Comments on: HOWTO get a car towed from your driveway http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/ Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: anna http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/comment-page-1/#comment-3807 anna Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:39:53 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/#comment-3807 I know- a few friends corrected me already- my bad. Sorry Irina! I know- a few friends corrected me already- my bad. Sorry Irina!

]]> By: Elizabeth http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/comment-page-1/#comment-3806 Elizabeth Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:58:47 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/#comment-3806 The DPT has great <a href="http://www.sfgov.org/site/dpt_index.asp?id=13444" rel="nofollow">warning flier</a> you can download, print and put on cars that block your driveway. At our house cars get the DPT warning flier the first time they block our driveway, a ticket the second time and towed the third. The DPT has great warning flier you can download, print and put on cars that block your driveway. At our house cars get the DPT warning flier the first time they block our driveway, a ticket the second time and towed the third.

]]> By: veronica http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/comment-page-1/#comment-3805 veronica Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:32:57 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/#comment-3805 Anna- "Wait, you know someone with a last name of Slutsky?" Wait, you're a blogger in SF and don't know who Irina is? ;) Anna-
“Wait, you know someone with a last name of Slutsky?”

Wait, you’re a blogger in SF and don’t know who Irina is? ;)

]]> By: Mark http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/comment-page-1/#comment-3804 Mark Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:03:34 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/#comment-3804 In a related story, the Houston Chronicle -- always good for a laugh -- provides a <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4253001.html" rel="nofollow">tour of the city's impound lot</a>. In a related story, the Houston Chronicle — always good for a laugh — provides a tour of the city’s impound lot.

]]> By: anna http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/comment-page-1/#comment-3803 anna Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:58:47 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/#comment-3803 Wait, you know someone with a last name of Slutsky? Yeah, checking the dash will, in my experience, endear you to your neihgbors who used the driveway as an auxiliary parking lot to their huge family. Wait, you know someone with a last name of Slutsky?

Yeah, checking the dash will, in my experience, endear you to your neihgbors who used the driveway as an auxiliary parking lot to their huge family.

]]> By: BayTaper http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/comment-page-1/#comment-3802 BayTaper Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:53:29 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/#comment-3802 Either that, or be a good neighbor by NOT BLOCKING your neighbor's driveway in the first place, LOL! Either that, or be a good neighbor by NOT BLOCKING your neighbor’s driveway in the first place, LOL!

]]> By: Mark http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/comment-page-1/#comment-3801 Mark Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:26:09 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/#comment-3801 Yes, you're right -- be a good neighbor and peer inside the car to make sure there's nothing to identify an owner. (I've gone so far as to get a guy's name off a pay envelope, call his employer, and have the employer ring the guy's cellphone to wake him up and get him to move his car.) But just to be clear -- this was a strange car entirely parked across the driveway of my own, single-family house, and preventing me from pulling my own car out of my own garage. So I knew it didn't belong to me. Yes, you’re right — be a good neighbor and peer inside the car to make sure there’s nothing to identify an owner. (I’ve gone so far as to get a guy’s name off a pay envelope, call his employer, and have the employer ring the guy’s cellphone to wake him up and get him to move his car.)

But just to be clear — this was a strange car entirely parked across the driveway of my own, single-family house, and preventing me from pulling my own car out of my own garage. So I knew it didn’t belong to me.

]]> By: cd http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/comment-page-1/#comment-3800 cd Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:04:43 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/2006/10/12/howto-get-a-car-towed-from-your-driveway/#comment-3800 okay, good advice, but, though it doesn't sound like it was the case here, i'd encourage everyone to look for a phone number left on the dash, etc, to make sure it isn't a quick-stop situation. it sounds like this is a bigger complex, too, but for cars in drives in front of 3-flat or similar small buildings, please be a good neighbor and ring a doorbell before calling DPT. i was HIGHLY miffed when some ass called in my car - especially because it absolutely was NOT someone who lived in our building who did it. there was ample safe pedestrian passage (meeting ADA standards, even), and that kind of tattle-taling just ain't neighborly. okay, good advice, but, though it doesn’t sound like it was the case here, i’d encourage everyone to look for a phone number left on the dash, etc, to make sure it isn’t a quick-stop situation. it sounds like this is a bigger complex, too, but for cars in drives in front of 3-flat or similar small buildings, please be a good neighbor and ring a doorbell before calling DPT.

i was HIGHLY miffed when some ass called in my car – especially because it absolutely was NOT someone who lived in our building who did it. there was ample safe pedestrian passage (meeting ADA standards, even), and that kind of tattle-taling just ain’t neighborly.

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