Are tow companies allowed to put you at gunpoint to take your car?

i work for a tow co. in cali. my boss put a gun to my head and told me to call my parents and have them give one of his drivers my title to my car and my car for money owed. police didnt even help becouse he tows for them. what can i do?
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i worked for a tow co. my boss called for a meeting.i owed my boss some money so at the meeting he pulled a gun on me and demanded me to get my parents to give one of his drivers the title to my car and my car or he would kill me.my parents did just that. they also called the police dept. when the police showed up my boss had already heard on the scanner that they where on their way and put the gun up and deleted the video survalance rec. they told me that he could have a loaded gun cuz he ownes a business. the tow co. works for the pd.the officers reminded me of that at least 20x. they let him keep my car and made me leave. i never sighned the title. is that legal?

cry

nobody should be kept @ gunpoint.
it is wrong!

savvyd

They can only pull the gun out to protect themselves. Even if they had the right and authority to take the car, they were not supposed to take it that way, and you can sue not only the towing company, but the car dealership that sent them out, because they were representing the dealership. I hope you got the names of all the people involved, and I would tell the car lot also what happened, and what you plan to do(just to watch them squirm of course).

Rich Z

I think that they can not do that unless you are more than three months behind in payments. Less than three they can only hit you in the kneecaps with a tire iron.

elizabeth b

sounds like armed robbery to me.no one not ,even the police can hold a gun to your head and demand your title and car for payment owed,that's what civil courts are for. i have a hard time believing a police officer sat idly by while this happened.i hope you got the badge number, that would constitute aiding and abiding

C_Millionaire

you aren't allowed to take anything at gunpoint anywhere in the country. call the police and insist that they do somehting, or you can go to the sheriff or something

babygurl

hire a lawyer for suffering mental anguish, (civil) go for the money.....

Dfwteddybear

Call sherriff or state police.

enginerd

you can press charges for assault

Dogzilla

That is assault with a deadly weapon! Get a real good lawyer from out of town!

investing1987

lawyer, contact the mdia, $$$$$$$$$$

Your own boss did this to you. Unbelievable. I 'm not sure you can do much at this point since the police wouldn't help at the time. It's going to be difficult for you to prove anything. I think you should definitely talk to an attorney though -- someone out of town.

GOMER PYLE 76

lawer up, you were assualted , no one is allowed to threaten the use of deadly force.

Freedom patriot

Welcome to totalitarian Police Regime. Society has asked for it. Society has gotten it.

Police are an upper class of despots now that are able to get away with murder, rape, extortion, theft, drug dealing. They are above the law.

They are the law. If the police are involved you can't do a damn thing about it.

Welcome to America. Just be glad that they didn't riddle your *** with bullets and wipe you off the face of the planet.

Just take it as a loss as it is and don't vote for any more police raises in your tax ballot. As you can see they take all they want. They don't need any more hard earned tax money.

God Bless America

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