My Car Was Towed In Downtown Celebration -Parking Problems & Traffic Is Out Of Control For Holidays
Celebration Florida Christmas Time
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today's adventure begins here in
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Celebration Florida as the recording of
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this it is Saturday December 23rd 2023
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this minion is stuck on Christmas and
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Christmas Day by my math will be in 2
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days from
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this very
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moment most the houses a lot of the
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houses are all adorned with their
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festive best really quite an experience
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walking through town this house
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especially but many others not just this
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one this one really does it up really
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well here at this intersection traffic
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is quite a conundrum this time of year
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in celebration especially because of the
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snope that is falling downtown and the
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Christmas tree lighting and meeting
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Santa and the
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train and the horong carriage it can get
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very very busy and
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parking is a bunch of nonsense welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here last night I
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had the not so pleasure experience of
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having my car towed I don't know if I
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ever had my car towed if I had it's been
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a heck of a long time ago first I
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thought my car was stolen basically they
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were doing an art walk last night and
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could not park anywhere near my current
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apartment I'm in the process of moving
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turning in the keys at the end of the
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month and I will show a little bit of
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the parking situation down there now
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granted I'll preface this before going
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in going into it I did Park in a spot
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where I guess technically you're not
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supposed to but after surveying the
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situation and the time frame and the
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amount of people in town I was thinking
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it might not make a difference but I'm
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here to say it did my car was towed
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about 9 mil away over to Orange Blossom
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Trail so I ended up after originally
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thinking my car had been stolen I was
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like what the heck is going on and then
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I was like H maybe my car was towed
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found the tow truck company's name on
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the side of said parking also there are
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a few different wrecker services that
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are around celebration so each little
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area
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has another has I guess has a contract
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with certain tow trucks that will come
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in possibly see some of them in action
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tonight so ended up having to take an
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Uber over the Uber was $35 to get the
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car out of impound was 175 cash which I
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didn't think was too bad I I think it I
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was expecting it to be a little more
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than that granted still not in a a good
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time but I'm going to kind of show you
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the situation in downtown celebration
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and express my thoughts on hopefully
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next year maybe the next couple days
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probably won't things change the next
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couple days but a warning to those who
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are showing up do not park in a spot
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unless you are 1,00% confident that
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you're supposed to be
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there he agrees join me shall you now
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over in front of the Catholic church
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this Nativity does not have baby Jesus
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so what I'm heard certain religions will
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not put out baby Jesus until Christmas
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morning now some of them do I would say
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most of them do but evidently this is
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one or someone has just hopefully not
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run off of them so at 6:20 p.m. this is
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where the parking is already starting to
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get filled up this is a quite a few
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blocks from where the snope and
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everything is happening and over the
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next hour or two it's going to even you
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can see there's a couple spots here that
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are filled up but I'm still a pretty
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good chunk of ways there not even a not
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even a reason to attempt to park close
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to Market Street show some photos kind
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of give a comparison about and explain a
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little things and when I get over there
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I'll show you what the situation looks
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like tonight which is going to be just
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as hectic if not hectic if that even is
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even a word than last night this is one
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of the several public Lots you can see
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this truck here he's
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parked and those cars there are parked
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in a regular parking spot but you see
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these cars they're parked on the grass
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those cars most likely were
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towed this car most likely was was towed
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you can see so see how it's not really
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elevated I'm not trying to justify the
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situation at all but that seems like you
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know if you were going to like a a
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convention or an area where they were
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like oh just park here you would
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probably just Park right next to where
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the concrete is thinking nothing of
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it as well as this truck granted again
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technically it's not a parking spot but
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it's not like it's on the side of a burm
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or elevated or anything like that these
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cars towed now here's the regular
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parking spots this car here on the end
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most likely was also towed now the
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parking spot I uh area I parked in was
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strictly enforced by New Generation
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Towing so notice on this it does not say
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anything about parking on the
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grass so this is the parking lot I
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usually park in because I live in this
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little area here but there is no parking
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there so I had to park a couple of the
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community Lots even though I am a
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resident of town in fact here is a
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detailed look at exactly where I parked
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you can can see where it says par car
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even after my car was moved I still went
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on my iPhone and it said the car was
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there which was very disturbing I'm like
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well it says my car is here but there's
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another car parked here which means my
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car was moved and the car that's also
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parked into my spot was probably towed a
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little bit later so this is one of the
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Lots now Granda this is not a this is a
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satellite view so it's not showing what
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it's going to look like now but you get
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the general idea of what the lot looks
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like so here's the tow truck
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company
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and when I end up getting there talking
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to the guy that I end up having to pay I
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didn't really have an issue with the
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towing company cuz they're just doing
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their job even though they're probably I
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don't know how I don't know how it all
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works you know maybe if that certain
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development here in town is getting a
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kickback I don't know maybe they don't I
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I don't know how it all works as far as
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with every car that is towed do they get
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a cut of the money if not or do they
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just have like cart blanch to just pull
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in and Tow whoever they want and does
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the towing company keep keep all the
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cash I but look at this this is like an
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entire cavalcade they had like at least
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three to five Wreckers three that were
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there as I was going to pay my pay the
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bill that were pulling in so there's
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another one pulling in and these are all
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the guy the guys were saying the guys
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that were the the guys that were getting
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the cars were saying they're all from
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celebration like oh we're just going to
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be going back and forth all night so
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these cars here were all you know
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obviously it's just me so it's not big
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of an issue for me to like head over to
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Orange Blossom Trail which isn't exactly
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the greatest area ever to get a car out
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of impound but I can't imagine a family
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you know maybe with a bunch of kids
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having to wait around while someone goes
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over there to get their
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car I mean it's just an inconvenience
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especially like on Christmas week but
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again got to follow them rules the main
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thought I have is the fact that they
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weren't really distinct for that lot and
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after I ended up calling the company the
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tow truck company and they kind of
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explain hey if it's on the grass we tow
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it I'm like okay I'll come get it I to
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take an Uber over there walk out of the
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traffic get the Uber I mean not out of
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the traffic but out of downtown a few
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blocks that way because that way the
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Uber would have an easier time getting
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in here took the half hour ride over
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there about 35
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$36 dropped me off everything everything
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worked out
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okay in my mind I was kind of thinking
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oh if you're not blocking a storefront
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or a resident or a garage or if you're
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not blocking traffic or if you're not in
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the
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road probably wouldn't be that big of an
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issue
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obviously it was I'm going to show the
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signage make your own
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decision but I feel like next year they
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might need to come up with a different
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game plan because this event has gotten
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so popular so
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busy all of December especially the week
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before Christmas so many people trying
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to get down here that people just loop
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around
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for an hour trying to find parking
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granted you could park three four five
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blocks away which I have no problem
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doing I could walk it a lot of people
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might not have that
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ability so I
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figure throw it out there maybe maybe
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next year there could be a better
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solution maybe bust people in that might
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be too big of an issue but maybe the
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maybe the event gotten got a little too
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popular now we're getting into the
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nitty-gritty the Bell of the Beast the
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problem that's to where that white car
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just pulled out is the lot I was parked
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in usually non December months there's a
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lot of parking over there it's kind of
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like a good spot to go to when you don't
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want to park at the two main lots that
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run parallel to Market Street you can
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look on satellite images of Market
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Street and kind of see the layout
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there's two main lots and then there's
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like two or three others that are kind
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of off that my recommendation not in
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December is to park in the Lots that
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aren't those two lots like the one that
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would be right over here just like that
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car is pulling in and I can already see
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people are circling over here and I am
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going to I am going to just throw it out
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there that there are people parked on
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grass I'm guaranteed 100% of my mind
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that people are parked in the grass and
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are going to be towed so I might have to
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throw some warnings out and I'm kind of
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kind of want to like hang around and see
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how quick quickly a tow truck can yank a
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car up and get the heck out of Dodge so
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look at this now this is a lot that is
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never utilized I mean usually there's
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never any cars in here but tons of
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people are trying to go over here in
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fact it even says parking right here so
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see here the sign does say
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parking going to come back after the
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edge of the road and see if there's any
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kind of washboard sign signs or anything
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stating do not park on the grass next to
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a pave spot I just want to
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clarify in this particular
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lot what the signage says this is not
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for me this is for others that could
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show up so the events going to go on
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tomorrow night the next night I think it
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goes through New Year's probably will
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not be as busy after Christmas
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day but for next year and this says no
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parking that's understandable no parking
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there and no one's parked there but
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again this is a sign right here says
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parking that way and this way now was a
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little earlier I'll check back in an
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hour or so this is where last night
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there were cars parked here all along
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the grass I showed that in a photo next
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to the dumpster so you see see this car
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is already contemplating should I park
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there see there just people just loop
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around circling
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around all right so here we go first car
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on the grass this car will be towed 100%
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based on my experience last night tow
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truck will pull in this car is going to
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be towed if now I get back to this car
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their car will be gone this car here on
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the grass will be towed that car on the
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grass will be
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towed this
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truck I think is in now this truck is
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correctly parked I'll show exactly where
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I parked so this truck will not be ched
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these two cars will be ched my car was
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here on the end right down here all
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right so this car here it's in the grass
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this car is in the grass my car was
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right here it was not here it was right
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here you see this one is kind of half on
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the grass half on the concrete this is
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exactly where it was so basically what I
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did is I went and purchased a piece of
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art at the Art Walk parked my car here
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went and purchased the art came back
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after I was gone probably 30 minutes
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really really cool piece of art I'll
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show it at some point put put it in my
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car this is not my car put it in my car
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walked back to the artw walk for about
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20 more minutes by the time I got back
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in that 20 minutes my car that was here
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was
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gone and there was another car already
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in its spot waiting for a fresh
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tow bomber this car will be
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towed this car will be towed this car
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will be
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towed again I get it there are rules but
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sometimes I feel like some
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rules aren't clearly stated like in this
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case not clearly
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stated I've parked in a lot of places
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I'm sure this person has as well that
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are just like this you know where it's
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like I could probably just Park right
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next to there it's level you're not on
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like a pipe or anything you're not like
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on a burm you're not elevated seems only
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difference is that's paved and this
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isn't so I don't know it's a gray area
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this one here not supposed to be parked
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there I would have no problem with them
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parking there if I was if I made the
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rules but not blocking the
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not blocking
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anything not blocking the flow of
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traffic or anything like that yeah what
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do I
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know put my thoughts out
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there and this isn't even one of the
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busy lots let me show you like where
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you're suppos to Park see look at this
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this is like it's like cars imitating
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vultures through here vulturous regions
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this is a specific
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sign towway Zone 24 hours a day 7 a week
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for unauthorized
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Vehicles what does that
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mean what does that mean these are all
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people that are just coming here to see
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the lights tourists most likely some
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locals but mostly just tourists now
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granted this does say Private Road
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through here maybe this applies to
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this again you just look how many more
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people are pulling into this area so
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here's my thoughts you got this car here
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you got that car you got that car well
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those two cars and then the ones around
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the other side
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so if they're left there granted again
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breaking rules but if they're left there
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they're just going to stay there but if
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they're towed immediately that's going
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to be towed and as soon as the next
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person that drives by sees the tow truck
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leave or doesn't see the tow truck
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leave uh 30 seconds later another car is
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going to pull in and immediately park
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right there constituting another
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toe more money for the tow truck company
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and for someone else
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just some of that just I don't know just
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seems wrong to me I really want to go
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get a coffee okay so look at this family
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right here look at this
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family I'm going to go let him know all
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right I informed them and they said they
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weren't really 100% sure if they should
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park there I said nope do not park there
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I said oh well there's no
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signs couple older ladies their daughter
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they're waiting for someone to pull out
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to park in a real
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spot it's about a 30 minute drive tow
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truck driver drives probably drives has
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it down to a science to get over here
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let's say 20 minutes 2 and fro 5 minutes
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to drop off 20 20 40 let's say 50
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minutes be the round trip they have
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three or four so I'll wait another few
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more minutes just to kind of see it's
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also interesting that the closest lot
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where you can pick up the car that is
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picked up from here is like 10 Mi away
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nothing even local so like way over
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there on OBT orang Boston Trail not the
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best area well just off like a block off
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OBT not the best area of town I might
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out all right the consensus of everyone
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I'm talking to is well I didn't think it
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was that big of a deal to park there
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like this car is parking right there yep
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definitely going to get towed I'm going
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to let them know too all right I let
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them know told them there were street
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parking that way to the left now here's
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another family that just parked over
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here in the same spot see all
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families I can't I I can't just stand
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out here telling everybody can't keep
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explain I'm going to let them know and
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then I guess I just kind
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of let the wheels run in motion I don't
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know if I could just keep standing out
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here all night letting everybody know
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now here's what's going to happen so
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they warned the other car that's now
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leaving but now these cars who do not
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know are going to grab those spots
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thinking that they can park there and
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that they're leaving that's exactly
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what's going to happen so those cars are
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going to pull right into those who were
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warned and they're going to grab those
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spots if they don't these cars as
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well no signage everyone assume not the
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only one I'm not the only one assuming
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that you can park and those sponse cuz
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just it kind of just does make sense and
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just like clockwork minivan pulling in
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see I check out this family they have
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little blinking lights on their
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heads also the majority of people I
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talked to when I was kind of letting
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them know don't park obviously can't
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tell everybody I guess now this this
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person is just actually kind even
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stretching off the grass a little bit
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it's pretty much said I figured I would
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just get a ticket I didn't think I'd be
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towed I had to share my story the person
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really likes honking their
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horn all right just talked to a
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gentleman his family it's like four or
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five groups in their family they parked
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in the exact same grassy spot that I did
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someone was backing out they waited put
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their blinker on pulled in thinking that
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was the spot and I let them know I said
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you might not get towed there might not
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even be any tow trust coming through I'm
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just letting you know about my
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experience last night he goes oh I
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thought I was supposed to park here
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someone's backing out I go I made the
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same mistake last night again the
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problem is they're going to leave
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another person's going to pull in right
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behind them I just can't keep
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continually telling everybody and
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explaining it I think some people don't
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even believe
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me the problem is all of Downtown
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parking is full every spot and only 2%
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of people are leaving right now
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and 50 times that amount of people are
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arriving so people just keep circling
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around circling around circling around
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circling
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around circling around no
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avail I will show this sign this
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washboard going into there so that's
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where the lot where I parked last night
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where I was just showing so it's kind of
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confusing it just says no unauthorized
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Vehicles Beyond this point doesn't say
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where you park it says all unauthorized
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Vehicles will be
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towed I think the the signs that make
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the most sense are over also mobile
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order Starbucks I'm going to go grab a
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Starbucks then I'll walk back over there
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and see what happens the signs over here
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in these Lots designate that you have to
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stay between the lines so I kind of feel
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like they need to move one of these
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washboard signs over to the other lot so
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this right here makes total
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sense I feel like it needs to be in that
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other lot also that it's not parking
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permitted at line space only towway
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Zone that makes sense so if you're
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parking on the grass over here it's
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clearly designated that that's not
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allowed couple weeks ago and the event
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started to started getting kind of busy
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they had some offices out here directing
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traffic but tonight which is even busier
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than it was that night there's none look
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at
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this what a monstrosity look at this
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look at
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what is this supposed to
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do I guess you
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can't not yet I was waiting I'm waiting
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for luck of the
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draw see they knew about the tow
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this has been a public service
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announcement I guess of
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sorts kind of sort of even though it
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didn't I wasn't able to show it an
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example of it other than photos I had
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from last night and talking about my
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experience that's going to do it for
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today the hustling bustling downtown of
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celebration of
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Florida Christmas time it's beginning to
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look a lot like Christmas that's
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happening in couple
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days always remember horses have the
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ride
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that's going to do it for today I'll see
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you in the next video the Vlog
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is over