WTF....some cheeky fucker tried towing my car away!!!
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just finished putting the chicken in the oven,
then i thought i'd have a sit down for ten min's before i do the potato's,

heard some kids downstairs which is normally a very bad thing,
had a look out the window and there's 3 guy's and one girl around my truck,
had a closer look and there's a tow rope tied on to my frontend!!
i was like oh fuck any minute and they were off!

Phoned the police and i was like er yea there's someone getting ready to tow my car away! get someone here quick

ran down 8 flights of stairs because the poxy lift was broken...again,
got down the full of adrenaline and shouted get the hell away from my motor.

Then the biggest bloke said that it was his and he'd been told to collect it by someone in the same block of flats as me?!?
i said i dont think so mate, and asked him to take his rope off my car, to which he replied do one im waiting for the owner !!
FFS, i said i am the fucking owner and ive got the keys here in my hand,so get that rope off.

after arguing with him for a few mins the Fed's show up,
i then told them what's happening etc etc.....
they go and talk to the bloke and ask him to get the rope of my car,
ask me if i want to take any action etc,
turn's out someone called this bloke to come and collect a mini for scrap! lol
i know my truck's a bit shabby at the mo but seriously,
he said it was number 48 so the police went up to have a word and they said it was just a little old lady who lives there...
so then the bloke who was collecting thinks it was someone he knows sent him on a wind up?
i got the number and iv'e tryed calling it but its obv off now....
iv'e move my truck into the gated area at the back you cant get in with in or out unless you have a key, but i cant see it , thats why it was out the front......
all on a sunday afternoon......

chances are they guy was towing it fro scrap, unprovolked. the scrap metal places never check for documents when you weigh a car in, atleast not up here anyways.. glad you put a stop to it though obviously!

Edited by evolotion on 28th Mar, 2010.

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Denis O'Brien.

either that or you've pissed someone off.

a close shave mate, the cheek lol

Yes i moved to the darkside

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lucky you saw it

Did you took action then ?

I mean, if it's a new way of stealing car, it is everybodies responsibilitie to turn it in a nightmare when you get caught.
Because if nobody does, it is really a brilliant way of escaping !

Rusty by nature

Broad daylight is the time that anyone would most likely look the other way as normal for genuine things like that to happen in the daytime. Take for instance, one of our company Renault Traffic vans was left outside our office. The office is on a business estate, with parking at the front, there is then some grass a path then the main road which, on a saturday and sunday is heaving with traffic for Ikea. Finding the the van on the monday morning with pretty much the whole front end dismantled and missing, including the wiper arms. If some one was dismantling a van in the middle of the night, that to me at least woul ring alarm bells.

Are all your documents in order V5 especially! if not the next person who tries such a manouver may ask the old bill to check the registered keepers name on the V5. If its not you bye bye car.

Own the day

yes the Rat Bastards would have weighed it in if you wernt there.....

be carefull and get a disc lock on the steering wheel ........ the rats may come back ??

a few years back I went out and my folks car was parked out the front of the house, they were out in the other car, i left at 6pm and came back about 7pm and the car had gone. i just assumed they had gone out in it.
spoke to them in the morning and somebody had nicked it! never to be seen again. summer as well so daylight and in a small village but a main (ish) through road.

unbelievable.

you were lucky!!