Thought Sausage

RIP fair chariot. You did well by Spokeeasy.

I think Ian's email sums this debacle up best
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Well folks if Hell really and truly does exist it may resemble the trailer (complete with a port-a-potty out front) that is the “office” of the South Side impound. The only other person in the place that didn’t resemble a gang banger or serial killer was a girl who had apparently talked a cop into coming down there with her for her own safety (no I’m not joking about this one bit). Well after showing our paper work we were allowed to send one of us into the lot. James took that task upon himself and was pretty quick to return.

The status in order least to most important:
* Door was open (of course) and everything of any value on the interior was gone. Whoopdy friggin do.
* The front driver side tire was gone period… no joke!
* The back deck had been forced into the back of the bus collapsing the back end into itself. We’re guessing that they attached the towing apperatus to this and when it was raised it crushed the deck into the back of the bus and had enough force to cave it in.

Basically it was described as “utterly totaled and un-drivable.” One of the yard attendants told James “man I ain’t never seen nothing like this happen before you’s needa’ file a discrepancy and get u this thing all fixd.”

Well we went back through the gates of Hell and asked to file a discrepancy. We were blessed with the following: The bus needs to actually be removed from the impound lot to the front area where the trailer is in order to file a discrepancy. We kindly explained that would be a bit problematic seeing as how in the city towing process it was destroyed, on and someone gangked the front tire. “What you want me to do – you wants a discrepancy you get it up here for us to look at.” We asked how she suggested we moved a 40 foot bus lacking a tire amongst other thigns to the gate and received a shoulder shrug.

So here’s what is happening as of today – the lawyer is going to ask for 48 more hours of storage (which we may actually have to pay for) and then see if we have any recourse or law suit ability against the city. I’d say we’ve run fresh out of legal luck however…my guess? I’ll be perusing ebaymotors.com for a while so prepare to be coming on links that get sent your ways over the next couple of months.

Sadly,
Ian

OH PS: They have a rule – no matter what no working on your vehicle in the lot. So yes attempting to take apart anything (such as the inverter etc) for removal and re-usability is not allowed
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To the assholes responsible for this...you may have won the battle but you sure as fuck ain't gonna win the war.