Posted on 11/09/2021 1:15:04 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
A slew of former Hertz Car Rental customers are suing the company for allegedly having them falsely arrested and jailed.
More than 165 customers from Delaware, California, Florida, Illinois and other states have come forward filing legal complaints against Hertz. Each of them claiming to have rented cars from the company only to be stopped, arrested, and sometimes jailed over accusations that the vehicle was reported missing.
The customers who each have rental agreements and bank statements to prove their innocence say that Hertz’s unreliable system and filing of false stolen car reports is to blame. For instance, James Tolen of Houston recalled being stopped by police last year, just two days before Christmas.
“It was just terrifying. It was bad. Actually, I was really thinking that I wasn’t gonna make it home,” he recounted to CBS News. Tolen and his wife, Krystal Carter, say they rented from Hertz at least twelve times that year.
Tolen, who was just leaving a contracting gig, said the officers had their guns drawn as they ordered him to exit the vehicle, lift his shirt to show he was not in possession of a weapon, and slowly make his way towards them during the traffic stop.
When officers handcuffed Tolen and explained he had been pulled over because the vehicle was listed as stolen he was perplexed. He said officers immediately saw him as a “felon” but that perception changed when Tolen showed the officers his rental agreement that listed him as an authorized driver.
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Being so screwed up that you falsely report your customers to the cops for grand theft auto is one such case if it ever gets generally known.
They’re one of the most dysfunctional rental agencies around. I’ve stuck with National for business travel and have had few issues.
“Mullet Mark” Fields, the Ford guy who used to commute from Miami to Motown on a corp jet, is running Hertz now.
He’s not very well regarded in the car biz.
If a person has me jailed falsely, I will do whatever I can to see that they also get jailed.
A corporation who jails 160 people falsely, Not sure how you jail a corporation, but at minimum there should be compensation of 3x the value of the car each of those people were falsely accused of stealing.
Yabut were they vaxxed?
You would think this is why the FBI and US Attorneys were created by Congress in the First place, to JAIL Boards of Directors of Corporations for Criminal Conduct??
I fail to see why the State can’t do it though? just wussies I guess or the campaign bribes are too good?...
May it be thus for Hertz.
This may give some ideas to employees that are told they are now mandatory medical experiments—and want to get even instead of getting mad.
;-)
Watched this on Steve Lehto’s Youtube Channel many days ago. What a coincidence. It has been many years (more than 10) since I used Hertz and now why I know I head to Budget every time LOL
More importent driving thru Kansas, Colorado, Utah, on I 70 were they masked?
I’m a Lehto fan as well.
If even one person was stopped, arrested, or jailed with a false statement from the company, the individual employee who called the cops or flagged the car as stolen needs to do time. Hertz as a corporation needs to be restricted from EVER having law enforcement retrieve one of their cars.
GMTA Small world. Because of him I will never buy an RV lol
I read Hertz side of the story and it makes more sense.
Pretty crappy police and prosecutors. Easy to prove where the car is.
They have cars now?
National or Enterpirse, never Hertz. Remember the OJ commercial, that’s why, that was enough. That was long long ago.
I don’t know if you can short this stock enough.
ALWAYS get a hard copy of the rental agreement. They can still email you the agreement, but that does you no good if you get pulled over. Cancelled a rental from Enterprise because their office printer was broken. I was driving out of state and said “no way” to not having a hard copy of the agreement. It’s the only document that shows you are authorized to be driving their vehicle.
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