XPost: nyc.general, nyc.transit, nyc.motorcycles 
 XPost: alt.autos 
 From: romainm@sympatico.ca 
  
 Whomever wrote: 
 > 
 > 
 > This is a parking lot for public use, privately owned. 
  
 There is where you are wrong.  It is 'not' a parking lot for 'public' 
 use, it is a private lot for customers only. 
  
 >Yes, the 
 > owners have a right to set the rules, but such heavy-handed 
 > dealing with an unintentional first offense is certainly unfair 
 > if not illegal. It is obviously intended to extort large sums 
 > for trivial offenses. 
  
 So you have decided to fill up a private parking lot maybe causing a 
 'real' customer to go shop somewhere else because they couldn't park. 
  
 The owners certainly don't think that is a 'trivial' matter or you 
 wouldn't have been towed... 
  
 > 
 > I do. That's why I advocate that everyone take responsibility 
 > for combatting and eliminating these unscrupulous practices - 
 > beginning with boycotting CVS and other such avaricious, 
 > captious property owners. 
  
 Well, don't ever come to Toronto Canada because you will find 'no' place 
 free to park as you want.  Either you pay for parking or get towed if 
 you trespass on a 'private' for customers only parking spot. 
  
 Some malls even have sections posted 'for shopping at 'X store' only 
 with a time limit even.  If you are seen going somewhere else, it's tow 
 truck time. 
  
 They are 'all' like this up here. 
  
 I know, I found out the 'hard' way same as you, except I had to go to 
 the impound lot via taxi to get mine back. 
  
  
 > I can, legally, cost CVS far, far more than the sum extorted 
 > from me, and it will be easy to do should I choose to do it. 
  
 I don't know about the US courts, but up here if you went to court on 
 this issue, you would lose and have to pay for their lawyers and court 
 costs also. 
  
 My $0.02, 
  
 Mike 
 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 
 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's 
  
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