This is a very interesting read. Apparently in US gated communities, the aunts and housewives who had nothing better to do would frequently create a HOA (Home Owners Association) to create guidelines for the neighborhood; as a means of 'For-the-good-of-all"
Imposing rules like what color of paint your house could use, what can or cannot be done to your house during a renovation, getting fines for not taking care of your garden, etc; and in this particular incident, contracted the neighborhoods parking administration rights to APS, Arizona Parking Solutions; who would clamp cars that violate their rules and $140 would be impounded to the owner.
So the owner, forum member of VWvortes (The A1 and A2 German) had stayed there for almost a year till the HOA was set up, and APS contracted for the neighborhood. For months he had parked his car on his designated parking spot with the removable tag, that's required to be put on at all times, till one day on the 10th of June 2008, he forgotten to, and was clamped and asked to pay for the fund.
Pissed, as he knew the APS officers patrolling the area knew him and his car deliberately clamped him for the $140, he did the unthinkable, since if you do not pay your fine in 3 day's time, your car would be towed away, he 'somehow-managed-to-placed-his-car-into-his-garage-with-the-clamps-ON-check-the-thread-to-see-how' and got on a 10 day ordeal with the company, the cops, the HOA and so on.
This guy had apparently reached cult status in the US, attracting the thread a quarter million of views (250,000) in less than 10 days to follow on his ordeal.
Check it out, and it's worth to leave you mistress, boss, wife, kids, friends, interviews, presentation or whatsoever for 2 hours to go thru the 61 page (maybe more now) thread at VWvortex.
Audi A4 Owner got clamped