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haha someone keeps complaining to the city about my truck. The first time was hilarious, it was sitting without a bed in the driveway. I had it covered with a nice car cover, it didnt even look very bad.
So I come out side and there is a city worker lifting up the cover. I ask if I can help and he says "I'm just ticketing your abandoned vehicle, you have 5 days to move it or we'll tow it". I tell him its not abandoned, the tag is off because its attached to the bed. He says the tag has to be current, there has to be insurance an the truck and the tag has to remain mounted on the vehicle, and that he doubts I can show him any of those. He goes back to writing out his violation.
So I go in, get the CURRENT tag, the CURRENT insurance, a screw gun and a drill tip screw. I plop the insurance on top of the clip board while he is still scribbling, intterupting him, walk around to the back of the truck and screw the plate to the rear frame right through the cover. "Anything else? Get off my property"
The next time he came out and said some obscure law about having the right to declare a vehicle abandoned if it hadnt moved in a certain amount of time, and my truck OBVIOUSLY couldnt move because it was sitting on the ground. The car cover was off by now. Once again he stayed there writing out the violation while I went inside, got the keys, started the truck, lifted it (he paused his writing then) backed out, drove around the block and parked it again. PSSSHHHH. Back on the ground. "Get off my property".
The new city inspector doesnt even mess with me. The first time he just told me "yeah there has been another complaint, I just made sure the tag was current, have a nice day!". Now he just drives by and waves from the street. He said it is likely the real estate agents that are doing it, it seems like I get bothered when a house goes up for sale. He said its common for the real estate agent to look over the neighborhood and call the city on any obvious violations to make the area more attractive.