Well, it turns out the car was not stolen, it was towed. At first my dad called and they said it was not towed, but he called again and they said that it was towed. Well that is a lot better than being stolen.

But only a little cheaper!

Glad they found it.

That is too bad...  

I would have thought that people would have been more understanding with the snow...

But, I guess they expect people to always carry a snow shovel and dig themselves a parking spot wherever they go.    :scratchchin: :rolleyes:

You said he was blocking the driveway not just a few inches too close.

What if an ambulance needed to access that driveway, snow or not?

We have laws for a reason:  this one is for access to private property.

Yeah so if a car is blocking like three inches of a five foot wide driveway which is covered with snow anyway so nobody was using it, you should have your car towed and have to pay three hundred dollars. If I was like that I could have cars towed every other day. Wouldn't that be a nice thing to do to people? We have laws for a reason. And that reason is not to help the public, but to enrich the state and the private entities like the towing company who collude with the state. Lets not kid ourselves and think those laws are for the public's benefit.

Blocking means denying access.
3 inches doesn't deny access..which is it?.
Whether the driveway was full of snow is nobody's business but the home owner's.

You said your dad was there a couple of hours not just a few minutes to say run an erand.

Maybe the home owner was a senior who had paid to have the driveway ploughed but because your dad was there a couple of hours they just drove past and put the senior's job to the bottom of the list.

Maybe a nice thing to do was if your dad had shovelled the driveway for the person.

We have laws for a reason.