It is said that there is no such thing as a relaxed trip unless you sleep in your car while being towed.
TikTok’s most recent original experience was shared in a viral video posted on March 22 via KayemDee (@kayemdee81). In it, a bewildered tow truck driver confronted a woman who claimed to be sleeping in her vehicle while towing it to a seized lot.
“You towed the car and I slept in it,” the woman told the driver as she rolled down the window. “Where the hell am I?
The driver said he was taken to his car and took a video before towing it. “Weren’t you. . . Where have you been?” He asked her in the video, which has been viewed 5. 3 million times since it was first posted.
“Me in the back of the seat. Me in the back,” the woman insisted. “I just woke up. It’s not a lie, you just towed me here.
“Honey, I don’t think [the driver] doubts you, I just think he’s SHOCKED that you didn’t wake uppppppp,” one viewer jokingly observed.
“I just think he wakes up halfway through and can’t do anything until he stops,” wrote another.
Despite the woman’s ordeal, the audience applauded how calm and polite she was, while others shared memories of falling asleep on the school bus and waking up hours later in an unfamiliar garage.
“My mother was scared when it happened,” @chefboy_rd88 recalls. The school tried to say they never took me on the bus, they called the police and everything, but they took me on the bus. To date, the most productive nap ever.
“I was an absent child for a few hours,” @yousernameeeeeeeeu said of his own similar experience. “The ’90s were an amazing era. “
In a now-archived thread from 2021, Redditors demanded to know what exactly happens in cases like these.
“Have you ever been towed while in your vehicle?I mean, sleeping at night?” Read the original message in the thread.
While being unknowingly towed inside your vehicle doesn’t seem to be a common occurrence, cable users have wondered if legal action can be taken in this scenario.
“Towing a vehicle with someone on board would be illegal,” U/LennyFlank speculated. “They make sure there’s no one (or anything dangerous) inside. They are quite capable of getting into the vehicle and searching it.
According to Car and Driver, towing laws vary across states. The site doesn’t say whether it’s “illegal” for companies to tow cars with other people inside, but notes that 18 states require towers to return cars to their owners if they return their cars before they are removed from the property, perhaps for a lower “deposit fee. “He also notes that only four states require tours to photograph the cars before taking them.
It’s unclear where KayemDee is and whether they’ve searched the interior of the woman’s car to comply with local law or corporate policy. The Daily Dot reached out to KayemDee about the TikTok comment for more information.
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