Hot Rods How to steal a car "legally"?? (warning)

I simply cannot believe all the corruption in this country, or in this world for that matter. The saddest part is that I'm not so sure this is any worse than it has ever been. I suspect it is merely more visible now. This is one instance in which our technology is a disadvantage. In a simpler time(scientifcally/technologically speaking) these crooked folks could have mysteriously 'disappeared' and everyone would be better off.

 

Reagan signed it, a****st others during his administration. Both sides ****... I have the same view of some of the **** thrown in the Patriot Act. Both sides conspired to limit our rights. But that really isn't a conversation for here.

 

We've had problems with predatory towing here as well. Though I do have two friends that own tow companies and I don't believe they do it. I may be better off not knowing.

 

I know that a lot of the towing companys can be ***holes and crooks.

But their not all bad, a good friend of mine is a Mgr for a towing co. and gives people a break all the time. I have seen him let people take their cars out of the yard after a week for just the tow fee. I have also seen him bend over backwards to help people get their cars back, the truth is he does not want them to sit in his yard, tons of paper work just to end up have to empty them and run them to the crusher for a couple of hundred bucks.

 

Me too. Really ****ed up.

 

There was a recent row a few months ago at a neighboring town (Hidalgo, TX), where freight trucks were being towed (mostly at night), and the owners being charged over $3000 to get them released. The local news covered it for a few days, and of course the tow companies never said anything on the record except that they were only doing their jobs.

 

***et forfeiture goes back as old as the nation.
Our US Navy seized ships off the high seas if they were trading in slaves -- even tho slavery was still legal, the trade in slaves was not.

Every state, county and city gets in on the $$$ nowdays, and it has to continue, since their budgets depend on that income.

 

Two words: Granby Colorado

 

Why would you single out the south?This happens everywhere.I think you have been reading too much biased **** that prejudiced people have been spewing out for years.I would dare to say that the south in general has more honest people living in it than the rest of the country.This just happened to be a story from the south.It could have been from anywhere crooked people try to steal.Live here a while and then make your judgments.I have lived elsewhere and would not live anywhere else.
That is like asking why all Germans are nazis.

 

in case you don't know what happened there..

http://www.tcnj.edu/~hofmann/Granby/Granby.htm

 

Sux that it happen, thanks for the heads up.

 

Have to agree with you 56don

 

Louisiana, that's where the corruption was so bad they knew a hurricaine would wreck the levys around New Orleans... and spent the money on other things rather than redo them. They aught to get hit with one about once a month -

But it does happen everywhere. A broad pulled out in front of me in a parking lot a few years ago and I got the blame for running into her because she was black - and so was the cop who showed up. He literally made up on the spot some excuse about her having the right of way in a parking lot because she was on my right. It also didn't seem to matter that he was just outside the city limit. I guess I should be glad they didn't sieze my car or something.

 

Yeah, the drug siezures are based on maritime Law. If you get cought with a large amount of cash they can confin****e it as possible drug money. No trial, much less a conviction. You can gat it back if you can prove an innocent use, like the guy who was going to sell a car to you for 10K. Cars with smuggling compartments are gone w/o much chance of recovery, even if you just bought it, or even as little as a drug dog "alerting" on a check of the car.
Sounds like the Officer was involved with the scheme & the Dept should be liable for expenses, I'd think.

 

Some Chef(KPaul?) Said "La fish dealers are so crooked when they die they don't bury them, they just screw em into the ground." Covers a lot of things there.

 

Nuh uh?! No way...hahahahahahahaaa

I still believe in the American spirit of the individual citizen, our gub'ment, well, there MIGHT still be some well meaning politicians..... Our country is still one of the least corrupt, but perhaps more underhanded and complex.

What?! Now, I was told that was Bush's fault?!

Pay your fines boys, keep your hot rods!!
....I just did....completely forgot about a Freeway Camera Ticket I had received months back, stoked to see my PAID receipt in the mail a few days back.

 

wow lots of good info! thanks ill remember this one.

 

The other kicker with New Orleans is didn't they vote the same mayor back in after the cats were out of the bag that it was pretty much their fault Katrina was such a mess? School Bus Nagan?

Now you know why Burt Reynolds drove through there so fast, at any rate.

I know old guys who don't trust banks, one junkyard owner I dealt with had like 5 or 10 grand in a roll in his shirt pocket. I'm sure there are other people like that. Seems like these siezure laws aught to have some kind of strings put on them, like they have to find enough of a drug in one place on you or your vehicle to actually use (and not just traces, since you could buy a used car and have no idea someone else had drugs in it). Otherwise a guy like the junkyard guy is boned just because he decides to take his wife on that once in a lifetime vacation.

 

Uh, ya mean the place where when they ordered people to evac, they refused, most claiming it was the guv'ment's job to evac them even though it was with less than a 20 mile walk to high ground?

 

The disabled cars on the side of interstates with that bright orange sticker on them are prime targets for anyone with a tow truck, but towing companies are just one of many corrupted businesses. Since our vote ****ing politicians refused to tighten our borders (even after 9-11) theft and crime has risen exponentially. All law enforcement is so taxed with theft that it has created a fertile ground for other corruption because there just isn't time or resources enough to investigate all of what goes on, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5. You must have a way of protecting yourself and property because rarely is anything recovered today.

 

Here on the highways and interstates the tow trucks can't arbitrarily tow cars, they have to be called (in rotation) by the police, sheriff dept or State Patrol. Usually the cars sit there three days before being towed unless they are a hazard to traffic and that usually means sitting too close to the traffic lane. I've got three friends who tow on rotation and two of them hate to go after the abandoned rigs due to the paperwork and expense involved.
I think almost everywhere has a tow truck scam going on if you look close enough. Locally it was someone with an unmarked truck towing desirable collector type cars using the local and new at the time junk/abandoned vehicle ordinance. I never heard of or saw a hulk get towed out of someones yard or ally but one gal had her 56 Crown Vic come up missing an a coworker had his 56 Chev 4 door towed out of his driveway. They screwed up there because his dad is one of the local social activists and owned a cafe next door to the police station at the time. When he got done with the city manager the car got put back and that was the end of the collector type cars being towed.
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In some areas of the Northwest the parking lots marked with tow away signs has become somewhat of a scam when tow truck operators post the signs w/o the business consent and post them in obscure spots. Park your car in a lot belonging to a business that is closed for the night to go to a movie and come back two hours later with your car gone and a 200 tow bill. Around here you even see those signs on untended vacant lots.

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Nothing worse than a dirty cop.
Glad it worked out for you.

 

People that do this **** need their teeth kicked out!!!!!

 

Really glad it worked out for you! Thanks for the heads up!

Here's hoppin' those dirty *******s get nailed hard!

 

A good friend of mine recently bought a tow company and has been encouraged to continue running the same scams some drivers did for years.
They have a completely new staff now and he has re-evaluated several of their contracts to avoid anyone trying this with "his" company. It's apparently common for shops and tow companies to strong arm a customer.

 

Back in the middle 80's some newburgh NY cops went to jail for that one. They would spot a car, have it towed, strip it, and it would "just never be seen again". The posse got nabbed when someone could prove their stolen/towed car's parts were now on a policemans POV....

 

If you can get the ear of the justice dept somehow these thieve's will see jail. and have their property stripped to recompense you....

 

Amen!

 

Something like that was going on here. The cop was working with the tow company and was filing for ***les and selling cars without the city knowing. He got cought but he screwed a lot of people out of their cars.

 

As much as I'd like this to be "made up," I know it's true. And the crying shame is that this is the United States of America. Addinf insult to injury, these conniving bottom-feeders are PERMITTED to continue these scams and invasions of Cons***utional rights. All states and the federal government have attorneys-general. Shouldn't THEY be the ones to clamp down on such abuse of power?