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1. Hertz has far more agency in deciding whether I have a bad time than my bathtub does. 2. Extraditions are non zero. You should read the linked Inquirer arti
by tedunangst 5y ago
1. Hertz has far more agency in deciding whether I have a bad time than my bathtub does.
2. Extraditions are non zero. You should read the linked Inquirer article.
> Brent Williams, 46, a salesman from Bethlehem, rented a Ford Mustang convertible in late 2007. He drove it for two months in the Florida Keys until he was arrested in 2008. Hertz disputed that he had paid. Williams returned to Florida a few weeks later to contest the charges. He had proof that he had paid $600 for every week he had had the car. But no lawyer from Hertz showed up at the court hearing, he said. ... Eight years later, he was stopped in another car for a traffic violation by a state trooper near Allentown. The trooper discovered that there was an outstanding warrant for Williams in the theft of the Mustang. After his arrest near Allentown, police “put me in jail, and I sat there for 30 days waiting for transport. That trip took 10 days to go from Pennsylvania to Florida,” he said. “They kept me shackled the entire time. It’s almost like being kidnapped." When Williams arrived in Florida, he said he overheard the prosecutor say, “I can’t believe we just transported this guy.” The charges were dropped, according to court records. Hertz made no apology.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/retail/hertz-stolen-car-grand-theft-auto-malofiy-bankruptcy-lawsuit-20200803.html https://www.inquirer.com/business/retail/hertz-stolen-car-gr...
- kragen 5y agoClearly Hertz's agency is relevant if you're a lawmaker considering how to regulate Hertz or a manager considering how to operate Hertz. For a person considering whether to rent a car or call a car with DiDi, it's probably fine to model Hertz as a random risk like your bathtub, because there seems to be no evidence Hertz is using false theft accusations as a weapon against, for example, critics or competitors. Probably even being extra nice to the rental car counter clerk won't help because evidently the decision to report the car stolen is made at the corporate level. As for extradition, actually Pennsylvania has been in the same country as Florida since the USA annexed Florida in 01818. Also, please don't say things like "You should read the...article," both because they're unnecessarily aggressive and can degrade the quality of discourse, and because they make you look foolish when it turns out that the reason for the apparent disagreement was that you either didn't know what country Florida was in or what "extradition" means.
- rosndo 5y ago> turns out that the reason for the apparent disagreement was that you either didn't know what country Florida was in or what "extradition" means. I’m afraid it’s you who’s confused - “extradition” is about jurisdictions, not countries. Sending a person from Pennsylvania to Florida does require an extradition process.
- kragen 5y agoOh, I guess you're right, so the reason for the apparent disagreement was that I didn't know what "extradition" meant, not that tedu didn't. In that case extradition for Hertz theft reports is probably fairly common. Thanks for the correction!