So I'm parked briefly in a "fire zone" which is the size of a parking space and indeed used to be a parking space when Preferred Towing shows up (Noblesville/Tipton, Indiana) to tow my 240. I was on my way out anyway to move it as it was temporarily parked. The douchebag tow guy says "It's too late" and I told him that he would have to tow it with me in it. He managed to get a hook on the underside and went to pull it up on the flatbed.
He says "Your car will always lose". I'm thinking "Oh yeah beotch?" So I pull forward onto the bed, dislodging the hooks and back up, free. I managed to get stuck on the curb, but get free and drive down to a parking spot and park.
Dumbass Billybob tow truck driver is pissed and calls the local PD. They show up, ask me what happened, get my ID and send billybobboogereater packing. The cops do nothing to me, as I didn't assault the guy or try and hit him with my car, as much as I would have liked to.
My only problem now is that I have a blown tie rod end and possibly some undercarriage damage. I won't know the extent until I am able to inspect it, but I don't think it's bad. It beats the hell out of having to put up with that damned towing company and pay their fees. I HATE towing companies and the position they put people in when they get towed. Damned rotten basturds.
This is one night when they go home empty-handed, don't get their tow fee, storage, etc. paid in CASH (ie., not taxable income). Only downside now is that I have a tie rod end to replace, but those are cheap. A hell of a lot cheaper than that tow bill, I guarantee it.
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Hehe, Towing Companies Suck
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good job repo, you pwn3d teh m4N!
last 4th of july i went to pick up my gf and i noticed her car was gone from the church where she always parked, which has a "you will get towed" sign. i said "where's your car??" thinking it was either towed or stolen ('96 integra in a high crime area, where at least one car gets broken into every week, but not often in the chuch parking lot, and that's why people park there).called the police station and the phone mesage said that since it was the 4th of july, it was closed (wtf??) so we drove down there and the only lady there didn't wanna help, until i made her feel guilty for not helping people on the 4th of july of all days. she told us the car had been towed (better than stolen i guess) so we went to the tow place but couldn't get the car back cause it was in her sister's name (who lives in sacramento, 2 hours away, and coudn't come for 2 days). so her sister finally came, and my gf had to pay for 3 days of storage at the tow place (about $300). towing companies suck.
i parked my truck at the church for 3 months and got 3 warnings but never got towed. my gf parked her car there for 2 months and got towed without any warnings. go figure.
last 4th of july i went to pick up my gf and i noticed her car was gone from the church where she always parked, which has a "you will get towed" sign. i said "where's your car??" thinking it was either towed or stolen ('96 integra in a high crime area, where at least one car gets broken into every week, but not often in the chuch parking lot, and that's why people park there).called the police station and the phone mesage said that since it was the 4th of july, it was closed (wtf??) so we drove down there and the only lady there didn't wanna help, until i made her feel guilty for not helping people on the 4th of july of all days. she told us the car had been towed (better than stolen i guess) so we went to the tow place but couldn't get the car back cause it was in her sister's name (who lives in sacramento, 2 hours away, and coudn't come for 2 days). so her sister finally came, and my gf had to pay for 3 days of storage at the tow place (about $300). towing companies suck.
i parked my truck at the church for 3 months and got 3 warnings but never got towed. my gf parked her car there for 2 months and got towed without any warnings. go figure.
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r34 gtr wrote:sir, that is beautiful. i commend you. that story was so good i almost want to drive to indy to shake your hand. just pure genius at work right there, and im not being sacractic.
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Thank you, thank you very much.
*repo takes a curtsy*
BTW, I just callled to find out exactly how much the bill would have been had I been towed. $100 for the tow/impound and $20 per day storage, with one day automatically assessed. So, minimum of $120.
I haven't heckled them yet, but when I do, I'll holla...
well my brother was involved in a accident in his 300zx where it needed to be towed bc the guy hit his rear right tire and broke the axile. so he needed to get it towed to our mechanic, well the mechanic is right across the street. like litteraly (sp??) across the street. the tow truck guy took his car keys ( i dont really understand that) and wanted to charge us $50 for a tow less than 100yards. and by brother was still paying money on the car so he had full coverage and was waiting for the digital camera to take pics for the insurance company and to take the guy who hit him to court as evidence. well the T-top was bent down during the accident and wasnt letting the door close, so the tow truck guy bends the T-top back to get the door closed. well the door closes now but my brother wanted the car to be untouched to he can show this guy was speeding when he hit my brother. Because he guy that hit my brother said he was going 30mph tops but he spun the 90 300zx around about 270 degrees. and i know this is a story kinda hard to explain, and some of you guys are lost. but this tow truck guy pretty much tampered with evidence after my brother told him not to touch his car, charged $50 for a 5min tow. and took his keys. RRRR now im pissed bc i miss that car and my brother got screwed over by the insurance company because they only gave him a lil less than $5000 for the car.
Here's a story for ya'll about tow companies: My friends decided to go to a concert and while looking for a place to park they see several guys holding signs that say parking $5. So they pay the guys and pull into the spots the guys wave them into, ignoring the do not park signs because they paid the money and the guys waved them in. The lot was almost totally full by the time they got there so they parked and went to the concert. They got out of the concert and went back to their car, it was missing (keep in mind this is a couple high school kids at about 1 am and now they have to call their parents) their parents come out, they find out where the car was towed and go there. What do you know? The guy taking their $150 behind the bullet proof glass is the same guy that took their money and held the parking sign, but now he's wearing a towing company shirt. It turns out the tow company just changed clothes and charged people to park in a random lot that they couldn't park in, then turned around and towed around 100 cars out of there. Nothing ever happened to the tow company either because to cause any legal trouble would have cost them a lot more than the 150 bucks 
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Great thinking Repo-man! I hope I'm that quite witted if I ever end up in that situation.
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I got pulled over one time for speeding, and the cop was being a ****. I was illegal for a few reasons, but I was just trying the truck out from a LOT of work I just did to it. I know all the cops here except for this one, and he was new. He was going to arrest me and impound the truck, but another cop showed up that I went school with. He explained to the other cop about me and my "customs", and said that I was a good guy. So the cop decides to ease up on me, says hes going to let me go but he was still going to impound the truck. So..... when the wrecker finally got there the cop was in a hurry to get home, so he left. The wrecker driver comes up to me and asks me were to take it! They never told him!!! So I promptly gave him directions to my house. I never heard anything from the cop about it. heheheh:D
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I got pulled over one time for speeding, and the cop was being a ****. I was illegal for a few reasons, but I was just trying the truck out from a LOT of work I just did to it. I know all the cops here except for this one, and he was new. He was going to arrest me and impound the truck, but another cop showed up that I went school with. He explained to the other cop about me and my "customs", and said that I was a good guy. So the cop decides to ease up on me, says hes going to let me go but he was still going to impound the truck. So..... when the wrecker finally got there the cop was in a hurry to get home, so he left. The wrecker driver comes up to me and asks me were to take it! They never told him!!! So I promptly gave him directions to my house. I never heard anything from the cop about it. heheheh:D
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sideshow wrote:you repo'ed your own car from the repo-man, repo-man. thats alot of repo's. but thats pretty sweet you just pulled forward, how did u think of that? and did the hooks catch on ur tie rod is that how is busted? but yea congrats on kicking the mans ***i hate the man
Hmm, well, I own my 240 and owe zero to no one, so it couldn't actually be a repo. The "repo" man was nothing more than a damned tow truck driver (flat bed) and would be a serious liability to any good recovery agency. He almost hit me with his truck at one point but I didn't let him. I could have let him and then sued, but I like my legs just as they are.
The way I thought of that was simple. Think about how hooks work. They're strong as hell in one direction, but if not looped back around themself, they're completely open. So, pull forward and exploit the weakness instead of fighting their strength. Fight smart and hard, not stupid and hard and your winning percentage will certainly increase.
He did hook around the tie rod and severed it. I will have to spend my Saturday morning replacing it, but the satisfaction I gained from making that worthless pole-smoking manwhore go home empty-handed is SO worth it.
I will heckle them every time I see them. That wannabe repo guy will remember the true repo man every time he sees a Nissan 240SX and will think of how he was straight :owned by that little car. It will truly be the "one that got away".
240's own ALL :smoker
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