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samothtiger ,

Let’s be real, towing a car is theft.

tenextrathrills ,

Let me guess you think not paying for the truck is perfectly fine

KoboldCoterie ,
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social avatar

I feel like maybe you aren’t actually familiar with the issue you’re commenting about here. Maybe you should read the article and watch the video before defending this guy.

metaStatic ,

Maybe if you're a legitimate tow truck operator you should have details on your truck and try really hard not to threaten the owners of vehicles you steal tow.

But let's also be clear this truck owner acted like a truck owner and everything went exactly as well as you could expect.

KoboldCoterie ,
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social avatar

Yeah I mean, the towtruck owner was not without fault by all I’ve read but even so, the guy stole a truck and caused a lot of property damage and that’s a jailable offense no matter the circumstances.

ohwhatfollyisman ,

and toeing the car is a fetish.

Rhaedas ,

Towing a vehicle like that is definitely criminal.

Jesusaurus ,

Let’s be real parking illegally or not paying your debts is bad.

catchy_name ,

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CTDummy ,

“He said the tow truck was unmarked, the guy made threatening comments to him and he thought the guy was robbing his truck,” he told The Post.

Oh yes, the guy getting towed totally thought he was getting robbed. A car thief that brought a… tow truck. In broad daylight. Is there a gang a car thieves out there intentionally trying to get locked up? Or is this as shit a cope for a 55 year old as it sounds?

einlander ,

It does happen, youtu.be/jSU9vBs-yZs

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think we do a very good job of handling vehicle delinquency.

If you don’t pay for your vehicle it’s down to the company that you owe the money to to get it back. If you don’t pay them, and you don’t get caught, there’s almost no downside for you. If it was a jailable offense it would happen a lot less often we would be able to remove the entire repo industry.

seathru ,
@seathru@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

So you’re advocating for like… A debtors’ prison?

Veedem ,
@Veedem@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds like he wants a debtor’s prison, indeed.

seathru , (edited )
@seathru@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Unpopular opinion: Anyone that does repossessions of any kind is a class traitor. Let the rich collect their own debts.

Steve ,

They’re being paid to do a job

seathru ,
@seathru@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

So were the Pinkertons. That doesn’t mean it’s morally justified.

figjam ,

Another unpopular opinion. If you borrow money, pay it back. Regardless of who loaned it to you.

catloaf ,

You’re really going to invoke the Nuremburg defense for a vehicle theft?

Steve ,

Recovery, not theft. Be an adult.

Steve ,

Do you really expect bankers to jump in a truck to find cars? Do you really want to deny someone that employment?

tal ,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

If you don’t have auto repossessions happening, then that’ll increase the risk to someone doing auto financing. Those aren’t charities, aren’t just issuing the money there as a grant, so it’d increase the cost and financial requirements to get automobile financing.

One might need to pay much more interest on an auto loan or simply not be able to get an auto loan at all and only buy a vehicle cash-up-front in that world.

Fedizen , (edited )

unpopular opinion: On street parking is a mistake.

It creates problems like this and takes way too much policing to prevent streets from looking like dumps, disrupts visibility and results in overly large streets that require oversized, polluting stormwater solutions while limiting space for buildings and people.

einlander ,

The problem with removing on street parking is the cars have to go somewhere, most likely larger parking lots. Now if they made more bike lanes and better public transportation alternatives we wouldn’t have this problem.

lapping6596 ,

I haven’t dived into the article, but it is about NYC where public transit is good enough that owning a car just isn’t necessary like most of the US.

Maggoty ,

Multi story parking structures exist.

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