re: Explain how towing someone's car is legal

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You are parked on a public street or private property.

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But the tow tow truck driver is the sole arbitrator in these situations. The government or private owner have signed over enforcement to shady organizations full of criminal records.

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Explain how towing someone's car is legal

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laws and city ordinances that make it legal

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How can a big truck just pick someone's 90k vehicle off the ground and then hold it

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If we're talking repo, they didn't pick up someone's 90k vehicle. They picked up the bank's $90k vehicle. And the bank wants it back.

Otherwise, don't park like an a-hole.

Had some repo company try to tow my back and forth to work car. Beat up thing that's been paid off for 10 yrs or so. Good thing I caught them before they drove off because they wound up having the wrong VIN # or the dude couldn't read.

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Riverside Towing is a terrorist organization. Prove me wrong.

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Actually, Riverside towing taught me one oft he most valuable lessons of my life over 20 years ago.

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Dude kept two handguns in his truck

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Seems like maybe it would be a good idea to keep one of those on you instead of keeping both in the truck.

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I just saw a brand new looking BMW SUV on a town truck with the alarm going off and never thought of the actual process before.

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You sure it wasn't a repo?

The 2 lard asses in charge of Mid City Towing in Nola can gft. I hope they see this.

Towing companies are the absolute scum of the earth. I don't care how many nice anecdotes you might have about them. I have a hundred shitty ones.

When my brother and I were students at UA, he took my car downtown one night. He stupidly parked at the Publix on the strip to run in and basically pick someone up. When he came back to the car 10 minutes later they already had a boot on it. OK, fair enough. He's not supposed to park there. When he asked the tow guy how much to get the boot off it was like National Lampoon's Vacation: "How much do I owe you?" "Well, how much you got, boy?" Shook him down for like 400 bucks. Police wouldn't do anything about it because I'm pretty sure they were in on the whole scam back then. I think the city ended up doing something about the whole scam they had going since I moved away.

Down here in Florida, I was living at a nice apartment complex a few years ago. I had a real nice 2012 Tahoe that was in mint condition that I only paid like 4000 for. I didn't drive it much but it was registered properly and had legal tags and all that. It sat in the same spot at my complex for 2 or 3 weeks. One day I realized it was gone. I called the office and asked if they had it towed and they said no. I called the police and the bitch they sent out acted like I was trying to pull a scam even though the car was paid off and I didn't have full coverage on it. She finally agreed to go to the office and ask if they had it towed. They again said no. She wrote it up as a stolen vehicle and that was that. Two weeks later I get a call from the police saying they found my truck at a towing place. They towed it for no reason with no permission from the complex and were holding it hostage for 3000 dollars. Police wouldn't do anything about it even though the towing company had nothing that gave them permission to tow it. Apartment complex washed their hands of it. My only option was to sue the tow company. I decided to just let it go and let them have it.

frick towing companies. They're predatory and their entire business is based around taking shite that isn't theirs.

This is what I've never understood about it. If a towing company takes a vehicle without cause from somewhere and is shown to be in the wrong, it's "oops our mistake" and it ends there. If a fine upstanding youth were to do the same thing and borrow said vehicle, when they are caught "oops" or not that's considered theft. Why is it different if you have a name on the side of your truck and a hook on the back?