Guess What? You Lose The Vehicle With 91 Tickets
San Francisco: land of overpriced lattes, tech bros in hoodies, and apparently, a Red Toyota Sienna collecting parking tickets like they’re Olympic medals. This particular Sienna sat smugly in Alamo Square and racked up 91 tickets totaling $22,300 in unpaid fines since 2021. Ninety-one! At that point, it’s less a car and more a mobile middle finger to the entire city.
Now, the average person panics when they get one ticket. Two if they’re especially unlucky. But this Sienna’s owner? They went full Picasso with violations, treating their windshield as a canvas of neon envelopes. It’s almost impressive...if impressive meant “completely rude, entitled, and clueless.” You’d think San Francisco would’ve hauled this van away after the tenth or twentieth ticket, right? Nope.
Thanks to the city’s “no poverty towing” policy, unpaid tickets alone don’t get your car yanked. The idea is to protect struggling residents from falling into deeper financial holes. Admirable on paper. But in reality? It turned into a get-out-of-jail-free card for our Sienna scofflaw, who used the streets like their personal garage for almost two years.
So, what finally pushed this red menace off the curb? Not the $22,300 owed. Not the technicolor avalanche of citations. Nope. It was the expired registration, nearly two years out of date, that finally gave an officer the legal excuse to call the tow truck. Imagine dodging consequences for 91 tickets, only to be undone by the DMV. Chef’s kiss.
Let’s be brutally real: that car is never coming back. Never. The owner has about the same chance of retrieving it as I do of winning the lottery while being abducted by aliens. Unless they’ve got stacks of cash hidden under their mattress, the Sienna is headed for auction, scrapyard, or maybe a starring role as “Exhibit A” in the Museum of Bad Decisions. And honestly? Good riddance.
But here’s the lesson for you, dear reader: don’t be this person. Don’t treat tickets like collector’s items. Don’t act like city rules are just “suggestions.” And absolutely don’t let your registration rot for two years unless you want to star in your own cautionary tale.
Because unlike this Sienna owner, you actually have options. If your car ever does get towed, whether it’s your fault, the city’s nonsense, or just plain bad luck, you don’t have to spiral into hopelessness. That’s exactly why OUTPOUND.com exists. We’ll help you track down your car, figure out which impound lot it’s rotting in, and give you a fighting chance to get it back before it vanishes forever.
So the choice is yours: end up as the punchline of a blog like this, or be smart and call OUTPOUND.com the moment your wheels get whisked away. Your future self (and your bank account) will thank you.
