Posted on 03/31/2010 11:41:37 AM PDT by Skunkworx
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Dozens of people who parked at the University of Central Florida for an event say they were set up after their cars were towed. They said event parking signs directed them to a lot, but more than 50 cars in that lot were towed. People said those signs and their cars were gone when they got back.
A viewer contacted WFTV after his car was towed Saturday, along with 52 others. All of them were in line to recover their cars at an impound lot and all of them attended the Glenn Beck show at UCF.
The people parked in a Kappa Sigma lot. Mike Vedder thinks they were set up. He doesn't know if it was a dislike of the conservative commentator or money.
“Maybe the have a deal with the tow truck company or maybe they got kickbacks under the table," Vedder said.
They all said an event parking sign clearly directed them into the lot. Students at the fraternity wouldn't comment, but WFTV caught up with the owner of Orange County Towing and Recovery, Ronald Hulbert.
"I have a lot at stake, a lot invested. I'm not going to lose it over a $125 tow, times 53, times 53, it was a good day," Ronald Hulbert said.
Hulbert admits he's never towed that many cars in one day before; he said it took him at least eight hours to tow all the cars. Each driver had to pay cash, netting him more than $6,600.
Vedder also had to pay $25 for a cab ride to the tow company.
UCF said, out of 30 recent events, it hasn’t had a problem, but Vedder said this was his last at that arena.
“I won’t come to anymore. I'm going to tell everyone else it's not a place I want to be," he said.
WFTV was told to call Paul Gamble with Kappa Sigma, but he did not return any phone calls.
Welcome to FR!
Some definite parallels between this incident and what happened to Breitbart in Searchlight.
http://barracknow.blogspot.com/2010/03/video-evidence-breitbart-telling-truth.html
If this is as it appears, Beck should use it as a “teachable moment” on his television show.
This type of action happened during the TX OU football game in 2008 - the tow truck company lost it’s liscense.
It costs a lot of money to hire a lawyer.
It costs even more money to pay that lawyer to sue.
If you don’t win, then you are out that money.
If you do win, you are out that money.
So, why should Glenn Beck be out money?
LOL! Frat pranks are the worst!
At least some people learned a lesson about private property rights.
I think that Kappa Sigma at UCF owes 53 people $6600 dollars for their little prank. After all it is the right thing to do, and you are building character at your fraternity, aren't you??? What do you think???
Looks like just the opposite at the moment, a lot of anti-Beck and FR posts.
Baloney. Kappa Sigma fraternity should reimburse them and UCF should force them to do so and the towing company should lose its license for profiting from the prank.
Which proves definitively one of their sycophants is likely the n00b that posted this thread and they are monitoring the comments.
Eight hours? How long was the event?
That pisses me off, I’m a kappa sig and guess who else is, Ted Turner
Exactly right. I noticed the original poster hasn't bothered to reply to anyone yet, smells more like a rat than a skunk to me ; )
Class action against the frat and the towing company will settle this.
According the TV news story, the parking lot had signs stating that it was private property and that cars would be towed at the vehicle owner’s expense.
DLfromthedesert has it right — Glenn should just reimburse. Also, some insurance should be sought against criminal political acts (not available). Also, parking should be more carefully planned.
Some of us ought to consider going to online or evening law school. There are such places. And who cares about the presumed status of Ivy League...it doesn’t matter.
Why are you opposed to private property rights?
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