I really don't understand why the laws are such that they can just keep your car, adding fees, until you pay. It's not like these people want to store their car there. Regardless of the outrageous storage and towing fees, you should be able to take your car immediately and pay them later. They can just put collections out or impound your car later if you don't pay.

I can remember few times I was as angry as I was at a tow yard. My car was stolen, found by the police, and impounded at a tow yard. I went to the tow yard to get the car out, they wanted hundreds of dollars to store the car for the few hours it was there. I went to get some belongings out of the car (I foolishly left my wallet in the car when it was stolen, so I had no cash or credit cards to free the car at that moment), and was accused of stealing my own car by the tow yard employee (as if that somehow makes sense). Later, I returned to pick up the car the next day, these tow yard people had stolen my snow chains out of the car.