Dude, where’s your car?

Mike Paulus |

If you live in Eau Claire's Third Ward and were rushing out the door this morning so you might only be 15 minutes late to work, only to realize your car was missing, we might know what happened. As the Leader-Telegram points out, 41 cars were towed straight outta the Third Ward in the past few days so our city’s street mechanical street sweeping behemoths could get at all those pesky leaves in the gutter. Apparently, the city’s had temporary “no parking” signs up in that area for over a week, and people just didn’t seem to care. So now those people are out $30 in citation monies, plus another $50 in towing fees. If your car is mysteriously gone, you’re supposed to call the City-County Communications Center (839-4972) so they can see if your car was among the towed. If so, you then need to call A to Z Towing & Recovery (835-6653) because they got your ride impounded, yo.