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Old 01-20-2010, 11:32 AM
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Yesterday while visiting my grandfather in the hospital, I noticed a flat bed tow truck pull into the parking garage. This parking garage has a height limit pole, the kind with a big plastic bumper hanging down. This truck was obviously to big, but the driver decided to go in anyways. I do have to give him some kudos for realizing he was to big, and when he got to the bumper he slowed down and let it slowly slide over the roof of the truck rather than blowing his lights off like I thought he would. (I've seen many trucks smashed in a different parking garage). So he goes about his business, picks up a BMW crossover, and as soon as he got it on I knew there was going to be trouble, the vehicle stuck up a good foot past the top of the truck. Again, he slowly pulls up to the bumper, it slides across his roof, then right into the back window of the crossover (didn't break), then up and over the entire roof of the crossover and down the front window. I should have taken pictures but I was to dumbstruck at the time. I would be STEAMING if I was the owner of that car. There were plenty of other witnesses, and I'm thinking that towing company may lose some local business.
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Yeah i would be very pissed! I hope that if it comes down to it they are gonna have to pay for any damages to the vehicle.... I mean i drive a Bonnie not a BMW and id kill the guy
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Sounds to me like he'* been there before. And it could have been a repo
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Sounds to me like he'* been there before. And it could have been a repo
I agree, he probably has been there before. I'm not sure if this company does repossessions or not.. Even if it was a repo though, it still makes the company look bad since their name was plastered all over the tow truck.
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usually repo'* are done with a wheel lift not a ramp but who knows
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Heck ya I'd be pissed.
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around here they usually use rollbacks, but yeah i would be pissed
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Originally Posted by Mike1995
Heck ya I'd be pissed.
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around here they use rollbacks and stingers that hide under dually trucks, unmarked
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