Oh great you stole my only means of transport to work and moved it across town in a place far from any public transport. Oh and you’re holding it ransom for an arbitrary quantity of cash. Now I have to taxi or uber or bum a ride all over the place and call in sick from work and risk getting fired.
Last time the tow truck assholes stole my car I asked the guy at the desk if he believed in God because he was going to hell. The poor lady who was also there to get her car back got a kick out of that at least.
Contract towing for apartments is a sin. I’ve literally considered keeping caltrops in my car to throw in front of them.
Most other types of towing are objectively good though. Hell I’ll be calling a tow in a couple days to get my vehicle repaired.
I’ve worked with plenty of great tow truck operators. The bad ones are as follows: contract town agencies, wreckers in cities like Houston, TX who are encouraged to speed.
The latter I’ve seen going down highways over 100mph, using emergency lanes to skip traffic and make it to a call (not allowed), I’ve seen them CAUSE plenty of accidents. In going to find examples for this comment I found too many to choose from. Red light running, high speed, baby-death. The wreckers in that city need some serious reform.
The former of those two groups I’ve found often targets those at the highest risk. My classic Toyota, '92 was towed for being one months out of tags, I couldn’t afford to retrieve it. Meanwhile my neighbor’s porsche has been parked with expired out of state tags for almost a year. See, if you can’t afford to get the car back, they get to auction it off to “pay for the debt”. Fucking privateers.
This is why ATTDAB (all tow truck drivers are bastards). The “good ones” tow nobody and lose their jobs
Tow truck drivers are literally just road pirates. Fuck those assholes.
“I feel like you parked illegally, so I’m going to steal your car and you need to pay me $500 to get it back.”
But I didn’t park illegally. I was allowed to park there.
“Take it up with the owner! Not my problem!”
“Also I fucked up your car when I towed it, but I’m not obligated to pay for that.”
(Yeah… sure sure. You’ll be “obligated” to pay for all the property damage I’m about to do (in minecraft))
Oh great you stole my only means of transport to work and moved it across town in a place far from any public transport. Oh and you’re holding it ransom for an arbitrary quantity of cash. Now I have to taxi or uber or bum a ride all over the place and call in sick from work and risk getting fired.
Just legal thievery. But it’s on you to make it work. Otherwise your employer will take it out of your ass. Cool system.
Firebombing tow yards should be legal and encouraged. Just the admin sections though. The rest is just a yard full of stolen cars.
Last time the tow truck assholes stole my car I asked the guy at the desk if he believed in God because he was going to hell. The poor lady who was also there to get her car back got a kick out of that at least.
There are good tow truck drivers, but they’re the rare ones that only do specific calls, not roam towing.
I’ve called tow trucks with AAA where AAA calls are basically all they get called to. That’s fine. Sometimes a car breaks down and needs towed.
If you’re just checking for illegally parked cars and towing them you can get in The Pit
Contract towing for apartments is a sin. I’ve literally considered keeping caltrops in my car to throw in front of them.
Most other types of towing are objectively good though. Hell I’ll be calling a tow in a couple days to get my vehicle repaired.
I’ve worked with plenty of great tow truck operators. The bad ones are as follows: contract town agencies, wreckers in cities like Houston, TX who are encouraged to speed.
The latter I’ve seen going down highways over 100mph, using emergency lanes to skip traffic and make it to a call (not allowed), I’ve seen them CAUSE plenty of accidents. In going to find examples for this comment I found too many to choose from. Red light running, high speed, baby-death. The wreckers in that city need some serious reform.
The former of those two groups I’ve found often targets those at the highest risk. My classic Toyota, '92 was towed for being one months out of tags, I couldn’t afford to retrieve it. Meanwhile my neighbor’s porsche has been parked with expired out of state tags for almost a year. See, if you can’t afford to get the car back, they get to auction it off to “pay for the debt”. Fucking privateers.