Neighbor’s Party Guests Block A Tow Truck Driver’s Driveway, So He Took The Opportunity To Tow All Their Illegally Parked Cars
by Jayne Elliott

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It doesn’t seem very smart to illegally park near the house of a tow truck driver, but that’s exactly what happened in today’s story.
The tow truck driver gave her neighbor every opportunity to avoid getting the cars towed, but eventually, she’d had enough and took matters into her own hands.
Let’s see how the story plays out.
Block my driveway? I’ll go ahead and take your vehicles.
Friday night here in the country can get a little crazy sometimes so I don’t mind when my neighbors cause a ruckus or loud party as long as its not too crazy.
Tonight I’m on call for Virginia State Police towing rotation which means I’ve got 25 minuets to get to where ever the wreck/DUI/impound/etc is.
As luck would have it, my neighbors are having a party and guess what’s blocking my driveway?
That’s right, about 25-30 cars.
She gave her neighbor a heads up that she’s on call.
I live down a dirt road at the end of a cul-de-sac, and its pretty narrow. One in one out type of deal, and with this rain we’ve been having, parking in the grass/clay/mud is really not the best idea.
Even with a 4×4 it can still get tricky.
I noticed a few cars coming in early this evening and walked over to my neighbors and made it pretty clear I was on call and as long as they didn’t block the road or my driveway all would be good.
No problems here.
The neighbor apparently didn’t take her seriously.
Well I get a call from my boss asking if I can go warm-up the Rotator and the light duty flatbed (tow trucks).
Its about 12:30AM so I get my boots on and other gear because if I’m up I might as well stay at the shop and clean a few things to stay busy and make the night move along.
I get in my car and as I’m backing out of the driveway I notice I’m blocked in.
I don’t mean by one truck, but by nearly 15 different vehicles.
The neighbor was not helpful.
I calmly walk over to my neighbors about a 1/8th mile hike and as I’m looking for them through the crowd of drunk teenagers, some idiot wants to know why I’m on his property (he’s not the property owner, I’ve never seen this classy gentleman)
Finally, I find my neighbor and ask her if she can move the cars, I’ve got to go to work she says in a normal tone (doesn’t yell over the music) into the house “whoever’s blocking the driveway next door move your trucks” then slams the door in my face.
I knock again and she answers with a drunken “oh god this witch again?” (internally I’m thinking alright then)
The neighbor made it even worse.
I do my best to explain, I’m on call and need to get out of my driveway to go to work.
She comes back sloshing a Natural Light exclaiming its a party, relax!
Shuts the door in my face and yells some nasty words.
I smile and as I’m walking away macho man throws a beer at me and cackles “yeah you best leave, go on, git!”
The neighbor crossed the wrong person!
I get on the phone with dispatch and call for as many trucks as we have available tonight (about ten) and tell them to come on over, mommas got some PPI’s (private property impounds).
I call police dispatch and ask if they’d send out a officer Incase things get out of hand and as soon as he gets to my place, my rigs start rolling up and hooking vehicles up and taking them to the impound yard.
We get down to the last three vehicles.
A yellow civic, gold Silverado and a old F-150
A couple of the car owners tried to save their cars.
The civic owner bolts to his car and takes off.
The Silverado girl (pretty wasted) gets stuck and starts tearing up my property.
Officer walks over and she throws a fit long story short she gets arrested for underage drinking and DUI.
The Ford owner doesn’t show up.
Time to get to work.
I get to work after all the impounds and with me I brought coffees and snacks for my drivers.
Tomorrows not a business day which means if these tools want their cars back, its going to be the regular$289.50 plus two days of storage at $55 a day and a $100 gate fee.
I make a note in every single storage sheet (papers that the vehicle owners get) to thank the girl who had the party for getting towed.
The kids’ parents called.
Several of the kids parents called wanting to know where there cars or trucks were.
I gave them the yard address and told them they can come anytime.
As soon as they started shouting about illegal tows and threatened with lawyers I showed them pictures of their cars with no parking signs.
And explained that I tried to reason with the owner of the property (me) but she was tired of being blocked in by drunken teenagers.
There are signs on my road saying no parking, and not to block the driveway.
Don’t mess with a tow truck driver, she’ll legally take your vehicles.
The girl who threw the party sounds completely unreasonable, but it’s kind of too bad her friends’ cars got towed if she told them it was okay to park there.
I hope they get their own form of revenge on her.
Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.
I completely agree.
The party goers might try to get revenge.
This is a good question.
Another person wouldn’t have been as nice.
Don’t mess with a tow truck driver!
Everyone should know that.
If you liked that post, check out this one about an employee that got revenge on HR when they refused to reimburse his travel.

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