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My South Philly-parked car was "relocated" for paving on Oct. 19. I freaked out, wrote a Clog post about the ordeal, looked for it, freaked out some more and finally found the damn thing a handful of days later, with the help of about a half-dozen city agencies and their employees of varying degrees of uselessness. (No offense, June of the Streets Department.) You may recall Oct. 28's Million Stories:
After one final hiccup (in which the tow truck driver called me to say he'd found my car at Sixth and Morris, although it looked more gray to him than silver — maybe because it wasn't my car), I got my Honda back: It was at 11th and Wharton, one measly block from where I'd been searching the night before. It was parked across the street from the Police Department, covered in dirt. No tickets, no damage.
That was a month ago. Trees still had their leaves back then. Halloween candy hadn't yet been replaced by Christmas wreaths at CVS. The Phils were still in the game.
Looks like, as of yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer's finally caught on: In Sunday's paper, Monica Yant Kinney reports on the business of relocation from the perspective of a young kid, Alec Nelson, whose car got moved.
"According to the Third District," he shared, "the car was towed to the 1700 block of South 12th Street." ⦠Nelson was dubious, but rushed to the spot.
"That was one of the first places I looked," he said, calling from the block. "It wasn't there then. It's not there now."
The next day, [Deputy Streets Commissioner Stephen] Buckley went back at it. Perhaps someone had misread the file? In short order, a highway engineer found Nelson's car one block away, at 1605 S. 12th St.
"Maybe I missed it, but my friends and I were on that block a bunch of times," Nelson said after finding his Focus. "The cynical side of me thinks it wasn't there to begin with."
I feel for you, Alec, believe me. But ... this whole thing sounds awfully familiar. Kinney even stole our damn (OK, kinda obvious) tagline: Dude, where's my car? C'mon guys. Way to stay on top of things.
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