Angry Towing Company Sues Student for $750k Over Facebook Page

are you retarded? or have i been trolled?

are you serious? you want a college student to pay $750,000 for creating a place to complain?

anyway this is just b.s the company has no right to sue him. All he did was create a place for people to post complaints. its not his fault the company has shitty customer service. if they were a decent company they would do exactly as this article states find a way to correct the problems. well what ever hopefully the owner will get it and realize he/she's and idiot

Laura, you obviously have not been in a college town. The students are treated like second class citizens by the local businesses. DUH, business owers. The students are your means of paying your grocery bill. They deserve more respect than you give them. Towing companies are only one of a lot of business who treat the students badly. They do tow legally parked cars/trucks, and on game days, as many cars as they can tow during the game, get towed.

Just so you know the facts. The student should not have to "just pay and go."

You better be careful Ian and Barhoney... Acording to Laura June's school of thought she could file a lawsuit against you guys for commenting about her comment... I'm flabbergasted by the fact that you think this kid did something wrong. He started something on his facebook page. It's a social networking site. He started a group on the website, so anyone who didn't agree with his oppinion didn't have to join the group. Anyone ho thought that this company was ok (which doesn't sound like very many people) probably wouldn't have joined this group in the first place. Plus, It's FACEBOOK for cryin out loud! This is a site for that is primarily for highschool and college students, and has just recently started to branch out to other age groups. So we shouldn't let kids express their oppinions? There are other facebook pages and youtube stuff and other websites in general that are racist, anti-semitic, sexist, and things that promote drug use, and glorify gang violence. You think that this kid starting a group that dislikes this company crosses the line? That's just stupid. One of the things that makes America great is that we have the right to stand up and speak out against what is unfair. And you might wanna take a look at this thing we have called the Constitution. We have the right to freedom of speech on a public forum as long as it isn't threatening or libel or slanderous. You want this kid to pay, but all he did was excercise the same constitutional right that gave you the oppurtunity to post on this discussion board. From what it sounds like, this company isn't exactly very ethical, and this kid is being proactive and doing something about it. I say more power to him.

Have you ever had your car towed by one of these crazy companies?

There's a similar company in Dallas that has the same reputation. It was so bad at one point, that all the local news stations starting doing stories on these guys - and how they often circumvented local laws to make money.
They towed me once - and right in front of my car, on the side of the building it said - parking for 2826 (the name of a nightclub)... which is where I was.
I got towed anyway and had to pay these clowns 400 dollars.. and that was back in the mid 90's. If I had a brain back then, I would have taken a picture and filed in small claims against them. But I didn't know my rights at the time. I do now.
I've met only a handful of honest tow companies. When they're good - they're usually very honest. And when they're bad... they're almost like Russia during the days of Stalin.

oh - and this tow company has ZERO of a case.
It's called freedom of speech - and, in some cases, freedom of the press... and they could also argue freedom of assembly.
This idiot tow company owner.. and yes, I said idiot, is trying to force this kid to close the FB page by doing what he does best... being a bully.

The Cooley Law Prof should also mention that he can COUNTER SUE FOR THE SAME CHARGES/REASONS and should have a BETTER basis for the suit due to the fact that he did not do anything that would have merit for their suit but they have tried to "officially oppress" his rights of free speech and have possibly damaged his good name - since he's a college student he still has his life ahead of him so damages could be GREAT!!!

Oh, please. The customer is not always right. You need to pull your head out of your colon and remove that from your list of cliches. (Is the customer who buys an expensive dress for a single event and wears, then returns it to the store--armpit sweat stains and all--for a refund "right" to expect to have her money refunded? Is the customer who finishes his entire meal without complaint, entitled to not have to pay for that meal if he did not express any discontent during the entire meal? Should the customer who rents a car and amasses parking tickets not be responsible for paying for those tickets?) This young man is right, in that he has done nothing wrong. The tow truck company is living up to the stereotype of being a bully with few, if any, scruples. But having said that, jorgebrito2, you are still an idiot.

no offense, but who the hell ever told you that the customer is always right? That's just about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Who coined that, some customer that didn't know what the hell he was talking about?

No, Jorge, the customer is not always right; however, as I used to tell my parts people at my bike shop: " While the customer may be an ass, he is an ass with THEIR paycheck in his pocket." I left it to their ( the parts girls ) discretion to decide when it was no longer worth taking a bad customer's crap in order to get his portion of their paychecks.

You say they are a bunch of crooks........have they been convicted of anything at all??? I assume not and I also hope that the punk that thinks it is about free speech ends up having to pay out the ears (to clean it up a wee bit) foryears to come. Too many think that free speech means that they can say anything about anyone...that is fine if they have absolute evidence to prove it. I doubt that in this case as well...it is word of mouth with ruffles and flounces added. In other words...gossip.