Posted on 04/25/2024 11:24:29 AM PDT by grundle
Man Sues Dealership After Loaner Car Gets Reported as Stolen
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This seems to happen a lot.
Stealership.
I’m not usually one to support folks going for the lawsuit lottery, but I hope this guy gets big bucks. Sounds like the dealership people are a bunch of jerks.
I am with ya on this one.
Certainly the guy was wronged, but the arrest appeared to be very calm and professionally done. He complied with the directions he was given and everything went well.
Car Pros is a pretty large Auto Sales Group with a Billion dollars in annual sales, so probably well insured/deep pockets. But they will also have good lawyers.
That’s from two years ago. Lucky he didn’t get killed. And I hope the end result now is he owns that dealership and hopefully whoever made the false report gets charged, convicted and jailed as well.
huh? How can they deny the allegations with a straight face? They're the ones who filed the police report.
You don’t know anything about what actually happened but you want a car dealership to pay for making a mistake because they sound like jerks to you.
The individuals at the companies who file a false police report need to be criminally charged.
definitely the dude should sue the dealership into bankruptcy ...
Just trying to mitigate damages...they’ll settle out of court just a question of for how much. Idiots.
No.
All of that is now digital. You rarely even sign a piece of paper any more, just sign the screen. This is not the 90s. The dealership's excuse is not believable.
“You don’t know anything about what actually happened but you want a car dealership to pay for making a mistake because they sound like jerks to you.”
Since 1999! You are living in the past!
“I’m putting my hands up, they’re telling me to move to my left, but I start moving to my right, out of fear,” he recounted. “(I said,) all right God, you’ve got to take over, I don’t know what I’m doing right now. I’m about to get shot.”"Fallen behind a file cabinet"? Who doesn't do electronic documentation these days? Was this in 1990 with paper contracts?A deputy told him to pull his shirt up over his head so police could see his waistband. They made him walk backward to them. Slowly. They they took him to the ground, handcuffed him and put him in the back of a patrol car, without explaining why he was being detained.
Officers finally sorted it out. Rodgers had been driving the loaner 2019 Kia Sportage for about two months while his own vehicle was undergoing extensive repairs at the dealership. Rodgers said the dealer had misplaced the loaner contract — apparently it had fallen behind a file cabinet. The dealer received a bill for unpaid tolls, couldn’t find the contract and assumed it must have been stolen, Rodgers said.
Well the guy was clearly guilty of DWB*
*Driving while Black.
Hertz has reported several cars as stolen even though they were sitting on their lots.
Oh, please...🙄
Sue the cops, too.
If you or I point a gun at a cop under the mistaken impression they were carjackers, they’d shoot to kill, and be justified.
Why is it *not* assault with a deadly weapon when they point a gun at someone without any indication that person is, or might be, armed? I’m sorry, just declaring “you’re considered armed and dangerous” is a B.S. excuse to point loaded weapons. Absent an actual, reasonable suspicion — like eyewitness report of a weapon, or the dealership reporting an armed robbery — they should not be allowed to present deadly force.
Imagine that was just a stop for a routine infraction, like failing to completely stop at a stop sign — would their behavior be appropriate then? You can’t claim this is different because of the reported theft, because in both scenarios, nobody has seen the driver do anything dangerous or deadly. (More importantly, the cops would have first-hand knowledge of an actual offense instead of overreacting to an allegation of one.)
Even assuming the cops acted according to “the book”, you have to ask why the man was terrified. This is no different from “swatting” incidents, and while the “perp” (who called the cops) should face serious consequences, the fact is that “swatting” is only a problem because the cops act the way they do and people can be hurt or killed and not just frightened.
In this case, if the cops had done the exactly the same thing — but without guns pointed at the man (and the cuffing into the patrol car) — could the situation have been resolved as just a cautious misunderstanding and without all the angst?
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