Tow Job Gone Wrong

Actually, it is very different. As an employee of the company that owns and has title to the vehicle, you don't need any documentation to show that you are legaly able to take the vehicle, but will likely have something from the company indicating what you are doing and why. In other words, the titled owner has authorized you to take it.

A 3rd party recovery service taking a vehicle titled to the person they are taking it from HAD BETTER have their ducks in a row including repo license, paperwork for the vehicle, etc, because if not (and they are stopped by the police), they'll be arrested for stealing the vehicle.

The rules of what is and isn't allowed also differ. If you read that lease/purchase contract carefully you'll likely find a clause where the person signed granting permission to enter private property, buildings, pass through locked gates...sometimes even authorizing the company to move other vehicles that are blocking it...in order to recover the asset, NONE of which would be allowed under the law in the absence of that signed authorization. The 3rd party repo guy snagging a vehicle titled to the person he's taking it from has no such permission to enter those locations and can be charged with trespassing if caught going where he has no legal right to go, and if the car he's after is blocked in by other vehicles, he cannot legally touch those other vehicles.

While they might have a few similarities on the surface, they are VERY different when you dig into it a little deeper.

 

Well of course I look both ways before crossing. The assumption though is that the vehicle will stop. If, every time I crossed the street, I waited until all the oncoming vehicles came to a full stop I would never be able to cross.
That being said, in the case of the video it would be obvious that it would be a wise thing to wait until the issue is gone.

 

"The car? Yeah, I looked but couldn't find it. Got something else, maybe Beverly Hills?"

 

Back in 2005-06 I was sleeping in the old Texaco station right off the Malad, ID exit.

Bout 2am or thereabouts (older now, memory ain't what it once was) I hear a ruckus like a car slamming on the breaks and tires squalling to beat the band.

Pop up from the sleeper and witness a repo dude dragging a FWD vehicle from the arse-end down Main Street to what I guess was the repo dudes staging area.

Not a care in the world as he strolled by at a blistering pace of about 20MPH.

Bet the transaxle was shot and tires flat spotted by the time he got to where he was going.

All I could think was "what a flipping moron"

Went back to sleep and forgot all about that until I saw this video.

Oh, there was NOBODY chasing/following this wrecker driver through the mean streets of Malad post midnight.

Just a lazy butt of a tow driver.

SMDH

 

Repo Man.

One of my favorite movies.

 

Never have i ever seen that movie. I ####ing want to see it really bad now.

 

I don't want to spoil it for you, but the "John Wayne is a ###!" still gets to me.