Posted on 10/21/2022 8:14:52 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
Police had their weapons drawn as they ordered Nick Wright and his 13-year-old daughter to put their hands on the hood of the car they had rented less than an hour earlier.
“I couldn’t see my daughter for most of the situation, so I felt completely helpless,” Wright said. “I was being detained with my fingers locked behind my head and police telling me to shut up. It was surreal.”
Wright and his daughter were on vacation and had just landed at Savannah airport. They’d rented the car about 30 minutes before officers stopped them.
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Sometimes that isn’t possible and isn’t reasonable, either.
“We’ve heard nothing from Hertz in regards to Nicholas and (his daughter’s) case,” Wright’s attorney Francis Malofiy said. “And that’s the thing that’s so shocking. They’re not treating this with the care, concern and attention it deserves…when we have now 367 and counting cases against Hertz for wrongfully arresting, jailing, or prosecuting their very own customers, it shows that someone’s asleep at the switch.”
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Hertz obviously has a deep systemic problem with their rental system and likely their entire management structure. As usual, the *only* way to get the attention of these unaccountable corporate behemoths is to sue them in court. Sue them so it hurts.
But if Hertz is going to report cars stolen, they need to make sure they aren’t re-renting cars reported stolen to new customers.
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If Hertz had a half decent rental system, it would *never* allow a car to be released for rental without cross-checking their own damn system to see if the car was marked in their system as stolen. This is a sign of a piss-poor IT system.
But if Hertz is going to report cars stolen, they need to make sure they aren’t re-renting cars reported stolen to new customers.
Those two sentences of yours don't mesh. I find no sympathy for a company that allows this to happen multiple times.
Law enforcement is long overdue to refuse ANY statement from Hertz that a car was stolen. Prosecutors are long overdue to charge individuals at Hertz for filing false claims.
You “sympathize” with a car rental company that’s incompetent enough to report a returned car as “stolen,” and even rents out such a “stolen” car to innocent third parties?
Since the actual rental company was Trinity, he probably didn't know their parent company is Hertz. I know I didn't till I actually read the article.
Thrifty. Hertz owns Dollar, Thrifty, and Firefly.
They may have a “generous” rewards program but their prices in many places is so much higher than even in-airport (vs bus to some far off location) competition it makes no sense to rent from them.
The guy is lucky he’s still alive.
Hertz is a problem. The real story here is the larger problem of jack booted thugs and vermin prosecutors. In each of these horrors the cops were informed it was a rental contract dispute and could have let the renter go after getting his or her information and impounding the car but no, pigs gotta pig and make an arrest. Then prosecutors are generally too lazy to look at a small case until it is 5 min before trial, and judges won’t look at anything until you have jumped through all pre trial hearings. It’s no skin off their ass that you had months of stress and the joy of paying an attorney several thousand dollars to file paperwork until the vermin in the courts finally glance at the facts and see there is no case. Of all the pieces of human garbage involved only hertz will be held accountable.
I was ripped off by Hertz once. Totally corrupt.
Juice always looked cool.
I wonder how many 'reported as stolen' cars are in Hertz inventory? It sure sounds like this one was. 30 minutes after rental and flagged as stolen? So they never clean up their records. They should be forced to close their doors.
The issue of course is that Hertz often fails to rescind their stolen vehicle reports, but in the past it wouldn't matter very much unless a cop actually pulled someone over for a traffic violation then ran the plates, a very rare occurrence for the average car rental.
But now most police cars are equipped with license plate scanning cameras facing in all directions, and are constantly "running the plates" of every vehicle the cop car passes. So if a police car just goes past you in the other direction, the officers are instantly alerted to a "stolen vehicle" and immediately investigate.
Note to self - always call the cops before you leave the rent a car place and check if that car is reported stolen.
Sheezz...
BINGO!!!!! and then some.
In my traveling days it was National and Enterprise. NEVER hertz. Too high, dirty cars, unpleasant. Never liked simpson either.
What Hertz is doing is criminal and the cops are out of control. Reason would consider the rental agreement and back off to nothing. Cops are stupid and power trippers.
yes the cops know, hertz reports cars stolen because they have poor paper work handling its been an issue for a long time with them
OJ running for his rented white SUV, wasn’t it? Been so long ago the murderer got away with killing his wife I’ve forgotten. Saw his ugly ass on one of those Jail shows on one of the cop shows. They knew he was coming to turn his self in for the case out in Vegas. They were saying “he will be handled just like any other person coming into our facility.” Then four sergeants handled him instead of the other jail guards. All smiling and OJ being his funny OJ self.
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