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Tow trucks are towing ICE vehicles (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jun 24 OP
Going after the hotels and vehicles.. now that's smart! ananda Jun 24 #1
Nice template so to speak. May all these yorkster Jun 24 #10
Everywhere ananda Jun 24 #41
Hell yes LA, go California Republic.. Great ideas for the nation; keep them coming. Creative resistance. Love it. Magoo48 Jun 24 #37
Mess with the Golden Bear, get the claws! Prof. Toru Tanaka Jun 24 #56
yeah, let these losers walk through the streets wearing all their copy cat commando gear. Conjuay Wednesday #84
Love it. Detain their vehicles! surfered Jun 24 #2
And check inside for whose name is on the registration. usedtobedemgurl Jun 24 #9
Yeah, maybe a lot of them will rethink PatSeg Jun 24 #18
Exactly! Been pondering ways to put the masked thugs. paleotn Jun 24 #44
Lawless bounty hunters/cop inpersonators get 'nicked' for breaking laws Attilatheblond Jun 24 #3
Fantastic business opportunity! C_U_L8R Jun 24 #4
Doesn't this mean someone will ... Whiskeytide Jun 24 #5
It also means they'd better be fit to run from those angry people n/t malaise Jun 24 #7
Meal Team Six and Gravy Seals might have some trouble running IronLionZion Jun 24 #31
Sure looks that way malaise Jun 24 #32
VIN#'s is all they need. nt Hotler Jun 24 #14
So these vehicles are driving through town Seinan Sensei Jun 24 #64
without an *authentic* license plate, let's say. GopherGal Jun 24 #69
There is no authority greater than parking enforcement. usonian Jun 24 #6
Heads up: This image may be AI-generated. It looks like Jesus only has 4 fingers on his left hand. TheRickles Jun 24 #38
Guaranteed AI usonian Jun 24 #43
Jesus driving? BidenRocks Jun 24 #52
Hybrid usonian Jun 24 #54
Surely a ... alimbalt Jun 24 #59
I wasn't commenting on your artistic skills, just implying that some people might actually think TheRickles Jun 24 #66
Well, I can't speculate. There's only one way to find out, isn't there? usonian Jun 24 #71
The Jewish carpenter needs a car? Prof. Toru Tanaka Jun 24 #57
Well, people keep asking him to "take the wheel" GopherGal Jun 24 #70
It would be funny as hell if these tow truck drivers usedtobedemgurl Jun 24 #8
Excellent! mcar Jun 24 #11
Hook 'em and Haul 'em! MineralMan Jun 24 #12
I'd like to believe this but none of those demonstrate anyone towing ICE vehicles Arazi Jun 24 #13
Yeah, I did a search and came up with nada Nittersing Jun 24 #30
I so wanted this to be true Chili Pepper Wednesday #83
I wish there were a way to tip these tow-truck drivers! (edited) Heidi Jun 24 #15
Wow, that is brilliant! PatSeg Jun 24 #16
That is one way to deal with avebury Jun 24 #17
Think of the towing and impound fees. I wonder how many thought, shit, I had guns in that car. Hotler Jun 24 #19
Go LA! The Resistance is strong! Martin68 Jun 24 #20
And VERY creative!!! calimary Jun 24 #48
How is it the wrongly detained citizens can't sue for false arrest? lindysalsagal Jun 24 #21
GOOD! markie Jun 24 #22
K'n'R! justaprogressive Jun 24 #23
I believe that masked, unbadged "officers" without a warrant should be charged for impersonating a L.E.O. usonian Jun 24 #24
Classic, one of the greatest movies of all time Eliot Rosewater Jun 24 #28
Bravo! jmbar2 Jun 24 #25
While I'm sure that you can believe everything you see on TikTok, has anyone fact-checked this? NT mahatmakanejeeves Jun 24 #26
And none of those videos match that headline Arazi Jun 24 #29
I like it, the piece of shit will probably call Kim Jong-Un Eliot Rosewater Jun 24 #27
ow that is what I call creative resistance. flashman13 Jun 24 #33
Satire Cirsium Jun 24 #34
Well, satire or not, it's a FANTASTIC idea! calimary Jun 24 #51
Sure Cirsium Jun 24 #67
First good news I've heard today! Thanks for the smile! nt Gore1FL Jun 24 #35
a google search doesn't provide much backing this up stopdiggin Jun 24 #36
I bet they'd bring a good price down in Mexico. NBachers Jun 24 #39
Only found mentions of this on X, FB and some other social media. Dave Bowman Jun 24 #40
Love it!. 😍 n/t iluvtennis Jun 24 #42
What part of illegal don't they understand? lame54 Jun 24 #45
166 recs flvegan Jun 24 #46
The new and improved ice truck. twodogsbarking Jun 24 #47
No evidence of claim is provided mellow Jun 24 #49
Well they are illigal and illegally parked, usually blocking traffic. Figarosmom Jun 24 #50
Allegedly JoseBalow Jun 24 #53
Brilliant! Go, Angelenos!!! More reporting on this, confirmation, pleeeese. Hekate Jun 24 #55
It's another 'fake news via dodgy tweet(s)' OP. Shambolic look for DU that it has 269 recs. Celerity Wednesday #80
I propose a new category in the TOS and in Alerts: just those kinds of posts... Hekate Wednesday #85
I keep coming back to this Bettie Jun 24 #58
You all, the overall post is SATIRE. This is not actually happening in LA on any scale. LauraInLA Jun 24 #60
DU has pushed misinformation for years, this just happened with the Murkowski says she may well switch to Dem bollocks. Celerity Jun 24 #62
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LABEL THIS AS SATIRE!!!!! LauraInLA Jun 24 #61
Ketchup throwing and tsf threats to start louis-t Jun 24 #63
Tow Tow Away, LA Clouds Passing Jun 24 #65
I think we learned that from Ukrainian farmers!! n/t EndlessWire Jun 24 #68
Message auto-removed Name removed Wednesday #79
X-splode damifino10 Jun 24 #72
Over 200 recs for disinformation Kaleva Jun 24 #73
It's not true. Buttoneer Jun 24 #74
The source for this claim is the Satirical X account "The Halfway Post" red dog 1 Jun 24 #75
A SATIRICAL website is the source. summer_in_TX Jun 24 #76
Maybe it's different out in L.A., but where I grew up.... DFW Jun 24 #77
Hope they are checking the plates LPBBEAR Wednesday #78
The Brown Shirts The Wizard Wednesday #81
LOL!!! BUMP THIS UP!! Bengus81 Wednesday #82

Magoo48

(6,510 posts)
37. Hell yes LA, go California Republic.. Great ideas for the nation; keep them coming. Creative resistance. Love it.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 12:12 PM
Jun 24

Conjuay

(2,536 posts)
84. yeah, let these losers walk through the streets wearing all their copy cat commando gear.
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 09:16 AM
Wednesday

See how well they are received when they can't get away,.

usedtobedemgurl

(1,748 posts)
9. And check inside for whose name is on the registration.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:39 AM
Jun 24

When even a few get outted, a lot more will think twice. And if they are not with ICE, they can get arrested for posing as an official.

Attilatheblond

(6,507 posts)
3. Lawless bounty hunters/cop inpersonators get 'nicked' for breaking laws
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:32 AM
Jun 24

Meanwhile, the actual criminal gangs Trump yells about go unbothered by "ICE" and Stephen Miller profits from innocents in detention centers.

Whiskeytide

(4,565 posts)
5. Doesn't this mean someone will ...
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:34 AM
Jun 24

… get some actual names and addresses when the vehicles are reclaimed from impound? Are they really ICE?

GopherGal

(2,513 posts)
69. without an *authentic* license plate, let's say.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 06:14 PM
Jun 24

Given the frauds we're dealing with here, any license plates they may have may come up as "stolen". So the wise course would be to use the VINs to find the actual owners of the vehicles...

TheRickles

(2,811 posts)
38. Heads up: This image may be AI-generated. It looks like Jesus only has 4 fingers on his left hand.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 12:13 PM
Jun 24

usonian

(18,721 posts)
43. Guaranteed AI
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 12:47 PM
Jun 24

I can''t work that fast.
Apologies to AI-haters, including myself.
About 95% of my computer art is from real photos or cartoons.
If you throw in my own photography, about 99%.


And TBH, I rarely post any of my own photos, thanks to web scraping by the AI engines.

usonian

(18,721 posts)
54. Hybrid
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 01:56 PM
Jun 24

AI mashes up all cars into some home-made-from-junkyard-parts jalopy.
Kind of like this, but just the surface.
The pic below may actually be done by some computer graphic artist.

TheRickles

(2,811 posts)
66. I wasn't commenting on your artistic skills, just implying that some people might actually think
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 05:12 PM
Jun 24

it's a "real" image of Jesus. So I was spoofing them - Fox viewers, not DUers!

usonian

(18,721 posts)
71. Well, I can't speculate. There's only one way to find out, isn't there?
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 06:45 PM
Jun 24

It's likely that the Real Jesus was a dark-skinned middle-eastern. Today, he'd be in a Los Angeles detention center.

Jesus did play for the Giants.



Along with brothers Felipe and Matty Alou.

GopherGal

(2,513 posts)
70. Well, people keep asking him to "take the wheel"
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 06:17 PM
Jun 24

so it's probably good that he gets in a little practice driving.

usedtobedemgurl

(1,748 posts)
8. It would be funny as hell if these tow truck drivers
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:38 AM
Jun 24

Got out of their trucks wearing ICE vests. I bet that would scare the helm out of the wannabes.

MineralMan

(149,336 posts)
12. Hook 'em and Haul 'em!
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:43 AM
Jun 24

This is perfect. The vehicles are not marked as LEO vehicles. Haul them to the impound lot!

Nittersing

(7,333 posts)
30. Yeah, I did a search and came up with nada
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:33 AM
Jun 24

Too bad.

Maybe this talk will spark some action.

Heidi

(58,326 posts)
15. I wish there were a way to tip these tow-truck drivers! (edited)
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:50 AM
Jun 24

Last edited Wed Jun 25, 2025, 07:02 AM - Edit history (2)

ETA: I’m retracting my and my rec. I’m not convinced that the videos depict real-life events.

Hotler

(13,281 posts)
19. Think of the towing and impound fees. I wonder how many thought, shit, I had guns in that car.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:00 AM
Jun 24

Have the drug dogs do a walk through.

usonian

(18,721 posts)
24. I believe that masked, unbadged "officers" without a warrant should be charged for impersonating a L.E.O.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:08 AM
Jun 24

This will do in the meantime.

Where has this worked in the past?

mahatmakanejeeves

(65,340 posts)
26. While I'm sure that you can believe everything you see on TikTok, has anyone fact-checked this? NT
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:22 AM
Jun 24

Last edited Tue Jun 24, 2025, 02:59 PM - Edit history (1)

Eliot Rosewater

(33,001 posts)
27. I like it, the piece of shit will probably call Kim Jong-Un
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:29 AM
Jun 24

And Putin and ask what they would do , and they will tell him that they’ll just start killing citizens and that will show them.

He’s a real piece of shit, but it all could’ve been avoided, in 2016 if there had been a universal understanding of what we were up against and people had supported a certain someone.

It happened again in 2024 apparently even though the election was rigged , look on YouTube “Christopher Titus rigged“ and this is by the way, undeniable information.

flashman13

(1,350 posts)
33. ow that is what I call creative resistance.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:42 AM
Jun 24

Next take the vehicles to an undisclosed location and refuse to tell the ICErs where to find them. Sort of poetic justice.

Cirsium

(2,703 posts)
34. Satire
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:45 AM
Jun 24

I couldn't find any legit sources or photos. The story appears to have been started on social media by "Halfway Post" which is the name of a satire website.




https://halfwaypost.com/

calimary

(86,864 posts)
51. Well, satire or not, it's a FANTASTIC idea!
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 01:15 PM
Jun 24

And it means people are THINKING. Of ways to thwart, or get even.

stopdiggin

(13,967 posts)
36. a google search doesn't provide much backing this up
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:56 AM
Jun 24

if in fact it is really happening (to any appreciable degree) - I'd love to see so real reporting and pictures as verification.

i.e., be great if it is really happening ...

flvegan

(65,107 posts)
46. 166 recs
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 12:55 PM
Jun 24

For something that can't/hasn't been verified, allegedly started from a satire account, seems profoundly unlikely to begin with.

As nice as it would be if it were true...

mellow

(111 posts)
49. No evidence of claim is provided
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 01:12 PM
Jun 24

This appears to be another post by this account with no evidence of its claim.

Figarosmom

(6,563 posts)
50. Well they are illigal and illegally parked, usually blocking traffic.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 01:12 PM
Jun 24

I bet some are using their own cars. I hope the towing companies take forever cataloging them so they can't tell the agents where their cars are impounded. And the rack up hefty fi es to get them out. All perfectly legal.

I can hear noem now, oh we'll arrest blah blah blah....

It may be satire, but good ideas spread.

Celerity

(50,622 posts)
80. It's another 'fake news via dodgy tweet(s)' OP. Shambolic look for DU that it has 269 recs.
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 05:18 AM
Wednesday

This board is becoming overrun with bullshit OPs with hundreds of recs. Even worse is that so many recs come after the OPs have been exposed as bollocks. That and bad faith OP posters who leave up the shite (and also post it in the first place).

Hekate

(98,343 posts)
85. I propose a new category in the TOS and in Alerts: just those kinds of posts...
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:07 PM
Wednesday

I regret to say I have been snookered by them more times than I care to recall. It isn’t funny — DU has traditionally been the place where sources have been checked and given by the author before posting. This current trend degrades the site.

It’s particularly bad because one goal of RW authoritarians is to make sure people lose all sight of who and what to trust for information. When I joined DU I was fresh off my PhD, and research and verifying were second nature — but it was old-fashioned book research. We are in a cyber-world where by now I feel obsolete.

My oldest grandchild is in college and his mother is regrettably a nut who thinks Robert Kennedy Jr. (in my mind BobK or RobK) is God’s Gift. I have been struggling with how to guide this young man in, well, developing a bullshit-meter. The other day I finally gave him DU’s address, saying that we might be old but we check our sources — and realized too late that I no longer know if that is true.

You really hit a nerve, as you can tell.



Celerity

(50,622 posts)
62. DU has pushed misinformation for years, this just happened with the Murkowski says she may well switch to Dem bollocks.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 03:14 PM
Jun 24

Same OP, and both pushed using dodgy X accounts.

Dismaying that between the 2 OPs there have been over 400 recc's.

Response to EndlessWire (Reply #68)

damifino10

(108 posts)
72. X-splode
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 07:22 PM
Jun 24

Would love to watch but refuse to open anything twitter or X
Will not help Eloon Muskovite make a single cent if I can help
it.

summer_in_TX

(3,645 posts)
76. A SATIRICAL website is the source.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:22 PM
Jun 24

LJ Roberts

NOTE: The claim that tow truck drivers in LA are stalking ICE convoys to tow their vehicles is likely false. The Halfway Post, the source of the claim, is a satirical website known for humor, not facts. No credible news reports, such as from the Los Angeles Times or CNN, confirm this

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16bQq9AvDX/

The glitter bombs also don't check out.

DFW

(58,381 posts)
77. Maybe it's different out in L.A., but where I grew up....
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:49 PM
Jun 24

If something seemed too good to be true, it probably was.

Of course, where I grew up, some of the roads, including ours, weren’t paved yet. Maybe it was different where y’all could read and write

LPBBEAR

(549 posts)
78. Hope they are checking the plates
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:17 AM
Wednesday

to see if they belong to the vehicles they are towing. I recently caught a video someone had taken from a hotel balcony where ICE agents were casually switching plates on their vehicle. I assume there is a California law against using plates not legally registered to the vehicle.

Lock those Nazi's cars up and make ICE walk to their kidnappings and abductions!

The Wizard

(13,238 posts)
81. The Brown Shirts
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 07:32 AM
Wednesday

should be taken into custody and held until they disclose their identities and who gave them the orders to randomly round up non Caucasians . This kind of shit turned out poorly for the Gestapo. We thought they were silenced in 1945.

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