[darren]

Summary - a guy moves into a homeowner's association organization.

The HOA then sells all of the parking spots to a 3rd party. They require parking passes or else they boot your car. The guy forgets to put out the pass one day and even though he's parked in the same spot for months, they boot his car.

So...he puts the car on dollys and rolls it into his garage. He was going to do major work on it so he isn't going to be driving it anyways. If they want the boots they are free to take them and since he didn't cut them off, damage them, no crime has been committed, so the cops can't arrest him for theft. He even told them what happened and that they are free to take the boots!

Epic thread, it's pretty long, but there's a summary on page 50.

http://forums.thecarlounge.com/zerothread?id=3880087&page=51

 

[BillK]

Wow, I would be pissed if that were my car. Man law #928 - you don't mess with my car.

 

[chittychittybangbang]

The owner of the parking enforcement looks like a douche. That is why I would hate to live in a HOA area. A home is your castle, with a HOA, you can no longer do what you want and any petty neighbor can legally screw you. I could care less whose grass goes longer between mowings or a parked car on the street, as long as there's no loud noise or illegal activity, just leave your neighbors alone. If you don't like it, build a fence.

As for booting a car, if you had a child who needed to go to the emergency room or an important meeting...I would be...

 

[Blackcat]

That really pisses me off. Give them a ticket if there's something wrong, don't boot a car. How do you sell a private parking spot? I knew someone who had a slammed car, I'll be that you couldn't boot that.

I wonder if it's legal to put a boot on their boot?

 

[darren]

That really pisses me off. Give them a ticket if there's something wrong, don't boot a car. How do you sell a private parking spot? I knew someone who had a slammed car, I'll be that you couldn't boot that.

I wonder if it's legal to put a boot on their boot?

But how would you get the boot off your car if you didn't remove your boot

 

[BillK]

Haha, they have a website up now and APS is sueing rollerman for defmation and harrassmet.

 

[bigshow]

3 project cars? What will he drive in the meantime?

 

[Guest]

HOA = solutions looking for a problem.

 

[Vorch]

I saw this on the vortex but the post was locked, any updates?

 

[buzybee]

There are no updates because rollerman was ordered not to talk about it.

 

[bigshow]

So how does the story end? Any updates?

 

[Fluid]

So how does the story end? Any updates?

Nah, I saw this story on another forum too and it has no ending since there was some court injunction to not talk about it.

 

[iansw]

The only update is that rollerman was moving and selling his cars. Not related to the incident.