Towing, Licenses, Rights, etc... From this operators P.O.V.

[JDouglasFisher]

You know what Kola,

I would venture a guess to say that the few of the radicals in this forum do not represent the majority of Free Staters who are slowly locating themselves up to New Hampshire.

So, you can call me a crook, and a thief and whatever off the cuff name you want, but I am confident that the majority (whom probably do not hang out here) would agree that you should have a D.L. and a Registration, and that if you break motorvehicle laws because "you think" you have that right to be reckless towards others on the road, then you should get ticketed, and have the vehicle impounded till otherwise.

I don't and never will subscribe to your vision of anarchy.

Now I'd suggest you go feed your horse, if you plan on utilizing it as your primary mode of transportation.. 

Joe.

[EthanAllen]

Joe-

This board caters to the anarcho-capitalist wing of th FSP as one of the owners is a christian anarchist patterning his life on Leo Tolstoy.

[picaro]

"Let us consider the concept of freedom, for that is the glorious goal toward which, regardless of their contradictory diagnoses and conflicting therapeutics, all reformers would lead us. Putting aside any idea of freedom in the abstract, we see that freedom is what people become accustomed to. Some years ago this was brought to my attention in a striking way.

I was driving in a western state where, at that time, anybody who had the price of an automobile was a qualified driver. There was an accident. Following the ritual I had become accustomed to in the East I pulled out my driver's license and asked the other fellow to show his. He was puzzled. He not only had no license but thought the obligation of carrying around such a thing an infraction of a man's rights.

So it is, when you think of it; but habit had wiped out of my mind any such estimate of the license. In like manner we are becoming inured to the habit of carrying on our person all kinds of identifications and permissions, as required by the state, and never think of them as shackles on our freedom. The other day a man to whom I was speaking about this pulled out of his wallet eighteen pieces of paper necessary to his functioning as a human being.

--Frank Chodorov
Fugitive Essays: On Saving the Country

[EthanAllen]

--Frank Chodorov

a great man indeed!

[Recumbent ReCycler]

I understand where JDouglasFisher is coming from.  I think perhaps somewhere between his opinions and some of the more anarchist opinions is a happy medium.  I've grown tired of all the B.S. fees, taxes and paperwork that are involved in the process of getting permission to drive your own car.  I'm going to start riding one of these to work.

Although I still have a car for those times when I need to drive my family somewhere.  I just need to get it running again.

[kola]

very slick ride..but it needs a cupholder.

maybe they have family models.

Kola

[penguins4me]

I am confident that the majority (whom probably do not hang out here) would agree that you should have a D.L. and a Registration, and that if you break motorvehicle laws because "you think" you have that right to be reckless towards others on the road, then you should get ticketed, and have the vehicle impounded till otherwise.

"I think that, because it seems most folks' would agree with me off the cuff, that anyone doing anything I/we don't personally like, they should have money stolen from them, as well as property often costing upwards of ten, twenty, thirty thousand dollars stolen from them, until they behave the way I/we want them to."

Secondly, since the majority is not paticularly interested in freedom nor personal responsibility, I have little use for the ideas and opinions of the majority.

My example above becomes even more outrageous when one factors in the inanity of many/most laws: on a clear, bright day on a divided four-lane desert highway with NO visible traffic flow in my direction, I could be thrown in jail and have my vehicle stolen from me because "the law" says that merely because I traveled over an arbitrary speed, I am by that mere fact automatically a "reckless driver".

Bull. Shite.

[KBCraig]

 

(Links, photo at source:)
http://thenewspaper.com/news/20/2015.asp

Connecticut Towing Firm Tows Rival Towing Firm Tow Truck

Tow Truck photo by Roadsidepictures/FlickrA towing firm in New Haven Connecticut used the BootFinder car confiscation system to tow away a truck belonging to a competing firm. On October 3, Lombard Motors grabbed a flatbed tow truck belonging to Unlimited Auto Repair & Towing Service over a claimed $300 in back taxes. The BootFinder is an electronic scanner used to photograph and identify vehicles so that they can be confiscated. Now Unlimited is complaining that Lombard's towing fee of $325 is too high.

"To me, that's gouging," Unlimited owner Joe Esposito told the New Haven Register newspaper.

Esposito told the Register that it is a common courtesy for tow truck companies to warn each other before performing such a tow, a courtesy not extended to ordinary motorists attending church services or shopping at a local store who returned to find their car had been grabbed by a BootFinder truck over $25 in claimed unpaid parking tickets. Esposito, for that reason, refuses to partipate in the city program.

"I don't like anybody doing that to me, so I don't do it," Esposito told the Register.

A subsidiary of another towing company that does tow cars with BootFinder owes $28,230 in back taxes. This company was allowed to go on a payment plan not available to ordinary motorists.

Source: Firm claims excessive fee charged for towing wrecker (New Haven Register, 10/8/2007)

[Pat McCotter]

BootFinder from G2Tactics, Inc.