Tow Job Gone Wrong

It doesn't matter. As soon as I'm assaulted, especially if I'm grossly outnumbered, I'm removing myself from the situation as quickly as possible collateral damage be ######. I couldn't care less about anyone else. Just like I've said in the past in regards to truckers being pulled from their cabs and beaten when violent groups like BLM are protesting and blocking the road...the instant I fear my safety and security is in jeopardy, that transmission is going into gear, brakes will be released, and the clutch is coming out. MY life means more to ME than the lives of whatever rabble-rouser happens to be in the way of my escape. If their life means anything to them, they will get out of the way and allow me to remove myself from harm's way. Same thing here. They didn't pay their car note, and I've got a job to do. Assault me while I'm doing my job and I'm out of there as quickly as I can. OF COURSE they are claiming the car is being "stolen". You really think they are going to admit to being deadbeats? Bottom line, as long as the tow operator is in fear of his life, I see no problem with his attempt to stay alive. The alternative might just be a dead tow truck operator, and if YOU are that operator or his family i'd imagine that would be an unacceptable outcome.

 

Did you watch the situation unfold BEFORE he left with the car? No. So you can't very well state definitively that he was not assaulted or threatened in any way. With the tinted windows, you can't see if he's got a fat lip or bloody nose, either. If my life is in danger, I'm not thinking about calling 911...I'm taking whatever actions are necessary to get myself to safety and then, once I'm safe, make the necessary phone calls to the company and to the police to report the incident. I don't need some dispatcher telling me to stop so that the people chasing me can damage my truck and harm me while I wait for the officer 6 blocks away to finish his donut and mozy on over to my location.

I know my family would take zero comfort in the fact that I was killed taking the time to properly secure a load while I was being attacked. They'd much rather I make it home...and so would I.

The repo guy isn't going to tow a car like that if he can avoid it. The fact that there is a person on the back of the truck and at least 2 more in the car (1 driving, 1 recording) tells me that he was interrupted by people who are willing to place their own lives in danger to stop him from doing his job. If they don't care about their own lives, how many craps do you think they give about his? I would say the chance that a physical altercation took place where the car was parked causing the tow operator to GTFO of there ASAP is exponentially greater than the possibility that these people peacefully inquired about why he was taking the car before an incompetent tow operator departed with the car.

 

Hypothetically, if you were evading a situation like this and blew a stop sign while i was either walking or driving through it and you hit and killed me... i forgive you. Your life is way more precious than mine. Im sorry im a pedestrian and got in your way. Your the repo man.

 

did we really need to know the "generations" of the towed car and the chase car.>??

TMI...that really was/is...useless......information

further, you owe money?? you deserve to be repo'd

 

It was a rather...... #######'s idea of an article. But its the only one i could find.

 

oh i know, i ain't saying you said it...but some of these insipid reporters either don't do a good job, or over do it....

i'm just glad the reporter didn't say the gal driving the chase car, was breast feeding as well.....!!!!!!!!

 

Have you ever reposessed a vehicle? You don't "notify the authorities" until after you have taken the car, so that they know what the deal is when the "owner" calls to report it stolen. They don't want you wasting their time, and they aren't going to assist unless there is already an altercation in progress. I'm not saying they don't exist, but I've never heard of any jurisdiction that requires police to be notified prior to attempting to repo a vehicle. At least the jurisdictions I worked that wasn't the case.