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You're making leaps just for the opportunity to be snide. Attendants aren't the only solution by a long shot, and they are not a bullshit job absent other systems. You are criticizing the image of a person, not a specific person.
How do we pay for parking?
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Re: How do we pay for parking?
#52Re: How do we pay for parking?
#53I don't have a cell phone. What should I have done in this situation?
Same as if you want to sign up for OpenAI. You can't, so go somewhere else.
Re: How do we pay for parking?
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have, on multiple occasions (in Austin, >10 years ago), paid for parking to an "attendant" at a lot I know is free. Those guys will just have your car towed — the whole scam just hangs together: the towing company charges you for the storage & processing, but not the nominal fee; the attendant gets cash. Win-win-lose.
In my city, in the rougher parts it used to be somewhat normal to pay someone to "look after your car", of course you were paying them not to vandalise it while you were away! Especially popular on football days when parking near the stadium. It was only a couple of pounds or so. I haven't been to these parts of town for years so I have no idea if this practice still goes on.
There’s a popular swimming around here that’s near a rough neighborhood. One elderly gentleman from that neighborhood guards the cars at the swimming hole. He even got himself a shirt that says “security”. You pay $2 and he makes sure nobody busts the windows out of your car.
Re: How do we pay for parking?
#55Re: How do we pay for parking?
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have, on multiple occasions (in Austin, >10 years ago), paid for parking to an "attendant" at a lot I know is free. Those guys will just have your car towed — the whole scam just hangs together: the towing company charges you for the storage & processing, but not the nominal fee; the attendant gets cash. Win-win-lose.
How can they have it towed if it’s free. That’s just theft.
Towing companies enjoy special privileges and presumed innocent, e.g. no penalties for "towing the wrong car."
Re: How do we pay for parking?
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have, on multiple occasions (in Austin, >10 years ago), paid for parking to an "attendant" at a lot I know is free. Those guys will just have your car towed — the whole scam just hangs together: the towing company charges you for the storage & processing, but not the nominal fee; the attendant gets cash. Win-win-lose.
In my city, in the rougher parts it used to be somewhat normal to pay someone to "look after your car", of course you were paying them not to vandalise it while you were away! Especially popular on football days when parking near the stadium. It was only a couple of pounds or so. I haven't been to these parts of town for years so I have no idea if this practice still goes on.
I'm aware, and have used, this practice in Oakland, CA, Los Angeles, SF, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland OR. One reason I keep a small amount of cash around - just for the vig.
Re: How do we pay for parking?
#58Even worse, my Dad met us for brunch and overstayed his allotted time in one of these systems by 8 minutes. Would be ok if they billed him the same rate perhaps, but they "fined" him $80 for the "violation". All the while trying to look like the local police as much as possible. All these companies are scam artists.
Re: How do we pay for parking?
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have, on multiple occasions (in Austin, >10 years ago), paid for parking to an "attendant" at a lot I know is free. Those guys will just have your car towed — the whole scam just hangs together: the towing company charges you for the storage & processing, but not the nominal fee; the attendant gets cash. Win-win-lose.
How can they have it towed if it’s free. That’s just theft.
Call your buddy at the towing company, give them $20 cash.
Criminals are quite efficient at getting things done
Re: How do we pay for parking?
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's what the guidelines call a "shallow dismissal".
? I agree with the author, I just write it in a shorter way.
Looks like it's been edited a bit, but when I first read it I got the impression you thought it was long and overly complicated and made a simple boring point. I'm not the only one who observed this, because the comment I replied to said the same thing.