Yes NYC blows as far as that's concerned. I'd say the VAST majority of the time I've seen tow trucks, they were not flat beds. As far as causing his own problems go, well his problem was not paying his tickets. The punishment for that is a fine or towed car, NOT a destroyed car.

Here is a case to make my point. Cars can typically be parked for a week without having to move. However, some UN event was going to take place in one neighborhood and so the cops posted signs on Monday on the posts regarding parking restrictions for the event to be held on Wednesday. Typically you could park in that area until Friday. So if you parked your car there last Friday, you would normally expect not to have to move it until the following Friday. However, event was on Wednesday. They towed all the cars on Wednesday and I watched as some got bumped, pulled, scraped, etc. It was a total f-ing joke. I asked one of the cops about the situation and his only reply was .. see the signs posted. Great. So do those owner's deserve destroyed cars?