Store employee fired after ‘booting’ ambulance [says he didn't know it was an ambulance]

yahoo.com ^ | December 3, 2012 | Mike Krumboltz

[Gaffer]

Actually, I don’t think anyone, including police, should be allowed to immobilize a vehicle. This is an example of what could happen - rightly or wrongly.

If the police have a reason to boot a vehicle, then they have another reason to locate and charge the owner for the offense. Booting the vehicle is something akin to calling a weapon the perpetrator.

[Tupelo]

convenience store employee boots an ambulance? Do convenience stores now stock Denver Boots? I have seen this story a couple or three times and still do not understand how or why a convenience store employee would just happen to have a Denver Boot handy.
Those things are pretty darned unwieldy and probably pretty clumsy for a convenience store employee to put on a vehicle.
I sure hope someone here can help me out.

[Ratman83]

No sir ... if someone illegally parks in your drive way ... you call the cops and they have it towed ... you do NOT have the right to confiscate other people’s property even on your own. Not true for parking lots (a business) they are routinely allowed to have vehicles towed and so are other businesses.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Law enforcement should be the ONLY entity authorized to boot a vehicle ... PERIOD."

If you park your vehicle on my private property without my permission, I can do most anything to it that I wish, short of major damage.

[alexander_busek]

No sir ... if someone illegally parks in your drive way ... you call the cops and they have it towed ... you do NOT have the right to confiscate other peoples property even on your own. If someone was involved in an accident an winds up on your lawn you DO NOT have the right to confiscate that vehicle.

Depends upon how you define "confiscate."

I am not a lawyer - I don't even portray one on t.v. (heh-heh). But...

I do believe that I am the king of my castle, as well as having the right to protect me and mine, which means that - after the trespasser has illegally parked his vehicle in my driveway, maybe even in my carport, where my kids normally play hopscotch - I could, e.g., simply close and padlock the front gate of my driveway and release the Dobermans, as a security measure, like I do every night (heh-heh), thus effectively depriving the trespasser of the use of his vehicle, at least until I get back from my all-night lodge-meeting.

Or are you saying that, due to the trespasser's illegal actions, I am not permitted to lock up my property, or let "Fang" and "Killer" run free on my fenced property, while I'm away?

You have a very strange concept of "private property," my FRiend!

Regards,

[Slings and Arrows]

That’s a horrible thing to say about a decent upright criminal.

[boop]

Well, "Boot Man" is a moron. His sign makes no sense.

If you LEAVE the property, your vehicle will be booted.

So to avoid the boot, you must "stay"?

And "accept" the boot?

Talk about contradictory.