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City council has continually been told about "predatory towing" in downtown, but the seem unable or unwilling to do anything about, beyond some lip service.
A week or so ago, they towed the wrong woman, and she has been on a rampage about illegal predatory towing after being towed when she had paid the parking fee and was towed anyway. It cost her $185.00 to get her car back.
If you have ever spent 5 minutes downtown the odds are you have seen an "All Safe" wrecker prowling the streets looking for a victim. Two cars towed in less than 90 minutes, and I speculate that perhaps a in excess of 1,000 cars have been towed illegally in the past year.
Will council revoke All Safe's right to prowl downtown streets, revoke business licenses, or take any action against the company. I really doubt it, it will just be blamed on bad employees, and the wreckers are prowling the streets right now.
Any wagers that out of state plates are preferred?
Update:
On the evening news, WLOS interviewed the owner of the wrecker company. He stated he had warned his drivers that there was a likely hood of a sting, apparently due to all the bad press generated over the woman mentioned earlier complaining long and loud over the tactics of the predator towing.
How rampant is this practice, as even after the warning they illegally towed cars?
The owner also stated that he had dismissed one of the men, but that it was not related to this incident, and that his wreckers would continue to prowl the streets of Asheville.
Illegal towing isn't a service. First Sunny's used to do this, but All Safe takes the cake. Glad someone finally complained enough for someone to look into it.
I want to know why the owner felt the need to warn his drivers that a sting was possible. This to me says he was fully aware that his drivers were towing/stealing cars. I've managed people for years and this just doesn't make sense.
I want to know why the owner felt the need to warn his drivers that a sting was possible. This to me says he was fully aware that his drivers were towing/stealing cars. I've managed people for years and this just doesn't make sense.
Ya think
This made the front page of today's paper, but I fear that it will quickly disappear from public view, and the towing will continue unabated.
In the police sting, officers parked a vehicle at 10:30 p.m. Saturday at 93 N. Lexington Ave. and put $3 in a collection box after recording the serial number of each bill.
Then they watched as employees from All-Safe Towing and Recovery towed four cars before taking the decoy vehicle at 11:51 p.m., police Capt. Tim Splain said.
Sounds like they were towing the most convenient car just as fast as they could, having the 5th car on the hook in less just over an hour. 4 cars per hour at $150 per is a pretty good racket.
Quote:
All-Safe manager Danny Jones said he did not know why his workers towed the decoy vehicle.
NASA, we have your missing rocket scientist, he running a wrecker business in Asheville
They say Asheville has large ratio of PHDs and graduate level citizens but no jobs to support what they want to do. Maybe these guys are rocket scientist and have large education loans to pay off.
Slaz: You mean a PhD is overqualified to wait tables?
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