California Man in 4-Day Standoff with Abandoned Amazon Truck in Driveway

&quot;I’m not going to have the vehicle towed. Amazon should be able to figure this out. So now it’s an act of defiance. I did not follow Amazon’s instructions to just call the cops and have it towed.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s a simple fix, and he didn&#x27;t want to do it. Instead, he&#x27;s whining on the Internet, blaming a company that doesn&#x27;t own the vehicle and can&#x27;t do anything about it, either.

Can&#x27;t believe how many people want Lou to have the van impounded. The Amazon name is so big and so impersonal, anything and everything associated with it is expected to be taken care of by the System right away.<p>This is our culture. Lou at least got a chance to talk to the driver, but other than that it seems whoever owns the van hasn&#x27;t thought to keep Lou informed about what&#x27;s going on. Lou doesn&#x27;t even know who owns the van, with the only lead being the Amazon association. And nobody at Amazon seems capable of connecting the two sides together. This is how we operate today, it&#x27;s kind of terrible.<p>If I were Lou I&#x27;d at least leave a note on the windshield asking the owner to call him.<p>Edit: This happened a week ago, and is resolved. Great Twitter posts, and he did leave a note: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;FEVzOvJVkAAOTq2?format=jpg&amp;name=large" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;FEVzOvJVkAAOTq2?format=jpg&amp;name=...</a>

Well, Florida Man would have installed a Jacuzzi in the van, been forced to abandon it after it became infested with alligators, and then fired about a hundred rounds of 00 buck into it before offering it to pawnstars.

Clamp it, charge the statutory maximum for parking on private property; then after a relatively short period of time you can start the claim for ownership on the grounds of abandonment. (There is some DMV paperwork involved).<p>That van is worth something if repaired, airflow on a sprinter is normally something you can do yourself. If not there is a whole lot of scrap metal sitting there...

Is it even owned by Amazon? If not, complaining to Amazon would be a bit like complaining to them if UPS left a truck in a driveway. That, and if they don&#x27;t own it, they don&#x27;t really have the authority to tow a contractor&#x27;s van.

Who pays to have a car towed by a tow-trucking company? I&#x27;m thinking mainly of business parking. Does the business pay? I assume the vehicle owner has to pay?

Looks like the guy is enjoying the story )))

Can he … take it for a ride around the block? It’s clearly abandoned. He gave adequate notice. It should be his.

Oops someone left the van in neutral and it rolled in to a ditch :(

Why he doesn&#x27;t he just call a towing company? Then Amazon can sort things out there with a company whose job it is to hold cars until their owners sort such things out.

put it into neutral and push it into the public street, off your property line, then call the traffic cops. not your problem anymore.