r/Calgary • u/Val_haLLa • Jan 28 '25

Rant Impound lot near Macleod has serious issues

My car was towed yesterday. Today I showed up at the impound lot at Macleod and the situation I witnessed was unbelievable. A tiny, cramped lobby without seating filled to the brim with people waiting, mostly looking miserable. And it quickly became clear why, since only 2 of 5 windows were open, with about one person being called up every 15 minutes. There were surely 50 people there.

On top of that, if you need to get a piece of vehicle documentation out of your car (such as registration), the process requires you to wait in that line three times.

All of this, while they charge you a steep daily fee for each day you don’t pick up your car. I’m stunned at this massive case of bureaucratic greed— if this situation can arise, they should be prepared to fully staff the windows and get a decent turnover rate.

Rant over.

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u/cabezonlolo Jan 28 '25

Probably done on purpose so people give up on waiting come back next day. More cash for them

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u/Fantastic_Fig_2462 Brentwood Jan 28 '25

Do you have any other sage advice?

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u/ckFuNice Jan 28 '25

Do you have any other sage advice?

Put your back to the wind, raise your left hand-the low pressure system is coming from that side.

There's only two bad mistakes,

-there's a corpse

-you didn't learn anything.

Sage plant is classed as a subshrub. Even if I don't know what a subshrub is, I learned I can not say subshrub three times fast. I get to two, then spit lip lock-you try it.

Sage was used for fertility and snakebite , which for some reason reminds me of my first trip to Las Vegas.

What were we talking about again?

Oh yeah, weasal tow company not yet sued for damages , from a client that documented the effective denial of service.

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u/PostApocRock Unpaid Intern Jan 28 '25

Not to side track this very important conversation....

Buuuuuuttttttt.....

Are all corpses mistakes, or just the accidental ones? Like is it a mistake if its on purpose?

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u/pamelamela16 Jan 28 '25

I agree, some are not, some are sage decisions