No, but there is a difference between hiring someone to tow your car and hiring someone to move your house and all of your worldy possessions. It would seem that if you want to have someone do the latter, you'll engage in a little more due diligence.
The Sheriff really blew this one. He treated them like trash and tossed their entire existence into a heap on the side of the road. It is a disgrace and disgusting.
What more could the Sheriff have done? The wheels popped off the trailer carrying the house. The home was already damaged. A professional towing company could not move it. After 9 hours of dealing with a house blocking a major thoroughfare, it seems like he was out of options here.
What do you think they would have done if it were a truck illegally transporting a 50 gallon drum of paint thinner and the drum had a small rupture and thinner spilled out?
They could have let those poor people get their belonging out of their home before destroying everything.
What would two more hours be?
There entire existence was trashed to the side of the road.
It is the Sheriff’s attitude and approach that was the problem.