Carjacking on a different level
This should be treated as an attempted kidnapping.
Which it totally is
This is just bizarre, and definitely the police should be looking into. The story mentions the company’s been illegally towing, but surely no-one of them were while they were driving - I don’t see what the tow truck driver’s plan could be.
Also, I watched the video and they mention the model and year of the almost-victim’s car which seemed weird information to add in.
The plan was to grab the car and then call the cops if she doesn’t pay the drop fee. Unless you have people filming your botch job noone is dropping that fee without a flight.
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“Castle Doctrine” is the presumption that a person attempting to unlawfully enter your home poses a credible, criminal, imminent, deadly threat to any occupant, justifying a forceful response by, or on behalf of the occupants.
In most states, “Castle Doctrine” extends to one’s car as well as their home. Further, hooking an occupied car could be considered carjacking and kidnapping, both of which justify a forceful response by or on behalf of the occupants of the vehicle.
In most states, the occupants of the car and/or any bystanders would be justified in stopping this tow truck driver at gunpoint, or with gunfire.
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“Problematic” is an individual attacking you with a tow truck.
Individuals realizing that their lives are forfeit should they decide to attack is not at all problematic. Their subsequent decision to not engage in that attack is the exact opposite of problematic: that voluntary decision not to become a violent criminal is the best solution possible. There is no crime when the would-be criminal decides against perpetrating it.
“Problematic” is looking at people who stop such attacks and believing their defensive force to be a bigger problem than the attack itself. That attitude, in the mind of a would-be criminal, leads them to a different decision.
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I am not discussing morality here. I am describing the laws regulating the use of force in self defense and defense of others. I am discussing some of the legal principles of self defense and defense of others.
Legally, if the article is an accurate reflection of the circumstances, the driver of this tow truck established all the criteria necessary for an individual to shoot him until his criminal threat had ended.
I don’t mean to suggest that shooting him is the preferred solution. Rather, I am trying to suggest that the tow truck driver was either unaware of or unconcerned with that possibility as he engaged in his attack. Had he been aware of or concerned about that possibility, he would not likely have engaged in such egregious behavior.
Being barred from city contracts is definitely not enough. The owners and drivers need to be charged and blacklisted from ever owning or operating such business again.
“SPECIALTY TOWING” We specialize in abductions, for a fee. Make your problems go away today, call 1-800-ABDUCTION and get two for the price of one.
Right? Like your not just taking the car at that point, you’re taking the poeple IN the car!
They had fair warning to vacate the premises when they saw the tow truck merge into the lane ahead of them. The illegal squatters who think they can continue to occupy their moving vehicle during a surprise towing event. If a person wants to survive an STE without becoming property of the towing company all they need to do is eject.
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Even if this was a repo, it would be illegal. This guy is lucky he didn’t get shot.
