(Ed.'s Note: The scenes below happen every day in downtown Brownsville, where property owners strike a deal with tow truck operators who roam the city looking for motorists who are unaware that they are parking their cars in restricted areas. In this case, the signs warning: TOWING ENFORCED 24/7 are facing the alley and listing a telephone number where the victims can recover their vehicles if they are towed while they are away. In the top photo, a tow truck operator eyes a white SUV which is not listed as having paid for the parking and circles his prey.
In the second photo, the tow truck driver backs up to snag the truck
But then, the driver of the offending SUV comes upon the scene and calls someone on his cell phone, trying to find out who can help him to keep his vehicle from being towed. Had he used the city street parking, it would have cost $1 an hour and pay a $10 ticket if he did not pay at the parking kiosk. However, if you do not read English or know where they are located, it is easy to violate the parking statutes. There is no notice (Spanish-English) that lets motorists know their location.
Below, negotiations begin. Many times, the driver might take a smaller fee than the $150 for not towing, or if the car is towed to impound, a fee of $150 for towing, and an impoundment lot fee. The total could go as high as $300. Since the property is private and the tow truck owner has a contract with the property owner, most drivers have to fork over some cash to the tow truck driver to keep them from towing the car. Unless you know the tow company owner, some money has to change hands before the tow truck leaves the car in your possession.
Sobre aviso no hay engaño! Motorists beware.
(We thank El Rrun-Rrun's roving reporter for the sequence of photos.)
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Congreso de Tamaulipas ordena revisar pagos millonarios de Cabeza de Vaca a abogados
Según la acusación, el exgobernador habría pagado 46.3 millones de pesos del erario a despachos de Javier Coello Trejo y Roberto Gil Zuarth para su defensa personal.
I drive
alone.
My rides
are free
and I
don't moan
Most rich Mexicans or people who feel they are entitled, park anywhere they want because they feel they are above the normal people. If you own a business and pay taxes, you expect the parking for it to be for paying customers, not free loaders who don't want to drive around to find a space that the city owns where you still have to pay. The only difference is the city gives you a ticket if you don't pay the $1.00 fee per hour. The private parking has you towed. Either way you have to pay. But noooo these mojados think they know Turi Trevinio, Pedro Cardenas, Tino Villarreal, John Cowen, Linda Macias, Pat Ahumada, Martin Sarkis and Robert Sanchez, and feel they are connected and they will call the towing company and scold them to not tow away imprortant people cars. The cars that need to be towed are from the poor people not the ones who wear gucci chanclas.
Reads like you ride with Manuela and her five daughters.👋
These are the ones Trump should deport.
A la lona con todas esas mojarras que mencionas!!!
Son de San Luis!!!
Stop bitching about every fucking little thing, Montoya.
You are so GAY, GUEY.
You could see the Big Sign where the dumbass Mexican Parked. Towin Enforced .....It is on the pole right on top of the yellow concrete. I could read it over way over here. Por Pendejo y pasandose de lanza se lo gancharon. They are signs everywhere.
🫡, Gucci chanclas!! 👊
You, officer Zepeda, cannot detain or tow my car. I am a Sovereign Citizen, and I have not been driving; I am travelling.
Diego yer poems suck!
Yeah they had to drive right by it
Why do browntown people have such a hard time understanding rules? Even when written in Spanish, lol..
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