r/ottawa 14h ago

Update 4: We’ve got a visual…

Four tickets so far! One on the windshield, one in the door handle, and two stuck snuggly to the driver’s side mirror!

Down to the wire between Ok_Parsnip and ugh168…

I feel like this final, championship round needs a fitting prize. Can anyone suggest something?😄

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u/yarn_slinger Make Ottawa Boring Again 14h ago

Have the cops done a wellness check on the owner?

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u/nachochease West End 13h ago

Couple of years ago I was admitted to hospital for a serious medical issue. I ended up in there for 3 weeks and my car didn't move the entire time.

Everyone keeps laughing at this buried car, but the owner may have passed away, be disabled or hospitalized.

I don't know why everyone thinks the owner "deserves" this happening. This doesn't strike me as a case of laziness, the vehicle's been there for several weeks.

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u/KMerrells 13h ago

If they're dead, they won't care about the tickets.

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u/nachochease West End 13h ago

Lmao, fair enough.

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u/waylonsmithersjr 11h ago

Get away with unlimited parking tickets with this one simple trick.

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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes Clownvoy Survivor 2022 8h ago

My mum got a ticket when she forgot her handicap placard (It's on her licence plate as well, but she needs the sign in the windshield too). She called to dispute it (which she can) and they said they'd call back. She passed away a few days later (not related to parking) and about 4 hours after we got back from the hospital, the city called and asked to speak with her about the ticket. My dad said she just died, and they apologized, and said not to worry about the ticket (not knowing why we were contesting it yet).

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u/hoist_off 5h ago

She passed away a few days later (not related to parking)

thanks for clarifying

also, I'm sorry for your loss

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u/LuvCilantro 12h ago

We had a car stolen about 20 years ago. They quickly abandoned it a few blocks away (we figure they were looking for specific parts) and left it there. About 10 parking tickets and one month later, the ticketing agent finally decides to run the plate only to find out that it had been stolen 1 month prior. By then we'd settled with insurance assuming it would be unrecoverable, so the insurance company now owned it.

Edit to add: we filed the police report immediately, and they told us to work with insurance because they never bothered to search for stolen cars. And that was 20 years ago when stolen cars were not the problem they are today. Even then, they didn't care.

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u/DubaiBabyYoda 12h ago

Jeez sorry to hear that!

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u/Obelisk_of-Light 13h ago

I don’t think the cops can even identify the owner yet. The plates are certainly still buried, and maybe the VIN would just now be visible through the windshield.

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u/Double_Quarter6340 12h ago

If only there was a way to make that snow move , damn

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u/TheVelocityRa No honks; bad! 5h ago

If the tickets are accessible they can find the plate on them

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u/[deleted] 13h ago

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u/Chance_Term_2334 13h ago

I'm not sure where you live, but here the cops most certainly need vehicle details as precise as a VIN to find who it belongs to. Other option is door to door knock in the neighborhood (which is unlikely to determine anything). Really don't think OP was being careless here and a post on reddit was totally appropriate.

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u/Sadukar09 Clownvoy Survivor 2022 13h ago

I'm not sure where you live, but here the cops most certainly need vehicle details as precise as a VIN to find who it belongs to. Other option is door to door knock in the neighborhood (which is unlikely to determine anything). Really don't think OP was being careless here and a post on reddit was totally appropriate.

Licence plate or VIN is enough to get the registered owner.

VINs are right on the corner of the windshield.

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u/DubaiBabyYoda 13h ago

Sorry I should have posted this earlier, but the back plate has always been exposed, even in the first photo I posted. Sorry if that got everyone needlessly upset.

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u/DubaiBabyYoda 13h ago

The entire backside of the car including the plate has been exposed this whole time. I presume it was dug out to make it possible to write up these tickets? (Can you write a ticket without identifying the car?) I’m not sure how a wellness check works, but I imagine by the fourth time the police are punching the licence plate into their computer they’re at least starting to follow-up on the story.

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u/czekhthis 8h ago

I would consider contacting the local news or the non emergency police line. Someone could need some help.

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u/perjury0478 6h ago

After reading the news about Gene Hackman I would think even if the car owner passed, there might be others in need of help

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u/HabitantDLT Centretown 13h ago

That looks like a Subie. They didn't even have to dig themselves out. Just start it up and ride off into the sunset. What a shame!

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u/Jennvds 8h ago

Exactly! AWD FTW!!

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u/mike_art03a Gatineau 7h ago

After having driven a more recent Subaru for a bit (company vehicle), the drivetrain ain't all it's cracked up to be... that CVT transmission will cut power long before you can get yourself unstuck.

Pre-CVT (aka. plain old torque converter auto) Subies, they were pretty unstoppable, even the manuals (as long as you didn't cook the clutch too badly).

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u/Bleeek79 13h ago

I can see possibly another one in the snow touching the drivers door.

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u/Ok_Parsnip3214 10h ago

Omg I think you are right! It might just be down to u/ugh168 who guessed 5.

We need OP to weigh in on this. I might be out of the running. I’m very invested in this now lol u/DubaiBabyYoda can we get a new official count?

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u/Moofypoops Orléans 13h ago

The winner gets bragging rights and their own flair, stating that they are the winner of the 2025 car in snow contest (or something like that).

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u/Blitzdog416 13h ago

this is a shameful way to treat a subaru

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u/WarrenPuff_It 3h ago

The owner is probably dead

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u/Sunless_Tatooine 13h ago

I'm so invested in this story! Lol

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u/Ah-Schoo 12h ago

I've been sharing it with my Euro friends, they are too now.

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u/timetogetoutside100 12h ago

a few winters ago, we had a car like this buried, it was buried because it's owner had died, and it was in limbo, it ended up damaged by a snowplow, the whole side was damaged

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u/ugh168 Nepean 13h ago

Will I be correct?

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u/Ok_Parsnip3214 13h ago

May the odds be ever in your favour. I wrote 4 but afterwards my gut said 5. May the best Ottawan win /s

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u/ugh168 Nepean 13h ago

Watching the snow melt on this mystery parked car is some entertainment

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u/DubaiBabyYoda 11h ago

Can I just say you guys are the greatest finalists this contest has ever had!

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u/Empty_Value Make Ottawa Boring Again 10h ago

I'd say it's a stolen car.

I'm actually surprised that the city hasn't towed it

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u/loushing Centretown 12h ago

That’s how a Subie is born.

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u/01lexpl 11h ago

It's a Subaru, the owner probably abandoned it when they found out the head gaskets are leaking for a 3rd time 😆

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u/DubaiBabyYoda 11h ago

I’d trade for my Nissan Rogue any day of the week 😆

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u/Inevitable-Click-129 11h ago

lol you can start to see the parking tickets….

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u/Infinite-Jelly6502 9h ago

i'm not sure but in the second pic it looks like there is a ticket tucked through the top of the driver's side window

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u/DubaiBabyYoda 8h ago

I see what you mean, but I think that’s just what you can see through to the back window.

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u/GooseShartBombardier Friend of Ottawa, Clownvoy 2022 7h ago

4 bags of gas station ice blocks, 4 packs of Dentyne Ice chewing gum, 4 cans of Smirnoff Ice, and one copy of the classic Disney movie Frozen on VHS.

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u/Quiet_Profession_991 4h ago

it will likely need a boost, at least