Raleigh Tow company warning

What would/could they do as a private lot if you were to just take the boot off and drive away? There is no doubt in my mind that's what I would do if I were driving the truck.
 
Lorenzo816 said:
wouldn't they charge ya with destruction of private property?
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How would they charge you? By plate number? Unless they took a picture of the vehicle each time...
"your boot mysteriously disappeared from some vehicle the same way my money mysteriously disappeared from your box."
 
Then wait for them to roll in with the tow truck and slash all the tires on it. Do this masked etc so they can't identify you. Better yet, follow them back to their yard... Light 'em up!
 
this is getting rediculous.
however just filming yourself puttong $$$ in the box is the easiest trick. most cell phones can do it.
 
raleighjeepguy said:
Any suggestions? I've never seen much of places to park down there unless you get their dirt early and park by the patio.
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ANY time it has ever been busy I can always find a spot within a block on Hillsborough. In fact on busy nights I usually just cruise over there to park and do not bother with the area two blocks south. And I am usually driving my crew cab long bed so if I can find a spot you can surely find two with that Jeep!
 
I love Google. Of course I'm not condoning such behavoir......

Deflating the tire.
If the boot is going to work properly, it must be properly installed, and that's not an easy process -- especially in the dark, when you have a long night of boot-installing ahead. If the installation is even a bit sloppy (that is, if the jaws that attach the boot to the wheel are a little bit loose), it's often possible to remove the boot by letting the air out of the tire and simply sliding the whole thing off.
This is by far the simplest strategy. It doesn't always work -- conscientious installer can prevent it almost every time, and some car wheels don't leave enough room for the process anyway. But veterans of boot-happy cities have told us they've removed dozens of boots this way, quickly, quietly, and easily.


The hubcap plate.
A key element to the boot's effectiveness is its ability to prevent car-owners from getting access to the lug nuts on the booted wheel. Once the lug nuts are accessible, the wheel can be removed and replaced with a spare tire, and the car can be driven away.
If the boot is properly installed, the plate will be tightly secured over the hubcaps, making it impossible event to imagine loosening the lug nuts. But the plate is one of the more flimsy parts of the boot; it's attached by a half-inch swivel pin that is spot-welded to the frame. As our boot-busting experts explained, spot welds that hold together two pieces of metal of different thicknesses are inherently weak. There are several such welds on the boot, and this one is especially vulnerable.

With a common battery-powered drill and a 15-cent grinding wheel or "cut-off tool", one of our experts was able to grind away most of the weld on the pin in about two minutes. With a five-dollar cold chisel and a standard hammer, he did the same job even faster.

Once the weld is broken, a quick blow with a hammer forced the pin out, releasing the plate from the boot frame and making it easy to change the tire and drive away, leaving the old, boot-laden tire behind (or safely stowed in the trunk as a souvenir).


The jaw-to-frame pins.
The main frame of the boot -- the "arm" -- fit into a pair of metal pins on the wheel-clamp, or "jaw". The pins are a central element of the boot's structure. They're also one of its weakest links.
The pins are only about an inch long. when the boot is installed, they appear to be connected to each other through some sort of thick, central rod. In fact, they're just stuck into holes drilled in the frame, and spot-welded at the bottom.

Even when the boot is assembled, there's plenty of free play between the arm and the pins. A few strong, sharp blows with a hammer on the top of the pins quickly breaks them free and makes them easy to remove. With those pins gone, the boot comes apart immediately.

The welds holding the lock-box to the frame. For all the effort that the bootmakers put into developing an impregnable locking mechanism, it's amazing how loosely the lock-box is attached to the rest of the boot. Four flimsy spot-welds hold the entire padlock-and-cover-plate assembly to the main boot frame. It took an expert just a few seconds to chip away one of the welds with a chisel and hammer; when one of our spastic, incompetent, weak-wristed editors tried it on a second weld a few days later, it took less than a minute.

Once the lock-box is liberated from the frame, the entire boot can be dismantled and removed quickly with a ratchet and standard (16-inch) spark-plug socket.


The arm itself.
If all else fails, our experts discovered that they could actually cut through the tough-looking steel of the main arm with a battery-powered drill and a cut-off tool. forget the oxyacetylene torches and the nitric acid -- the boot arm cuts like butter with a cheap hobbyist's tool. By our calculations, a standard drill-and-cut-off tool set-up can cut through the main arm in less than ten minutes.
 
I just had a funny image pop in my head. I have never seen this before, but knowing the internet, one probably exist.

Imagine a 64 impala with hydroaulics at all four corners, doing a three wheel deal with a booted wheel raised in the air, speeding away from a tow truck...lol

Maybe it could be one of those ''motivational'' posters and it could read something like..
Being prepared for anything...priceless.

IDK..but the thought made me laugh.

One of you photo shop experts could do a picture like that...Would be funnay!
 
RatLabGuy said:
this is getting rediculous.
however just filming yourself puttong $$$ in the box is the easiest trick. most cell phones can do it.
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Why? I say cut the shit off leave it there with a note that says:fuck-you: on it. Tell them you have a video and send them a copy of it.
 
So my question is...meet and greet there on Friday or Saturday night? I'll bring the generator and the angle grinders. Hell, if they boot enough vehicles we can make drinking money by renting out the grinders.
 
I'd rather that someone ballsy got a sign, climbed up, put it above theirs that says "Warning: All cars will be towed or booted whether you pay or not."
 
So my question is...meet and greet there on Friday or Saturday night? I'll bring the generator and the angle grinders. Hell, if they boot enough vehicles we can make drinking money by renting out the grinders.
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If it would have been my car the cordless sawzall would have been in play. I'm still hearing crap from her from kicking it and scratching her rim :flipoff2: . Like come on I already scratched the rim just let me take it off. I still think the best would be just to go out there and paint over all the parking space numbers. It'd be the biggest pita to deal with. Unfortunately they don't own the lot so I'd just be passing the problems onto the owner. I need to really track down the owner of the lot and send him a letter.
 
Every time I've had my car booted some idiot was there waiting to collect the $$$. When I tried to remove it myself he called the cops.
 
ah, but said if it was there after 2am their tow truck would tow it away and I'd have that charge on top of the boot charge...

Greenville parking lots are a PITA sometimes too
 
Dunno if these guys will call the cops.

Before all of the fancy fawking with 'em stunts? Why not video tape + youtube...

Video them taking the money out and putting the boots on.
 
They made another visit at 9:20 everyone paid. Another visit was made at 11:15 and the box was opened and no payment was in space 28 a gold Jaguar was in the space. The vehicle was bootedAfter talking to the lead boot officer he states that this person was alone and omitted to him that he did not pay the box and when told the fee he stated "What it is,is what it is" He paid the fee of $50.00 received a receipt and a business card of the boot administrator who is a administrative assistant to the security director.The boot officer also the situation was pleasant and the consumer said that he will pay the box whenever he return to this lot.
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Got this response on the bbb site approx 48 hours after they tried to "respond" to me asking what kind of car it was lol.
 
Something tells me even a tube of JB Weld would put the hurting on these losers although I'd never condone such an activity.
 
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