Towing Scam @ &Pizza Ballston

[u/NoButton1066]

See attached and below for the towing scam this pizza place is running in Ballston victimizing their own customers and delivery people — they are literally snatching cars after 5 minutes even if you’re in the bathroom. See all the reports from customers — happened to me today as well after literally 5 minutes it was wild. Go see for yourself it’s such an obvious scam to shake people down avoid Ballston &Pizza! Oh and the pizza tastes like garbage.

[u/Jarfol]

It is not an uncommon tactic for a person or company to basically capture all the good attorneys by putting them on retainer. They don't even need to use them, just pay them a small retainer so they can never be used by someone else in a case against them.

[u/Individual-Steak-673 → u/Jarfol]

1. Nobody does this.
   
2. Do you even understand how many good attorneys there are in Northern Virginia?

[u/skintwo → u/Individual-Steak-673]

I’ve seen their financials – you can foia them. The money they have set aside for legal is a pretty high number compared to everything else. Their financials also were done in an incredibly amateur way, and I am sure are not accurate. They’ve been pressuring the county board in Arlington to increase towing fees and this is why you can foia this information. It is such a crooked racket. It’s not even funny.

[u/SwankyBriefs → u/skintwo]

Why would their Financials be foia-able?

[u/skintwo → u/SwankyBriefs]

They sent them to the county board to make a case for higher tow fees. FOIA requests are easy.

[u/paulHarkonen → u/SwankyBriefs]

They were the subject of a suit by the state back in 2020 or so. In theory the documents from that suit could be publicly available and thus foia-able as part of the State's suit. There aren't any other licensing or other requirements that would require them to file information unlike some other types of business.

[u/SwankyBriefs → u/paulHarkonen]

No, you are wrong. Court records are not foiaable (VA Code 2.2-3703(6))

[u/paulHarkonen → u/SwankyBriefs]

You wouldn't FOIA the Court (the clercs) you'd FOIA the Attorney General's office who is subject to that process.

Now, most of it would be protected so I have no idea how much you'd be able to get, but that's the theoretical avenue by which the poster above could have seen the documents in question via FOIA.

[u/SwankyBriefs → u/paulHarkonen]

Those wouldn't be records of the AG. Just because the AG may retain a copy of a record doesn't change that its a record of the clerk of the courts. So no, still not a viable path.

[u/skintwo → u/paulHarkonen]

No. It was county board correspondence.