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"i would die for you" this, "i'd walk through fire for you that"
what about "i'd live for you" romances? what about "i never thought i'd be worth the work it would take to piece myself together"?
what about "i don't believe i'm worth it, but for you i'll try"
He is 100% morally right to do this. Not to make a funny cool video into a “topic” but how about we start talking more about how tow companies are part of a predatory system in which trivial errors are given harsh legal penalties for the sole purpose of generating money? Sometimes not even errors on your part. Your car could break down or get wrecked and you still have to pay impound fees if you can’t get back to it fast enough. Your car can get STOLEN BY CAR THIEVES and you still have to pay impound fees. You could be driving, suffer a heart attack or stroke, have to abandon your vehicle to go to the hospital and have to pay impound fees. You could park legally, get injured or mugged or lost or otherwise unable to get back to your car before the parking expires and have to pay impound fees. You could DIE while you’re out with your car and your family will have to pay impound fees.
The fees start in the hundreds and increase every day the car isn’t retrieved. This can take away someone’s only mode of transportation and cost them their entire job and ability to live. Maybe forty or fifty years ago anybody with a car could be reasonably assumed to have some savings or a friend or family who could help with this and it was just a “darn it! My poor wallet! Aw man!” situation but today it’s more often a “guess I need to beg for public donations or kill myself” situation.
My husband’s car was stolen. We reported it to the police, the insurance company gave us appropriate compensation, we went and bought a new one.
29 days after the theft, we got a phone call from a tow company. They had found the car abandoned in the side of the road a DAY after it was stolen, impounded it, and started racking up fees. They’re legally required to contact the owner within 30 days, so that’s what they were doing.
We were stumped, so we called the insurance company and asked them what we should do. They said, “Let us handle it.”
They wound up having to pay the tow company TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.
One of my coffee shop co-workers got arrested at work once, she ended up having to spend three days in the county jail (unpaid traffic tickets leading to a suspended license; getting pulled over on a suspended license that she didn’t know had been suspended leading to being charged with a misdemeanor; failure to appear leading to a bench warrant; and this is how you end up in jail for one traffic ticket the system is abusive and targets the poor). A dipshit small-town cop was cruising around behind businesses and scanning license plates to see if he could get his quota up.
When the cops put her in the back of their car they started to call the tow company at which point my boss was like “????? Why? She’s in my parking lot? The car can stay.”
The cop was like “well, she doesn’t have a right to leave her car here so we’re going to tow it, she’s getting arrested, she has to deal with the consequences”
And thankfully (in this situation) my boss was an asshole and he was like “Look, man, I give free coffee to everyone who matters in town, the city council likes me more than they like you, the police chief knows me better than she knows you, if you bring a tow truck into my lot to take this car when I, the business owner, have not called to have a car towed and she, the car owner, has not called for a tow I’m going to go to walk into your station and file a report for grand theft auto.”
My boss ended up actually taking her keys and driving the car back to her apartment, which is good because the dipshit cop showed up at the end of my shift to hassle me about “loitering” in the back of the coffee shop where I’d just locked up and blocked me in with his cruiser asking where the other car had gone because he was going to have it towed.
We did the math on it and if our boss hadn’t prevented the tow it would have cost over $900 in impound fees for the 3 days she’d spend in jail. At that point minimum wage was $8/hr and we made *a tiny bit* more than that so basically it would have cost this girl over a hundred hours (nearly three weeks worth of work with the way our hours shook out at the coffee shop) to get her car back.
Anyway that same year the cops in that city towed a car to the city yard, opened up the hatchback, and shot a guy who had been sleeping in his car:
Also in 2009, at Approximately 3:30 a.m. Jan 30, a Sierra Madre police officer discovered a Nissan SUV within the city that had been reported stolen. The Nissan was towed back to the rear of the police station on Sierra Madre Blvd. To their surprise officers opened the hatchback of the SUV and found a man in the vehicle’s cargo area where he had allegedly been sleeping under a blanket. Why the officer(s) didn’t see the individual before the car was towed has been the subject of much speculation and supposition. 46-year-old Jason Jensen, had allegedly been living in the car that had been reported as stolen . SMPD’s Amos then shot Jensen with a single round to the upper torso. The internal investigation was completed and placed Amos is back on duty.
(the car wasn’t actually stolen, there was an ownership conflict and it had been reported stolen by a co-owner, not that sleeping in a stolen car justifies getting shot by the goddamned cops)
So, you know, fuck the police.
And look, I’m a reasonable person, I understand that sometimes someone blocks you in and needs to be towed, that’s an actual matter of public safety; I get that when someone is in an accident there has to be a place to put the car until they’re able to claim it.
But if you’re saying it costs more per day to maintain the space and insurance for a car in an impound lot than it costs for me to stay in The fucking Roosevelt then I say you’re a liar and an extortionate thief, you bloodsucking parasites.
Anyway, if you live in California call your representative about Assembly Bill 516, which would make it harder for police to tow cars.
I once accidentally parked one night in a reserved space at our gated apartment. It was dark and I just wanted to go home. The next morning, I couldn’t find my car and spent a lot of time thinking it was stolen. Turns out that some douche-bag couldn’t park in another open space for ONE NIGHT a few steps away, but instead decided to have my car towed. We called around, including the towing company listed on the sign, but that company denied having it. We eventually had to get a cop friend involved before they admitted they had my car. Keep in mind that this place CHARGED BY THE DAY. So every day they “didn’t have it” was added to the bill and FUCK what we had to say about it.
Needless to say, we didn’t renew our lease.
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This is some John Henry shit right here.
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There’s a movie made from his story, you guys can check it out. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3449292/
This post got so much better since the last time I reblogged it omg!!!
oh my god!!!!
That mountain didn’t not know who it was fucking with.
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Maybe we could pay more so they could get paid more
Jeff Bezos is the richest man on the planet by a significant margin. I think the money to pay them is there.
From a Christian stand, would it be fair to consider Nationalism the worship of a false idol?
I’m just saying, if I had a replica of the golden cow and I stood in front of it in a golden cow t-shirt and golden cow hat with golden cow tattoos, held up a gun and threatened to shoot and kill anyone who disrespected the golden cow, or at the very least beat the shit out of them and remove them from their homes, I feel like it’d raise some red flags
Like yeah I worship God and follow His teachings above all else, but like… not if they go against the Golden Cow
AND THAT’S THE TEA
The tea is most excellently brewed.
Word, like why are people mad children are growing up with way less traumas and heartaches than us ?!
If you want your children to suffer how you suffered pls don’t have any children
There are a *lot* of “I had to go through this shitty situation so my child can go through it too” ass people in this world and I just don’t understand it. Heal yourself before u have kids, like PLEASE.
Trauma replicates itself. You can let yourself be a vector because you got hurt, or you can help shut that shit down.
Choose wisely.
straight people should have to wear “VISITOR” badges when they go to gay bars
WHY are hets so mad at this post I thought you didn’t want to get hit on at gay bars here’s a solution
The study co-author told Newsweek the findings give "strong support for providing gender-affirming care to transgender individuals who seek them."
“the researchers found the longer the period of time since a patient person had gender-affirming surgery, the less likely they were to need mental health treatment. The likelihood dropped by 8 percent every year in the 10 years following 2005” 🌟
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i almost forgot, happy condescending online man day everyone
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson
thinking about Wonder Woman again today while I was listening to the soundtrack and how much I love the fact that Steve Trevor was a spy - not just a soldier, but specifically a spy - and how much his role, throughout the movie, was to play the cynic to Diana’s optimist.
and so easily that could have been “the silly, optimistic woman learns that the cynical, rational man’s view of the world is the best one” - because that’s often what we’re supposed to learn. “rationalist man” is the ideal.
but Wonder Woman as a movie and Diana as a hero explicitly rejects that. her faith, her optimism, is not weakness, and rather than her closing herself off, she draws Steve out.
Diana steps into the world and cries “that’s not fair” - the answer she’s given, from Steve and others, is “life isn’t fair.” that’s the lesson we’re supposed to learn.
but Diana’s response is “so we must make it fair,” and that’s the ethos of the movie.
“it’s not about deserve. it’s about what you believe.” she rejects cynicism and resignation, and the movie says that she’s right to do so.
