Nick vs The Tow Company

Last week I came home from my weekly night of education to find very little parking on my street. Now let me give some background to this. I live in a "subdivision," I guess it can be called, with narrow roads. Now this subdivision is maintained by Brown Property Management as the homeowners' association (HOA). The neighborhood has narrow roads and because of this, one side of each road is designated the fire lane.

Now since there was very little parking due to a neighbor having company, I was forced to park down the street and around the corner in this dead end. The left side of the dead end was marked "No Parking." The right side was not and I was not the first person to ever park here. Here's a picture of the dead end street for reference. The white barricade says not parking and is clearly on the left side of the road.

I got up for work the next morning and walked out to find my car gone. Angry beyond belief I called the police to see what was going on. They said that the car had been towed for being in a "Fire Lane." Still pissed off, I had my roommate Debbie take me to the tow place to pick up my car. Being already late for work, I payed the $190 to get my car out.

When getting my car out, I asked who I would complain about this to and they said the homeowners' association. The HOA told us that the tow company, which I should mention now is Absolute Impound, is required to take a picture of the violation. When calling the tow company on this the guy on the phone changed from "you need to take this up with the HOA" to "what was your name, phone number, ect." I have still yet to hear back from them and being that I have Monday off, they will hear from me some more. I should also mention that they scratched my door when breaking into my car in order to tow it.

Last but not least, if my car was in violation of a fire lane, surely this storage bin that is there now is.