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The nightmare of getting your car towed in LA

Ellsworth Toohey
Oct 14, 2024
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Getting your car towed in Los Angeles can quickly turn into a Kafkaesque nightmare, as the daughter of LA Times columnist Mary McNamara recently discovered. What happened sounds like a poorly designed and atrociously expensive alternate realty game about a bureaucratic dystopia:

It began with a temporary "No Parking" sig…

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