same things. And it worked, people were afraid to even park close the the curb entrance. Made life so much easier getting in and out of our driveway. What he also told me was that if a car is on your property for 30 days you can file for the title as an abandoned vehicle. It takes another 30 to 60 days to process the paperwork and after 90 days you can sell the vehicle after you received the paperwork. How that works is after the 30 days, the state sends a letter to the last known address or to the address on the registration (some times different) they then have 10-30 days to respond depending on certain things. By that time it may take 60 days to finish the process. It is usually less, but you have to wait the full 90 days just in case mail is slow.
probably for the same reason those damn lime wire bikes end up cast down on the side of the road down here in renton where they have no business being the officials in charge don't want to pay, and that's probably because these "share a leave it anywhere" companies won't pay unless they absolutely have to. I know with the bike shares that's partly because people in the Seattle city gov't basically subsidize the bikes, meaning that there's no financial incentive for the bike shares to care, but with the car shares I'd bet it's because they have some apparatus to make the city eat the costs of parking fines or towing fees.
@@barrag3463 - I wouldn’t be surprised if that were true. The city wants business to come in. They think it will bring in more money so they will give the companies tax breaks and loans. In a lot of cases it does work however, in these ride shares it does not.
Yea that guy is 100% right and went about fixing it in the best way. They're profiting off of his property and then ignoring him when he asks for them to simply removed it. Good on him
I’m with this guy. Not only is there liability issues but they’re also stealing a parking space on his property.
They need to go after the last driver for parking illegally. Yes, they need to respond to issues like this ASAP but the last driver should be fined or ticketed for what they do with the car.
A jerk left the car there. He is being a bigger jerk by refusing to let it be removed.
@@DeputyNordburg He is letting it be moved but not by a renter. The company does not get to use his property for parking for free. They need to come get it themselves.
@@HistoricLife Not according to his sign or fence.
@@DeputyNordburg It was right in the story, he is not letting someone who rented it drive off. He wants the company to come tow it off.
Just looked it up... he got them to pay him a settlement and remove their car in June. He didn't get everything he was asking for, but he said they reimbursed him sufficiently, apologized, and removed their car.
Thank you for the update.
Thanks for the update, mate
This really should be pinned 😁 Thanks for the update!
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/parking-showdown-with-barricaded-car2go-ends-both-parties-are-happy-says-seattle-man/
Good
He has a point. The car is on his property and there are liability issues with that.
No, no liability issues, whatsoever. He just wants to fight with fists, so to say, rather then have it towed. This is a mere macho stand off between him and a company bigger than his little business.
@@warrwarrwarrwarr did you not hear him say he called the police and tried to have it towed but no one will touch it?! Or did your ears get blob in them🤣
That's what I was wondering...
"!?FREE CAR?!"
@@warrwarrwarrwarr Any activity on your property involves your insurance thats the whole purpose of property insurance. Someone injurying themselves on your property makes YOU liable. Even if they were there to rob you.
@@warrwarrwarrwarr what do you know man you don't even know the proper form of then/than to use so shut your worthless mouth
To Car2Go: If you do NOT want your vehicles to be blocked onto someone else's private property, then you should NEVER park your vehicles onto someone else's private propery.
It's not the company, it's the drivers who are using their service.
@@ElSantoLuchadorcompany is ultimately responsible, they are the one's who own the car.
@@ElSantoLuchadorso Car2Go should be fining their user until it’s parked in a car2go approved spot.
So what!!! Their car, their responsibility
@@jamesthompson1202 It seems like this _was_ their _approved_ spot for the car. But yeah, fine the person who left it there if it wasn't the correct drop-off location.
Dude: Take your car back.
Car2Go: No!
Car2Go: *Doesn't get car back
Car2Go: You stole our car!
Dear Michael: 50 years ago when I was a gas jockey in San Francisco, a certain customer whose car was broken down in our yard really got me angry. While he left his car overnight, I trashed his car in ways that weren't readily apparent, like pouring sugar down his carburetor. I've matured a lot since then, but I wouldn't blame this guy for "anonymously" trashing this car in the same way. He should leave Car2Go a wasted skeleton of what was once a car but now isn't worth taking to the junkyard. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
@@JosephKulik2016 damn you trash their car because it broke down In your yard? Did you atleast give 24-48?
Because corporations are just privatized governments, they'll always seek special privileges that have zero to do with your rights. Remember that.
@@JosephKulik2016 If he had trashed their car they would have abandoned it and he would've had had to pay to have someone haul it away to a scrap yard. This way he got them to pay for storage fees, etc. His way wins, your way looses.
@@AquarianDreamer3x fr lol maybe theyre calling a tow company soon
I live in a patio home with a very small front yard and no street parking allowed. One of the neighbors had a visitor that would park in my yard every time they came to visit. I asked them politely to please not do it, they still did it. I left a note on their car asking them to please stop parking in my yard, they still did it. The third time they did it I pulled my Ford Expedition out of the garage hooked a tow strap to my tow hook and to the tow hook on the back of the Corolla and I dragged the car down the street to the entrance of the subdivision and left it in the road. They never parked in my yard again! Problem solved
Awesome story
This is my brother's story. In 1995 my brother was living with is fiancé in a small apartment complex, 4 units total. There was no street parking, and every unit had two parking spots, but those parking spots were one in front of the other, making the parking 2x4 cars. The party girls in the neighboring apartment did NOT like to have to move for each other, so instead of parking behind their roommate would block in a neighbor's car. They would stay out all night drinking, and be super annoyed if you woke them up so you could drive to work. This was a common occurrence. Well, party girls left for Spring Break, blocking in my brother who needed to get to his first "real" job out of college. The city would do nothing. He then noticed that the girl's car was a manual, so he just backed into it until it popped out of gear, and pushed it into the street, then called the police about an abandoned car blocking traffic. 4 days later they got home to a missing car. They demanded restitution, which they never got.
@@matts1166 That's awesome.
See the problem here was that you were asking them not to do something. If you want results you don’t ask, you tell them what they need to do and what will happen if they don’t do what you’re asking them to do. It’s an extremely effective technique that seems to always work, well it has always worked for me. 😃
@@Tat2Dragons like a boss!
This happened in Texas years ago. A man lives on a sharp curve near me. He has a large oak tree near the curve and every month or so someone would go around the curve to fast and hit his tree. He got tired of the tow companies getting all the money. He started chaining the vehicles that hit the tree to the tree before the tow companies arrived and would charge storage until the owners came up with the cash. He would also make the owners sign a statement that if the tree would die because of them hitting the tree they would have to pay for the cost of the tree.
Illegal, is either lies or he's giving you the half story
@@trentbrownstone1481 There's nothing illegal about requiring payment for storage. If they didn't want to pay they shouldn't have parked their cars on his property without permission
@@trentbrownstone1481 if anything, the principle of the matter is spot on - You own property. Someone causes damage to your property. A 3rd party arrives and get compensated for their time to remove instrument-causing damage. You get no compensation, and your property remains damaged.
@@trentbrownstone1481 - agreed.
They didn’t park their vehicle in his property they had an accident.
The man then stole their property by chaining it to the tree.
The owner was in the process of removing the vehicle but now they can’t.
You can’t charge for storage of stolen property, that you in fact stole.
Signing a form to say you would be responsible if the tree dies is not considered under duress.
David you're the kind of guy everyone wants to play poker with. You didn't really fall for that did you?
I'm shocked he couldn't get it towed. Had a neighbor throw a party and one of their guests blocked my drive way. After 20 minutes of trying to find someone to move the truck I called the police and they were more than happy to haul it off.
You lived somewhere where the police actually cared about enforcing laws.
Here in Mexico, police will be happy to tow any car, not because they care, but because of the storage and transportation fees haha (or bribe, if the driver comes early enough, that's for sure)
@@jcraigshelton It's the kickback from the tow company.
probably depends on whether it was blocking an entry or exit. Here it did neither, it just took a spot.
I think there's a difference whether the car is blocking exit/entry on a public street or if they are fully in your driveway, which means the car is on private property, not public. Regardless, the law should allow cars to be towed in this situation.
Car left on my property for months. Filed abandoned property on title. It's mine. Good car too. Owners came to get car after filing. Showed the title. They cried😂
True story??
Haha
😂 so in the USA if people park on your driveway and it’s there x amount of days you can own it? 😂 that’s class that 😂
@@peterwalton6680 well it depends on the value of the item and what it is. Plus it isn't as simple as its yours if it's just left there for X amount of time. You have to run a ad in your local news paper saying you found this item or this item was on my property and the original owner of that property has x amount of time to retrieve the property or it will be considered abandoned and is legally the person that has the property.
Like something simple as a wallet with some cash in it can be like 30 days, 3 months if the item has a certain grater value, and I believe 6 months and a court order if them item is work X amount of thousands of dollars.
If the items is something big like a vehicle you can charge the owner a storage fees for each day the vehicle is on your property if the owner does come get home vehicle.
@@peterwalton6680 in some states if you can prove that you've done upkeep of a plot of land, boarding yours, for a year you can become the owner of that piece of land. It happens a lot in the state of South Carolina
Craigslist: "Someone left a car on my property. Not mine to give away or sell, but yours for the taking."
Yep
Part it out!
@Kim Brown
The rig was abandoned/dumped on private property w/out permission from property owner. The only time served is from the owner of the car
@Kim Brown
Really
He should have just never contacted anyone , dragged it off the property into the middle of the street, cops would have come and towed it no one would have known how it got there or why.
"We have also reached out to parent company but have heard no response."
Strange eh, like the guy is telling the truth
How did no tow company agree to take this? Those guys even tow legally parked cars just to coerce people into paying their impound fees.
Its different when dealing with companies vs car owners. Companies has bigger lawyers then car owners.
@@Voorhees-Jason This, if the rental company is big enough many tow companies fear trying to get involved. They are like school bullies that only pick on weak kids. No tow truck every tried to tow some one they knew could fight back. Not matter how illegally parked they aren't going to tow a cop car for instance.
@@JustaGuy_Gaming When I was a tow driver years ago, we would absolutely impound Hertz, Avis, Zipcar, etc. They almost never fought back. I'm sure most of the time they just billed the last person to use the car.
Charge $100 per hour and when it hits the price of the car it's yours.
Sounds like a fun gameshow
You're a genius 👏 🙂
Thats still about a month
He could file a lien on the car
Good luck lol the lawyer car to go has is payed more than that per hour
Just make a craigslist ad. No title, for parts only, take the whole thing $500
Once he does so, I believe the big company legal team can make him a thief
@@yzhang8629 they don’t prosecute much in Seattle unless they deem it a hate crime. Seriously.....damn near everything but murder is a misdemeanor now. The city council is behind that movement of lawlessness.
That or put case hardened chain and lock on it so they can't take it at night.
That they would have the audacity to think they can get away with that? I think the company should have to give urinalyses for being that far from reality.
How won’t a tow company come and tow and impound it on demand of the property owner? Is Seattle so utterly screwed up ?
@@InterCity134 the tow companies told him to call the police, the police told him to call a tow truck. Nobody wanted to make the call to tow it knowing there would be liabilities involved. Yes, Seattle is that fucked up now.
I once heard a story about some girl always parking her car in some guys drive way across the street from her house. From what I remember he left notices saying the car will be towed if not removed. The house next door was having some work done to it and the people told the guy for safty reasons it would better to park on the street for the next couple of days. He did because of possible damage that could happen, the girl across the street parked there again. Part of the house that was being worked on fell and landing on her car. From what I remember she tried to sue him but lost her case because she was trespassing on private property. I heard this when I was a kid.
I live in a high rise in Maine. Spectrum (cable company) kept taking a neighbor's parking spot which is a handicap parking spot. After the guy did it the second time when my neighbor came home he parked right behind him. The guy from Spectrum could not go anyplace thetes a cemeny wall in front of that. It was also raining out that night. For over 2 hours many of us watch the recreational activity of how angry the guy from Spectrum was because he couldn't move his car. No doubt he called the police but they didn't help him. He was illegally parked being in a handicap space Plus it also said read Resident.
Everybody in the building was told during a 2 hours Many had popcorn and beer and just enjoyed the show. It was the first time in a long time on every single floor people were getting along and laughing really hard.
Now when Spectrum comes they park on the road like they supposed to. Mission accomplished.
Maine has high rises?
A co-worker who lived near a church told of having this problem with church members blocking his drive. Talking to the pastor didn't help. When he called the police, they told him he could call a tow company and have it hauled off. He used a tow company from a town 30 miles away. Last time his drive was blocked.
He is right to worry about liability. I've been an Insurance Agent for over 17 years and he is being responsible. The driver could run over a pediatrician backing out and his business would be included in the resulting lawsuit. Good on him for being informed!
😂 LOL 😆
That would be a very unlucky doctor.
@@JustMe-yi8cd Haha! It would be! It's oddly specific, but he could be right, those pediatricians are popping out of nowhere apparently :)
ikr? Just imagine if the pediatrician was also a pedestrian with a law degree...
You meant to say pedestrian not pediatrician 😂😂😂
Lol... in my area that car would have been stripped down to the frame in a hour
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That doesn't happen anywhere, anymore, ever. Quit watching Friday and get a job.
@@OregonCrow I lived in Detroit bitch try that again
before you start I'm not talking that metro Detroit bullshit that you all see on TV I'm talking about Detroit Detroit that never gets shown on TV unless it's a crime report
@@OregonCrow something else to add on I'm not talking that SJW and NPC snowflake West Detroit I'm talking East Detroit the stuck in the old getified through all hell Detroit that everybody seems to stereotype especially with all its factory jobs minimum pay and middle finger fuck you to health and safety risk
@@OregonCrow Dude, that happens DAILY where I'm from. Maybe you ought to leave your posh and comfortable little suburb with your Starbucks book club meetings and actually see what life is like in other places in this country. No shock you've got 'Oregon' in your name.
Got asked to take the car. They went meh and told him that he stole the car.
What a joke.
Car2go: we’re going to store our cars on your property.
Property owner: denies access to their private property.
Car2go: hey that’s stealing!!
Guess take and dismantle. Scrap it.
I know nothing.....lol!
Get a chain and drag it the road. Police will have to tow it.
Who left the car there. Your neighbor?
So many questions.
They just need to charge the fees to the last driver that parked it there.
Er yes, we know that we watched the video!
Robert Collins Back in the 70s I worked at a restaurant where if your car was in the parking lot more than 24 hours we simply broke in the vehicle and pushed it in the middle of the street. You would be surprised how quickly the city will tow a car blocking a city street.
@@rickwensel2313 owned by Mercedes and BMW after a merger, they apparently left the North America market in February 2020.
Use a rolling jack, back it out halfway onto the street at an angle, then call the police and say some drunk guy parked it that way and walked off and that its a traffic hazard...that will get it towed immediately. :D
He's currently in the right. Filing a false police report (remember, he's already talked to them) puts him on the wrong side of the law. That would be a good way to turn a bad situation worse.
This is by far the best idea.
You forgot to add to, set the car on fire & say some maniac did it...lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don’t even need to call the police. Just make sure nobody sees you do it and surely someone else would call it in if it were just sitting in the road somewhere
What a ridiculous situation. I cannot believe that a property owner couldn't have it removed by law enforcement. I'd love to know the reasoning behind it.
Nah what's ridiculous is how many of you losers think you can park on other people's property 😂
Their vehicle was basically trespassing and he wanted removed from his property.🤷🏼♂️ If a tech school or college in your area has a class on tort law please take it. It will do you world of good and probably keep you out of trouble. How you feel if someone parked their vehicle on your property and wouldn't move it? He was being nice about it and I'm surprised law enforcement wouldn't do their job on it.
@@donotneed2250 Perhaps thoroughly reading a post by someone else would do you a world of good and possibly keep you out of trouble. :) I clearly stated that I didn't understand why law enforcement couldn't have removed it. I admit, my first sentence could have been clearer; the "ridiculous situation" was the fact that the police would not remove the vehicle, it was not the fact that the homeowner took matters into his own hands. Kudos to the owner for taking the measure that he did. I wouldn't have been nearly as nice about it as he was. It would have been towed away by a third party!
@@donotneed2250 What law was the car breaking? What infraction would the car be charged with after booking?
@@DeputyNordburg, read what I wrote again without being distracted...
I lived near a high school that has limited parking so sometimes people would park in front of the house, the car would be parallel to the house so we weren't worried that they'd crash into the house but one time a guy tried to pay us to thank us for letting him park there(like 5 dollars) and we didn't take it because that would mean we would be held responsible if someone ran into his car.
Years ago there was a visitor to my buddies neighbor.. (apt living) that kept parking in my friends spot after being told several times that there is assigned parking and please don't park there. We found the car parked in his spot once again. It was a rather small car and we had four strong guys along.. we picked up the car enough to be able to slide it one way or the other. We turned the car sideways so that he was between a block retaining wall and another car so there was no way he could leave without tracking down the person who owned the car to move it. He called the police as we watched from inside the apt.. they knocked on doors to find the owner and the cops were cracking up over the whole ordeal. Needless to say.. he never parked in my friends spot again!
That reminds me of something that my co-workers did to another co-worker many years ago. The old VW Beetles only had a key lock on the drivers side. They picked up his car and moved it so the drivers door was against a wall. :-)
Man's in the right...they are making profits off of their car sitting on his property! They should pay him!!
If a car is sitting, it is not making profits.
@@JM-ps6le It is more or less. That is cost that the company is not paying. Just the same if it was sitting in a lot they own. Only difference is they don't have to pay for it. They make the difference in storage cost.
Also this was not the first time. Meaning they made money when the previous person dropped it off and another picked it up.
@@JM-ps6le if that car was left in a parking lot in downtown Seattle you're paying +$5/hour to keep it parked.
They are saving money by keeping it on his property and therefore making a profit.
@@Bismuth00 Yep, so they should have to pay the man who owns that property equal to the profits they make. Just for, to quote Obama, "purposes of fairness."
Rental cars do not profit when they sit dingus
There is a lot of this going around. Large corporations screwing over the little guy unless you can drag their “good name” through the mud on social media. It seems most people nowadays don’t do the right thing due to lack of accountability.
Activist, leftist judges only make these things worse. Feelings are the only thing that matters. We won't even have private property once the commies have had enough time to finish brainwashing everyone.
@@moncorp1 Kids, this right here ^ is why you don't huff gasoline.
@@almostfm Kids, we just found the resident Leftwing Woketard in the comment column.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter Sure-because if you don't buy into that wacko bullshit, you must be a "leftist woketard"
@@almostfm Since when did the obvious 100 percent truth become "wacko bullshit"??
I'd write a notarized letter to the company saying if the fees and charges have not been paid or car has not been picked up in 30 days, you're seizing the vehicle left on your property for auction.
Watch how fast they'll respond.
In the vein of teaching Car2Go a lesson - If the parking space is privately owned, then most states have a process for taking ownership over abandoned vehicles on private property. I.E. "Come get it off my property or it will legally become my vehicle." I personally used this process on my first motorcycle back in high school.
Yes, where I live it’s calling 311 and request a duty tow.
I think the process is called a Lein Sale.
Its called a lein, and it only works if you own a shop. This is not how you got your first car.
@@davidoswald6683 This is absolutely how I got my first motorcycle in high school, just like I said. I am not mistaken. As evidence, here is the relevant Virginia policy, Vehicle Licensing Guide 3.305, directly from virginia.gov: select.dmv.virginia.gov/select/help/vlic/vlic3305.pdf.
@@davidoswald6683 "L-I-E-N" you bag of geniuses...
I heard something happened like this in Chicago in the early 70's. Someone was parking in a dude's backyard (adjacent to an alley). Property owner tried notes, police, everything. Property owner eventually applied for a permit for a brick storage shed and bricked the car in while the car owner was at work, Cask of Amontillado style.
Working in a Poe reference on a random abandoned car video on YT? Style points approved!
There’s a Cheers episode that reminds me of this - when the new owner of the restaurant upstairs bricks in Sam’s pool room and bathrooms for payment and drives Sam out of his mind. It’s not exactly the same thing, but it’s funny and it’s just reminiscent enough to put you in mind of it.
lol genius
This story is definitely a Chicago parable from that time. I grew up around a lot of people from that time in the city and that story has been around. There's always a gist of the story that they knew the guy in one way or another, and no matter the hyperbole or extrapolation, or what fantastic car it was that was entombed, you can't help but find it plausible
Outstanding!
Car2Go: puts their shit on his property
He: asks for storage fees
Car2Go: surprised Pikachu
*Hmm*
This is the best way to explain the situation because i didnt understand what was the problem .Now im clear of what happened. Lol 😄
car2go isnt technically responsible for where the vehicle was dropped off at, that was the problem with the renter. ride sharing is a type of hassle-free renting where the parent company doesnt actually have a hub like avis, budget, or enterprise does. you rent a car, and go to where the previous renter left it. when you are finished you do the same thing. you drop the car in a "safe" location and confirm it via app/website that you are finished with your rental by completing the required checklist to show the vehicle is still in the same condition you picked it up in. then the next person who rents the same car goes to where you dropped it and the cycle repeats. and i put safe in quotes because you will have situations like this every now and then where a renter will drop the car somewhere they arent supposed to.
he is being more than fare .. a real gentleman, what more could you ask for
Obviously he didn't steal it. Obviously they gave it to him. It's his property now.
I know, I would have sold it by now
Nah, the updated story shows they paid him a settlement to remove their property. Needs to put up towing fee signs, so they are legally liable...
file abandoned title
This reminds me of my water company. I still have their equipment. I’ve called them to set up a time for them to pick it up, they never came. Several times. I still have it and waiting for the time they try and say I stole it. It’s waiting for them! Lol
Then he would have to pay taxes on it.
Hilarious that blood sucking tow companies didn't want to take it away...
Really HILARIOUS 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Lincoln Park Pirates would drag that bitch out by the bumper tires squealing. I live near Wrigley Field, I have to use their services a couple times a year.
They even wrote a song about them
ua-cam.com/video/dE5HtTxxJRM/v-deo.html
Better yet, buy your own Denver Boot and collect the revenue.
@@darwinawardcommittee Steve Goodman was the best. Too bad he also wrote the limpest sports team song.
Probably because the property owner wasn't willing to pay for the tow.
@@TechSword don't they charge the vehicle owner though?
As an insurance adjuster, the man has a valid point that Car2Go is conducting business on his property - without permission - but not assuming any liability or property damage liability. That said, if a customer comes to pick the car up and steps in a grate, slips on ice, is attacked by a dog; they were not permitted a reasonable and safe place to conduct business and the property owner would be the liable party.
I love this person. I keep having to deal with these cars as well. The easy solution is to always just push it out into the road making it their problem.
He got $300 for fence supplies, $30 every 15 days for late fees, and “$500 renter harassment fee”. He also asked for $65 a day in impound fees, which he later agreed to waive.
@George so you would allow a company that is making money to park in your driveway for free?
@George that's actually a serious concern, people have been sued for less
@@jadoresophya ya what if I dent your car with my trash can. As a homeowner would that be my problem besides how can they get away with that what anyone can dictates how many parking space you can access on your own property 🤷♀️.
@@brendasanderson7538 I don't understand your argument. If my car was parked on your driveway and your trashcan dented my car, yes you could be held responsible. If someone was trying to retrieve the car, a brick from the house and injured someone, the property owner would be liable.
This guy is what you call a buisness man.
I had a neighbor who would park her car in front of my garage in St Pete Fl. I would have to ask her to mover her car so I could get out. Finally I told her,.."I don't even like my old truck that much, and the next time I leave my garage,.....I'm not even looking to see if your car is there, and I will back up at great speed, and if your car is there,...too bad for your new car" She never parked there again.
Lol. I live in St Pete. People from the hospital always park in my apt parking lot. If I catch them I’ll say, “hey they’ll tow your car here. I’ve seen it done a bunch of times” and they usually move it thinking I’m saving their ass.
Right on
Funny that some peoples have to be told to stop doing wrong things.
luckily it didnt come to that but if you did, you would have LOST big time if you tried that. when operating a motor vehicle you have an obligation to make sure its safe to access and use any roadway. you cant just claim "ignorance" and say "oh officer i didnt see it there" as a good lawyer would argue in court what if a child or elderly person or animal was behind your car? do you not look behind you? ESPECIALLY with that comment "i will back up at great speed while NOT looking lol. ALSO, it would be the same as any other accident where an at fault party hits another party, it doesnt matter if you "meant" to hit a car, if you did and you are at fault, guess what get out the checkbook.
@David Whitfield thats simply untrue...you can be sued by a person who robs your house and injures themselves for one example lol
I'd be happy to give the fella some pointers.
As that famous drum beat starts to play. Everyone will run away
Yeah to the rescue
As a master to a padawan.... show him the way!
Funny seeing you here!
If this was a smart man, hed just rent the car for five minutes and move it into the middle of the street or something. Clearly their okay with leaving it anywhere you please.
1: put up a security camera
2: profit
Absolutely on homeowners side. A business should understand and know better. They thought they could screw with him
I had an adult foster care next to my home and the employees and family of the residents would drive across my lawn(granted about 25 feet but still mine) to get out instead of asking person blocking them to move. Cops would do nothing about it so I decided to pound nails through a bunch of 2x4s and lay them all the way down my property line. Got yelled at a lot and people pissed but they stopped.
I can't even imagine that argument.
How dare you protect your property and make it impossible for me to drive on it without permission!!
🤣😂🤣👌👏👏👏👏
Well done
You gotta do what you gotta do
It’s simple: Trespassers Will Be Shot
Sound like car to go just screwed up - the claim he stolen the car is going to cost them
Right I hope you're right it's kind of BS for them to act the way they are and then to act like he stole the car how about you teach your drivers not to park on private property and be civil and good to people
@@web1187
If they don't have his driver information connected to that car - it's a false statement, better have his DNA in side for they have cooked their own assholes.
@@mrnobody8540 lol right 🤣
no need to be vulgar
@@brianwilless1589
I will speak as I please - you don't need to read your not my wife, nor my mother - an unlike my father have not my respect...
This is public - if you wish to stay in grade school - don't enter a room full of adults.
Stay in you country club cheap tea parlor
tea
How can you steal something that's been abandoned on your property? The resident notified the car's owners of its location and they refused to retrieve it - hence it has been abandoned. Seems to me the resident now owns the vehicle.
I've heard of remote control pop up barriers that you can drive over. So when you are not parked in your spot, the barriers are up and then you remote them to fold down flat to pull into your spot. Seems like it would help here.
A much less expensive solution is a floor jack. Raise the front wheels off the ground, and it will roll into the street.
Be gone right quick.
“The work into building a fence” my god I love this so much
Heh, Did you see those were t posts into concrete or pavement? That's not fun to do. I've done t posts before.
When you are seeking damages, you tack on everthing you can think of. When the judge asks why just don't be pompous, and explain you are only seeking reasonable consideration under the law.
I don't see any surprise there... Would you be willing to just do hard labour for at least 3 hrs (I'm guessing a lot more than that) just for free? Man is entitled to his compensation.
@@Angarsk100 oh for sure. He 10000% deserves what he’s asking for. It’s just hilarious how they worded it 🤣
@@derrickmoses1507 it is a massive pain in the ass without a post pounder... Which he may have rented from Home Depot.
Contact the DMV, tell them it has been abandoned on your property, and apply for a title. It takes about thirty days, and you will have a car.
Are licence plates related to a specific vehicule? Can you ask for another # on thep late when you got hte new title?
Its 5 years. Not 30 days
You'll technically get the car, but the company can dispute it and claim ownership.
If no one claims ownership within 5 years then it's yours. And the title will be sent.
@@SMD-si7fm what state is that? In Ohio, it is 15 days to send a notice; wait 15 days and apply for a title. Lienholders and owners must pay the storage fees.
@@briandfallon74 yeah in most states its usually 15-30 days at max (20 days where i am in NY) to complete an involuntary lien transfer. ive never seen something like this that takes 5 years anywhere. thats a bit too long to be keeping an abandoned vehicle on a property.
@@briandfallon74 Washington.
But I bet that explains it. Washington is a shit show.
Edit: I forgot this stuff changes state to state.
These stories provide a valuable public service. I won’t be using Car2Go in the future.
Imagine if you could just park your car on someone else's property, then claim that they stole it 😅
Or, "They live in my house. They stole it from me."
It was years ago before anything like this was a thing but we had someone park in our driveway blocking part of it. We contacted the person to come and move it and they said it would be a few hours before they could get there to take care of it. So we got the tow strap out of the pickup toolbox, tied it to the cars rear axle, and pulled it out into the street and down the block a little ways. Did not take long before the police had it towed out of the middle of the street. Guy was not very happy. The shotgun made him decide it was not worth worrying about.
Yeah!!
3 am, hook a chain to it, drag it down the street. Let the police get rid of it from there.
Good idea. Maybe a traffic hazard would seem more urgent to the police.
Sounds like a dumpster that was left on our property from a tennant. After 2 weeks we just pushed it like 300 ft away and it was then the cities problem
@Richard Johnson ride share cars all have cameras, be careful
@@markman63 Get an exterior car cover
That's so weird officer, the car must have just put itself in neutral and rolled away...
Years ago I would have said there is no way this could happen but I had someone park in my single lane driveway blocking me and my wife in, and it took two days for City of Los Angeles to handle it. The person who parked was mentally incompetent and had lost it over conflicts with his family who lived a few doors down from me. What blew my mind was the hostility that City of LA personnel leveled at me. I was kind, patient and polite about it. My wife and I borrowed a card to get to and from work for the two days. We never raised our voice, never spoke bad of anyone. But you'd think I was committing a crime asking for help in resolving it (his family refused to even identify that they had any involvement, I didn't even find that out until a long time had gone by and one of their neighbors told me "you remember that guy who blocked your driveway? Well..." (etc).
Everyone knows someone who knows someone who will take it away like it was never there...
Eventually he should be able to file for a lost title for it since they abandoned it. 🤷♂️ free Mercedes
Not how abandoned vehicles work down here in Texas. If you claim an abandoned vehicle they take it and put it on auction, no guarantee you'd get it. Not sure why the hell they worked that in.
@@Bramon83 after about 90 days you can get a registration from Oregon (they have weird laws), then use that registration to register it in your state. I'm a mechanic and that's how we get titles if someone doesnt pay
It's called a lien title in Oregon. But it's a legal nightmare if car 2 go pursues action for auto theft or fraud at that point. The 90 days gives the legal owner time to collect or respond to the lien
@@Mudbuttmoody yes true. It only works if the car wasn't reported stolen, as in the case of someone not paying their mechanic bill and knowingly letting the car go
@Tom Garbo lol. Sugar doesnt dissolve in gasoline tho, so a new fuel pump, filter and a tank rinse and they're down the road... fyi. 👍
Similar situation happened to me, not with a car but with a metal trash bin. Neighbor was placing it on my property and after several requests for them to remove it failed, I called the trash company and threatened to treat it as abandoned and would cut it up for scraps. The trash company picked it up the next day
We all just got this recommended this now huh 🤔
I'm surprised he couldn't get it towed. I live in a condo and have found cars in my 2nd parking spot on a few occasions. I just call parking control and when they show up, I provide the documents to show it is my spot. They'll then ticket the vehicle and, if I wish, arrange for it to be towed.
Someone abandoned a small car on a man's property, and after reporting it to the Sheriff's department and asking if they would please get it towed, the Deputy said to just wait a couple days and they would probably come get their car. After two more calls a week later somebody broke a side window, tossed a cigarette in, and that smoldered overnight, destroying the back seat. Cops came the next morning and took pictures then towed it away.
after 30 days in my state that can file for abandoned vehicle and they own the car.
if it is his property then he is right
will Car to go cant do shit once it park on private property like his place he can do whatever he wants with the car if they dont take it after been told then he sure keep the car
Free car woohoo, thanks car2go
Its basically abandoned property isnt it? He notified how often...how long do you have to wait?
Willow Sverge - Wait long enough for Peaceful Protesters to set it on fire...
As a child we always used to say "Possession is 9/10ths the law". Meaning if I possess it, I own it.
Things were so much easier as a child.
Productive pettiness. I wholeheartedly approve. I like this guy's style.
I know a crew who would be happy to come get a Mercedes...I'm mean parts alone??!?! Forget about it.
"I'll build a fence and it will be the best fence ever, they will never be able to get to the other side of the fence and they WILL PAY for the fence"
It's almost like building walls works.
What a dumbass comment because if you look up the follow-up story he got the company to pay him and they remove the car.......
@@bobbyarmijo3307 I see humor is lost on you.
@@bobbyarmijo3307 its supposed to sound a bit familiar
Tell that to the Vatican
I was new to the neighborhood and my neighbor was used to parking his car in my driveway. I let him know I now lived there yet he still decided to park it. Whelp one day I came home early from work and his car was there. I kindly pulled my car as close as I could to his bumper and called my mother to pick me up. I stayed at my mom’s house a few days. When I came home I moved my car and he moved his. Never had a problem with him again. We actually became friends but he still doesn’t park in my driveway.
In the UK, car parking companies at airports dump cars on residential streets and driveways. They advertise safe parking and abandon your vehicle. Often they can't remember where they put it.
Last time someone parked in my driveway they got 4 flat tires and dragged into the street. "Dunno what happened Officer, the car came to a stop and I saw a tire flat and a couple got out and walked away"
I have hydraulic wheel dollies. Whenever someone parks in my driveway, I use the dollies to move their car into the middle of the road, completely blocking the road. It doesn't take long for the cops to come and tow it.
In college many years ago a visitor parked in the fire lane at the dorm. There was an alarm. Members of the wrestling team made way for the fire truck by picking up the car (it was small, like VW Beetle small) and put it between 2 trees - lengthwise with the trees front and rear. I didn't hear how it was later removed.
My mum saw something like that happen. On the way back from a football match some mini was illegally parked next to some bollards blocking the coach they were on. The team managed to get it onto the other side of the bollards. I would love to know how they got it out.
I always take it with a grain of salt when the news says "we contacted and got no response." I've seen former reporters admit that they often just leave a message less than an hour before reporting the story or call at closed hours for businesses and then leave that context out. If the news is going to be transparent, it should say when they actually tried to contact. Date and time. That way they are liable if they lie about it.
They're acting like he stole the car? Wow. If anything, they're the thieves - they've stolen a parking space. In many cities, one parking space for one day can cost an obscene amount of money. By not paying him for use of his property, they've pretty much temporarily stolen it.
Technically it is an abandoned car, he asked them to move it and while adding fee's for trouble caused and storage which seems fair as it shouldn't be on his land in the first place they just refused to to move it.
I would take legal action against them and see how long until I could legally claim the car for being abandoned on my land, then all you need is to get new papers and a new key made.
Even if they move it with or without your blessing you can still claim storage fees and if they walk onto your property without permission you have them again, also removing your fence to get the car out is criminal damage.
I like this advice… best thus far. Get ownership!!
And what if they just come on your property knock down any obstacles and take their car?
@@David53D Technically that's criminal damage and trespassing.
Depending on local laws you have many different ways to handle it.
In some places you can get shot for that and the land owner is well within his rights to do so.
The car is an abandon vehicle that has been left on private property, that means the car's owner has to pay any reasonable storage fee's the land owner see's fit and can't collect the car until the matter is settled.
@@David53D in Texas they shoot. You should know that kiddo
This happened to me. I have a two car garage with a driveway that can only fit two cars at a time, not much room to park. A dude literally parked his car, got out, and went to pick up bottles. Just went walking down the street. I live directed beside a store, about 50ft. Where there’s PUBLIC PARKING. And about a 10th of a mile the other way, another public building. I marched my ass right outside, stood beside his car, he saw me and came running back and said “I didn’t want to park on the street”. Where I live there’s side walks so no place to park or you’re in the road. I told him “well I’d appreciate it if you didn’t park on private property”. He got in his car and left. I put up no trespassing signs, and started parking my car sideways hanging half into the road. People would park blocking off my whole driveway so I couldn’t get in. Now no one can park here. I even had town workers take cones and block off the whole entire driveway so they could work. I tried coming home and was stuck in the middle of the road. I parked my car blocking the manhole. I have zero problems now.
Imagine that ! Folks who don’t own a car don’t want to go through the grief of driving around the neighborhood looking for a public parking space ( not a private space )
My sign says “Tank parking only, violators will be crushed”
Nice, they have his name, phone number, and address disclosed for the whole world. Great job
Not really stolen he should place a lien on it
expect for the lowest of the low, who is really going to want to bug him?
the most likely issue is too much fan mail.
we have all had a neighbor throw a party and a guest park in or block our driveways. or lived in an apartment complex with our spot taken and no where to park.
ive had both. worst was when i lived in a place where i had two spots, both in line. 2nd car blocked the 1st.
if you went all the way in, you'd get blocked in. if you had two cars, you had to pull the 1st one out to the end to keep someone from parking there whend the front one left. if you only had 1, you had to park at the outer end all the time.
and when someone stole your spot or blocked you in, management didnt want the stress of having it towed....
i had one neighbor it was a real issue with. one time he and a friend were both in my spot, i got home just in time to see friend leave. i parked 2" from his bumper, big old chevy truck, lowered rice rocket but done right. his suspension was worth more than my 3 ton chevy, nice custom paint on all his custom bumpers...
i took the bus to work for a month, 7/11 100 yards down the street for quick needs, friends for rides.
he didnt park there again.
cops came a few times. but i was parked in my own spot, per my lease agreement, and always too drunk to drive. i did try to get written permission to be in public while intoxicated, and to operate a car while under the influence, but they werent stupid enough ;)
Ok so you got his name, phone number, and address, what's next?
@@fullraph I don't know, BLM-Antifa goon squad rolling up to terrorize, loot and arson?
@@BigSmartArmed Uh... And why would they pick this mans place?
“He stole the car” how? By blocking it in? He probably doesn’t even have keys to it.
He should have filed a lien against it for abandoned car on his property... Like $50 a day for parking!!
@Richard McCaig Uhh..... dude read it properly before commenting🤦♂️
@Richard McCaig your comment is the real problem here.
@Richard McCaig do you not know how to read? Idiots like you are the real problem with this world.
I don't know about the laws in Seattle but where I'm from it's illegal to block a vehicle from entering the highways doesn't matter if it's parked illegally on your driveway. But I'm on the side of the land owner reguardless of laws I'd do something 'irrational' and block it in myself.
Here in my neighbourhood in Victoria BC, we had a problem with coop cars being parked in no parking zones or resident only zones. I called the company and they told me to call our municipality to have the cars towed away. The car sharing company then had the drivers who parked the cars improperly pay all the fines and fees.
I live across the street from a crackhead motel. I install dual automatic spike strips in my driveway, they pop up with about 1,000lbs of pressure so nobody can step on one, but on a daily basis when i get home from work there's at least one car on camera getting flat's! and they always try calling the cops. There is a sign that says the driveway is spiked!
NIce item to have. Can you put a link to the one you bought?
Wow some one could hurt. Then what?
@@daisyy99 Did you read this in the comment? "they pop up with about 1,000lbs of pressure so nobody can step on one." So, a person would have to be grossly, impossibly obese to activate those spikes.
Put it on Craigslist. “Abandoned car” ...take it away.
Or as we used to call it, Midnight Spares!!
@@Biggerbadwolf midnight auto supply
$1 for car cause if you mark it free nobody will take it
Sean Bee So true 😂
the chop shops will take it
He should have just shoved it out into the street so the city would have to tow it and the owners would get jacked for some serious tow and storage charges.
your idea would be illegal and a lot of work, besodes not giving him any compenssation. He actually got paid for the inconvenience because he choose a clever and legal approach
How the fuck do you push a parked car
@@stationcolossus Pushing? Easy, a jack and a set of car dollies. Pulling is equally simple with a snatch block and tree, or a larger vehicle with a winch. 😁
@@mvansumeren4313 , lol, do I know you? My friends and I used to shuffle cars around in parking lots. We used floor jacks, and dollies Then we would watch the confusion when people found their car in a different spot than where they remembered parking.
@@notahotshot I doubt we know each other, but I like your sense of humor! My favorite thing to do when I was younger was to rearrange the work vans at the supply house using their forklift. The employees at this certain location would play along and stall for time while I picked up the back of a fellow contractor's van and place it around the corner, or across the parking lot, etc. We would all play innocent and gaslight my poor confused colleagues and convince them that they did, in fact, park waaaay over there.
Come to think of it, have you ever visited an electrical supply house and come out to your van moved from the back lot to the front? If so, maybe we do know each other! 😁
If I throw a baseball onto my neighbor's yard, that doesn't mean he stole my baseball.
If Car2Go put the car there, they should've asked for permission first. They have only themselves to blame.
Seems more logical that a client of car2go put it there because they were too lazy to find a parking space on the street. in which case car2go should have immediately sent someone to move the car. they are complete assholes for not doing so.
Way to go man!!
There is NO reason for him to justify his position regarding liability concerns.
It is 100% the obligation of this company to explain its assertion of right to leverage his property for their shareholders profit. They should have to pay as though they took the property through a confidence scheme (with malicious intent)!
We have become desensitized to the way these companies contractually buffer themselves from responsibility to the communities they profit from.
I think it’s appropriate for him to act like an impound lot. He now controls the car, is entitled to storage fees and will release the car when they are paid. Works for me.
How was Seattle so Sunny at this time of the year?
Put a sign: "Free car-you tow". It would be gone in 5 minutes or less.
@Smelly Cat What for? Improper signage?
Its risky, may lead to complicated legal situation
@@CM-dx6xu Ever read the 1st amendment? Especially if it's on your property.
@@ThePeterDislikeShow Hmm... not sure the 1st amendment would get you out of a fraud case. You have the right to lie, and the Government can't stop you... If you deliberately try to mislead someone into stealing a car then that part of it isn't covered by your free speech rights.
@@ThePeterDislikeShow The constitution no longer Trumps political fraud. Pun intended!
Put up a parking sign that says " Unauthorized vehicles will be vandalized at owners risk and expense!
Whoever is parking the car doesn’t own the vehicle, so I don’t think that would be very effective. It’s also illegal to vandalize a vehicle even if it is on your property (unfortunately)
@@samsaasen4922 move it in back to the shed and use an oxy torch to cut it up and recycle it. As long as you dont try to recycle the vin number plate your good!
this is already implied with private property. The reasons why the signs are put up at stores and malls and such because it allows for public parking so you have to be clear who the parking is for. Private homes are automatically implied since it is attached to the home and anything on that land is private use only.
Jan 10 2021: How did this end? Or is the car still there?
So in Washington there is a 30 day grandfathering period for abandoned property. You have to show that you went through all outlets to return the abandoned property.
After this, it is legally yours. This applies with cars as well.
That’s what I would do.
The whole process takes about 60 days though.
The first 30 days, you filing and the process of the paperwork and the state also tries to contact the owner.
After 60 days if the state does not receive a response, they issue a new title free and clear to you.
The timely matter within that 60 days starts the moment they seal the envelope.
Even if the envelope sits in the mail box there.
Most owners get 48-72 hours to contact the state to stop the process.
I know this cause my brother use to drive a tow truck.
People would refuse to pay the tow bill thinking they would wait till it goes to court.
Their lot is small so after 30 days they apply to the state, showing that within the 30 days they contacted the owner by certified mail and the owner either refused the letter or responded with a no I will not pay. Thus making their vehicle abandoned on their property.
Every 2 months they would hold an auction.
The nice cars were always picked up before the 60 days were up.
If not by the owner/driver but by the bank that held the loan on it.
I'd remove the wheels and store them away, leave the car on blocks and then call Car To Go and tell them there will be a $100 impound charge per day starting from the date he called them. No impound fee, no car.
Hell yeah... And file a lien with the DMV.
That’s what I was thinking take the wheels off
And you would get yo ass best PERIODT
My F350 dually would persuade that car right off the property, right up that embankment across the street, where it suddenly becomes fair game for tow trucks.
He did the right thing just fencing it off. If he touches the car he could be charged with theft or vandalism. But I agree with most of the comments that he should just move it to the street when no one is looking.
He should of bonded the car and put it in his name, then sold it.
How is that done
@@bonga1353 if you have posession of the vehicle and the owner dose not contest it. Then you can start the process and make the vehicle yours without a pinkslip.
@@Eagleoneradiogod learn something new everyday thanks
Should've, the contraction of should have, not should of. How stupid are you?
@@markfox1545 did you already murder ur ex's ? or are you just pathetically creepy naturally?
It reminds me of Facebook referring referring to your phone/ computer as "our device" in there terms and conditions
Kind of reminds me of the E Scooter and bike garbage piles when they first became a big thing. Tons of companies having those rental bikes around the city, and users just dumped them all over the place. Forcing businesses and home owners to deal with them being just left lying around.
Just have someone with a pickup truck drag it out and leave it in the street. Then I bet they'll come get it then 🤣
Exactly lol, storage fees, and charging for the fence, of course they don't want to pick it up. Cut the BS, drag it into the street, then the police will have no problem towing it lol.
@@raleigh2747 Let the parking tickets build up.
The thing with that is that the ride share company can then charge the property owner for all fees and fines. They left it safely in a parking spot, the property own took matters into their own hands and moved it without permission.
@@auntiem873 gotta prove it first.
@@motoxguy7 - all they have to prove is that it was moved from where they left it. Then it becomes the property owners responsibility to care for it. Why do you think Tow truck drivers and the cops didn’t want to touch it or deal with it?
It’s the same law that Mechanics have to follow when they take a car for repair.
It has been to court before and that’s how the courts ruled.
I can’t remember the year it was ruled, some time back in the 90’s.
He should check his state laws. There are laws where cars are abandoned in private property with or without the owners permission may file a claim for the vehicle.
interesting
Agreed most states has some kind of law related to this. What you do is file a police report or a certified mail to the owner if able to prove some kind of time stamp. Then after what ever time it states in the law in some states is 30 days for example, take all that to the DMV explain the situation, if it is within the states law, you get issued the title and now the car is yours to sell. If then Car2Go tries to take the car, they are now stealing the car. lol
As the property owner, any tow company should be glad to take it.
how hard is it to get in the car and reverse , it might get a couple scratches but the make shift fence will fall
This reminds me when I moved into a house. The previous owner left a ton of items. I donated most of their belongings after waiting 30 days. What do they do? They show up a year later asking for their stuff back.
Were they renting or had a mortgage? Sometimes when people can't pay the mortgage the company claims all assets in the house, and it takes up to year before things get settled.
@@thystaff742 They were renting. This was back in college. They were college kids 🤷
Can't imagine why they wouldn't tow it unless it's because it's an expensive car, but there are tow rigs that can handle that. Or, just boot it and/or impound it since it's parked illegally and they are trespassing; then file the lien, get ownership & auction it. I'm really surprised nobody would tow it, tow companies go through impound-lien-title, then auction process all the times, big moneymaker for them.
I tow your ass off my apartment bldg. Lot even helped the driver, expensive cars too. Same for my house off my driveway some towed a few I let loose to roll back into the street. Some would leave cars parked in front of my house for weeks and weeks I had a camper just hugging the driveway opening you couldn't see anything, then I learned about abandoned vehicles 3days it doesn't move call it in they mark it then ticket it then tow it. Bye bye ...
@Calypso Eros - you are correct. My Brother worked for a towing company thereErin Seattle for years. He put up signs on my Mother’s property and told her the same things. And it worked, people were afraid to even park close the the curb entrance. Made life so much easier getting in and out of our driveway.
What he also told me was that if a car is on your property for 30 days you can file for the title as an abandoned vehicle. It takes another 30 to 60 days to process the paperwork and after 90 days you can sell the vehicle after you received the paperwork.
How that works is after the 30 days, the state sends a letter to the last known address or to the address on the registration (some times different) they then have 10-30 days to respond depending on certain things. By that time it may take 60 days to finish the process. It is usually less, but you have to wait the full 90 days just in case mail is slow.
@@Tony-InLosAngeles But you can’t if it’s the buildings lot unless they have signage
probably for the same reason those damn lime wire bikes end up cast down on the side of the road down here in renton where they have no business being
the officials in charge don't want to pay, and that's probably because these "share a leave it anywhere" companies won't pay unless they absolutely have to.
I know with the bike shares that's partly because people in the Seattle city gov't basically subsidize the bikes, meaning that there's no financial incentive for the bike shares to care, but with the car shares I'd bet it's because they have some apparatus to make the city eat the costs of parking fines or towing fees.
@@barrag3463 - I wouldn’t be surprised if that were true.
The city wants business to come in. They think it will bring in more money so they will give the companies tax breaks and loans. In a lot of cases it does work however, in these ride shares it does not.
Great job not blocking his phone number off the sheet. Genius.
Guy: Upset and blocks in car. Gets news involved.
Car2go: Upset at first, loves the free advertising
Yea that guy is 100% right and went about fixing it in the best way. They're profiting off of his property and then ignoring him when he asks for them to simply removed it. Good on him