Editor,
Illegal car booting is rampant around UNM. Albuquerque’s Code Enforcement Division has recently issued cease and desist letters to car booting services across the street from UNM at Perico’s Acapulco, the McDonald’s at Yale Boulevard and Central Avenue, and the Walgreens at Central Avenue and Girard Boulevard.
The city has ordinances requiring public notice of the terms of use for parking lots, conditions for booting vehicles, registration with the city and prohibitions on illegal booting. These ordinances have been or are being ignored. The result is the UNM community has been or is being fleeced $60 in wrongful car boot removal fees.
These car booters and property owners are focused on UNM students.
The UNM community and administration should ask the city to stop all illegal car booting around UNM and for an investigation and report of how much money has been harvested by wrongful car booters in the last 18 months. Businesses that prey on UNM students should be identified and the student body warned of the danger and advised of their rights.
Steve Quintana
Daily Lobo reader
