1. How does one miss something like this?
2. “Hey, to make an omelette, you need to break a few eggs!”
Nine days without water? Thats pushing it.
The missing link is why the mother didn’t say, “I parked the car here, with her in it, and when I got back the car was gone.” Then the gas station can say, “Oh we had that car towed, by this company, it will be in the lot X.”
“Kent.”
England?
Washington?
Antarctica?
Unless the mother has dementia, she should be charged for that.
I think I’d have to see a picture of the car to see exactly how ‘knocking on it’ several times would satisfy anyone that no one was in the car. Heavily tinted windows? Paneled van? Disability van? Cargo area? Something just seems really strange about this.
I bet their insurance carrier wasn’t all that happy she was alive. Probably means a 10 fold increase in the value of the suit. Dead people tell no tales and don’t show up in a courtroom in a wheelchair.
The mother abandoned the child and didn’t say anything.
Oh yeah, definitely sounds intentional.
The "storage charges" are enormous and extortionate. There are often kickbacks to corrupt city officials, who limit who is allowed to tow.
Here is one bad review about Skyway Towing from Yelp: Worst towing and customer service experience ever.
My 16 year old son was in a car accident on his way home from college, and the State Patrol had our car towed here (without our knowledge or approval). We drove two hours to pick up our son and retrieve the belongings from the car, before leaving it to insurance to deal with.
When we arrived, there were three people standing behind the desk. I introduced myself as the owner of a car that was recently towed, gave the make and model and my name, and asked to get my son's items from the car. After pulling my chain for a minute, telling me to ask one guy, who said to ask the next guy, who said to ask the next guy, all the while laughing at my regardless of my distress level, the last guy laughed in my face and said no. He said they were closed and they would only let me get my items if I paid them a $91 fee. I said that they didn't look closed, and they laughed and told me "too bad".
I didn't have $91 available to me, so they wouldn't let me get the items from my car, ten feet away. My son's college books are in the car, along with his computer, and suitcase containing all his clothing and toiletries. Everything he owns is sitting in our car, and all they did is point and laugh.
Stay far away. I can only imagine how they treat vehicles and their contents, if they treat people this way.