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    Default Impark Loss Prevention Specialist

    Yes i'm one of those people that have a few parking tickets outstanding.

    Came outside to my car today with an audi blocking my car and it was two impark "Loss Prevention Specialists" who would not let me leave until my car was either towed or I went to go pay for parking or call police for abusing their lots.

    Just wondering if there is any legality behind this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ickyflex View Post
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    Yes i'm one of those people that have a few parking tickets outstanding.

    Came outside to my car today with an audi blocking my car and it was two impark "Loss Prevention Specialists" who would not let me leave until my car was either towed or I went to go pay for parking or call police for abusing their lots.

    Just wondering if there is any legality behind this?

    How many is "few"?

    Was this inside an Impark lot and were you currently illegally parked?

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    Just change your plate when you go to renew your registration, it's free. Annual reset on Impark tickets

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    Quote Originally Posted by holden View Post
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    How many is "few"?

    Was this inside an Impark lot and were you currently illegally parked?
    5 and yup of course. Quick meeting

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    Quote Originally Posted by Super_Geo View Post
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    Just change your plate when you go to renew your registration, it's free. Annual reset on Impark tickets
    Someone stole my plate, this was the only updside haha

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    Quote Originally Posted by ickyflex View Post
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    Just wondering if there is any legality behind this?
    Well, you are on private property. No different than the plain clothes walmart loss prevention guys detaining you until the police arrive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by benyl View Post
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    Well, you are on private property. No different than the plain clothes walmart loss prevention guys detaining you until the police arrive.
    Not sure "illegally parking" is the same as theft though

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    Quote Originally Posted by ickyflex View Post
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    Not sure "illegally parking" is the same as theft though
    It's exactly the same.
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    You realize you are talking to the guy who made his own furniture out of salad bowls right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    It's exactly the same.
    One is a crimnal offence. The other isnt.

    Doesnt smell right to me. Let em call the cops.

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    What did you end up doing?

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    I'm curious how this turns out... hope you can get out of there w/o getting towed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ickyflex View Post
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    Not sure "illegally parking" is the same as theft though
    You're using their resources and not compensating them for it.

    Are you one of those people who park in their lots with no intentions of paying for it on purpose?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shakalaka View Post
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    What did you end up doing?
    Paid for parking and did a charge back on my credit card lol

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    You're using their resources and not compensating them for it.

    Are you one of those people who park in their lots with no intentions of paying for it on purpose?
    I got tickets having a monthly parking pass for such dumb shit that I cancelled my pass and stopped ever paying. So yeah impark can screw themselves

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    Quote Originally Posted by ickyflex View Post
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    Paid for parking and did a charge back on my credit card lol

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    I got tickets having a monthly parking pass for such dumb shit that I cancelled my pass and stopped ever paying. So yeah impark can screw themselves
    what was the reason for the chargeback?

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    lol - quick summary:
    - feels entitled to steal parking
    - gets caught
    - pays
    - brags about basically committing fraud with a chargeback
    - this is all happening in a public place, online.

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    I have no idea where people get the idea that not paying for parking is acceptable.

    If you don’t like Impark then don’t use them, doesn’t give you justification to rip them off. Amazing the ethical gymnastics people will go to to justify this stance though. “They mistakenly gave me a ticket when I was a monthly so now I steal from them because fuck the police”. I had impark accidentally give me tickets when I was monthly as well, even when it was my fault not displaying my permit, except I did the adult thing and called in to have the tickets cancelled which they were happy to do after checking my information.

    By that logic I should stop paying my property taxes because I think Nenshi is an idiot.

    OP deserves them boxing him in and towing his car.
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    Moral justification aside, I do think it's sort of an interesting tactic by Impark to send their 'enforcers' to box people in such manner. If you owe someone money, that doesn't give them a right to forcibly confine (illegal) you. Sure they can sue you in civil court and they would have the right to do that. In this case though, since they said we can tow or you can pay, it may be somewhat different and perhaps it was a good idea for the OP to not call their bluff on tow because they probably would have. I mean, why would they not if there's enough arrears owing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ickyflex View Post
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    Paid for parking and did a charge back on my credit card lol

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    I got tickets having a monthly parking pass for such dumb shit that I cancelled my pass and stopped ever paying. So yeah impark can screw themselves
    Clearly if you had a valid pass, you wouldn't be getting tickets. If you did get tickets, and had a valid pass, you would be able to reverse those tickets.

    I'd just pay the tickets and move on, but doing a charge back is some greasy shit. That's right up there with people "renting" stuff from Costco for their trailer park wedding and returning it the next day.

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    They can call City of Calgary parking to ticket you and then tow you so I wouldn't want to escalate it fyi

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    Quote Originally Posted by shakalaka View Post
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    Moral justification aside, I do think it's sort of an interesting tactic by Impark to send their 'enforcers' to box people in such manner. If you owe someone money, that doesn't give them a right to forcibly confine (illegal) you.
    That was my thought as well, but how different would it be than a loss prevention guy at Home Depot detaining a shoplifter, if OP had not paid for parking in this instance? Can non-officers only detain someone if it is temporary until an actual police officer is present, rather than the shakedown they were giving the OP?

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