A Tale from the Tow Truck: Cop Gets Involved when Fatso Doesn't Want to Pay for her tow After coming in to work late because of tornado watches and warnings in the area, I get a call from someone needing a tow from the city to their house a little over 45 miles away in another county. She said the car wouldn't start and she wants it towed to her house. After she told me it was a 2014 Chevy Tahoe, I offered to tow it the nearest Chevrolet dealership for repairs since it was half the distance, thus half the price. She said no to that. So I told her the price of $138, which she agreed to, told her to call someone for a ride, and headed out to the location in a wrecker. Get there the driver had actually lost control and driven into a ditch, causing front end damage and her airbags to go off, making it unsafe to drive. This woman easily towered over my 5' self. She was at least 5'7 and easily 4 times as big around at at least 250lb. "Why didn't you tell me it was in a ditch and wrecked?" I asked her, annoyed already. "I thought you would charge me more." "I wouldn't have, but what if I needed to bring extra tools? What if I needed the rollback? I wouldn't have them and would have to go back to the lot and get them which would waste both our time." "Oh." Luckily I didn't and got her car hooked up and ready to go. I pull it onto the road and walk around it to do a look over and make sure nothing's going to fall off while I'm driving. The driver window was down and as I got near an overpowering smell of bad fast food, BO, and cigarettes makes me take a step back.  I finish looking over it and get into my truck to start up the GPS. She opens the passenger door and looks like she's trying to get in. "I can't give you a ride. It's against our policy. I can give you the number to a cab service or you can call a friend to get you." A detail I told her on the phone. "Oh. I'll call a friend then." 10 minutes later, a friend shows up, she gets in her car, and we start driving. We get to her house and as I'm backing up to back the car into her driveway, I notice the friend drop her off and drive away as soon as the passenger door shut. I climbed out the truck and stood by the door as she walked by.  "Aren't you going to put it down?"  "I can't put it down until you pay me. You owe me $138." "Okay. I'll go get it. I have cash inside." So she goes inside her tiny, dumpy house and I wait. And I wait. And I wait. About 15 minutes later she comes out and asks why I'm still there and haven't put it down yet. I tell her, again, she owes me for the tow and I'll go as soon as she pays. Cue tantrum. "I was inside for so long! Didn't you realize I don't have money to pay you? You should have just put my car down and left when you  thought that!" "Ma'am I can't do that." "Well you have to leave! I can't pay you and you can't stay here all night!" "If you can't pay me, I'll have to impound your car and you'll have to pay the towing price plus our storage fees to get it back." This started a rant about her being broke (but driving a new car that I'm certain she still makes hundreds of dollar payments on?) and that I need to leave and taking her car with me is illegal and I'm a thief. I just smile and nod along to her. Seeing that her rant it not fazing me, she shouts the magic phrase, "I'm gonna call the police!" "Alright ma'am. I'll wait in my truck until they arrive." A cop shows up a few minutes later. Obviously a new cop, he was around my age (22) and in shape. Most of this county is quiet, so older cops are usually at least very overweight, if not obese. He talks to the woman in her front yard, who I see angrily pointing at me and waving her arms while talking to him. After a minute, he comes and talks to me and I tell him where I picked her up, the price, the log in my phone of her calling me, the GPS record of my travels to her car and then to her house, and the receipt for the tow. He asks her to come over and tells her that she needs to pay me. She starts yelling at the cop about not having money. Cop sides with me and tells her that if she doesn't pay, then her car will be impounded, which is completely legal and well within my company's right. He then goes back to his car. "You should at least give me a discount since I can't afford that." She said before saying that the cop must be in bed with me because he took my side. "You want to act like a child? Fine, I'll treat you like one. I provided you with a service that you agreed to a price pay for. Now you say you can't pay, so I am not going to complete my service to you. You have until I climb back into my truck and count to 10 to being me the money you owe or I am going to drive your car back to my lot and impound it. If you want it back, you'll owe the towing fee and a storage fee, which we charge daily for. I suggest in the future, you stop spending so much on food so you can afford to pay unexpected bills like this instead of waste almost two hours of my time, hours of your time, and the time the cop is here. I suggest you apologize for that and your attitude when you pay either me or the person at the office tomorrow for wasting time and next time don't be such a selfish bitch. Your 10 seconds starts now, which I'm sure will be up before you get your fat ass to the front door." I got back in the truck, counted to 10, and drove off. She had just made it inside her door. Thank God my boss is a work-in-progress shitlord or I'd hear shit when she complains to him about me. And I have a cop to back me up. She wasted over two hours, during which I could have made triple what I would have gotten from her tow in that time. But at least now I'll get paid extra if she ever comes back to get her car. Tl;dr: Fattie with stinky car agrees to pay me for tow. Lies about the tow she needs to avoid paying higher price for what she does need. Get to her house, she doesn't want to pay and throws tantrum. I tell her I'll impound her car if she doesn't pay. She calls cop, who sides with me. Fatties doesn't pay and I now have her car sitting in the impound lot and now she has to pay extra fees if she wants it back. Wasted over two hours of my time and cost me a lot of money.