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It seems clear that something hinky is going on here either with the tow company or the police Or the shop just really needed a Jeep Cherokee for parts
All you needed to know is the company is the go-to for police. You absolutely know they’re taking a large cut of the cost for that.
I’m thinking there could be a wee bit of collusion and kickback going on between two of the parties in this story.
Just maybe. I’ve been stuck worse and gotten out with the help of a Suzuki Samurai, a rope and a come-along. We were back killing snail-darters in three hours.
Hi, East Coast!
I can tell you where to go, but I don’t have to!
plat stooopid games, win stooopid prizes... Tow companies are always skeevy to say the least. When Sandy hit, I remember a tow company got the job to tow vehicles that were legally parked off the streets and the company was bilking people $1,500 per car. They even went into private driveways and towed those cars as well. Doing whatever they could to get a bigger pay day.
Assured Collision billed him $16,000 for an on-scene supervisor at $1,250 an hour. He is being charged more than $10,000 for an off-road recovery incident response unit. There is also a $5,000 fee for dangerous condition liability insurance. All the equipment and manpower totaled $48,835 for the 12 hour job.
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That right there folks is a company that makes the right political contributions.
I could have gotten that out with a comealong and a couple of bottle jacks.
The new highwaymen know how to rob you. If you don’t like it, they could always kill you.
Let me guess, you have to pay cash and exact change to get it back.
I’ve seen cozy tow yards that refuse to make change (for $90 from $100) and then charge $10 when you need to borrow their jumper cables to jump a car that lost the battery because the interior light was left on overnight (and no that OLD $10 can’t be applied to the new charge).
A bunch of crooks.
Some of you all may know I was Senior ed back in the glory years of Off-Road.com. WE used to hear stories like this semi often.
First, the guy was an idiot for trespassing. With that said, Everyone here talking about kickbacks and such are right. But there is one more thing.
This guy was made an example of because Off-Road vehicles are near the top of every liberal pols hit list. When you shut down an area pf public land, you start with Off-Roaders and get the bike/horse/hikers on board to help.
Like fools, they do. then the pol says “horses are bad!” Then “Bikes are bad!” I watched it countless times.
Oh and then the Sierra Club builds a ‘retreat’ on closed land. For ‘educational purposes. Of their high level members of course.
In this case, it’s private land, but the impact of a near 50K bill makes people consider new hobbies. Less off-roaders = easier land closure. Hello Agenda 21/Wildlands Project.
The guy was a poster boy for them.
Back in the 70s a friend of mine owned a coon dog that got hit by a car. My friend picked the dog up and placed it in the trunk of his car and drove it to the vet. The vet came out and examined the dog and said “This dog is dead.”
My friend took the dog home and gave it a decent burial (We did things like that back then.) A week or so later he got a bill from the vet for $100. I told him “You paid a vet a hundred bucks to tell you your dog was dead. I’d have told you that for ten bucks.”
As a very stupid teenage girl (1980’s) I got my father’s Chevy Impala stuck about a mile off road in a place that we used to have parties at. There was literally a stream running under the car and I had driven it down a steep embankment and there was no way I was going to be going up the other side. After about an hour I knew I would have to walk out the mile to a friends house and call my father. I knew my dad was going to flip! He showed up with his Chevy Truck and I remember my heart beating so hard. We came up to the top of the hill and he looked over the side, where I had driven, and said “what in the world did you do? how did you even get down there?†We went to the owner of the properties house and I had to explain what I had done. The guy laughed. My dad called some type of towing service, but they couldn’t bring a normal tow truck because it was in the woods, one lane, and they somehow determined they would have to go down the hill and tow it up the other side. After doing this they realized getting out the other side was worse than the way I came in! But at least on the other side there was a turn around, but it meant my dad had to steer the car as the guy dragged it back through the stream and up the hill! I just stood there in shocked embarrassment. After they got up the other side, my dad said to follow him (driving the car) until we got to the paved road and he could check the car out. Miraculously the car seemed ok but chunks of mud and grass were stuck to the underside. All my father said was “go wash the carâ€â€” which took forever! I had a friend with me that needed driving home who kept reminding me how much trouble I was in! Later as my dad was yelling at me (but not that much, I think he some how found it amusing) he said that the towing guy and the land owner refused any payment. This shocked me because I knew the cost would fall on me. But my dad was a volunteer firefighter /paramedic and very active in the community and they said they were returning the favor. Ahh small town life!
It is Mass...filled with Massholes.
Corruption R Us!
“Walpole”
He should have curtailed his Walpoling activities, sallied forth and infiltrated a place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles.
My brother, father in law and I got an old CJ5 stuck in 2 feet of muck when we hit a submerged tree stump. We were in the Florida swamps one night.
Sure it took us a few hours, but with a come-a-long and some rope, we pulled it about 200 ft. to some drier ground.
If you’re going to own a Jeep and actually use it, you should know how to get yourself unstuck, not call a tow truck.
That said, the tow company should lose their license.
That would be ridiculous even if it were a new jeep.
How do you get a jeep stuck? If he doesn’t have a tow/winch to get himself out, why is he going offroading in places he can get stuck? With no friends with him?