Outrageous

I was just informed of an incident involving a friend of mine, and I hope I have been misinformed or the guy didn't put up w/ it.

First off my friend is the type of guy everyone would love as a neighbor. Hard working, honest etc...

Always thinking of others first befor himself, actually wanting to be part of the community.

Anyway, on with the story

My friend owns a dirt hualing co. With all the equip. loader trac-hoe, dump etc...

IT WAS STOLEN. The dump w/ the hoe and the trailer and another tractor-trailer full of tires was stolen from a tire shop in sarasota. It was a fairly new rig and was to be paid off soon.

Fortunatly for my friend he had lo-jack on all his equip and it only took two days for the po-po to find it.

It was located in Naples at a hotel and the police had the place under survailance. They asked him if they could USE his equip to find a suspected theft ring in S.FL. he said O.K.

They eventually followed the equip to penbrook pines where they found a chop shop for rigs. The cops arrested the people involved found more stolen equip and all got props for a joint task force pat on the back. HOORAY all ends happily ever after RIGHT.... WRONG They called my friend up, told him to come get his property or it would be towed. My friend told them he could not get the equipment in the time allotted (one hour). Even if he could drive to Naples, from Sarasota, in that time personal probs(private) kept him from doing so.

So for being the nice guy and giving the law the only lead that broke this case, the idiots in charge gave him an 1100.00 tow bill for removing his equip.

Now I hope I'm in error, because I didn't hear about the tow bill from my friend. He's the type of guy who would pay the bill and not think twice about it, and just be happy to go back to work. BULLSHOT I say. Screw'em all send the basturds a bill for 5000.00 for equip rental.

I would like to see if anyone else has heard about this. The story is online at news channel 40 in Sara. Its got the whole story exept for the tow bill. I am thinking of calling channel 40 and telling them about the bill to see if the press can help. But I'm pretty sure my friend doesn't want to cause a stir. It just seems to me a bit unfair and down right crappy for anybody to do this to you to show their appreciation.

Anyway sorry for the rant, just needed to vent.