UNCARING CLASS ACT (thievius humanis)
I was out of town for the week and my car (honda civic) got stolen. I reported it to the Police after coming home and they told me it had already been recovered but had to be impounded. I called the impound lot (having never dealt with them before) and was mortified to hear that I had a bill to pay. Problem is that my car was retrieved the same day it was stolen and had been impounded for 7 days at a cost of close to $30.00 a day, but... Not only that the woman on the phone said there was all sorts of other fees involved. Total balance was close to $630.00 to get a car out that was only worth about $1000.00. I could not come up with the money so the car sat for another month collecting more fees. No one at the impound lot not even Calgary Police Service contacted me on the day the car was found, its sad that a city would stoop so low as to run this kind of system on its tax paying citizens, its a scam that is legal. The clerk I dealt with was very ignorant and unfeeling she had that :did you learn your lesson look or you look like a scumbag: look on her face the whole time i was at the window. Im a hard worker, I never had a chance at getting a good education, so I labour away for a paycheck, I have a little family and saved just enough to take my girls to galaxy land and to see other family in Edmonton and I came back to this kind of diservice from my City. I was a victim of this system just like all the other people who have dealt with them. My car was sold at auction because i had no choice but to abandon it. I hope if your reading this that you have better luck than i did with these thieves of the industry. Calgary what a shame it is on your sleeve.
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I was out of town for the week and my car (honda civic) got stolen. I reported it to the Police after coming home and they told me it had already been recovered but had to be impounded. I called the impound lot (having never dealt with them before) and was mortified to hear that I had a bill to pay. Problem is that my car was retrieved the same day it was stolen and had been impounded for 7 days at a cost of close to $30.00 a day, but... Not only that the woman on the phone said there was all sorts of other fees involved. Total balance was close to $630.00 to get a car out that was only worth about $1000.00. I could not come up with the money so the car sat for another month collecting more fees. No one at the impound lot not even Calgary Police Service contacted me on the day the car was found, its sad that a city would stoop so low as to run this kind of system on its tax paying citizens, its a scam that is legal. The clerk I dealt with was very ignorant and unfeeling she had...