My car was not towed. I own a business next door to these butt heads.
I am the only person authorized to call and have vehicles towed from my business' property.
Today, "Advanced Towing Company" stole a clients' car (they have no contract to tow from our property), refused to admit they had the vehicle until we pulled surveillance footage, and then charged me $135 to return my clients' car (all the while she is being kept from her medication for hours - that she needs to LIVE). I will be pursuing every possible avenue for redress. To make matters worse, before I had even spoken to anyone at the tow place I was nearly, and very intentionally run over by one of their trucks who was racing back and forth at a high rate of speed and then proceeded to actually hit a vehicle he was trying to back up and tow. According to the security guard, the tow truck hit his own car. What a jack ass -- poetic justice?
That is a mountain of problems.
Here's the evidence -
Video of unlawful theft of a vehicle from private property: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAXhPZXJ9v8
Here is a second video of a tow truck revving his engine, pacing up and down the street swerving at me as I raise my arms and yell at him like WTF! They are bad neighbors and tonight this one guy was psychotic. Since I threw my arms up at him, he decided to make a second pass and almost hit me with the mirror of his truck.
This alley is frequented by people walking between the grocery store on the corner and apartment and other high-rises, meaning that drag racing a tow truck is super dangerous - plus all of the garage doors and parking spaces are blind and and these tow trucks hit people constantly. I owned a motorcycle, and I like fast cars - but there are safer places for that behavior.
For the full effect, listen with sound for my narration (which I had to repeat sans explitives) of the events since our security cameras do not capture sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez2dU9SxxlQ&t=8s
This has all been reported to the towcomplaints@arlingtonva.us and police@arlingtonva.us
Watch as nothing happens and the police do nothing. These guys have terrorized us for years but it has escalated in recent months to the point where they are threatening towing our people and have now done it. Calling the police after this tow company has stolen your car, no matter how illegally, does no good as they claim it is a "civil matter". The police refused to look into the erratic driving video.
I am just glad no one got hurt. I open carry and being threatened with a vehicle, I may have shot the son of a bitch -- he was obviously trying to scare me with a large vehicle. That would really ruin both our days - either me or him getting hurt. It was especially concerning for me to step out of my vehicle and unknowingly into an improvised drag strip for tow truck drivers with attitude problems.
They did not count on our surveillance cameras.
Anyway, I may have to open a personal investigation into the individual truck driver, as the manager of Advanced Towing has apologized to me and returned my money, negating any long term need to pursue their business directly. Their vehicles are also banned from our property. I will now use this case to effect change in the industry legislatively, as there is obvious need of reform.
It should be easy to follow this guy [the tow truck that almost hit me] around and catch him breaking the law. I have ignored them up till now. Now you have my attention, and where my attention goes, so do my cameras. A simple review of yelp shows you don't mind damaging the property of others.
I will now plaster cameras all over that street and catch every little moronic thing you do. Nice job screwing yourselves boys.. but behave and all is well. My dash DVR will also come in handy. Will you even know when I am watching you? You want to act crazy? I eat crazy for breakfast, and my cameras are literally always recording.
I have now also made friends with Matt from http://advancedtowing-fraud.com/, who is laser focused on Advanced specifically. Boy, we are gonna have some fun times together.
Advanced, you are on notice. You are on camera. You are being recorded everywhere. I may now be following you around. Be careful! :)
I warned you not to screw with your neighbors.
Oh, and lastly - SHAME ON YOU "JEFF" - It is against the law to call and have a car towed in an unauthorized fashion such as this. I am fairly sure I know who you are. read more