my car was towed recently(earlier today)I live in NJ and the parking lot where i parked my car is in a shopping parking lot area coz i was planning to go shopping after coming back from NY. I left my car at 9:30am, came back at 3:30pm and plan to do some shopping. I couldn't find my car anywhere. I didn't even know where to call or even where to look for my car. There are no signs at all that says i can only stay for couple of hours at least or a sign that it is a towing away zone. I was gone for 6hours and already a towing company already took my car. I actually don't know the basis of these towing companies for taking the car or any cars in a parking lot even with the authority of the parking lot owners. Can they just take your car away just because you were parked too long? I have to go from store to store to ask for the management that owned the parking lot area or the whole shopping mall, and finally one lady that worked in one store finally gave me a number to call that ended up the towing company, I finally get to call them at 4:40 and told us that they are closing at 5pm and we have to go there and pick up the car and I told them how am i going to pick up my car when they got my car? they want us to get a cab, it would take awhile for a cab to get to where I am of course, and they are charging me $184.00 and since they know that we can't come to get the car, the next day, I will be charge $226.00. this is so frustrating and aggravating.