Duymon Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 So I made a trade for a DYRL pilot by sending an MW member a TV pilot. Ok... the pilot's worth like... what? 3 dollars? Shipping on top of that was 4 dollars. Ok, no biggy. Sounds like a done deal. That's normal to most peeps. Well....except for the $210 ticket I got for parking near the post office Shipping for my $3 TV pilot ended up being $214. Hot Damn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mechamaniac Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 $210?!?!?!??! Damn dude, did you park IN the lobby? You need to get your brakes checked... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit29 Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Park in a handicapped of fire zone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fly4victory Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Pilot 3 dollars? Shipping 4 dollars. $210 ticket Finally getting a DYRL pilot, Priceless! Need to get that to Visa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wldr Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 $210! That sucks. What did you do to offend the cop? Next time you will have to avoid running over the cop's foot in your rush to get another new pilot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UN Spacy Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Were you on the Yoshinol Duymon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duymon Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 No I wasn't on the yoshinol Actually, I had gone to a post office that I'd never been to before and stopped behind the other 4 people flashing their hazards as they ran in to do their business. Went out and the car was gone had to spend an hour at the pound getting my car cleared. Got slapped with a $160 towing fee (bs) and then got slapped with a $50 ticket Shoulda just mailed it via fed ex for 10 bucks and used the 0ther 200 dollars for a Roy + fastpack combo or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 No I wasn't on the yoshinol Actually, I had gone to a post office that I'd never been to before and stopped behind the other 4 people flashing their hazards as they ran in to do their business. Went out and the car was gone had to spend an hour at the pound getting my car cleared. Got slapped with a $160 towing fee (bs) and then got slapped with a $50 ticket Shoulda just mailed it via fed ex for 10 bucks and used the 0ther 200 dollars for a Roy + fastpack combo or something DOH! And there's a lesson to learn from this kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenius Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I got in a car accident shortly after picking up a toy once. I'm sure that cost me a lot of money in insurance premiums. That was quite a while ago now though. I was out running errands though, I can't really say it was the Macross toy that did it although it was certainly my most major motivator in running the errands. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mog Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 I got in a car accident shortly after picking up a toy once. I'm sure that cost me a lot of money in insurance premiums. That was quite a while ago now though. I was out running errands though, I can't really say it was the Macross toy that did it although it was certainly my most major motivator in running the errands. Oh well. Forget about the car! Did the toy survive the accident?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.V. Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 $214!? I hope it was MISB.. The pilot I mean.. not the ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F360° Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 No I wasn't on the yoshinol Actually, I had gone to a post office that I'd never been to before and stopped behind the other 4 people flashing their hazards as they ran in to do their business. Went out and the car was gone had to spend an hour at the pound getting my car cleared. Got slapped with a $160 towing fee (bs) and then got slapped with a $50 ticket Shoulda just mailed it via fed ex for 10 bucks and used the 0ther 200 dollars for a Roy + fastpack combo or something lesson learned? Next time you can just print your own postage from USPS.com and just dump it at a mail box for small item such as a pilot. I had a similar case, I parked my car 5 blocks away from my home for a week at a spot where I see people park there for days and months with no problem. (It's was a residental permit parking spot which I paided for.) I later recieved a letter in the mail " Please come to claim your car" WTF!!? I ended up paying for 2 days of inpound fee/ towing fee/ and ticket. And the reason? my car was parked for over 72 hours so it's consider abandon and the city can tow your car away. And of all the days they tolled my car on Valentine's Day. Luckly I wasn't driving that day or else I would have been pretty pissed that whole night instead of doing other things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfx Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 WOw....do your cities have such efficient people that check if the car was there for 72hours? What if u drove it out of the spot and came back to the exact same spot, just that when they last checked, you were at the spot too? Sheeesh. Well as for me, I spent 60 USD thinking i have striked a deal, buying 2 supposed VF-19S. After already paying for it, i found out that it was Super 7 brand, not Bandai. IE: Bootleg. GAHH!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiriyu Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 So I made a trade for a DYRL pilot by sending an MW member a TV pilot. Ok... the pilot's worth like... what? 3 dollars? Shipping on top of that was 4 dollars. Ok, no biggy. Sounds like a done deal. That's normal to most peeps. Well....except for the $210 ticket I got for parking near the post office Shipping for my $3 TV pilot ended up being $214. Hot Damn! Had nearly the same happen to me. A while back, I was sending a fellow MW member a screwcap from a 1/60 VF-1 at my then-local PO. When I came back out of the PO, a traffic officer was writing up my car. Seems to me that the city had quite a racket going, you have 15 minute parking zones everywhere within 4 blocks of the PO, and as everyone knows, it is impossible to get in and out of the PO in anything less than 45 minutes... Ended up with a $60.00 ticket, all to send a friggin 1/60 screwcap. Had I been another few minutes, the would have likely towed my car... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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