Waterbury, Connecticut – Connecticut has a controversial law that allows tow truck companies to sell cars that they break after just 15 days.
Critics of the law call it hunter and say that private tow truck operators are targeting the neighborhood of the working class.
Paul Baudreu and Greta Blog of Connecticut had toes their car in 2021.
“He said it was because the registration was finished,” Bodreu said. “DMV was reopened at that time, waiting for about six to 10-week to register a car.”
A few weeks later he came to know that his car was going to be sold.
“And I lost the car,” said Bowdreu. “… and it is completely legal in connecticuts. People cannot come with $ 300 to $ 600 to $ 800 in an evening.”
The couple told CBS News that their apartment complex had been targeted for years.
Blue said about her complex, “He took 1,000 cars in two years.”
The problem became so bad, Boudreu and Bloe helped set up a neberhood watch keeping an eye on a specific company.
Blue said, “The man who interrupts cars is the company’s name, myhoopty.com LLC.” “He targets places like these complexes where the working class people live, where poor people live.”
His property manager eventually stopped Myhoopty from coming to his apartment complex, but CBS News found that the company was still taking out another campus overnight and targeting other premises in the area.
Local time around 5:30 pm, CBS News Crew saw the shining lights of a Myhopti to truck and saw that it stopped at the CBS news maker’s car, intended to completely remove it. The crew transferred the car before it could be.
Myhoopty owner Michael Festa told CBS News, “There are rules to ensure that most of the residents have the right to park there, they can park close to their property.”
Asked if he believes what his company is doing, it’s right, Festa replied, “I think it’s right and just (apartment) complex rules to implement the rules.”
