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The Trudeau regime is threatening to arrest tow truck drivers if they don’t do their dirty work for them. https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1493606468846858249

All tow-truck companies on contract with the city have refused to haul away the big rigs that have gridlocked Ottawa's downtown for the second week in a row, the city's manager says. Steve Kanellakos said the consensus among many of the companies seems to be that they don't want to do the work because the heavy truck industry is such a large part of their livelihoods and they don't want to damage that part of their businesses. The city has contracts with 10 companies, which are typically used to tow vehicles during parking bans so city plows can remove snow....

A South Carolina tow truck driver who supports Donald Trump for president refused to help a motorist stranded on the side of Interstate 26 Monday because of her Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. Kenneth Shupe, who owns Shupee Max Towing in Travelers Rest, told a local ABC News affiliate that he “drew a line in the sand” when he saw the sticker on Cassy McWade’s stranded vehicle in Asheville. “Something came over me, I think the Lord came to me, and he just said get in the truck and leave,” Mr. Shupe said. “And when I got in my truck, you...

FULL TITLE: Enraged female motorist 'bites' tow truck driver and smashes windows as her prized SUV is taken away for repossession A female motorist has been accused of savagely biting a recovery man after he arrived at her home to tow away her vehicle for repossession. Lakeisha Smith, 29, from Spartanburg, South Carolina, flew into a rage on Sunday evening when Scott Fowler came to pick up her prized Cadillac Escalade, with part of the event caught on camera. Cell phone-filmed footage shows her trying to drive the luxury SUV off the tow truck before manically smashing in all of...

Indianapolis As a tow truck driver lay pinned between a car and a metal wire, it was a passerby's quick thinking that saved his life. Jamaryon Middlebrooks was driving along North Emerson on a Sunday night when a frantic person waved him off the side of the road. Middlebrooks found a chaotic scene, as the tow truck driver went unconscious and witnesses described him turning blue. "He wasn't breathing. ... They felt a pulse but that was about it," Middlebrooks said. Middlebrooks made a split-second decision, grabbing his handgun out of his truck and firing nine shots at the chain,...

A tow-truck driver was killed Wednesday morning after being dragged more than a mile by a sport-utility vehicle he was attempting to tow from an apartment complex in east Colorado Springs, police said. The victim — whose name wasn't released — was pronounced dead at Memorial Hospital Central about 11:30 a.m., police said. John Stellabotte, the owner of J & J Towing, said police told him his driver was in the process of towing an illegally parked vehicle at the Hill Park Apartments at 360 N. Murray Blvd. when the owner jumped inside and took off. Sgt. Steve Noblitt said...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Philadelphia tow truck driver is accused of running over another driver, killing him, in a dispute over a woman and towing territory. Police say 25-year-old Glen McDaniel ran over 30-year-old Ray Santiago early Sunday in the parking lot of a bar in the Kensington neighborhood.

Jorge Rivera lost his life Sunday over $2, police said. The Hollywood butcher, 34, was in a car accident and needed a tow truck, and when it came time to pay a $78 bill, Rivera only had four $20 bills. When the driver said he could not provide change, Rivera demanded it, and the 1:30 a.m. argument escalated as Rivera's nephew joined him in yelling at the driver. The driver became nervous and drove off with Rivera's 1999 Chrysler Sebring still on the flatbed, police and family members said. Rivera jumped onto the truck cab, hanging off the passenger-side window,...