Her Car Got Towed And She's Blaming Everybody But Herself

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This is a post tinged with a mixture of frustration and empathy for my 82 year old mother-in-law. She's always been negative, played the victim, lied, etc. So I haven't particularly liked her. But now she genuinely has some type of senility affecting her and making her vulnerable. She had two knee replacements a few years ago and has a handicapped parking placard for her car. There's a handicapped parking spot near her apartment which she claims is "hers" and almost got in a fight with somebody once who parked there who had a legitimate handicapped parking sticker telling them this has HER space. Anyway, she parked in the handicapped spot at her apartment complex recently and when she woke up the next morning her car was gone. She thought it had been stolen. Eventually it was sorted out that it had been towed because her handicapped parking sticker wasn't displayed on her rearview mirror as required by law. She says she puts it on her dashboard and when she closed the car door the wind must have knocked it on the floorboard. We tried, to no avail, to explain to her that the dashboard wasn't the proper place to put the placard. She wants to punch the tow tuck driver who "knows that's my car and I'm allowed to park there." We tried, again to no avail, to explain that the tow truck service probably has multiple drivers and not all of them would know her car is there every night or had seen the handicapped placard before. She just told us this story last night. It happened two months ago. The other son came to her rescue and got the car out of the tow lot. We don't know why the other son didn't tell us about the incident. Have you ever had your car towed? What happened?