A homeowner in Goodyear, Arizona is locked in a dispute with his homeowner’s association over his practice of distributing free cold water from his driveway.

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    23 hours ago

    My favorite HOA conflict:

    https://www.jeepforum.com/threads/epic-hoa-parking-boot-battle.572540/

    TL;DR - HOA boots a car parked outside a guys house. He puts the car up on dollies and pushes it into his garage.

    They accuse him of stealing the boot.

    He tells them they can come get it any time they want.

    They tell him it’s $140 to remove the boot.

    He tells them “Nah, it’s cool, I don’t need to drive the car.” LOL.

    Edit Also in Arizona… Something in the water down there?

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      6 hours ago

      Epic story, thanks a lot for sharing the link!, sad there never was an ending

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      7 hours ago

      There’s a new-ish genre of Youtubers these days, Arizona home inspectors showing what a gigantic clusterfuck new house construction is there. I can’t decide which is my favorite disaster: exterior walls that are just paper and stucco, or the gas leaks at literally every house. In AZ, the HOAs are the least of people’s problems.

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      7 hours ago

      fucking photobucket killed all the pics

      (also the forum software should have allowed uploading pics even in 2004)

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      14 hours ago

      Fair warning for anyone who wants to boot my car I own a cordless angle grinder…

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        They can get you for destruction of property then. Luckily most non-law enforcement use cheap ass boots. I had an apartment complex boot an old truck of mine because I let the registration expire on since I was about to trade it in for a new(er) car. I simply deflated the tire enough to wiggle it free and threw it in a bush, then I pumped the tire back up and drove it to a Walmart parking lot for a couple of days.

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      22 hours ago

      I got booted at university once so I just changed my tire and took the boot with me

      Now they use 2 boots

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        22 hours ago

        I bought a boot removal tool my first year of college and was the savior of my friend group.

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          18 hours ago

          On some of them you can just let the air out of the tire and slip them off the wheel. I did that at a parking garage one time and left the boot in the parking spot.

          They found me later and said I stole it, I told them to check the camera footage and they saw someone else carry the thing off. I don’t know how I got out of that one but I guess they just went after the other guy instead of me lol

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          21 hours ago

          Most boots are also trivially easy to pick open for even an armature.

          They arnt generally well made

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            10 hours ago

            Folks in my area used to cary around crowbars (the half life style long ones for crates and shit) back when the sheriff deputies were boot happy for a bit. This was before cameras so they couldn’t do much when they found the damned things snapped didn’t help that folks would do it to any car they saw with a boot.