I do think it's unfair for them to sell someone's car. I don't think a consequence is unfair, though. Tens of thousands of dollars is extreme to me.

I didn't say anything about someone's car sitting in a driveway or in front of one's own house. I said in front of my house!! It is annoying when I own a house and have street parking and a car is sitting in front of my house for days. I have to park down the street and carry groceries up my steps and into my house over and over again. I think in my city you can't park over 4 or 5 days. Then you get a sticker plastered on it. They sticker it a few times before they tow it. It happens when someone calls about a car.

So Thomas, we are using soldiers now to demonstrate how unfair things are? He goes to war 'voluntarily' and comes back and expects he should not have to obey the law? Interesting.

Should his neighbor have to inform him of impact to his own environment and family, by allowing toxins to run off his driveway? Actually it's not just the government that has to baby sit us but our neighbors have to as well?

It might take you a few months to have your vehicle repaired, Thomas, but it doesn't not take a few months to get it towed to an appropriate place to avoid the fine. Don't like fines, then find another way to remove your car, it's pretty simple, but the fact is that people do not do the right thing, and are the reasons for the laws. These are the kind of lame excuses that forces governments to crack down or to make fines so ridiculous, sooner or later that fine is going to be so large people will have to pay attention.

''''As far as you other posters giving me stupid comments such as...this guy dumped tons of garbage at my park,and that guy dumped oil in the ground and blah blah.It sounds dumb and it's a cop out.''''

Because 'some' mechanics do the right thing does not mean they all do, fines and such come from repeated violations for the same damn things over and over and not just by professionals. If you think what I said was stupid and I am the one that said it, Thomas, then you are blissfully unaware of your own environment and those that do not do things the right way. If you want to be irate, then go after them, not the government that is forced to make people comply.

I would be careful about calling other people puppets when you are whining yourself, that you can't follow the rules because you excuse sounds so much more reasonable and acceptable. Interesting, I am not rich and yet I seem to be able to avoid such fines an punishments by 'thinking' of alternatives to avoid the problem in the first place or to find another way to move my car.