You can't stop me
from being right here. I got a real job, homie. I got one, I just did it. JOSEPH: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hurry up, Frankie. Not going to happen today. Dude, you want
to get locked up? This ticket, this
cop gave us, was bogus. $1,000? That's two month's rent. I will turn this joint out. [theme song] We're going to be
going out on the streets booting cars tonight, getting
all the crooks that owe Parking Authority money. I've been on this
shift for three years, doing it 5:00 at night
until 1:00 in the morning. My partner, Frank,
he's a good guy. We both started
over here together. We've grown to be
pretty close friends. We've been doing
this for a while. It's a good way to
get to know a person. You know not to feed them
so they won't pass gas. [laughing] That's Frank. Booting at night,
it's basically just watching your partner's back and
make sure nobody attacks him. Just the atmosphere it
ignites, pretty crazy. People are out drinking. You never know what the
night's going to bring. You do encounter those
times when they just start flipping out. They don't want their
cars taken away from them but that's our job. Got a hit. Safety is an issue with us. I pay attention to the people
that are talking around here and make sure it's not their
car, and come running up on you and try and push
you out of the way. You get a lot of excitement. We don't want no problems. We're just trying
to get in and out. You going to come and put
the boot on somebody's car in the middle of the night? I ain't even get a notice. It's mine. Coming around here and
putting boots on people's [bleep] cars, [bleep]
all times of the night. Damn, you know, get a life. [inaudible] People make comments
and stuff but, you know-- and that's where that thick
skin comes in at, you know. Just let it roll off your back. One day, y'all
going to be here-- y'all going to boot the wrong
person where they're going to snap. There's some crazy people
out here, especially at night. FRANK: We're about to encounter
different types of people. ROB: Darkness is
fallen, the light is on. [chuckles] We're like vampires. We work the night shift. Violators beware! [chuckles] This is South
Street, a very popular street. There's lot of police activity,
kids out here causing trouble. OK, we got a hit. Oh, heavy hitter. FRANK: Which means
he owe 700 or more. ROB: Big heavy hitter. Hell, two grand. FRANK: Well, heavy
hitters-- you have to move a little bit quicker
because they know they heavy hitters. FRANK: It's hard
booting on South Street because there's a lot of
people that are out drinking all night. You got to be pretty
quick to get on and off. But being these heavy hitters,
he'll be towed right away. JOSEPH: Whoa, whoa, whoa. ROB: Hurry up, Frankie. Hurry up. Hurry up. Not going to happen today. Hey, buddy! Dude, hey! Dude, you want to get locked up? You want to get locked up? Wow, seriously, dude? I'm dead serious. ROB: Move back. Move back, dude. Move back. Move back, dude. [bleep] y'all. Hard working people are
leaving this [bleep] city because of you rapist mobsters. Come on, [bleep] [bleep]. For real, though? For real. Can't stand you
[bleep] [bleep].. They're taking over
this [bleep] city. [bleep] them all. You know what I'm saying? I could be out on the block
popping at these [bleep] [bleep],, but I work hard and
they rape my [bleep] pockets. [music playing] (RAPPING) Got a Cadillac
with [inaudible] in the back. I've been jacked. I've been over $6,000 in and
out with these [bleep] [bleep].. You spend all this money for
this paint job, on this car, and don't pay your tickets. Sir, run this [bleep]
right into that truck. [inaudible]. JOSEPH: Get a real [bleep] badge
and stop some [bleep] crime. Big shot. You can write me
a lottery ticket. I need another lock. [bleep] y'all. Now he knows he
owes a lot of money so he tried stopping us
from booting his car. We having a problem trying
to put the boot on their car. Uh, I got to get another lock. --so I can call and give
y'all some more money, pay your salary and [bleep]. Let's go. ROB: I'm going to have
you towed right now. How's that?
- Good! That's what's going to
happen anyway, thank you. Get it off the streets
quicker, good job. Now he's working. Get this guy's name. He doing a good job.
Thank you. B-6-4-8. JOSEPH: [inaudible] my
[bleep] out on the street. ROB: Ma'am, can we
get a tow truck? You uncle run this [bleep]? FRANK: This is a
very dangerous job. People don't think when they
get in situations like this. JOSEPH: Hurry up! This [bleep] [bleep]
is ridiculous. When the [bleep] does it end? Man, [bleep] them, man. ROB: Around this area,
there's a lot of cops anyway. FRANK: Police cars was
already down the street. He sees two police cars
around the corner from here, there's nothing he can do. ROB: He took off, so he
didn't want to get locked up. So he was smart. He was smart. Parking Authority
is like a ghost. They floating through walls
and ruining people's lives and it's ridiculous. I thought you
said he was mean. Was he mean? ROB: Yeah, he tried pushing
me out of the way and all. It could be a
challenge, you know. You got people
yelling at you, people taking their
frustrations out on you. The police are always
constantly around this area so we don't have any problem. I'm the first one to man up
and take responsibility for any of my issues, but [chuckles]
this is-- this is extortion. FRANK: He knew this was coming. Like I said, people always
want somebody to blame. I know that I probably
got six tickets. But here, they take it
to a whole other level. It's about money. It's all about money. FRANK: You're
extreme heavy hitter. You racked up all those tickets. Only person you have
to blame is yourself. You just can't-- you--
[groans] FRANK: You spend all that
money on a fancy paint job and you don't bother
to pay your tickets. Come on, your priorities are
like a little, uh, screwed up. Violators beware. We're on our way. [chuckles] My name is DeAndre Hubbard,
also known as Ponytail. People might not notice,
but cars talk to me. You know what this
car just said to me? Oh, come on, he's
going to do this to me? Of course, oh. Detroit the Motor City,
people love their cars. I can relate to them, just
like the boy on "Flipper". Remember "Flipper"? [squeaks like a dolphin] The
car talk to me like that. [grunts like a car] A car can take to me. They're like--
[making trumpet noise] let's go. Ponytail's coming. Ponytail's coming. The zone is illegal, young lady. Look at the ticket. Where does it say no parking? That's what I said. DEANDRE: It's a
no standing zone. You can't park your
car in the zone. I don't know that. DEANDRE: Yeah, you got
to listen to your car. Move! DEANDRE: This car's saying,
all right, don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Give me a good reason not to. My owner was an idiot. That ain't good enough. [chuckles] Bye. The moral of the story
is listen to your car and you won't get a ticket. My car talk to me all the
time about how-- how good I keep him up. I keep him fed with gas
and keep his belly full. MAN: We got this ticket
in a gas station. They put this
[bleep] on my truck. DEANDRE: I didn't write the
ticket, so I don't know. I'm just saying. But it's nothing over
there that says no parking. DEANDRE: Well, sir, I
did not write the ticket. I understand that. But I'm trying to figure out
why they put that on my truck. DEANDRE: What did you
get the ticket for? MAN: No parking. For unauthorized
private parking. The city is doing
underhanded [bleep].. There is no sign, nowhere,
that says no parking. All I see that's over
there-- customer parking only. All others will be towed
at owner's expense. That's unfair. DEANDRE: The ticket was
written at 12:35 PM. Yeah, a few minutes. It's like five
minutes to 2:00. GAS STATION OWNER:
Is that one yours? Huh? GAS STATION OWNER:
Is that on yours? Yeah. OK, why's it-- why's
it sitting there all day on my property? Yeah, it has
been there all day. MAN: OK, we got some gas. It stopped on us right there. So I get a ticket for it? GAS STATION OWNER: Well, you can
walk inside and tell somebody that you're going
to leave it there. MAN: The hood was up. MAN 2: Yeah, it was overheating.
- It doesn't matter. I get people all day
long put they're hood up saying the car's
overheating and everything, and they want to go
across the street somewhere or somewhere else. Because I was going
to have it towed. That's private property. If the owner comes out and
requests that I enforce it, I can do that. They so desperate for money. They-- they making up [bleep]. We just walked [inaudible],,
two blocks, and come back. This was on my truck. I figured maybe he was in
the store getting something. Nobody was around for
hours and hours, so, uh, I finally had it ticketed. It-- it don't seem right that
you could be in a public place and receive a ticket
in a gas station. This guy didn't get it at all. He started up and he pulled off. So I don't know if he's going
to a service station or he going home.
We'll never know. We'll find out next
time I see his car. His car will tell me. That car saying, slow down, man. Slow down. We got another one up here. [car honking] What did you say car? How did I find you? Mr. Meter told on you. [chuckles] This car's
mother tell him to stay off in front of bars? They don't need to be
here this early anyway. DEANDRE: I already
wrote the ticket, man. This car-- the meter expired. MAN: I'm going in the [bleep]
trying to get some change, dawg. You got to put some change
in there when you park there, my man. Dawg, what is you doing, man? Just put a ticket on the car. MAN: I just came in to
get some change, man. DEANDRE: How I know that? Why you-- if you could-- you
should have been right back out. If you had enough time for me
to put the ticket on there, you went in there and come back. I mean, well, how did I
have time to write you a ticket then? Man-- it's a bunch
of [bleep] [bleep].. Get a real job, man. DEANDRE: I wrote
the ticket already. I'm doing my job. I'm coming out here
to get some change. I didn't know that, my man. I didn't know that.
- The ticket right there. Take it back. Take it off my record. DEANDRE: When you
threw it to the ground, you want me to fetch it? Oh, no, I don't think so. MAN: What you mean
you don't think so? Dawg. Here you go. What the [bleep]? Who's you? BYSTANDER: I'm nobody. I'm just trying to
help you out, man. Man, you ain't trying
to help nobody out, man. - I'm not?
- No, you're not, homie. Goodbye. Yeah, just leave it
on the floor, dawg. MAN: You don't
understand [bleep],, man. I got [bleep] $600 in tickets. DEANDRE: You can't just be
cussing at people like that. MAN: I don't give a [bleep]
what you think, homie. DEANDRE: Man, don't even--
- Get a [bleep] real job, man. DEANDRE: You got the ticket.
You can go on back to the-- Get a real job, homie. Man, get a real job. I got one, I just did it. MAN: Come on, [bleep] that. Get the [bleep] back in the car. Get the [bleep] back in the car. DEANDRE: Man, don't
tell me what to do. You can't stop me
from being right here. Don't get it blocked up, my man. I'm ma tell you, it
ain't even worth it. Get blocked up on what? DEANDRE: You can not mess with
me while I'm doing my job. You can't-- - You messing with me.
- OK. Get the [bleep] on then. Well, do what you
going to do then. OK, that's what I thought. Get a [bleep] real job. Now go kill yourself, homie.
DEANDRE: Whatever, my man. You're talking all that
bull trying to show off. Hey, go kill yourself, homie. Boy throwing heat for nothing. I was standing over
there when he pulled up. DEANDRE: Mm-hmm.
- He went inside. So there was no
money in the meter. DEANDRE: And you don't know
what he was in there doing. BYSTANDER: No, no.
You know, you did your job. Yeah, it's hard to hold your
composure when people acting like that. I mean, that guy was
right up in my face. They trying to make it look like
I did something just horrible to the-- to the man. BYSTANDER: Uh-uh. DEANDRE: If he went there to
get change, he shouldn't even-- I shouldn't have been even
able to write him a ticket. BYSTANDER: Yeah, right
is right, wrong is wrong. You got to eat it. You got egg on your face. Eat the dog food
and keep it moving. All right, man.
DEANDRE: All right, man. See you later.
Take care. - All right, you too.
- All right. He didn't listen to his car. He didn't-- he wasn't aware
of his surroundings and he didn't put any
money in the meter. That's three
strikes, you're out. It's a bunch of [bleep]. And I'm out! License and
registration, please. Yeah. The car's registered
under my mom's name so I hope they let it out. Do you know what I'm saying? I think a lot of people
just try to beat the system. I don't have a license. I never took the test. WOMAN: Oops! The only thing
that we could do is go by what the
customer is saying. But as you get more
onto their story, you know, you always
find out a little extra. My license is good. [inaudible] says
his license is good. It's not suspended. If it is, you going to get it. I'm telling you. You're still suspended, bra. TONI: It happens
every single day, so you don't know
who to believe. It could be like
being a detective. But it doesn't matter
if we believe them or not, whatever is on
that paperwork goes. I got jacked. Oh oh, oh. I got a live stop
on Friday for some BS. They say my brake light was out. So the car got took and I'm
here to get my car back now. I just need your ID. We had to start off in Traffic
Court up in Spring Garden. They made us sit there,
see a judge, pay them. In that court building, every
move you make is a payment. So far, we kicked down 465. Now we working on them. This is probably going
to be like 225, 230. Mm-hmm. All for a brake light. All for a brake light that
is probably not even out. Philly just hungry for money. They make me sick. Ma'am, it comes
up to 1,617, please. TOWANAH: What? These [bleep] people
is ridiculous. TOWANAH: That's crazy. Fraud, come on, I
have a bad back. I'm not even supposed
to walk a block. - So is it a $1,000 ticket?
- Yes. TOWANAH: I go to court
April the 27 for that. The fraud ticket
is not scheduled. You can go to court
today if you want. What time? You have to be
down there by 5:00. I swear, Philly is
the [bleep] worst. Come on, now. Who gets a ticket for $1,000? She said it was a fraud. Wait a minute, this
car is licensed and it has a
handicapped placard. It's my car. I use that placard. I need that placard. I'm the one that
can't walk a block. This ticket, this cop gave
us two weeks ago, was bogus. He was driving. I said, Ahkeem, you take
me down South Street. Now I jumped out to
run in a jewelry store. Like, if I'm driving a car,
you know what I'm saying, I need to park
somewhere, I'm going to use the handicap placard. Bike cops, pulls him over
and gives him $1,001 ticket. They better [inaudible] car. I will turn this mother
[muted] joint out. You really got
to go see if we can get the handicapped placard
stuff out of the car. I put it in there and
that cop still gave me a ticket for that joint. He said the handicap placard,
it didn't belong to me. But it belongs to that car. He gave me $1,000 ticket
because I was in the car. TONI: Next. Can I get in my car and
get the handicap placard? TONI: I need your license. It's a-- it's a $1,000
ticket for this car. $1,000? You can always fight it. Did he tell you to go
to 9th and Filbert? Yes, he did. All right, let me
get your paperwork and I'll let you
get to that car. D-30. I can't do too much walking. I need my car. Ma'am, I need you to take this
over to that gate over there. Get that placard. We'll give you back your license
when you bring it back in. TONI: To get the car back with a
live stop, the owner of the car has to go to Traffic
Court and see the judge. They paid Traffic Court, so
their good with Traffic Court. Now they had to
go 9th the Filbert and contest that ticket. I want to see the judge face,
when I'm standing there, saying how is it fraud when it clearly
states my name, my first name, my middle initial. My driver's license
number is on it. She's still going to have
to pay her towing and storage fees because he was stopped by
the police for other things. So either way, she's
going to have to pay. You need that? I need the plaque. I need to see the plaque. Was this displayed on your
car window or something, too? Yeah, it was-- it was all given to the officer. You showed them
this card here? I showed them both of them
and he gave me a $1,000 ticket. When I was in the
store, [inaudible].. I said-- I said-- hold
on, let me go get my mom. And that's when he
gave me a ticket. So you're going
to 9th and Filbert? TOWANAH: Yep.
AHKEEM: Yes. OK.
All right, there you go, ma'am. Good luck.
TOWANAH: Thanks. OK. OK. My father coming
to pick me up. We got to go to 9th and Filbert. Hopefully, they
throw this ticket out. I'm not good with courts. I'm not good with judges. I'm not good with
people in authority. I'm not good with none
of them sorry asses because they make me sick. And I tell them just how I feel. Whether you like it or
you don't, I say it. Oh, well, and what? TONI: They're going to either
have to pay that ticket now or dispute it and then
they can have their car. Otherwise, they're not
going to get that car today. I really can't
determine, you know, what makes the officer think
a handicap placard's used fraudulently. But it's up to the
people at Filbert whether they want to
believe the story or not. TOWANAH: I went to
9th and Filbert. They wouldn't throw it out. They wouldn't reduce it. I had to go on a payment plan. That was wasting my time. I could have stayed
down here and paid it. The judge didn't want to
believe that my son wasn't driving the car. My son don't have
a driver's license. My son was not driving
that car that day. He was driving. I said, Ahkeem, you take
me down South Street. So she wanted to believe
what she wanted to believe. TONI: Next. So what happened? They want to make it like
my son was driving that car. My son was sitting in
the passenger seat. And they came up and said
that the placard didn't belong to anyone in the car. But the car was parked. How could they say that
if he was in the passenger? Exactly. The boy license been
suspended for two years. Didn't make you
pay it though, right? Yeah, they made me pay $771. Well, what are they
going to do about that? I'm taking it further. I hope it works out for you. I really do. They just out for
blood on South Street. I mean, I don't know how they
determined that the guy was driving the car if he
was in the passenger seat and he don't have a
license, you know. It's hard to say, you know. TOWANAH: I had to go
on a payment plan. So I had to plead, basically,
guilty to this ticket, until I go to court and I
finish fighting them, just to get my car
out the lot day. YOLANDA: I don't know
what's the story. I don't know whether
or not she's just trying to beat the system. We hear so much of
the same story-- the police stop me
for no reason and all. I can't say anything about
that, I'm not out there. All right, ma'am.
This is you release. You take that over to the
gate and you're all done, OK. Good luck with that. TOWANAH: Thanks. I can't be too mad. Like, I paid the money,
I get my car back. So it is what it is. You know, in Philly it's about
$1, any way they can get it. TONI: If he was dropping someone
off, I can understand that. But he was also driving
without a license. If I'm in the
car, I'm driving, I'm ma still put it up. MAN: Say what? YOLANDA: You can't use someone
else's handicap placard card. I tell you what, if it was my
son who had my vehicle towed, driving on a
suspended license, I think that would be the
last time he's driving it. Now, B, that brake
light is not out. I'm not going to change
anything because I didn't do anything wrong. I don't drive legally. I don't drive like
a bat out of hell. I follow guidelines. I follow the rules. Damn, how much
good could you get? [laughs]
