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Tagjeep said:
I want explained to how I have to pay a $4 fet fee per tire,then pay to throw them away.( I mount my own.)
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where is that?
I mount my own too but haven't encounterd that nonsense ordering online
and if I did, I would dind a different place to buy from
 
"This truck was parked on the street with no VIN and no license plate, which is not allowed in any circumstance,” city sanitation spokesperson Vincent Gragnani told The Post.

“We tagged the vehicle and it was removed six hours later, in accordance with the law, and taken to one of our vendors, NYC Auto Recycling,” he said. “Without a plate or a VIN, there was no way for the city to contact the owner.”

No VIN, no license plate, no evidence of registration, parked on a public street. That's towable in every jurisdiction in this country. In a city like New York with more parking regulations than most areas, its a given. The owners had to have known because they own an automotive facility. To argue they didn’t know is just for the sake of argument. Now they are crying because they used the public street for their private advertising derelict art piece. If they were so concerned they should have parked it on their private property, or at least registered it.
 
BDK said:
"This truck was parked on the street with no VIN and no license plate, which is not allowed in any circumstance,” city sanitation spokesperson Vincent Gragnani told The Post.

“We tagged the vehicle and it was removed six hours later, in accordance with the law, and taken to one of our vendors, NYC Auto Recycling,” he said. “Without a plate or a VIN, there was no way for the city to contact the owner.”

No VIN, no license plate, no evidence of registration, parked on a public street. That's towable in every jurisdiction in this country. In a city like New York with more parking regulations than most areas, its a given. The owners had to have known because they own an automotive facility. To argue they didn’t know is just for the sake of argument. Now they are crying because they used the public street for their private advertising derelict art piece. If they were so concerned they should have parked it on their private property, or at least registered it.
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I'd wager the dude that built it and died knew all that, once he died the widow probably didn't and moved it to the street to advertise and didn't think about it "people love it, it's been there for so long" and all that

Sucks, but new York sucks.

I don't long term park my unregistered stuff in the street, but also it's all cheap enough that it isn't news worthy if it gets confiscated and crushed
 
The fact that it was allowed for years and had became a landmark really complicates the governements claims about registration, etc. NYC should be crushing with the ghetto people out terrorizing the neighborhood on stolen dirtbikes and dealing with the unregistered cars being driven before they mess with someone's art project.
 
looks like it regularly occupied a functionally useless spot between the yellow curb and the crosswalk that wouldn't really fit any normal sized car, and so it was left alone.
and when they put it into a spot with actual functional utility on the side street people bitched about it.


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It's a pretty **** move to all of the sudden decide to enforce the rules after years of letting it slide and tow 6 hrs later, but NY metro and cops/parking nazis/ code enforcement roles are magnets for ****heads too.
 
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They should have walked inside the business and notified them it needed to be moved, and had been tagged for removal. I don't know if that happened or not, but it's not required. You'd think someone from the business would have noticed it was being tagged, or had been tagged. **** move to take it, absolutely. Completely legal and not unexpected, absolutely. It's very possible that they had been warned numerous times and someone finally got sick of giving them one more unheeded warning.
 
BDK said:
They should have walked inside the business and notified them it needed to be moved, and had been tagged for removal. I don't know if that happened or not, but it's not required. You'd think someone from the business would have noticed it was being tagged, or had been tagged. **** move to take it, absolutely. Completely legal and not unexpected, absolutely. It's very possible that they have been warned numerous times and someone finally got sick of giving them one more unheeded warning.
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they waited 6 hours from when they tagged it to tow it. ****heads.

if there was a ***le for the vehicle id report it stolen.
 
det107 said:
Nobody greased the squeaky wheel..?
nypost.com

Exclusive | NYC tows auto shop’s adorable ‘monster truck’ memorial and turns it to scrap metal

A longtime four-wheeled tribute to a beloved late Brooklyn mechanic was unceremoniously towed away from its home by city sanitation workers Wednesday and promptly scrapped as junk, The Post has lea…
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Texas97 said:
they waited 6 hours from when they tagged it to tow it. ****heads.

if there was a ***le for the vehicle id report it stolen.
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According to the article it had no evidence of identification or registration. In California, a officer wouldn't have had to give any warning or time. It could immediately be towed. I don't know about other jurisdictions, but the owners knew the risks and decided to store a unregistered and unoperable vehicle (again according to the article) on a public street. They could have given more notice, but when has parking enforcement ever done that? The owners knew what they were doing was illegal. Just because they got away with it for years doesn't mean ****.
 
Provience said:
Theft was parking on the street without paying for registration for several years, apparently
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if a vehicle is parked infront of my house for more than a few days with expired registration, I call it in. they mark the tires, check back a week later, then put a tow notice on it. if it's still there, they tow it after a week. so... 2 weeks.
 
dnsfailure said:
if a vehicle is parked infront of my house for more than a few days with expired registration, I call it in. they mark the tires, check back a week later, then put a tow notice on it. if it's still there, they tow it after a week. so... 2 weeks.
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Yeah, unless I'm driving it/about for the day the unregistered stuff stays on private property.

Had my tires marked on a running car I'd parked in front of my house for a bit, neighbor let me know about it since I was just driving something else for a bit.

Moving back to suburbia is going to be another test in how much junk can be fit on a standard lot :laughing:
 
Provience said:
Yeah, unless I'm driving it/about for the day the unregistered stuff stays on private property.

Had my tires marked on a running car I'd parked in front of my house for a bit, neighbor let me know about it since I was just driving something else for a bit.

Moving back to suburbia is going to be another test in how much junk can be fit on a standard lot :laughing:
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yep, I've got a double lot (1/4 acre), I've got 4 vehicles on the dirt, 1 on concrete and the rest on the street. :lmao:
 
If you run an automotive shop you know the rules and laws even if the city selectively follows them. They took a risk that paid off for years until it didn't. Sure it sucks for them but that's how it goes. If it truly had value to them they would not leave it out on the street for years and years as well as knowing it does not have a plate or Vin. No vin = assumed stolen with vin removed to try and hide that fact. I'm not team NYC in anyway but I can only feel very little empathy for the shop.
 
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