Thanks! Good to know its still there.
That little entrance made the Lincoln my favorite. Though, I have some recollection of having to be careful of getting *caught* in the bus lane. Something about that entrance.
LOL. I love the way you phrased that: "...the NYC Marshalls
stole my car away...." They've stolen mine a time or two as well. Jerks! Though I discovered a way to deal with them. In my area, I think it may be the same everywhere, there is a Sheriff and a Marshal. Either one can take your car. They must share info or something. Anyway...this is what I did, sorta by accident.
I owed some tickets and knew it. I also knew that they would be coming any day. Their modus operandi is to scope out areas at night----if you see a Marshals/Sheriffs car cruising your neighborhood, at night, usually their just scoping out cars from a list. In commercial areas and certain neighborhoods they'll take your car at night. At least in my area, they don't do nights. They just scope.
Of course, this is all information and belief, once they've noted a number of cars on the list, then they swoop in early morning and do neighborhood by neigborhood. So each day they'll do a couple of areas.
During that time, I, generally, had to *move* the car every morning (alternate side parking), so I got in the habit of doing very early 5 am or so (more spots, and I like the early morrning). I'd warm the car, and then do a quick sweep of the neighborhood looking for the Sheriff/Marshal tow truck. What they do is tow the cars from the list to a staging area they've picked to hold the cars.
So, this particularly morning I noted
them beginning to stage-up, I knew they would tow me. So, I parked the car, then immediately got on-line and electronically paid my tickets. They wouldn't know that until probably the next day. Given my car was on that day's list, my car got towed. Now, I didn't exactly
know that they wouldn't be aware that I had paid at approximately 5am that day. So, when the car was towed, I was rather
pissed!
Later in the morning I went to get the car and it wasn't there. Pissed, I go home get the print-outs re payment, etc., and head to the court in Jamaica. Take a taxi. I go through the steps and prove the tickets were paid PRIOR to the car being towed!!! The time difference was less than an hour I'd say. I get the Order for the Marshal/Sheriff, I forget which, to release my vehicle. Of course, there are NO COSTS/FEES!!!! So, I leave the court and head over to the Marshal/Sheriff's office, ahem, I had been there before, I must admit!
Totally pissed, and dressed in my imitation Brooklyn cop gear, blue mock neck, dark pants, cap, (people mistake me for an undercover), plus I know how to act like one. Of course, cops know how to work the system. So, that's how I played it. I went to the window, passed the order, stared the Marshal down---DID NOT SAY A F WORD. My stare down was meant to convey: 'You Dumb F Ass. Waisting MY time
and Yours!' Gotta understand I'm a relatively
big guy, black---people pay attention when I want them to. The Marshal was a similar sort. Rather than one of the girls who generally handle this crap----HE got up---which is what I wanted.
I stared him to the window. He looked at the Order. Took it back, did what they do, and came back with the paper needed for the Yard to release the car to me. I left---we never said a single word. He got the message.
So, I went to the yard---another taxi fare (3 so far). Picked up the car and left.
My car has NEVER been towed again----and, I have tickets! I hate paying them. It's not financial. I just
hate paying them! It's a mental block or something. Drives my GF crazy!
Anyway, the moral of this is this: It cost the Marshal/Sheriff money to tow your car. I
knew this. They have to pay the tow people and the Yard, just for starters. There's some a bit more cost too. So if they say tow a car, by mistake. That's money down the drain. Sometimes they tow the wrong car, meaning the owner has the juice to get his tickets wiped and and Order issued---again, towing such cars is money down the drain. The Marshals/Sheriffs HATE this---they're in business to make money not throw it away.
So, by doing things the way I did, and putting on the act (stare-down), I was intending to convey that I was a person with
juice. A cop of some other person with city ties. I apparently accomplished this well. What they do in this situations, when they know you have the
juice----you're put on a "No Tow List"!!! They'll never tow your car.
Cops (with juice), Officials, Politicians, they park wherever they want and never pay their tickets. The tickets, eventually get taken care off, blah, blah, blah. The Marshal/Sheriffs know how it goes, cause it goes that way for
them! They never get towed.
At one point, I had stopped moving my car PERIOD! Just took the tickets and threw them into the glove compartment. Wasn't til I got sick, and wasn't going to be driving for awhile, that I decided to have the car moved out of state til I got better. I'm better. So, I shortly will be having to deal with the tickets! Need new registration, tags, etc. Ugh, now I have to figure a way to beat the tickets!
(Didn't proof the above, please pardon.)
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