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PiuYi 04-01-2011 06:10 PM

Revscene on CBC News
 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...-richmond.html

Quote:

The City of Richmond is hoping a decade-long battle may be nearing an end as guilty pleas are expected from a local towing company facing a raft of municipal bylaw charges, a city spokesman says.

A total of 15 charges — many to do with aggressive towing practices — have been laid against Paul's Towing, also known as City Wide Towing, said Richmond spokesman Ted Townsend.

"We believe this towing company has overstepped the boundaries and so we've taken this action," Townsend said.

The company's owners are accused of overcharging, improper towing, damaging a towed vehicle and even towing a vehicle with someone still in it.

The alleged offences were committed between 2002 and 2009.

If the company does plead guilty, the penalties would likely come in the form of fines, said Townsend.

"We've got other options which could include a suspension or even pulling their business license," he said. "All those tools are available to us, but our first primary is to try and get people into compliance of the bylaw."

don't know how to embed video but watch it, we're in there!! anyone spot themselves? :lol

tiger_handheld 04-01-2011 06:15 PM

here is the thread thats on the video :)

http://www.revscene.net/forums/whati...d-t463846.html

Nightwalker 04-01-2011 06:21 PM

Hey, I remember that thread. Go Revscene!

dark0821 04-01-2011 07:00 PM

wow.. damn.. xD
nice nice... as slow as our justice system works, its good to see some progress....

and ya what others said: go Revscene

mrclean604 04-01-2011 07:15 PM

wow i drove right by that news reporter this afternoon LOL.

satek 04-01-2011 07:16 PM

The company's owners are accused of overcharging, improper towing, damaging a towed vehicle and even towing a vehicle with someone still in it.

What?

SkinnyPupp 04-01-2011 07:32 PM

I wonder why CBC won't allow overseas Canadians to view their content. You'd think that of all people, we're the ones they should be catering to a bit with their online site. All they'd need to do is require membership to view, with membership requiring a Canadian address...

baggdis300 04-01-2011 08:06 PM

use a canadian proxy ;)

SkinnyPupp 04-01-2011 08:09 PM

The only proxy I would trust is one I set up myself, and I don't have that...

Ch28 04-01-2011 08:13 PM

It's bullshit how those people got towed illegally by the company because they're pleading guilty but still has no way of getting their money back.

insomniac 04-01-2011 08:48 PM

LOL at towing the car with someone in it

FerrariEnzo 04-01-2011 09:04 PM

lol... dang... watch owner pop with a new company name doing the same shit..

StylinRed 04-01-2011 09:19 PM

saw this on the news but totally missed the RS part

ButI think you guys are missing the bigger picture here... Stephanie Mercier is lurking on RS...



How YOU doin Stephanie?

http://i40.tinypic.com/2e1ezas.jpg



wouldn't be the 1st time RS was on the news, I still remember Jace and that officer having a 'spit in your face' match

ImpactZ 04-01-2011 09:59 PM

One time I was parked in a time limit stall, and when I was returning to my vehicle, the tow guy had my front wheel in position to lift off the ground. He demanded I pay $90, and he took my mastercard. Was he allowed to ask for money even though my car was still there?>

baggdis300 04-01-2011 10:27 PM

if your car was lifted off the ground its as good as gone..

hes saving you the trip to the impound lot.

CP.AR 04-01-2011 10:41 PM


Geoc 04-01-2011 11:08 PM

Someone should get a F350 w/ 7.3 powerstroker and do what the captain picard's video did. Then go 100km/h on the highway :troll:

The7even 04-02-2011 01:59 AM

haha holy shit, In China, Car Tows YOU!

ae101 04-02-2011 02:00 AM

THIS IS A SIGN, that rs should do more for the community

Qmx323 04-02-2011 02:02 AM

Rs needs more chicks

we'd get more posts like

"What car should i get?" and "Do you think a BMW makes my butt look big?"

BNR32_Coupe 04-02-2011 02:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 7371593)
I wonder why CBC won't allow overseas Canadians to view their content. You'd think that of all people, we're the ones they should be catering to a bit with their online site. All they'd need to do is require membership to view, with membership requiring a Canadian address...

your region is out of the target market for its paid advertisers, bandwidth ain't free, therefore, no video for youuu

BNR32_Coupe 04-02-2011 02:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Qmx323 (Post 7372011)
Rs needs more chicks

we'd get more posts like

"What car should i get?" and "Do you think a BMW makes my butt look big?"

revscene has a pretty bad drooling problem with regards to females. the site would crash from the sudden influx of new users as soon as people find out a chick is a member of these forums

ae101 04-02-2011 03:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe (Post 7372021)
revscene has a pretty bad drooling problem with regards to females. the site would crash from the sudden influx of new users as soon as people find out a chick is a member of these forums

thats true, even if a GUY is mentioning a girl like gf or sister or something along the lines there be at least one guy saying "PICS OF <insert female person> OR GTFO"

Culverin 04-02-2011 05:37 AM

Cause everybody here secretly knows about Rules 1 and 2.

I find that amusing.

!SG 04-02-2011 05:42 AM

not with our current back bone.


2 years ago, yes, it would have been like an asian handling a gun fight with a knife.

now... ehhh... we went over kill =)

there is so much beefing up of servers, networks, hardware, software, moderators, all in the past couple of years which is why you see me start going ape shit when anyone starts talking shit about what we rs staff have "not" been doing...

Quote:

Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe (Post 7372021)
revscene has a pretty bad drooling problem with regards to females. the site would crash from the sudden influx of new users as soon as people find out a chick is a member of these forums



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