If you're going down to Greenville Avenue in Dallas on a weekend, be aware of these bottomfeeding shysters: United Tows LLC.
On Saturday night I met up with my girlfriend at an excellent cajun seafood place called Dodies, located in a little strip mall called Caruth Place Shopping Center, 2121-2129 Greenville Ave. This place sits next to a Dry Cleaners, a Subway Sandwich shop and a Chinese joint called New Big Wong.
I arrived at Dodies at 10:30 pm and had dinner while waiting for my sweetheart to arrive. Since my girlfriend was late meeting me and Dodies was shutting down at 11, we paid our bill and decided to stroll down the street to get her something else to eat. Seeing towing signs around the parking lot, I called my friends who worked inside the restaurant to see if it would be okay to leave my car in the lot. They said that that nobody from Dodies would call to authorize the towing of my car. Since Dodies was shutting down, the Dry Cleaners were closed, and Subway was closed, it didn't occur to us that the presence of our cars in the lot would prevent any of the other merchants from making their money from other would-be patrons. New Big Wong was still open, but there were plenty of open spaces in the parking lot for them. Feeling confident, we strolled down the street.
What nobody knew was that United Tows LLC. Had a troll lurking in the shadows, watching us, and supposedly taking photographs of us leaving the parking lot. Even though we had already patronized Dodies, and nobody from the management of any other establishment in the strip mall called to authorize it, United Tows felt justified in hooking up my car at some point a little after 1 am, and towing it off to some remote South Dallas location. They charged us $148.00 to get the car back.
If we had parked in the lot while these establishments were still open and then ran down the street without patronizing them, then the towing service would have been justified in towing us. But this wasn't the case.
If you're considering spending money on lower Greenvile, be aware that a deal cut between the owners of the Caruth Place Shopping Center and United Tows LLC, supposedly excludes any verbal agreements made between the management of the establishments and their patrons regarding cars in the parking lot. The management in these restaurants may have no awareness or control over the petty thievery and low-grade extortion going on in the parking lot by United Tows LLC.
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