Search the vehicle for any trackers and put them on the dealership manager’s vehicle. Let him get a gun in his face.
> His legal team is seeking more than $50,000 in damages… <
He needs to find a new legal team. That number is way too low.
And then there’s the arbitration clause that was evidently in the contract. Such a clause should not apply to that level of negligence. Let a jury decide.
“Which is why you should always know where to find your vehicle’s VIN number – you never know when you might need it.“
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Obviously that would not have helped here. Don’t know why the author mentions it. Your VIN is in a few places on your car and usually encoded in a QR code and a bar code too.
But, the dealership had inadvertently pegged that VIN of the truck this man had purchased as being stolen.
” Lawyers for Doral Volkswagen have moved to compel arbitration”
The law firm of Dindu Nuffin.
So, the lesson we learned here is that we always need to know where to find your VIN (Vehicle Identification Number)? The N means number. So it’s VIN not VIN number. Anyway I can tell you that it is at the bottom of the windshield on the driver’s side clearly visible from the outside of the car. Knowing where it was would not have helped this guy in the least. Even knowing the VIN itself would not have kept him from being apprehended.
Sounds like an old Arkansas scam where wrecked vehicles were towed to Missouri for scrapping. Instead they were cobbled together with other wrecks, towed to Arkansas and sold through the auto auctions as ‘Abandoned cars”. You could then get a new title showing it had never been wrecked. Always wondered why we could never find a good used car here. Finally a worker here told me of the scam.
Had a man buy a truck in another state, got a loan from his Credit Union, towed it to a junk yard piled wrecks around it so the Repo men could not get to it. He then pulled it down into Arkansas and sold it through an auto auction as an “abandoned truck”. The new buyer got a loan from HIS credit union to buy it. When he came home from his job the truck was gone. The original Credit union found and repossessed it leaving the second owner holding the bag for his own loan from his own credit union.
< sigh >
Surprised they had sufficient self control not to kill him.
I watched the whole YouTube video. The guy was way too nice to the cops. He never got upset and was smiling and laughing with the cops at the end of the 4+ hr ordeal. The cops threw the dealership under the bus and passed all the blame onto them, even suggesting that the guy should sue the dealership, but the cops share the blame. They did zero investigation into the situation before ramming the guy’s brand new truck and treating him like a felony.
Only $50K?
When I received the title, I did the same comparison.
Triple check beats a double cross.
I hope he wins.
Why the hell did they ram his truck? Did he flee? Was he failing to respond?
What kind of idiot rams a stopped truck?
Nothing surprises me, when Broward County is involved.
A total case of overblown reaction, this could have been straightened out with a phone call.
They certainly didn’t need to ram the vehicle, arrest the victim, & tow the truck.
I’m sure the Coastie had paperwork to show ownership.
Hope the dealership has good legal insurance.