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Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon says a local towing company is taking advantage of unsuspecting tourists.

from  WKRG.com website

Orange Beach, Alabama

Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon says a local towing company is price gouging drivers who get towed from private parking lots. Kennon says Orange Beach Towing is charging drivers more than 200 dollars to retrieve their vehicles.


Known as "trespass towing"...the owner of a private parking lot...usually a hotel, condo or resort complex...has a car towed without the owner's consent. The charge to the owner of the car? 200 bucks. That's double what a tow would cost if your car breaks down or if you're involved in a wreck and Kennon says that's not right.


"If you tow without the owner's consent, there's got to be some type of flat rate without holding the car hostage," says Kennon. "They're essentially holding the car hostage and charging drivers whatever they want."


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Nearly 1 Year Later, Pittsburgh Still 'Wild West' For Towing Pirates - Pittsburgh News Story - WTAE Pittsburgh

From WTAE.com
February 2,2011

Image via WikipediaTeam 4's Jim Parsons reported on Wednesday that nothing has happened nine months after Pittsburgh city council approved a new law to crack down on rogue towing companies.The most important feature of the new ordinance that got final approval in April requires tow truck companies to get a license from the city.Parsons asked Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's administration how many licenses it has given out so far. The answer? None.Last week in Oakland, Parsons spotted a man on a cell phone who is a lookout for a towing company. The man was watching a parking lot, waiting to see if any of the car owners who parked there went anywhere other than the store that owns the lot.Men like him were supposed to have a special license by now, but a Team 4 investigation finds the new law regulating towers still isn't being enforced.

Pittsburgh resident Dale Labby wishes it was after his experience with a different towing company."They charged me $550," said Labby, who was on Brookline Boulevard last month, waiting to make a turn, when his car got rear-ended by another vehicle. Suddenly, he said, tow trucks were on the scene."They showed up fast, real fast, before the city police and before the fire trucks and everything," Labby said.Somebody -- he doesn't know who -- asked for his car keys as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance, Labby said. A day later, when he was released from the hospital, he found out the bill for his tow was $550."That's outrageous. I don't want to see nobody else get ripped off," Labby said.

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