Provo's permanent residents want all the benefits of living in a college town

Dec 17, 2024
9:29:47am

Mitty Intervention Needed

with none of the inconveniences. I realized that as a student a long time ago, and now as an occasional visitor with lots of family in the area, it's still true today.

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Originally posted on Dec 17, 2024 at 9:29:47am

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Mitty

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Provo Towing

drdrcoug Redshirt Freshman

8:34am

It's a scam to keep the car longer and get more storage fees.

Hobo

8:36am

That’s a thin excuse to be a jerk

NanoFab Coug

8:38am

💵 💰 💵 💰 💵 💰 💵 💰 💵

TheLost

8:41am

I feel your pain.

TheLost

8:40am

That’s how you do a humblebrag.

Iman23

8:42am

Thanks! I worked hard on it 🙂

TheLost

8:43am

Ooof. Sounds like your son needs to learn to read signs. Or walk 🙂

ThirdStringStreamer

8:45am

Listen to the first few seconds of President Reese's 2024 commencement speech (video linked).

TheLost

9:09am

Oh I know

ThirdStringStreamer

9:17am

Hope your son’s full ride was for athletics and not something where he has to

BoiseBlueCoug

8:53am

You paid your kid's parking tickets? LOL. No wonder he didn't learn.

WDaddy

9:06am

Yes.. sadly.. I am the only parent that has ever paid their kids parking ticket at BYU.

TheLost

9:18am

HCBW and I have been debating all morning on whether to pay a portion or not.

drdrcoug

9:48am

When my daughters car got towed I did not have to have a title

WJCougar

8:42am

“So we got a call…”

Brisco

8:44am

I'm all for private property rights, but college town towing is predatory

reddead

8:54am

What do you mean when you say predatory?

chilawcoug

8:58am

No one wants to build parking, but colleges cater to people from out of town

reddead

9:30am

It should be illegal to build any housing without PLENTY of parking. You have

Mitty

9:37am

I had one of those experiences you mention. I stopped for two minutes to

Mitty

9:40am

I totally get the latter examples; those are the predatory practices I mentioned

chilawcoug

9:59am

To make it non-predatory, I think you'd need at least some of the following:

reddead

10:28am

The biggest failure of Provo city leaders for decades has been to not rein in

Mitty

9:01am

tough to rein it in

Zombre

9:18am

Provo's permanent residents want all the benefits of living in a college town

Mitty

9:29am

Same boomers that refuse to click on a TikToc link on CB

Ten_Hour_Drives

9:43am

Had my car towed out of Wymount Terrace by BYU police, because I had an

toadie

9:04am

They are truly disgusting, low-class people, preying on the weak.

Mitty

9:31am

We hatched a big scheme to boot the booter when I was at BYU but chickened out

ballen

9:21am

I would love to drive around with a bin full of those giant bike locks or

Mitty

9:33am

Just a data point but my wife totaled her car a few months back and it was towed to a yard. I was out of

Clark Addison

9:26am

My daughter got her car towed in SLC

TheHop

9:34am

Towing companies are incredibly easy to threaten to sue. My experience they

Longseason

9:37am

College kids don't have the knowledge/resources to do that typically

Mitty

9:42am

drdrcoug is involved now.

Longseason

9:49am

As a grown man (with a second car, a job, and plenty of experience)

reddead

9:53am

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