I don't know what to think.
Aug. 22nd, 2002 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaMisha and I are home safely from our vacation.
My car isn't in the parking lot.
There's no message from our landlords indicating that they had it towed - not that there was any reason for them to have done so. It was displaying a residents' hang tag. And surely if it were towed, we'd have gotten a letter or phone call or something. This is the address at which the car is registered.
The police are on their way over. I don't know what to think, at this point. Even though I'm sure I know exactly where I left the car - I remember that there were spots close to the door, and I chose one lower down the row as a courtesy to my neighbors, because I wasn't going to be driving it for a week - it still seems inconceivable that the car could have been stolen. Who would steal a twelve-year-old station wagon with a cracked windshield and patches of rust on the body? It just doesn't make sense.
So I'm not panicked. I just feel numb. This is bizarre.
Update: The officer was able to locate my car... at a tow lot. Our complex apparently had it towed on Monday, and didn't bother notifying us. Argh, it's probably going to cost a fortune to get it out of tow. Misha says we'll make the landlords pay, but they really have the advantage on us here - we'll have to pay the towing company or they won't give us the car, and then all they have to do is refuse to reimburse us.
I can't imagine why they towed it. Argh. Argh. Argh.
Thanks for your sympathy, everyone.
My car isn't in the parking lot.
There's no message from our landlords indicating that they had it towed - not that there was any reason for them to have done so. It was displaying a residents' hang tag. And surely if it were towed, we'd have gotten a letter or phone call or something. This is the address at which the car is registered.
The police are on their way over. I don't know what to think, at this point. Even though I'm sure I know exactly where I left the car - I remember that there were spots close to the door, and I chose one lower down the row as a courtesy to my neighbors, because I wasn't going to be driving it for a week - it still seems inconceivable that the car could have been stolen. Who would steal a twelve-year-old station wagon with a cracked windshield and patches of rust on the body? It just doesn't make sense.
So I'm not panicked. I just feel numb. This is bizarre.
Update: The officer was able to locate my car... at a tow lot. Our complex apparently had it towed on Monday, and didn't bother notifying us. Argh, it's probably going to cost a fortune to get it out of tow. Misha says we'll make the landlords pay, but they really have the advantage on us here - we'll have to pay the towing company or they won't give us the car, and then all they have to do is refuse to reimburse us.
I can't imagine why they towed it. Argh. Argh. Argh.
Thanks for your sympathy, everyone.
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Date: 2002-08-21 09:11 pm (UTC)I'm glad you're home, but keep us posted. *hugs*
-J
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Date: 2002-08-21 09:52 pm (UTC)*hugs* Thanks. Apparently our apartment complex had the car towed, which is a terrible hassle and inexplicable and likely to be expensive, but at least means that the car is in one piece and has its contents intact.
In the morning, we get to take up the fight with the landlords to force them to pay for its retrieval.
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Date: 2002-08-21 11:51 pm (UTC)-J
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Date: 2002-08-22 04:47 am (UTC)They claim it didn't have a hang tag. The guy at the towing company said they put a warning on it on Friday - when we were driving the Icefields Parkway - and towed it on Monday. It kind of boggles the imagination, doesn't it? Whether it had a hang tag or not (it must! Where would the hang tag have gone?), that they just happened to pick a time when we were out of town to make an issue of it...