Help Baron! Get a baseball story!

That sucks. I donated a small amount, and I hope it gets the ball rolling. Keep your spirits up, baseball season is here!

I’ll gladly make a donation once I get home and have a chance to get my PayPal account sorted out.

I can’t donate a ton, but I hope it helps :(

Can someone help out here. My Paypal is screwy but I can normally donate straight via credit card from a PayPal button.

Or Barron can you suggest another alternative.

when they talk about crappy times? I look forward to seeing this episode covered on yours. It will be awesome.

Towing is a racket, so I hope you can bail your car out soon (of course, since it won’t run I suppose you’re going to have to get it towed out of the tow yard).

Baron, in case people want a way to contribute and see how much we’ve raised you can try using the website we used to collect for Grant’s super secret gift a few years ago- it doesn’t cost anything and gives people a few avenues for how to donate. I’ll donate whatever I can tomorrow once I get the call later today about a job I’m hoping to get (fingers crossed!)

http://www.chipin.com/

I sent a small amount your way.

hope it helps.

I sent a few bucks your way. I hope you reach your goal.

Dropped a few coins in your account. Good luck and get that car out of hock.

But I consider BVCE family, so I’m in for a few bucks. Good luck, Baron!

I put my drop in the bucket – sadly, it’s only a drop. Uncle Sam was not kind this year.

I’ll send you something this weekend.

Did Grant lose his job and con you into starting a Pyramid Scheme? JK, I’ll drop a buck or two when I get paid.

Sent a little bit your way. Hope it helps and that this all works out.

Thanks everyone for helping! I’m very touched by the support, both emotional and financial. You guys rock.

An illustrious name, a plaintive story and a PayPal account?
Damn, if I’d only known…my alternator’s been dead for weeks.

That’s the battery on the crates to the left of the bike, and the charger on the right.

Wish I could do more!

Towing is an often ignored social issue. The towing lots run a campaign of extortion on underfunded Americans unchecked by societies conscience. Animosity toward those ‘vile’ lawbreakers who get their vehicles towed is what allows the towing companies to run this citywide scam. Though I have never had my car towed, I recently sent a friend money to get her car out of a lot.

Here is the situation many Americans find themselves in: They get their car towed and can’t immediately afford to get it out of the impound. The fees go up while the individual scrambles to fund the ridiculous cost of paying the fine and towing costs. After a week or so, the costs are so high the individual can never afford to get their car back. A month later the car is sold and the money pocketed by the towing company. The individual is now without a car and most likely without a job since many require a car for their employment. Those of us who thought it was fine to tow that lawbreaker’s car might now be paying for their public assistance. If your city runs this scam (i think they all do) please try to have these laws changed as towing someones vehicle can destroy that person’s life.

Baron I will send what I can!

Thank you everyone who has donated. I appreciate everyone sending support of all kinds.

We’re up to $830, which unfortunately only covers the cost of the towing. It’s a disgusting racket, I know. The Paypal transfer will come through Tuesday, and I will get my car then. If you haven’t yet donated, and wish to, please kick in. Everything helps.

I hate asking for help. I hate begging for money like some bag lady. But I’d be epically screwed without your help. I can make it out of this with a little help.

Also, the story will be completed by Opening Day. I’m aiming for April 1, so it might even be sooner! Stay tuned.

That’s about five years ago, when I lost out on a titanium bicycle sold for not much more than its Buy it Now! price…and shortly thereafter heard about bid software. Closed my EBay and Paypal accounts – or so I thought. Now Paypal tells me “Your bank account number belongs to another Paypal account. Please use another bank account.”
Well, OK, except I had a different bank account then – and only one now.
So hang on, Baroness. Technical difficulties.

Done and done. Good luck!

Got my car out of the tow yard! It was even more of a goatfuck than I anticipated. The fees were over a grand just to get it out. Had a ton of help from Mayor of 311 to get it and get my ass around the South Bay.

The car is now at the repair shop. The hard part is over. The repair guys are helping me out with a student discount and I should have enough cash to cover repairs.

THANK YOU EVERYONE. I will update the situation when my car returns to me for good, probably tomorrow.

How much do you need at this time?

I am willing ot help but I am also trying to raise funding for my non- profit for Haiti. However, I would be willing to put a portion of the sale of each of my shirts to help you out. I hate getting towed. The worst is being booted of all places at the airport. The one place you think you would be safe from a good old boot on your car when its negative 10 degrees. Anyway let me know.

Sal

Busted out my car Monday!

The tow yard was a complete shit hole. They charged me $1015 dollars for my car being in the dusty shitty lot for almost two weeks. Fuck them. The charges kept racking up and if I couldn’t pay the complete amount, I’d lose the car to them. I called to ask if there was some way I could do payments, or something, and they asked me to sign over the title of the car.

I panicked and called the Mayor of 311, my go-to legal counsel, on Monday morning to ask if this was legal. He advocated on my behalf, and unfortunately their bullshit is legal. It’s completely fucked up, but legal.

He met me at Sunnyvale PD and offered moral and financial support. I signed the paperwork to get the car out, and he drove me over to the tow yard. It helps that my lawyer is also a very good friend; a very good friend who just happens to be a lawyer.

I got my car back, thank god. The people working at the tow yard are sour bastards. I asked one of the techs to jump my car and he gave me the shittiest look. I don’t get it. They work in a disgusting fucking racket and make money hand over fist by having people like me by the short hairs, especially if they throw out suggestions to sign over the titles of the cars incarcerated there like it happens every day. Yeah. I can tell making money off the suffering of others is a great way to live. Maybe it sucked their souls away long ago. Maybe I don’t give a fuck.

I called the mechanic to let them know we were on the way. My lawyer followed in his car, and it was a good thing. My goddamn car died in the intersection of Bird and San Carlos in San Jose, a few blocks from the repair shop. I called the mechanic again, and they arrived with a spare battery. When that battery failed, they pushed the thing to the side of the road and swapped out another battery. I got it to the shop, had lunch with the Mayor at a delightful taco stand (his treat), and got back to campus in time for my meteorology class.

So, my baby is free, but still in need of repair. The mechanic here is working with the mechanic who sold me a bad part the first time to redeem the warranty. My car should be ready tomorrow.

To offer some compensation for el Mayor’s kindness, I offered to give his kid private swim lessons.

I cannot say thank you enough to the people who helped in every way. Thank you all so much.

Glad you’ve survived each of these stages (physically) unscathed.

they asked me to sign over the title of the car.

Something tells me that’s not the first time they’ve suggested that option… they give the clunker to 1-877-KARS FOR KIDS, K-A-R-S kars for kids and take the nice write-off against their usurious towing/storage.

Just a couple of weeks until barbecue smoke rises from SJ Muni! And you’ll even be able to drive to the game.

This saga will never end.

The fucking mechanic in Walnut Creek who sold me a bad part is being a dick about honoring my warranty. It’s under a year on the part, and he’s saying I need to either bring the part up to him or bring my car to him, because they won’t drop ship the part. Never mind the fact that he said he’d replace the part for free with a computer printout proving the part was bad in the first place.

I just told him to fuck off and I told the mechanic here in San Jose to give me a new part (and new battery, since it got taxed during this whole ordeal). They’ve been kosher with me the whole time and they’re giving me a break on the price for the parts and labor—student discounts, woot.

Seriously, what the fuck is this guy’s deal if he can’t honor the goddamn warranty that he promised me? Fuck him.

For real for serious I’m getting my car Friday. I’m so tired of getting fucked in the ass here (TWSS). It has to end sometime.