'[My] boyfriend was wrongfully towed from our complex, I got revenge':Tenant gets one over on towing company in rare victory

Parking is always a drama in hotly-contested high-density residential areas where there isn't nearly as much space as people are wanting to park their vehicles, leading to petty squabbles and growing resentment—all over a parking space that they might not even have an actual claim to.

Usually, things come to a boil when park and riders, looking to take advantage of parking spaces close to the city, wise up to the free parking and begin parking to walk or bus the remaining distance, taking up residential space, making it increasingly difficult for residents to park. The city, housing entities, and other governing bodies then need to instate permitted parking, which is often brutally enforced, making a reliable source of income for those entities.

Often it becomes the case that the tenants and residents themselves fall victim to blanket parking policy enforced with a large brush, becoming prey to less-than-honest for-profit towing companies and parking enforcement who have signed contracts with the governing entities. 

These parking mafias make a living by towing or ticketing unsuspecting victims' cars. Then—through sheer obstinance, incompetence, and bureaucratic loopholes—make it impossible to overturn said infringement… Charging exponentially increasing fines on top of the initial infraction in order to crush the victim into submission and get them to relent and pay the fraudulent fine under the mounting threat of debt. 

Seldom do tenants and homeowners manage to come out on top in these situations… but here's one that did. 

Read on for selections of the original story as originally shared on Reddit. Next, see this dude who parked his van in another dude's driveway, and the second dude made it mysteriously disappear.