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Money grab

Sunday morning at about 10:15 AM we arrived at the liquor store right on Hwy 33 across from Cooper's. We stopped in to purchase some liquor for a friend of ours who did us a favour. I noticed that across the street they were selling sweetcorn. The entrance I entered into had no signage that there was no parking allowed. We decided to go across the street as this was something new to us and get some corn. We were gone maybe 10 minutes, not even, and when we returned to our car we noticed a tow truck was trying to tow my car away. 

I approached the guy and I discussed with him and pleaded him to release my car, and that this whole week I have been terribly sick and I've missed a whole entire week of work on top of that I ended up in the hospital on Wednesday. This is my first day out and about feeling somewhat OK. I told him we went into the liquor store. 

This gentleman was rude, belligerent, and then constantly was cutting me off while I was trying to talk to him. He kept saying things like “ching ching: your money's flying away, your bills getting bigger, the longer you make me wait here the more I'm going to charge you”, and so on. I Explained to him that the entrance we took had no signage at all, and did not state we were not allowed to go across the street. We also spoke to the attendant inside the liquor store and received the managers phone number which we will discuss this with him on Monday. She mentioned this is happening a lot. We are going to fight this and were also looking for others who had to deal with this man or this business. 

I have photo proof of no signage.  I would not be fighting this if it were not for the fact that they had no proper signage on the property especially through the entrance that we took which was the second entrance closer to the Salvation Army. 

He charged us $105 to just release my car. This is a money grab. The spots we stopped at had nothing stating no parking as well. 

This man assaulted me when I attempted to take pictures of him towing my vehicle. He put his hand up to cover my camera which in turn hit me in my face. I have photos of this as well. 

We attempted to contact the manager of the liquor store, which we were customers of, and have yet to hear from him. 

Magdalena Steele



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