I was doing my civic duty, registering people to vote, at the Foster City 4th of July celebration on Friday. Right at 5 p.m., literally five minutes before I left to go home after the booth closed, my car was towed. It cost $345 to retrieve, plus cab fare to get me there, for a total of $375. There were no signs saying not to park there when I parked, but I see some had been added when I had returned. Also, every car in one section of the Wells Fargo lot was gone, except for a Mustang with a car cover on it. I complained, and later that car was gone, but it was not towed, according to D&M Towing. Other cars in the lot parked in the Wells Fargo lot were also not towed.
When I went to pick up my car, there was a young lady, a Safeway employee with her uniform on, that also had her car towed from the Safeway lot. That tells me that EOP, the property management company responsible for directing the towing operation, did not do their deed, (on a family holiday no less), in a way to make sure that people parked that were shopping, or working, were not towed.
D&M had a stack of at least 100 others that were towed on that day. You do the math on how much revenue they took in. I feel for the families with young kids who found no transportation home after the event. Who would think that parking in a closed Wells Fargo lot on a national holiday would cause so much distress?
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