Adelanto, CA – 31 May 2018 – Although it might look like an episode of “Operation Repo,” Thursday’s failed repossession attempt in Adelanto, California, was very real, with both parties putting people in real danger after an unidentified repo man allegedly lifted a woman’s car with her kids inside. What followed was a frantic up the sidewalk escape attempt and some damaged vehicles.
Cellphone video shows how during the wild scene near the intersection of Hwy. 395 and Palmdale Road at the Stater Brothers shopping center, a woman whose car is about to be repossessed drives her car onto the sidewalk with small children in the back seat.
“I thought she was going to crash through the building because we were inside when that happened, and she was getting really close trying to reverse,” Juan Castillo told CBS2 News. He and his father were inside an insurance broker’s office at the time.
“As the lady was trying to get out of the parking space she drove forward and almost crashed into the building I was in,” Lucero Gomez told Victor Valley News.
Castillo said a few moments before the scene erupted into chaos, a tow truck had pulled up behind the woman’s car, ostensibly to repossess the car. The tow truck operator did not count on anyone being inside, however.
“I turn around and see the repo truck lifting up the back, and there were kids in there,” recalled Castillo. “I was like, ‘Oh, poor kids! They’re probably crying.’”
“I noticed everything happening right next to my car, and I’m not sure how it works, but if the woman was dangerously trying to escape you think the tow truck driver would just let her go,” Lucero Gomez told Victor Valley News.
Castillo said that was the moment an older woman jumped into to the driver’s seat of the car and hit the gas, disconnecting it from the tow truck.
In the video, a woman could be heard yelling at the driver, “you got kids in the car, baby, calm down”. Two small unrestrained children could be seen in the back seat as the driver of the vehicle violently jumps the curb in an attempt to avoid the hook from the tow truck.
The woman jumped the curb and drove through a flower bed as she attempted to flee.
“She just, like, took off,” said Castillo. “She messed up her own tire, right side of the car. It was bad. The kids were crying, they were yelling.”
Castillo said the tow truck driver then went after the woman, hitting a parked car in the process. He said the driver was lucky no one in the crowded parking lot was injured.
“They probably should have just let her go and get her another time or [at] a different place,” Castillo said.
CBS2 contacted the tow truck company but had received no response Thursday evening.
The woman driving the vehicle told CBS2 she had filed a police report on the incident.
Source: CBS Los Angeles and Victor Valley News
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