That’s not a boot, it’s the Avenging Arm of Automotive Justice.

“Also, if this guy could afford the Ferrari, I’m sure he has assets that can be seized to pay any debts he incurs from any at-fault wrecks he causes with said car.”

In the UK if you have a car on the street without insurance, you’re committing a crime. End of story. And to be honest this would have been picked up by pretty quickly by a traffic warden anyway; they do DVLA checks for tax as they go now (because UK cars don’t have tax discs anymore), and no insurance would mean no…

One of my favorite photographs I’ve ever taken is related (this is the parking garage I normally use, at Battery Park City):

Plenty of private tow trucks like that in NYC for cars that have been illegally parked. All of those “NO PARKING VEHICLE WILL BE TOWED AT OWNER’S EXPENSE” signs lead to tow trucks like this if you violate them.

That’s saying a lot, given how shady tow truck companies generally are!

The crime wasn’t blocking traffic. The crime was driving without insurance.

I made a more elaborate version of the same joke, but I think he was talking about the flatbed with a crane. I’ve seen lots of flatbeds with cranes on them. Okay, none configured with a four tyre lift arrangement, but still; the inventive bit is the hydraulics.

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If it looks like it’s being stolen by a tow truck, it was probably “stolen” by the “owner” and it’s being repo-ed. If you’re a repo driver, you do not want to tangle with the person you’re relieving of their burden. They tend to be ... shall we say, reluctant to part with the bank’s goods.

An onlooker captured some video of the seizure, which was made using a device that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before

That is the shadiest tow truck I’ve ever seen. Pretty sure it was being stolen, not towed.

When the crime is essentially “inconveniencing the public” (blocking traffic, because if he hadn’t blocked traffic the cop never would have checked his insurance), and then the execution of the punishment for said crime is actually more inconvenient to the public than the crime itself, was it worth enforcing? I say no.

They are so gentle with it. Meanwhile, in New York.

Took some real balls.

I knee what you did there.

Look out. Every hockey player in the world just took their gloves off and started skating toward you.

Japan Flattened After North Korean Bom Drops

Public berating most likely. But Koreans have history with the Japanese to begin with, and that goes double for DPRK, where their foundation myth is entirely predicated on Kim Il Sung rising to power as an anti-Japanese resistance fighter.

I’m straight up stealing this from a reddit thread from yesterday...