Legal Question in Traffic Law in North Carolina

Of course it was towed and that is as it should be. How could you with a straight face possibly say or believe otherwise? You should have immediately made arrangements to have the car towed yourself and if you are gonna cry "I couldn't afford it" - then you simply should not have been driving and need to think about what would have been cheaper. If you aren't smart enough to know better than to just leave your broke down car on the side of an interstate for damn near a week instead of making immediate towing arrangements yourself - legal representation isn't going to help you. The legal fee to attempt to avoid your obvious responsibility would be likely more than the fees to get the car back with no guarantee you'd win. Those fees and the hard pop to your wallet are meant to learn you a lesson in responsibility and considerateness that you should have learned by the time you entered kindergarten. Your best bet is to just man-up, pay your fees and learn your lesson because if you don't, this kind of thing is likely gonna pop you repeatedly throughout your life until you do. You should be grateful your car wasn't stolen, vandalized and / or stripped which is likely more in line with what your incredibly bad and even more incredibly entitled decision deserves. Hope this helps but I know it likely won't.