They are? Well, as of this moment, they're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!
Posted on 03/31/2010 11:41:37 AM PDT by Skunkworx
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Dozens of people who parked at the University of Central Florida for an event say they were set up after their cars were towed. They said event parking signs directed them to a lot, but more than 50 cars in that lot were towed. People said those signs and their cars were gone when they got back.
A viewer contacted WFTV after his car was towed Saturday, along with 52 others. All of them were in line to recover their cars at an impound lot and all of them attended the Glenn Beck show at UCF.
The people parked in a Kappa Sigma lot. Mike Vedder thinks they were set up. He doesn't know if it was a dislike of the conservative commentator or money.
“Maybe the have a deal with the tow truck company or maybe they got kickbacks under the table," Vedder said.
They all said an event parking sign clearly directed them into the lot. Students at the fraternity wouldn't comment, but WFTV caught up with the owner of Orange County Towing and Recovery, Ronald Hulbert.
"I have a lot at stake, a lot invested. I'm not going to lose it over a $125 tow, times 53, times 53, it was a good day," Ronald Hulbert said.
Hulbert admits he's never towed that many cars in one day before; he said it took him at least eight hours to tow all the cars. Each driver had to pay cash, netting him more than $6,600.
Vedder also had to pay $25 for a cab ride to the tow company.
UCF said, out of 30 recent events, it hasn’t had a problem, but Vedder said this was his last at that arena.
“I won’t come to anymore. I'm going to tell everyone else it's not a place I want to be," he said.
WFTV was told to call Paul Gamble with Kappa Sigma, but he did not return any phone calls.
Of all the insults we have to deal with on a daily basis....life threatening, anger producing, Constitutional tweaking stuff!...
..and you sign on today to whine ....
Get a life!...
Or better yet....go pay for these folks parking tickets!
Did these 53 separate carloads of event attendees each just randomly decide to park in the inconvenient and unlawful parking lot for no apparent reason?
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I went to a concert on a smallish college campus a few months back. Had no idea where the venue was in relation to the parking. I just followed the other cars to a lot on campus.
I know plenty of people that would walk a quarter of a mile to save whatever the parking fee is at the lots closer to wherever they are going.
But, this situation? I have not the slightest idea.
Offended? The folks that had their cars towed should be offended. It doesn’t matter where other parking was available, if someone put a sign out that said “Park Here” and then had the cars towed, they should be held accountable. Also, I sincerely hope that you didn’t register on FR just to defend this crap and if you get offended that easily you won’t last long on here anyway.
Sniff.....IBTZ
Man oh man, just how long does a Glen Beck event take? The tow truck guy says it took him EIGHT hours to tow all those vehicles.
These particular events were all day. 10 to 5 I think.
This one has potential ;-)
I agree. Some jokes are funny. A joke that costs you $125 and a lot of lost time is not funny.
Whoever pulled this prank should get to deal with the consequences.
I'll bet a prank that costs you $6000 plus a lawyer is really not funny.
“Quite interesting that you signed up today just to defend this.”
LOL! sniff.....
I have a couple of attorney friends. I don’t know about handling other people’s problems, but I know if this happened to one of them- well, I would hate to be the person responsible for such a deception.
In fact, one of them told me a few months ago that she is giving hell to a company that pulled the same trick on her - etc. “It’s not the money, it’s the principle of the thing.”
A full police investigation should be held.
UCF should suspend them until the investigation is finished.
The national chapter should suspend the fraternity at once.
Too many problems.
People the same age are remaking the Middle East with guns, diplomacy and their lives. These goofballs really look bad and they have disgraced the national organization.
Gotcha. I was thinking a talk, so at most a couple of hours.
Glenn Beck should reimburse the victims, something O’Reilly wouldn’t hesitate to do.
They are? Well, as of this moment, they're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!
http://www.kappasigma.org/contact_us
The tow truck company must have a record of who called him and authorized the towing. It sounds like he was taken in by a fraud also. If he cooperates with authorites he should be off the hook, if he withholds the info then he is complicit in the fraud.
It shouldn’t be to hard for some reporter to determine who made the tow call. If you car got towed, I believe you are entitled to know who demanded the tow.
It looks like these tactics are part of a new game plan. Every one needs to be documented. (Were the tables turned, there would already be arrests and 24/7 MSM outrage.)
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