The Tow Files: Drips n' Drabs

[Argabarga]

Beats me.

And that's AFTER we've told them the cops are going to tell them the same thing we're telling them right now, either you pay, or you let the car be towed.

I don't know what they THINK is going to happen.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

Now THAT'S the way to do it! I'm so stealing that.

Take it with my compliments.

Tee hee, I got acknowledged.

[MoonCat]

WTF? Somebody actually thinks that they should get a break on the illegal-parking fee because the lot they parked in is a mess?? How do those things even relate to each other??

[XCashier]

What is with all these people calling the cops when they are the ones breaking the law?

I don't mean the parking, running around on the back of an operating truck or entering a vehicle that clearly can not be driven safety has got to be legally wrong.

Probably the same mentality I see on COPS. "Officer! That dude stole my meth! Arrest him!"

[EricKei]

LS1 - It's a reference to a Simpsons episode

btw, Welcome to CS! ^_^

[protege]

And given it was a Volvo 240 wagon, he MIGHT just have been able to make good on that threat, those things can outlast some species of cockroach..... believe me.

240s are tough cars. How do I know this? My mother had a DL (basically a rebadged 245) station wagon. Not long after purchase, we were in an accident. On the way home from a friend's house, we were sitting at a stop sign. Traffic was heavy on the cross street, so we weren't going anywhere.

As a big Chevy entered from the left, the guy opposite us...ran the stop sign He plowed into the side of the Chevy, pushing the car into us

We barely felt the impact. All I remember feeling, was a slight bump, and then seeing two smashed cars next to us

But, we got off *very* lucky. The night before, my parents had put the rear seat down to move some things. When lowering the rear seat in a 245/DL, the seat belts usually get caught underneath when you put it back up. As expected, they weren't in their usual locations. Not that it mattered--not wearing a 'belt wasn't illegal the state then. Stupid, but not illegal.

Anyway, the impact took out most of the left side of the Volvo...while the other two vehicles had to be towed. IIRC, they were written off. Mom's car got repaired, and lasted another 10 years before being sold in the early 1990s.

[earl colby pottinger]

COPS Show

Probably the same mentality I see on COPS. "Officer! That dude stole my meth! Arrest him!"

The thing that gets me about COPS is the screaming of the person being arrested about how the cops have not have cause to do the arrest and how they are going to sue everyone.

Meanwhile the cops must be grinning inside, thinking "But we have got it all on video tape to replay at court.".

Attacking cops stupid, attacking cops while you are being recorded is so stupid you might as well be a black-hole and suck in all the bad that will happen to you.

[Talon]

he wrote "SIGNED UNDER DURESS"

Say it with me folks: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[mhkohne]

And just to prove it, he wrote "SIGNED UNDER DURESS" all over his receipt.

Say it with me folks: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

No, it means what he thinks (he was coerced) because if he didn't sign it he wasn't getting his car back. He's just mistaken that it's a PROBLEM that he was coerced. In point of fact the law ALLOWS FOR and in this case explicitly sets the PRICE of this coercion.

So yea, he was under duress. And that's exactly how it's SUPPOSED to be.

[Shyla]

Mr Plow is a fabulous episode! I always remember "Mr Plow is a loser and I think he is a boozer."

Do you use a regular old tow truck or a flat bed? I'm picturing crazy woman running across a flat bed. If she jumped up on a regulat tow truck, I'm impressed with her agility.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I bet you wish you could charge extra for the ones who insist on dragging the cops into it.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I bet you wish you could charge extra for the ones who insist on dragging the cops into it.

They usually pay extra, but it goes to the cops.

[FredKlein]

I'm pretty sure they have, and Arga's response (or at least the response of Friendly Neighborhood Towing) is always "You're not our customer, Global Domination Realty (or equivalent client) is."

I'm surprised no one has ever replied "Then make THEM pay!" I've never heard of another business where a 3rd party has to pay for a service provided by the company to their customer.

[mjr]

And that's AFTER we've told them the cops are going to tell them the same thing we're telling them right now, either you pay, or you let the car be towed.

I don't know what they THINK is going to happen.

They think they can change their story to the police, and that Mean Mr. Tow Truck Driver is stealing their car to run some sort of scam...

Or something.

[Argabarga]

I'm surprised no one has ever replied "Then make THEM pay!" I've never heard of another business where a 3rd party has to pay for a service provided by the company to their customer.

Actually, a few have tried that. (Arguing the property owner owes the money, not them) it gets them about as far as you'd think.

spoiler: it's not very far.