You’ll want to read the expanded version of this nonsense featured in a previous post, but the summary is my car was towed and impounded for not having current registration and I am unable to GET the registration because it’s not registered in my name (I have been in a drawn out waiting period for the previous owner to qualify the car for emissions certification before it could be transfered to me).

The explanation is worse than the Flyaway dropping a dime on me: Evidently this is just something that the city does, to make sure they can effectively compete with Chicago for being the most corrupt big-government stronghold with a lock on power used primarily for raping the tax payer at the expense of the decay to the actual jobs government is supposed to manage like infostructure, highways, crime and the other things these places fail miserably at, etc. Check out this tip I got in a comment:

It may not be the garage’s fault. My office sells the City vehicle stickers, which is basically a tax on anyone who has the audacity to own a car in the city of Chicago. A few years back, one of my former bosses wanted to send investigators into downtown parking garages to ticket cars that didn’t pay for and properly display the sticker. The garages didn’t like that idea, took it to court, and lost. Our investigators were allowed to go in. Even though the garages were privately owned, they were considered “public”.