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    Lightbulb Amazon left a truck in a man's driveway for four days...

    Amazon left a truck in a man's driveway for four days...

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    A man in California is in a standoff with Amazon because it’s abandoned one of its delivery vans in his driveway and has failed to remove it for four days. The man, who asked to be identified by his Twitter alias Captain Lou because he was worried his employer wouldn’t want him to beef with Amazon publicly, said his ordeal started when he ordered some Quilted Northern toilet paper from Amazon. On Friday night, a Sprinter van pulled up to his house and dropped off a package.

    Fifteen minutes later, Lou noticed the van was still there and the driver was struggling to get it out of his driveway.

    “And I asked the guy, the driver, if he was OK,” Lou told Motherboard over the phone. The driver said he was fine and that the check engine light had come on and it had been giving him trouble the entire day and limiting his speed.

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxd5...ck-in-driveway
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    Push it into the road.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Push it into the road.
    After a week, he can try to file of salvage. Once he files for that, I bet it isn't ten minutes until Amazon shows up and tows it
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    I'd have it towed.
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    LOL

    The driver had been driving all day with the check engine light on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    LOL

    The driver had been driving all day with the check engine light on.
    It wasn't his car.
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    Love this line from the link;

    *"But I'm pretty sure I have an Amazon credit card now.”*

    *Another rep sent him a link to talk to someone immediately. “I clicked the link and was connected with someone in Cardholder Services,” Lou said. “So I spent 10 minutes with a very polite, but clearly befuddled offshore agent who had no idea how to route my call to the ‘Disabled Van Department.’ But I'm pretty sure I have an Amazon credit card now.”*

    Classic

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    Wait...the man was able to start the van and move it aside so he could get his own vehicle out of the driveway? If he could do that, why wasn't he able to move it a few feet farther out into the street?
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    So, the van was repaired about two weeks ago at a dealership. If it's not an Amazon van, but a third-party contractor van or perhaps a leased van then the dealership should know the name of the owner who might be interested to know that the vehicle has been abandoned.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Wait...the man was able to start the van and move it aside so he could get his own vehicle out of the driveway? If he could do that, why wasn't he able to move it a few feet farther out into the street?
    Not the point.
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