ARLINGTON — An Arlington man on Sunday came up with his own solution to neighborhood parking woes.
He got out a chain, hooked it up to his pickup truck, and towed the car that upset him — an illegal tow.
“He had a Dodge pickup with a chain and wrapped it around the axle of this car and towed it down the street,” Arlington police spokeswoman Kristin Banfield said.
The man, 23 and a U.S. Navy sailor, apparently was irritated that there weren’t enough parking spaces on his street, the 20700 block of Circle Bluff Drive, Banfield said.
“He just got fed up — ‘You’re hogging all the parking in our neighborhood,’” Banfield said.
Early Sunday morning, about 1:30 a.m., police believe the man reached his tipping point, or more accurately, towing point.
He allegedly pulled a 1997 Dodge Neon down the street and ditched it a few blocks away. Along the way, the Neon bumped into two cars, a 1997 Toyota Avalon and a 2002 Toyota Prius, causing damage, Banfield said.
Police were called.
At first the man and a friend who was helping made up a story to cover their tracks. Police said the men later admitted to what they did.
The sailor was booked into the Marysville jail for investigation of hit-and-run accident and malicious mischief. His friend was released.
It will be up to prosecutors to decide what criminal charges, if any, to file against the man, Banfield said. It didn’t appear the man wanted to steal the car, just move it.
“He didn’t break into the vehicle; he just hooked up this big chain to it,” she said.
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