Towing companies have a certain reputation for being predatory, lurking in the shadows and waiting for unsuspecting parkers to put one wheel out of place. Pouncing moments after the driver is out of sight, dragging their car away to hold it for ransom without remorse or exception...
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Is this reputation deserved? Well… yes. Not that all towing companies use this practice and are deserving of condemnation. Equally shady are the businesses and apartment management companies that work with these towing agencies, signing their lots over to the tow-truck cartels for a cut of the take, ensuring that their residents, vendors, and customers are forever at risk of having their car yoinked unexpectedly.
I'll add a caveat here that people who park their cars errantly are an obnoxious blight, too, but there's a difference there between those entitled sorts and a minimum-wage earning pizza delivery driver who simply had the misfortune of trying to make a delivery to a building that's colluding with these scammers… Without a doubt, this apartment complex should be blacklisted for future deliveries.
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