El Paso settles DOJ lawsuit after 176 soldiers' vehicles improperly auctioned
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/military/2024/08/22/el-paso-doj-lawsuit-fort-bliss-soldiers-vehicles-impounded-improperly-sold-scra/74873392007/
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mosiacmango@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 1y
Cities with military bases always pull this bullshit with soldiers cars. The cities generally depend on the bases as a large employer/customer base, but they know they can fuck with the endless 20yr olds that show up each year. I'm entirely unsurprised they were illegally towing/repoing cars.
As another example, parking enforcement around military bases is hilariously over enforced. Dont park illegally near a base, as they will come give you new ticket after new ticket the minute they are allowed to. I once got in a pinch and parked in a 2hr zone for 4 hrs and 10 minutes, and came back to 2 tickets, 2hrs and 2 min apart.
WHYAREWEALLCAPS@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y
Illegal towing is just business as usual throughout all of Texas.
Shadow@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
That's only like $1000-1500 per car. Should be 10x that.
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
That was my thought too. Full restitution of stolen property and then a fine to the teach them a lesson.