'The city stole my car'

Who says HOAs have all the fun with foreclosure for peanuts? The City of Chicago will boot your car for unpaid traffic tickets, impound the sucker, tack on a pile of towing and storage fees, and threaten to sell your car if you don't pay the whole thing. But then if you don't pay the full amount, the city will sell your $13,000 car to a junker for...$125.

Then the junker will turn around and sell the car for $4000.

That'll teach you. But it won't teach the city much about basic arithmetic. We could do better with Homer Simpson as mayor.