Not the smartest idea... Everyone knows part of the parking lot at Carmichael is under construction and is fenced off. The scuba program at school is doing their open water checkouts this week at a local quarry and we needed to get into the fenced zone to load and unload gear at the back of the pool.There were 5 cars parked there for a bit this afternoon. We come outside and there are 2 cars blocking our exit...parked directly where we would drive through to leave, in the "No Parking Any Time" zone. Took us about an hour to leave after getting out of the pool. I will let my cell phone shots tell the story...The line of cars waiting to leave...The culprits...Nope, none of us could fit inbetween them...One car on the tow truck...Second car on the tow truck...[Edited on May 3, 2009 at 8:30 PM. Reason : stupid non-standard image tags]
5/3/2009 8:29:23 PM
img link fail
5/3/2009 8:30:07 PM
Yeah yeah, TWW uses [image] but I'm used to [img] from all my other message boards.
5/3/2009 8:32:02 PM
how are those fences held down? i probably could've got out in less than an hour
5/3/2009 8:32:07 PM
5/3/2009 8:32:59 PM
Why did they park there if there were tons of other open spaces to begin with?
5/3/2009 8:33:18 PM
I was hoping that this would have ended with the cars on fire.
5/3/2009 8:34:04 PM
i would've moved one section and been long gone
5/3/2009 8:34:10 PM
5/3/2009 8:34:26 PM
gotcha.
5/3/2009 8:37:35 PM
I'm glad you got them towed... but there's no way i would have waited an hour without trying to move the fence
5/3/2009 8:38:04 PM
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5/3/2009 8:44:13 PM
these people need to start sucking it up and parking in the deck or on the street going towards jordanit's getting seriously dumb around there with the vultures circling around perpetually
5/3/2009 8:44:43 PM
5/3/2009 8:46:05 PM
5/3/2009 8:47:12 PM
less chance of gettin your window busted out if you don't park in those damn decks[Edited on May 3, 2009 at 8:48 PM. Reason : i just don't like talking politics. at all. especially with college kids.]
5/3/2009 8:47:22 PM
wow... this is like the only case that I've seen of when tow trucks on campus are your friends...
5/3/2009 8:49:45 PM
lmao, thats gonna be at least $300 a piece between the tow fee $125, court costs $100 and the ticket $75
5/3/2009 8:50:15 PM
5/3/2009 8:51:40 PM
I do feel pretty bad for whoever owns the cars, but we gave them ample time and did everything we could to find them.As to moving the fence -- there were curbs on either side of the two cars in question. I'm betting 3 of us could have gotten out (two trucks + the jeep) but the guys in the lower Saturn and Vibe might have had issues going over the curbs.
5/3/2009 8:54:10 PM
i woulda slashed their tires first, then call and say there are two cars with flat tires blocking the lane
5/3/2009 8:54:47 PM
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5/3/2009 9:02:38 PM
I've noticed cars have been parking there a lot lately. Sucks that the gym is so packed and there aren't many spots nearby
5/3/2009 9:03:55 PM
5/3/2009 9:06:55 PM
come on, you're going to the gymis walking a few extra yards to get there gonna kill ya?
5/3/2009 9:10:20 PM
Ironically enough, when the tow-truck was putting these two cars up, he blocked 2 cars from leaving the parking lot.
5/3/2009 9:23:02 PM
Ahh good times I got the verbal story when my bf got home from filling tanks. Glad to see the pictures came out well from your camera. I just wish you had gotten a pic with the gate saying NO PARKING with all your cars behind it. ALSO, good luck tomorrow and watch out for lightning!!
5/4/2009 12:58:15 AM
ITT, we see two douchebags get what they deserve.Don't feel too bad about the fact that they had to be towed. They'd have been angry at you for asking them to move their cars even though they were in the wrong. People who do shit like this don't think like normal people.
5/4/2009 1:05:03 AM
5/4/2009 1:14:14 AM
Hey, that was my car you fag!! Seriously though, that mazda looks exactly like my car.
5/4/2009 1:17:27 AM
I never had my car broken into in the 2.5 years I parked in the decks either. My car very obviously has an aftermarket head unit (though I remove the face plate when parking the car). I was actually expecting somebody to bust into it at some point just to see if I had any nice equipment (like a sub or something, but I don't need that to get the sound I want). Nobody ever did.I do tend to keep the inside of my car immaculate, or else there will simply be paper trash on the front passenger side (i.e. napkins, receipts). It's also a jeep cherokee, and those tend not to harbor expensive things inside of them. Being afraid to park in the deck is just silly unless you're MaximaDrvr. That dude is cursed.
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