Author Topic: When can you take your car from a repair shop? (Read 1361 times)

lazs2 · « **Reply #45 on:** December 25, 2006, 10:59:08 AM »

pooh... I believe he does live in hollywood and he does have plenty of time to watch tv in the daytime. I don't think he has a job.

lazs

MiloMorai · « **Reply #46 on:** December 25, 2006, 11:55:38 AM »

lazs would have had some of his good buddy 'boys' from a mc club show up. Well those that are not in prison.

Hawker25 · « **Reply #47 on:** December 25, 2006, 12:18:22 PM »

I don't know how it works in cali but i used to drive a AAA tow truck in the midwest. This is a problem everywhere. We always called these aholes road pirates. What they do is they get scanner to pick up the frequency that AAA uses to dispatch there trucks. Then they try to get there before the real truck does. Many times they are gone with the customers car before we could even get there. More than once i showed up on a scene and pirate was loading our customers car onto a truck. Every time the customer had no idea that they were not AAA. They wait until they have the car on there truck and try to extort money out of them. Most of the time when i called them on it made a stink they would stick their tail between there legs and leave but once or twice one of these guys tried to get physical. Always make sure when a tow truck shows up that they from the service you call. Point of info though if you have roadside assistance from about and company be it auto manufacturer or cell phone ect. 99 percent of the time you will get a AAA truck because the companies contract out to them. Most of the people on here won't probably have a problem because they are men and are not easy targets. Tell your daughters and wives though that if they are not sure get in the car lock the doors and call AAA. Tell them if anything is funny not to hesitate to call the police for help. All reputable tow companies have good relations with local law enforcement and will not be afraid to do there job while cops are on the scene. Many non reputable companies have scumbags working for them that will do things like off to trade sex for the bill and it is much better in my opinion to have the police there when you don't need them than feel stupid for calling them and have something really bad happen to a daughter or wife.

Silat · « **Reply #48 on:** December 25, 2006, 03:02:31 PM »

I love it when the law works:)

Silat · « **Reply #49 on:** December 25, 2006, 03:03:21 PM »

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Originally posted by ByeBye
What culero said. Basically you are saying that she didn't pay for the repairs, then you drove off with a chit-eating grin on your face in her newly repaired car.

Based just on what you have written, I'd have to say that you are the stunninghunk.

NUKE they repaired the car without permission..

Suave · « **Reply #50 on:** December 25, 2006, 05:05:31 PM »

Hawker25 with 26 posts from the republic of texas is right.

Protect the little ladies from the pirates!

Masherbrum · « **Reply #51 on:** December 25, 2006, 06:16:09 PM »

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Originally posted by Hawker25
I don't know how it works in cali but i used to drive a AAA tow truck in the midwest. This is a problem everywhere. We always called these aholes road pirates. What they do is they get scanner to pick up the frequency that AAA uses to dispatch there trucks. Then they try to get there before the real truck does. Many times they are gone with the customers car before we could even get there. More than once i showed up on a scene and pirate was loading our customers car onto a truck. Every time the customer had no idea that they were not AAA. They wait until they have the car on there truck and try to extort money out of them. Most of the time when i called them on it made a stink they would stick their tail between there legs and leave but once or twice one of these guys tried to get physical. Always make sure when a tow truck shows up that they from the service you call. Point of info though if you have roadside assistance from about and company be it auto manufacturer or cell phone ect. 99 percent of the time you will get a AAA truck because the companies contract out to them. Most of the people on here won't probably have a problem because they are men and are not easy targets.

I recall an A-Team episode of this very thing happening.

Pooh21 · « **Reply #52 on:** December 25, 2006, 06:20:50 PM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
I recall an A-Team episode of this very thing happening.

Now what we need is a guy who says his wife called him after AAA and he beat the Gypsypiratemobsters to her car and fixed it himself with a can of hairspray, a toothpick, and a heater module from a toaster. And with McGuyver,The A-Team, and Walker Texas Ranger we'd have a triple play of classic tv, now in daytime syndication.

john9001 · « **Reply #53 on:** December 25, 2006, 06:29:16 PM »

Walker Texas Ranger would not have called six backups, walker would have kung foo'd them all himself.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #54 on:** December 25, 2006, 07:31:56 PM »

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Originally posted by Hawker25
I don't know how it works in cali but i used to drive a AAA tow truck in the midwest. This is a problem everywhere. We always called these aholes road pirates. What they do is they get scanner to pick up the frequency that AAA uses to dispatch there trucks. Then they try to get there before the real truck does. Many times they are gone with the customers car before we could even get there. More than once i showed up on a scene and pirate was loading our customers car onto a truck. Every time the customer had no idea that they were not AAA. They wait until they have the car on there truck and try to extort money out of them. Most of the time when i called them on it made a stink they would stick their tail between there legs and leave but once or twice one of these guys tried to get physical. Always make sure when a tow truck shows up that they from the service you call. Point of info though if you have roadside assistance from about and company be it auto manufacturer or cell phone ect. 99 percent of the time you will get a AAA truck because the companies contract out to them. Most of the people on here won't probably have a problem because they are men and are not easy targets. Tell your daughters and wives though that if they are not sure get in the car lock the doors and call AAA. Tell them if anything is funny not to hesitate to call the police for help. All reputable tow companies have good relations with local law enforcement and will not be afraid to do there job while cops are on the scene. Many non reputable companies have scumbags working for them that will do things like off to trade sex for the bill and it is much better in my opinion to have the police there when you don't need them than feel stupid for calling them and have something really bad happen to a daughter or wife.

Thanks for posting that Hawker25

RightF00T · « **Reply #55 on:** December 25, 2006, 08:07:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Pooh21
I like this story, its like an early episode of walker texas ranger, but more uplifting as Xmarine got his deeds accomplished through using his brain, and Walker always had to resort to violence like kicking people in the head, though the underlying menace of xmarines Native american Ninja powers helped him stare these baddies down til Uniformed backup arrived. This story also is blessed with proper villians, who doesnt hate gypsies and want to see them get their comeuppance. The conclusion as he drives into the sunset in a perfectly repaired car for his girl, while the villians gnash their teeth in the back of a squad car is classic and uplifting in this holiday time, kinda like Home Alone's ending. Xmarine like a modern Billy Jack is always there when needed.

SirLoin · « **Reply #56 on:** December 26, 2006, 05:58:07 AM »

I had an accident 8 years ago(my fault) that totalled my Mazda 323 and moderately damaged a lady's Minivan...I called the Police & CAA and a tow truck was on it's way...This is a story of a corrupt pos cop and his buddy's repair shop.

Well,the cop shows up..i explain what happened(admitted it was my fault...trying to cross 2 lanes of gridlock traffic from a music store exit,a lady in another minivan waved it ok for me to cross through the gap...right into an oncoming vehicle travelling in the suicide lane..dough!)

Not long after a tow truck shows up and starts to hook up my car..I approach and he tells me he's not CAA...I ask him to release my car as i have my own tow on it's way...The COP says "This guy owns a body shop and will have your car repaired in 3 days"...I tell the COP i have a friend who has a repair shop and have called for CAA.

This infuriated the poor underpaid contstable..He lost it"Why didn't you tell me u called CAA!!!"..etc

The COP looks at his buddy as he lowers down my car says"I'll get u the next one."

So infuriated was this pig that he wasn't getting his cut from the chop shop that he left without even issuing me any sort of ticket...The CCA guy shows up and tells me that sort of thing goes on all the time.