I had a repo guy try and take my parents car when i was 12 or 13. I told him it was paid off and he was stealing, it was a unique car so he was so sure it was the one he was looking for he didn't even check the vin, just started arguing. Since i couldn't physically stop him and he wasn't listening i grabbed pop's trusty ak47 and blocked the gate, he left without the car and came back with the sheriff. The sheriff had a good time explaining the difference between repossession and theft.
@@richardcranium5839 Not always the case, but there are some assets they can't go after. I remember when Enron went under they were talking about seizing some of the head executive's assets, but they couldn't go after, for instance, his house. Then he died and they couldn't go after any of his assets. I think it had to do with some part of the facing your accusers/being able to assist in your own defense or something like that. Basically his family got to keep all the ill gotten gains. Incorporating does protect you mostly from the normal bankruptcy stuff, but if you broke laws they can still go after your assets.
Because the jailing isn't as punishment for the crime; that comes after being found guilty, it's to make sure he actually appears for the trial. Once he's found guilty they can give him credit for the time served already, but since he's not in jail, he won't get that.
@@charlesreid9337 Somehow the judge thinks (or is paid off to think) the auto ring guy is less of a flight risk. Yeah, the courts are routinely rougher on POC than whites, this is well established. Only way I can think of to fix that is enact a federal law that totals up and averages the sentences of POC versus whites, and reduces the judges salary by the difference, but I don't think that would be done. Any ideas?
Wait till your vehicle is stolen and eventually recovered then have to pay more than $1500 to get your own vehicle back from a towing crook. Yeah you can sue the thief and obtain a judgement for any damages and costs, but realistically you’re never going to get any of it back. The towing companies always win big. I did witness a local towing company damage a double-parked Lambo a few years ago. The owner sued and received over $40k for repairs. That was one of the few happy endings I’ve seen involving a towing company. I’ll bet their insurer no longer allows them to even look at cars like that.
If your car is stolen then the towing cost should be paid by your insurance company the same as any other damages to the vehicle since it's a result of the theft. Of course if you don't have theft insurance then it's on your shoulders for being an idiot.
I took a towing company to court and while I lost in court it caused enough worry on the owners face that next time they towed (illegal the second time) I got it back for no cost.
I took an ak47 after a repo guy who was stealing my parents car because he was too lazy to check the vin on a vehicle he thought was too unique for there to be two of them in the area. He came back with the sheriff, this was back when a sheriff didn't get mad when someone held a thief at gun point and once the sheriff realized that's what had happened, the repo guy got an earful.
I bought a truck that was part of a similar scam. It was repossessed from a credit union that I had no business with. We thought it was stolen and then the insurance company wouldn’t pay because they thought I was scamming them lol. Was sold in Arkansas but was taken from Missouri so when we ran the VIN in Arkansas it said it was mine but in MO it came up as that credit union. Lol 3 years later I won a $70k payout for the truck paid $11k for. It’s crazy stuff.
Around here they had a scam where they'd go into an apartment complex at 4am, lift up a car and move it 12" over on the grass, take a picture of the car on the grass, and tow the car away. That worked until they got arrested on a plethora of felonies.
Amazing that the other day We were watching Adam12 (1968) (based on real stories) and they busted a scrap yard for illegally towing cars and scrapping/crushing them. The owner of the scrap yard said. 'If only my crusher had not broke down'. So you know this has gone on for decades.
When the state proposes to take your property, ordinarily it is required to give written notice and provide a hearing before a neutral judge. In vehicle towing the guy in the truck decides all that.
I had a tow truck charge me $330 for a four mile tow once. He booked from a scam where one dispatch put fake tow businesses in every zip code to show up high on Google results, so he showed up as a “local” tow guy near where my car broke down. (It was actually just one scam dispatch who made fake Google businesses to appear “local” all over Los Angeles). It was 1AM, my car was on his flatbed and he knew where I lived after riding with him, so I just paid him.
We have encountered this happening with towing companies even telling insurance companies “phantom” locations they have, leaving the customer stranded on the side of the road for hours, when they were expecting to have a tow truck coming from a few miles away.
Try getting a semi towed. A showup charge, a disconnect the axle charge, a tow charge for 30 miles, a reconnect axle charge, a drop charge. Total 1500 and that was without a trailer. After wait 8 hours to have them show.
Going on with many businesses such as appliance repair, home repair, locksmiths, carpet cleaning, etc etc. Caller thinks they're calling a local business but call goes to a dispatch that may be anywhere, and you end up with someone who may or may not be skilled or licensed, and may even present a physical risk.
Steve I appreciate you saying "VIN", it drives me crazy when people say "VIN number"(which is the same as saying "vehicle identification number number).
I wonder if this towing company was involved with the stolen car ring that some Detroit Police Officers were arrested for. Remember, they would find stolen cars but put them into the system as abandoned. The stolen car system and the abandoned car system were not linked. They find a stolen car and put it into the other system. You contact the police department and ask, have you found my stolen car. They look in the stolen car system and say no. The other part of the scheme was based on them being able to auctions cars much quicker if they are abandoned versus recovered stolen cars. The second part was they would hold "quiet" auctions so those on the police "Friends and Family Program" could go into the auction and purchase these vehicles at greatly reduced prices.
@@robertlee9395 I am not sure. If I recall, it was in the last couple of years so with our courts system, it may take another couple to get to trial. Could be wrong but I am pretty sure a couple of cops have been fired and arrested.
There's a towing scam in Canada, where tow companies listened to police scanners and showed up at traffic accidents. They'd talk the driver's into towing their vehicle to a repair place he had a deal with. Then they charged the insurance company $$$ for repairs and take forever to do them, etc. Then, they'd hold the vehicles hostage until payment.
In LA about 15 years ago there was a famous case of a tow company owner guy that quoted low prices to tow broken down cars. These were tows requested by owners. But when the cars arrived home or at the shop behind the truck, the tow truck driver was told to add hundreds of dollars to the to charge and threaten to take the car if the owner refused. The investigative reporter of Channel 2 (there aren't any of these any more) did an expose. The owner was charged and deported back to Egypt. A year or two the investigative reported said he was back in LA and doing the same thing. Nothing further was done, so beware if you call for a tow in the LA area. Yes, I was one of his victims. Interestingly, the driver apologized and said he just worked on consignment for the Egyptian guy and that he needed the money.
Towing companies need to be legally accountable for every vehicle they tow. If they didn’t have clear cause to tow it, they should be charged with auto theft, both the tow truck driver and the company jointly liable. Clear cause would be explicit order from the property owner, vehicle owner, or police. No picking up a vehicle just because they spotted it on a roadway or property they are contracted to tow for.
This tale reminds me of a real-life condition that I once had to deal with. Back in 1984 a fellow co-worker at the warehouse where we were employed sold me his 1970 Sedan DeVille Cadillac for only $400. Hey, it ran pretty well. Unfortunately, he never had the original owner sign-off on the pink slip. This was here in California. Well, the ''original owner'' was the Walnut Creek School District. LOL. My new, used Caddy had been the Driver's Ed vehicle for the local high school for a number of years. Like most cars driven by beginning drivers, it had gotten a few minor dents. This was reflected in the low cost of the vehicle. Even in 1984 four hundred bucks still wasn't much to spend on an old clunker. I don't know about you, but I had no idea where to find the person who'd held title on this car. There was a name, but this was the former Vice-Principal of the school and no one knew exactly where to find him. What to do? I decided to practice my forgery skills. There was an old signature on another piece of material in the glove box. So I just used another pen color and practiced a number of times. After about ten minutes I had duplicated the old man's John Hancock pretty damned well! If I do say so myself. Then I took my slip to the DMV and got my beautiful Cadillac ''Land Barge'' finally registered without a hitch. Wish that I still had that car. As It turned out to be the car that I took the future mother of my two great children in on our first date.
I have been in and out of the towing business in california..there are rules..but they are pretty easy to follow..when no state entity is involved its called a private party impound..you are required to notify the police department withing 45 minutes..if they catch you on the property you must let it down for free..if you get to the street or they contact you in route to your yard you must let it down where you are for half price of tow..( no one ever fallows this) it is law . you are not required to be a company to impound n can be done by a private party( went through a heated debate at the dmv once over this ended up calling Sacramento for clarification )..there are some things you need at your yard ( like a pay phone ..shelter..bathroom..price list..) You can start a lien three days after you get the car..you must request a file from dmv..and send notices to anyone who ever ownd the car..within 30 to 90 days you can sell it..30 days for cars valued under 2500..90 days for cars valued over..pretty simple ..cost 15 bucks for the lien..and what ever the registered mailing costs..no need to cheet that..the law and the dmv are biased ..favoring tow trucks over civilians..i have some crazy stories..lol
I have a story on the other side of the coin, cops and county counsel drafted a by-law to target my client. Tickets mounted up to over $100k in 3 years of tickets before they did one trial to test the by-law. I won the trial and the judge tossed out the by-law. Now the prosecutor is attempting to appeal the decision.
@@MrTruckerf That issue will be addressed but as we all know any compensation will ultimately come from the taxpayers pocket. The Judge who heard the Motion I filed to release two tow trucks that the police seized was very critical of the cops abuse of the law to seize the tow trucks.
@@jerrycann6374 Of course we are hearing only one side of the story, but I am always firmly behind the 'little guy' in these disputes. Plus, any compensation should originate from the same entity which would receive the fine revenue.
@@MrTruckerf If you'd like to read the Judge's decision for the trial this is the citation.. Waterloo (Regional Municipality) v. Pahal, 2020 ONCJ 73 (CanLII)..
I'm amazed that when a legal process exists for someone to get something that anyone would try to scam the process. Not only is it bad to try to defraud someone but defrauding the very same entity that is responsible for prosecuting you seems extra bold.
Steve, given your interest in the turbine cars there's an article on the Fox News website confirming that the 1964 Ford turbine truck known as Big Red still exists and has been owned by a private party for 40 years while he has been restoring the engine.
Growing up in Montana the biggest towing scam in the Missoula area involved a state patrol cop helpfully nicknamed "Humpty Dumpty" and Sparr's Towing. The two of them were the direct cause of a number of state laws being passed that prohibited repairs being performed without owner authorization and that all replaced parts had to be returned to the owner. People parking alongside of the road while they spent an afternoon fishing was extremely common and legal. If your vehicle was left more than 72 hours it would be towed, but Humpty Dumpty would call to have it towed as soon as he saw it. Sparr's would show up, tow it, and then run up a massive "repair bill" in order to return it to "safe driving condition" (which was the state law at the time) and if you didn't want to pay they put a lien on the vehicle and sold it out from under you. It was a very lucrative racket, and Humpty Dumpty got a substantial cash cut for each vehicle. It started to fall apart when Sparr's Towing had more than a few guns pointed in their face when the people out fishing came back unexpectedly, so they insisted that Humpty Dumpty remain on sight while they hooked up the vehicle. Shortly after that Humpty had other police called on him while he was held at gunpoint a couple times, and while he managed to not get arrested he came damn close to it. The local newspapers started detailing the abuses and within a year the laws were changed.
It almost sounds like ABT towing and the Federal Way police departments auto theft ring they were running a couple years ago. still trying to figure out how my truck got towed from the end of my driveway went to auction without me being notified. And the six red light tickets that came in my name after the auction. And last I heard the truck is still in my name but went to the crusher. The lady in the states records office said they legally stole my truck from me. Don't worry Travis I haven't forgotten about you.
While stationed in Italy I lost 2 cars to a version of the towing scam. Rarely my ship would get underway on no notice. I would come to work one day and leave on no notice for a few days to a couple weeks. Both times many people had their vehicles towed and impounded. Good luck tracking it down in a country where a simple bank transfer to pay rent often took a couple hours and you don’t speak the language. I wasn’t alone either. I lost a 1974 Fiat 500 and a 199x BMW 7 series.
I knew someone who went the auction route. Car was abandoned in front of his house, he did the newspaper notices, sheriff's auction, bid on the car and got it for a pittance.
In arkansas, a towing service to do 2 certified letters, 1 at 7 days, 2nd at 14 or 21 days, (cant remember) then a 2 week ad in newspaper. After all of that comes back, you can take the completed file to Little Rock and pick up a new title. All in all about a 2 month process
In Ohio, mechanics liens are liens for labor or materials supplied to construct or repair structures on real estate. A tow truck operator can acquire an artisan's lien by towing the vehicle.
In the Los Angeles area, the Bank of America assisted in tow scams. In branches that were part of a complex of shops, the parking lot technically was assigned to only the Bank of America, not the other shops, contrary to casual appearance. The small signs warned that cars not from Bank of America customers would be towed. A middle aged or elderly person stood at a small stand holding a broom. To a casual observer, they looked like maintenance. They held a radio under their smock. If you went into any business other than Bank of America, they radioed a tow truck standing by just out of sight. A woman working the scam but who was sympathetic, or perhaps disgruntled, whispered to me like a ventriloquist what was going on to save me from the tow. Later I found it in two more Bank of America branches. I have to assume it was wide spread. I was astounded that the Bank of America, already under fire for numerous corruption scandals, would risk the bad publicity of another on. For what I thought was chicken feed. Actually, it never really came to light. An anti corruption activist spoke of it in a Suburban city's City Council meeting once, however. The Council members express dismay. The B of A may have had to tone it down at the one branch after word got back to them about that meeting. From what I read, this is similar to the downtown Detroit/ fast food outlets tow scams.
This one sounds a little weird. 13 counts, that would be alot of people who were willing to forfeit their cars to avoid towing fees. Makes you wonder if he refused to admit that he towed the vehicles or if he was essentially stealing them via tow truck. If they throw the book at this guy I am going to be giddy. I've had a bad experience.
I'd bet there were far more than 13 if he operated for a few years. Perhaps 13 a month. I bet they just picked 13 from people that had the time to go to court or make affidavits.
"if it's not in the log or in the computer, then it can't be here." Actual quote, over the phone, from a Tow Impound/Auction Lot Guy...while I was staring at my car, on his property, attempting to get my car back.
@@BastiatC It's sort of like "Where's Waldo". The Steve had a challenge out for anyone who could provide a citation for any U S Supreme court case that stated that the stated could not require people operating a car o have a drivers license. Provide the citation, you get the Hundo. Just to make things interesting, The Steve hides the hundred dollar bill somewhere on the set. The challenge was never met, but the "Where's Ben" continues as a tradition.
I had my rental towed. I went to visit my aunt in CA. were she lives there was no handicap parking near her apartment. So I parked as close as I could. ( Near the dumpster) my handicap placard was up and visible. The trunk was open as we were removing my stuff. We can back downstairs. And the car was gone. Yes that quickly. And exactly as I said. I called police they said call the tow company. We just about beat the tow operater to the yard. Cost me 1000 dollars. To get the car back
There was a towing company in Chicago that was notorious. The song is “Lincoln Park Pirates”. This song puts the owner in a bad light and questions the legality of the towing. The towing company owner showed up at the bar the singer/songwriter Steve Goodman who wrote worked at. Instead of being angry about it, he liked the song and would occasionally appear at the bar without any altercations.
The city could fix the towing scam if they wanted to simply by making the "Tower" pay fees if they moved the car to an unauthorized place. Someone needs to sue the Tower!
"We've already had it for half a day, so that's a full day's storage fees.", No Steve, it's "We've had it for 20 minutes, and it's after 2:30 in the afternoon, so that's now two days storage fees."
My stolen truck was recovered at 10 pm. I was at the police department next morning at 8 am when the counter opened to get the release from PD then to the towing company at 8:45 am. Owed two days storage at $150 per day plus $85 for the tow. The truck was stolen in San Francisco and recovered in Alameda County. It would have been well over twice as much had it been recovered in San Francisco.
Sounds like his 'moral compass' is pointing directly into his wallet. Maybe the city can legally park him in a jail for 20 years. NAH! for that kind of Bail, he has probably changed his name, his business name and relocated to a new city, writing off the bail as a business loss.
I invest in REITs which are investment schemes that own, operate apartments, factories and net leases. Those REITs seem to always have private towing contracts.
There are lots of ways you can get in trouble in towing. There are trespass tows without authorisation, fishing, not following the porper process for obtaining ownership of an abandoned vehicle, over billing, creative billing, adding services unnecessarily like use of extra equipment or presense of a supervisor.... One guy years ago was charged 30k to remove his jeep from a power line maintenance trail. Yes he was trespassing, but the company called 4 trucks, two supervisors, and used a lot of unnecessary rigging to remove it. After it made rhe news, the state towing commission got jnvolved and reduced the bill something like 4k.
@@benjaminsorenson lowered to 4k. The exact numbers im not confident of because it was 10 years ago, but tbe difference between both prices was in the ballpark of 20k. The final bill was far more reasonable simce it mostly came down to man hours accumulated while waiting for the power company to send someone down to inspect the site, making sure they didnt damage anything.
If you cant afford the impound fee and want your belongings from inside the vehicle, many tow companies will tell you that if you want your belongings back you must sign the title to the vehicle over...which is illegal but happens all the time here in Michigan.
We’ve got one in Chicago, Lincoln Towing, that is notorious. Many charges over many years and they are still in business. The late, great, Steve Goodman wrote a hilarious song about them titled ‘Lincoln Park Pirates’ back in the 70’s, that’s how long it’s been.
I had a friend that ran a shop, he closed due to his health, but he got 1-5 cars a year, going through legal process. yes he had to send registered letters, and put an ad up somewhere, but only 1 sorta issue, 1 customer dropped vehicle off, with parts to fix, then wouldnt answer phone, avoided shop for several months, so friend did the mechanics lien for his labor, well after he got title he sold it, & the guy showed up "where is my truck" he had been driving by every day, but the day his truck was gone, he stopped by, he was saving to get money? but he never said anything, nor worked out previous payment arrangements to do payments. he tried to get police involved, but nothing they could do, my friend followed law to the letter & had all documents. whats bad was it was just a clutch & pressure plate for a pickup truck, customer had bought it & supplied, but then vanishes, and wouldnt answer his phone, nor return calls. I think labor was $250?
We had an approved tow company idle their diesel truck stinking up.the neighborhood so we complained and got our cable lines cut. The stupidest thing is I'm standing there and the toe truck operator / owner comes around the corner the night before, sees me and turns around then next morning cable and phone lines cut
Important new decision in the Supreme Court right up your street, Steve. Ford Motor Co v Montana Eighth Judicial District Court Et Al.There is a video in there
Thank you! It always annoys me when people call it a "VIN number," which happens more often than not. . . just like a "PIN number" or an "ATM machine. . ." I really expected to hear "VIN number," but no. . . you didn't, so thanks!
Look at the towing issues in Ontario canada you got tow truck drivers showing up.at crashing billing you and if you say take it to John's auto body they say nahhh and take it to there buddys shop and hold it hostage
That's OK. Two people already complained that I said I was an "American" (and people in Canada are "American" too, apparently since they live on the same continent as Americans.)
@@stevelehto I always say, but their country is Canada, so they are CanadiansCanucks or North Americans. Mexicans country is the Estados Unidos Mexicanos, so they are Mexicans or North Americans. We can call ourselves Americans or North Americans. Neither Canada or Mexico has the word America in their name.
OT Used car shortage. We just got a letter from the Honda dealer where we bought my wife's 2016 HRC. It had the VIN and a dollar offer to purchase. Not sure of the legal implications of this, if any, but many for the used car market in general: flood cars, totals, and all the other frauds waiting to happen under such intense demand. New cars? "Rents Too Damn High!"
@@yadayada752 I agree it is very possible for people to do the job honestly and serve a useful purpose to the community but its easier to rip people off.
@@420frankp we're not talking about car repairs, we're talking about unethical Tow companies who use Mechanics Liens to gain title of cars. But since you brought it up... I also know unethical mechanics who make it a practice to quote one price, and then hit the customer with an exorbitant final bill in order to gain title of the car. *Btw "Mechanics Lien " is a generic term, which covers work performed by Builders/Contractors to Tow Truck Companies. It's not literally exclusive to Automobile Mechanics.
@@veulmet evidently, that's exactly how those liens are being used by shady tow companies. *I'm guessing you skipped the video, and went right to commenting on it? Is that a fair 'estimate' 🤔
It's called Title 42 in Oklahoma. It's to recover Mechanic's Lien, Tow and Storage Fee's. It's a Time Consuming Headache. You are required to notify All Party's by Pick Up Notified Mail and post Public Notices. You have to wait and wait. Then You have to offer up for Auction. Sell or keep and Title. Then You wait a month or two for the Title. I buy Vehicles from Wrecker Auctions after They have completed the Preliminary Process to Auction.
I had a repo guy try and steal my parents car once. The guy wouldn't listen to reason, i told him he needed to check the vin because he was stealing a car that was paid off. But he didn't want to listen to a kid. Or perform the only task a repossession agent is really required to do before they take a car. A kid holding an ak47 and blocking your only exit must be more convincing because he dropped the car and left. The sheriff explained the finer details of his job to him and he finally understood that if the numbers on the paper don't match the numbers on the car the property owner has all the rights in the world to beat the tar out of a person or block their escape when they try and steal a car.
There is an ordinance in my area that prohibits "predatory towing". They cruise their signed lots and take the vehicle. No complaint from the management, just tow it.
I was visiting my girlfriend years ago and they towed my car from her apartment for not parking in guest parking. As it turns out there was no guest parking labeled, so it would be hard to tell where to park. I put my car at the very back of the parking lot out of the way, where no one else parked and they still towed it. I raised hell, and the next day they were outside spray painting guest parking on some of the spots up front. I videotaped them doing this and called an attorney. Got my money back, and they had to pay the attorney's fees. I always wondered how many other people they did that to, who just didn't fight back.
in my city a private tow cannot cost more than 50$ and no storage fees, so whenever you get asked for 75$ you hang up, call again recording and tell them its illegal and to just give them back your car works everytime, Ive had my car towed 3 times before they caught on and stopped towing my car and now I have a private spot for free
I had a GF who worked at a strip mall that everything closed at 9 and the parking lot had the unauthorized cars will be towed signs but she had to close so I drove in parked and was taking a nap waiting for her to finish up to give her a ride home and a tow truck guy raises the back of my truck when I'm in it then knocks on my window and tells me to get out cause he's towing my truck I tell him to f off and put my truck down and he's arguing trying to get me to get out of the truck I then call the cops (he tried to stop me by saying there going to take his side and if I do that then he's pressing charges and reached in through my window to try to grab my phone when I started talking to the dispatcher) the cops came pretty quick like maybe 10 mins he tried telling the cop I hopped in the truck after he lifted it I explain that I'm there picking up my GF who works in the strip mall and I was napping in the truck when he lifted it the cop talks to my gf who's still got a few more mins of work then comes back and tells the tow driver to drop my truck then walks to his car and the tow driver tries to tell me its 50 bucks to drop my truck I yell to the cop who almost made it to his car and heads back to the tow driver said it was a joke the cop then watches him drop my truck as he starts playing with his ticket machine I'm guessing the tow truck driver got a ticket for something that it seemed like if he didn't tell his "joke" he wouldn't have gotten ticketed for cause the officer was still talking and printing out something when me and my GF left
Sounds like the owner of Breakthrough or Majic Towing. They changed names once the word got out on them. Uses spotters to tow from businesses that were also implicated in a kickback scheme. Rob Wolcheck of the local FOX station has done quite a few video's on them.
It's not just companies running these kind of scams. The City of Melvindale in MI does something similar. You get pulled over for a ticket on Schaffer, they find a reason to impound your car. Several hundred for the 2 mile tow to the city impound yard, and several hundred a day in storage at the city lot.. Every time the police are out on Schaffer between Fort and Dix, the flatbed is nearby...
I guess I'm just surprised (not really) that in this day and age of computers and records that it is really that simple for someone to just get a title to a vehicle owned by someone legitimately. What is to stop tow companies from seeing a car they like, steal it and get a new title for it to claim it as theirs in this system? I guess my state has at least one advantage in that if the bank or someone else has a lien on your vehicle, they maintain the title until said lien is satisfied, and it is clearly recorded on the title as such. Hopefully, just hopefully if this was to happen here someone in our DMV would recognize that the lien holder hasn't notified them of lien satisfaction and prevent this from happening.
The scary thing is that the people processing the application did not spot that one person was signing as two different people. I also wonder if the state agency that oversees towing operators is looking at taking action against the company.
at roughly 10:05 notice how Steve performs what I call the ''Attorney's snicker'' LOL. I just did it myself in fact and that's the reason that I laughed. Specifically, Steve says. ''He fudges the paperwork (SNICKERS!!) and...'' The word in quotes is where by him snickering, Steve demonstrates his subtle if begrudging respect for a crook performing crooked deeds. And I call this the ''Attorney snicker''. All lawyers do this. From defense counselors to the firebrand, no-nonsense, take no prisoners, State Prosecutor. It's a giveaway where they acknowledge if only briefly the sheer balls that it takes to be a real criminal. The action is akin to what's known in poker as a ''tell''. For just that split second during the noticeable laughter that the lawyer at least temporarily shares a kinship with the mind of a criminal. And the longer that an attorney stays in his field, especially if his work regularly involves defending criminals, the more pronounced we see the snicker. That and we'll see it more often. The muted laughter is a way of saying, ''Hey, good move Joe! Too bad ya got caught''!
Sorry, I was doing that because "fudges" is a euphemism for FORGERY. When I describe crimes before adjudication, I often avoid being too specific. After all, the guy is innocent until proven guilty.
@@stevelehto I actually enjoy watching attorneys do this. My own brother, (RIP died 1995 from ALS) would do this SAME snicker, but often in response to his adversary making some kind of bone-headed admission that was certain to harm his case and help my brother win his. And THAT is an ''LOL'' in caps!
At apt building around SCSU someone calls a noise complaint the tow truck company gets to come to the apt and tow the cars that don't have the park permit on the dash of the car ...as well as the ones that do but they "Don't see". So you get to shell out 300.00 to get your car out of there even thou you live at said apt. They say oops sorry to bad.
In Toronto and surrounding area, many tow truck companies are engaged in a sort of turf war for the past few years that's seen drivers assaulted (possibly one was killed, not sure) and a number of trucks being burnt out. The City of Toronto, or maybe even the provincial govt. is looking at creating different towing zones and only having certain companies allowed to legally operate in a certain zone. It might fix some things, but it kind of seems like a situation where the government is about to play Kingmaker, rather than making law enforcement do the heavy investigative work that would prob. be required to determine who the 'good faith' operators are.
Oklahoma (perhaps most states as well) operator has limited time to mail certified mail "and" by 1st class mail a notice of possessory lien to owner/lien holder. If the vehicle remains beyond 30 days then same is subject to auction, notice of sale to same people via same means. If the vehicle remains unclaimed and is auctioned for amount greater than the tow/storage fee calculated to date of auction then that $ sum is sent to last registered owner (example: tow/storage fee on auction date = $950.00 but sold for $2,000 then the operator must send $1050 to last owner). Many operators just plain forget to send that money unless the last owner reviews the related statutes. I don't know about other states but as of 2006 Oklahoma does allow operators to pursue/collect the balance if the vehicle is sold for less than amount due (example: $1,000 tow/storage due on auction date but sold for $400, the prior owner will receive a bill for the $600 balance)
