tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646327276933239820.post9025320411253520121..comments2024-03-06T20:41:19.185-06:00Comments on TowingUtopia: Thumbnail Summary Of Regulatory Tactics Directed At Predatory TowingJohnny T. Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15617101493541319078noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646327276933239820.post-75589811592589634742010-08-07T11:43:26.367-05:002010-08-07T11:43:26.367-05:0049 US Code § 1450 (formerly the Federal Aviation A...49 US Code § 1450 (formerly the Federal Aviation Authority Authorization Act) authorizes cities and counties to regulate max prices for non-consentual towing. <br /><br />49 US Code § 14501. Federal authority over intrastate transportation<br /><br />(c) Motor Carriers of Property.—<br /><br />(2) Matters not covered.— Paragraph (1)—<br /><br />(C) does not apply to the authority of a State or a political subdivision of a State to enact or enforce a law, regulation, or other provision relating to the price of for-hire motor vehicle transportation by a tow truck, if such transportation is performed without the prior consent or authorization of the owner or operator of the motor vehicle.<br /><br />http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/49/14501.html<br /><br />This is the law that tow crooks fear most, and laws allowing citizen's arrest and justifiable homicide in self defense. <br /><br />Many govt noncon towing contracts are lowball bid-rigged to set max prices between zero and $25. Examples of noncon towing contracts for zero dollars:<br />http://piratenews.org/newslinks.html<br /><br />Never forget you are dealing with mafia car thieves, and treat them accordingly, with police not much better (or worse). Our ex-sheriff Joe Jenkins was sent to prison for stealing $1-million in cars per day from car dealerships. Our prior sheriff Tim Hutchison stole cars at West Town Mall with convicted copkiller towtrucker Roy Lee Clark, who chopped them for parts at his chopshop, according to our current sheriff and Hutch's confession on the front page of the Knoxville News Sentinel.<br /><br />Cop.<br />to steal; filch. <br />to buy (narcotics).<br />cop out, to avoid one's responsibility, the fulfillment of a promise, etc.; renege; back out. <br />cop a plea. <br />to plead guilty or confess in return for receiving a lighter sentence. <br />to plead guilty to a lesser charge as a means of bargaining one's way out of standing trial for a more serious charge; plea-bargain. <br />-Random House Unabridged Dictionary<br /><br />"10% of cops are honest, 10% are dishonest, and 80% wish they were honest."<br />-Detective Frank Serpico, NYPD, testimony to Knapp Commission <br /><br />"I’ll burn your house down, set your dog on fire and there won’t be a member of your family left, do you understand me? I won’t hire it done, I will do it myself! Do you understand me?”<br />-Blount County TN sheriff James Berrong, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, Nuchols v. Berrong, No. 04-5645, July 11, 2005<br />http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/05a0586n-06.pdfDragonaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14052337446003213770noreply@blogger.com