Want to go to jail without committing a crime? Rent from Hertz

[Renew Deal]

One month later:

[Ocelot II]

1. How about a quick summary so we don't have to watch the videos?

[Renew Deal]

2. People that rented from Hertz were wrongly charged with car theft.

[Ocelot II]

3. Thanks. Here's a link to the story for others who don't want to watch a video.

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/hertz-customers-stolen-cars-false-accusations-francis-malofiy-lawsuits-bankruptcy.html

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. Thanks ... about 90% of the time I'd rather read than watch

Usually I only watch things that I think will be funny (SNL, Seth, Colbert, etc), or I because need to actually view the devastation somewhere.

[Ocelot II]

8. I watch cute animal videos, mostly, but won't waste time on video news stories

that I can find in print and read faster than I can watch.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. Exactly, I can read faster than most people talk

Now that i think about it, I do love me some John Oliver though ... I'll watch that dude talk about just about anything

Jon Stewart too.

But if you aren't that level of talent, I'd rather just read, thanks!

[stopdiggin]

9. and the 20-30' lead in

by some local news hack - before getting to any substance at all ...

But give me a chance to decide.

[Wingus Dingus]

10. I'm the same way. I hate news websites that are mostly geared for video

and don't put their stories in text.

[vanlassie]

17. I often wish I could filter out video posts from Latest.

I just don’t want to deal with them most of the time.

[Raine]

23. Me too, I save video watching for things I enjoy being entertained with. 🙂 nt

[DBoon]

7. also folks at work may have videos blocked by their employer

a short summary is always helpful

[Celerity]

21. Hertz emerged from bankruptcy, but has old software systems,makes it hard to track inventory, so

when a car shows 'missing' they simply report it as stolen, as it is cheaper to farm it out to the cops than to track it themselves.

Madness.

[PatSeg]

4. Whoa, what a disturbing story

[CurtEastPoint]

6. AVOID THEM along with Thrifty and Dollar. F HERTZ

[AwakeAtLast]

13. Add Enterprise

My sister worked for them. Crooks!

[CurtEastPoint]

14. How so? What did they do?

[Mad_Machine76]

16. Wanting to know too

I rent them all the time through my job and haven’t had any issues with them.

[AwakeAtLast]

19. It was quite awhile ago

Basically never paying her for the things they said they would. Never promoting as promised. Lather, rinse, repeat.

[Goonch]

12. Getting away with murder..........

[BComplex]

15. THIS is what happens when corporations run the government. Capitalism gives power to the

corporations above all else.

[GoodRaisin]

18. I had a similar issue with National once, not accused of stealing the car, but

they tried to charge me for a car I didn’t rent in Fort Wayne (during a week I was in another city). Said I returned the car late and left without paying.

They pestered me with repeated calls for over a year and wouldn’t listen when I tried to explain each time they had the wrong renter. Once they turned it over to a collection agency the agency listened to me and resolved it on the first call.

Never got an apology from National, not that one was expected. They were idiots.

[Mad_Machine76]

20. Hey fellow Hoosier

I'm off to Fort Wayne tomorrow BTW

[GoodRaisin]

24. Actually, I'm a Tar Heel, but have visited Fort Wayne often

as a business traveler. So I rented from National there, just not the week they claimed I had their car - when I was actually renting from National in Louisville - lol.

[DFW]

22. These videos are worth watching

Imagine you have rented a car and suddenly you see cops pointing guns at you, and you haven’t the slightest idea why—and then it turns out to be because of deficient software of your car rental agency!!

I rent a car exactly once a year in the USA (next year will be a big exception for our 70-70-40 event). We just take whatever the travel agency gives us if it meets our needs. But after this story, even if the chances of it happening to my family are one in ten thousand, the very fact that it CAN happen is enough to issue instructions to exclude Hertz from the pool of choices. A one-off event is bad, but repeated happenings around the country, spread out over time, are far too scary to risk even those small odds.