A big sarcastic and angry “thanks” to the City of Portland & Security Towing for towing my car while I was on the other side of the country at my grandmother’s funeral. I parked my car on the street legally (with my permit showing and no “no parking” signs in sight) last Thursday before I flew back east. When I got back on Tuesday, my car was not there. Without any rhyme or reason, Portland decided to clean the street from 7-9AM the day before, and I’m now $216 poorer. Most cities have some type of street cleaning schedule posted on signs where applicable. Thanks for making one of the most difficult weekends of my life even worse.
Thanks to the City of Portland & Security Towing
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Seems like Thursday – Tuesday just MIGHT be longer than 24 hours
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Sorry about your grandmother.
But streets are for parking (temporarily by law mentioned above), not for car storage.
It was probably leaf cleaning day. They send out a notice way in advance and it is easy to lose track of the day by the time it rolls around. Actually, thanks for the reminder.
Even without street cleaning, they still had the right to tow you. You’re not allowed to leave your car park for longer than 24 hours in the same spot. Of course, people do it all the time, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still get ticketed or towed.
Really sorry to hear about your grandma. Hopefully you have a friend who can take your car for the duration next time you need to leave town.
You really have to try hard to get a car towed off the street here. The total process takes about three weeks if they’re moving quickly. So either your car was on the street for an awful long time and just happened to get towed when you left, or something odd happened (leaf day won’t do it) and they moved it in an expedited manner.
So, I dunno, maybe you can get some money refunded? Either way, I’m sure that was a kick to the gut surprise and you have my sympathy.
$216 dollars is actually pretty cheap, it could easily have been more. Maybe next time just pay the 8 bucks or so a day it costs to park at the park n fly, or just keep risking it and if you only get towed 1 in 6 trips you are actually saving money.
I’ve really thought about this one and I just can’t say anything mean this time. Next time, though!
Storm drains are clogged, flooding streets. We have poop geysers and landslides. But, damn, sucks that your free parking scheme got interrupted.