On Saturday he did not find the car where he had parked it, in a street in San Benedetto. Thus began 36 hours of nightmare for a man from Cagliari, who found himself having to deal with a removal service that was quick - at times - to take away the vehicles, less so to return them. And, in this case, also to let people know that the one in question had not been stolen. There is also a theft complaint involved which, fortunately, turned out to be useless.

The misadventure happened to a freelancer who works in the field of television productions. He says that on Saturday evening he went to get the car and didn't find it: "There were other vehicles, not mine", he says, preferring not to make the name public, " so I called the local police switchboard to ask if it had been removed." Even if he says he is convinced that he has not committed any infringement: "Anyway, if they had caught it, they must have had their reasons and I was ready to pay the fine."

It's a shame that the operations center told him that no, they didn't think it was among the vehicles removed. “I called there,” adds the motorist, “because no one answers at the depot on Saturday evenings.”

He took a tour of San Benedetto again, leaving open the hypothesis of a memory lapse. Nothing, the car couldn't be found. «They stole it, that's what I thought. So, also on the advice of the officer I spoke to, on Sunday morning I went to the police station to file a complaint." With all the worries involved: he needed the car to work, he didn't have high hopes of finding it again. "I didn't sleep there," says the unfortunate man.

This morning, just to be sure, he called the Viale Monastir depot again: " They told me that the car was there: it was removed at 6.56pm on Friday."

So no one had uploaded the vehicle's data, perhaps because it was Saturday evening. Sunday passed without having the opportunity to check: the service was stopped. «And now I have to withdraw the complaint. In addition to having to pay the fine and two nights' deposit", accuses the motorist, "but who repays me for 36 hours spent in terror that my car had been stolen? Besides the taxi I had to call? From Viale Monastir they told me that they can't do anything about it. The matter is shameful."

And this is not an isolated case: it appears that at least one other motorist, whose car had been towed from via dei Giunchi, in Pirri, had to insist on finding the vehicle. From the warehouse they kept telling her that they hadn't taken it: it had been there for two days.

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)

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