Posted on 09/27/2018 10:04:25 AM PDT by Simon Green
Meet the real “Real People, Not Actors”. People who don’t take kindly to having their vehicles towed and are apparently willing to take matters into their own hands.
The incident took place in Homestead, Florida, where the owner of the white truck allegedly chased down after the tow truck, asking if he could just hop in to grab some personal belongings. As you can see, he wasn’t entirely truthful and, instead, attempted to drive off.
Since a chain was also attached to the F-150, the truck was unable to break free, although it wasn’t for a lack of trying. In the end, the tow truck stood firm, despite getting yanked around pretty badly throughout the struggle.
According to the video’s description, the authorities were involved and the driver of the white pickup truck was arrested for his actions, which, truth be told, were very ill-advised.
Once the tow hook grabs your vehicle, it’s officially in possession of the tow company, so attempting to drive off is breaking the law – and, as we can see here, even endanger others, like the driver of the tow truck. By the way, despite the toughness of Ford’s truck, there was no way it would break its chains. As for its owner, it’s no surprise that he was taken into custody.
If you don’t have the title, it AIN’T yours. Dumbasses.
I had an experience with a big Connecticut State Trooper once that involved a tow truck...my wife and I were driving up 95 North near Bridgeport, middle of a workday, no breakdown lane, elevated highway, traffic was bumper to bumper doing about 70mph.
I was driving my wife’s 1985 Toyota Corolla, and had all my attention on the road in front of me. All of a sudden, the car in front of me swerved, and before I could even open my mouth to utter an oath, we ran over a 4x4 post and a cinderblock just sitting in the middle of the highway.
I smashed my head on the roof of the car (even though I was belted in) and the car began to vibrate violently. I had blown the left front and the left rear tire in this thick, 70mph scrum of cars.
Needless to say, I managed to get into the right lane, but there was no breakdown. Worse, there was a high retaining wall that limited both my visibility back and those cars in the right lane coming around it could not see me until they were right on me.
Trying to steer that car was like trying to hold onto a panicked cat, and I wasn’t even looking at the road in front of me. My eyes were glued to my rear-view mirror seeing an 18 wheeler come bearing down on me at twice my speed while cars were swerving to avoid me.
My wife, who was looking at my face as my eyes were glued to the mirror kept asking “What’s wrong? What is it?”
Thankfully, we came to a ramp, took it, and immediately pulled onto the grass median at the top of the ramp as we exited and stopped the car.
Fortunately (and most suspiciously) there was an auto tire place within a few hundred yards of the bottom of the exit, so my wife and I walked there, and they agreed to send a truck up to get the car. Funny that. How convenient to have a tire place right within view of where there was some “random” debris in the road. Not that I am accusing them of drumming up business or anything like that...
Anyway, while we waited, I decided to go back to the car to get something out of it. When I walked back up to the car, there was a Connecticut State Trooper vehicle there and a tow truck hooking up to the car! This was probably less than fifteen minutes after my wife and I had left the car!
I ran up, and there was this big, black state trooper there. I said “Whoa! I have a truck coming for this right now! You can’t take this car!”
He said: “Sorry sir, once it is hooked up, we can’t unhook it” or something like that.
I began saying things like “NO F******* WAY YOU ARE TAKING THIS CAR! I AM GOING TO LAY DOWN IN FRONT OF IT AND YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO RUN MY G********* ASS OVER TO TAKE IT!” (and began walking over to lay down between the car and the tow truck)
The trooper put up his hand and said in a loud voice: “SIR. WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE.”
And I said: “THERE IS NO WAY YOU ARE TAKING THIS CAR!” (still trying to get around him while he kept moving to stand in my way)
After another minute of me having a fit, the other truck showed up, and the trooper told the guy to unhook the car.
If I had arrived back at the car a minute or two later, it would have been gone and I would have had no idea what to do or where it would have gone!
While what this driver did may indeed be moronic, anyone believes tow truck drivers do not behave unethically, has never dealt with tow truck companies. They apply this law at will and my wife was the recent victim of such. They apply random fees and other associated charges that are impossible to refute unless you have photographic evidence.
A Chevy truck owner would have taken the tow truck AND his about a mile down the road and unhooked it.
These Ford guys, tsk, tsk.
F250
Holy Crap
Unfortunately, that truck belonged to the BANK.
Lots of weird stuff on Youtube at “Reponut”.
That's assuming that the tow truck company,and the company that hired the tow truck,had the legal right to tow it.The piece seen here doesn't say why it was being towed.If it's late payments then there's very probably legal justification...ditto if the city/county/state or Feds hired the company.
Otherwise,maybe not.
I'm not a lawyer but it seems likely that,strictly speaking,the Trooper was within his rights to proceed as he did.Of course he could have cut you a bit of a break by saying something like "OK,if your truck is here within 5 minutes they can take it.Otherwise,this truck takes it".
Surprised the tow-truck operator didn’t get killed by the maniac.
LOL, I have no doubt he was within his rights...MY rights didn’t matter, and he wasn’t going to unhook it except I was so pissed and the other truck showed up before I actually had to lay down...I was so steaming hot I was going to do it.
I had just survived a hair raising experience...I would have burst an artery if I had come back and the car was gone!
For what it is worth, that guy in the video is a jackass. That is completely different.
My brother and I flew back from Florida and had a guy sitting next to us who was going home from a repo man convention, of all things!
It was fascinating. A repo man convention, never heard of such a thing! He said people try to get clever, park the car they are repossessing in the middle of a bunch of other cars, but...he grinned and said “We got ways to get them, and we do!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ahIgYuBfk
Go to 10 seconds in.
No matter how tight you park, they can get your car out.
LOL...Repo Man gotta get in and out quick, too! Hah, that was fast!
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