If you’ve been towed, you know it’s unpleasant. Some people in Portsmouth said, however, the towing out of one parking lot has been more than frustrating.
“They’re preying on senior citizens and disabled people. I haven’t heard anybody else being towed, except for senior citizens,” Joanne Ramseur of Portsmouth told News 3.
Ramseur said she was one of many who were towed out of spaces at the Walmart on Frederick Boulevard.
She’d been grocery shopping with a relative in November when she returned to find her spot empty. That’s when she said a man approached her.
“He said, ‘Ma’am, ma’am are you looking for your car?'” said Ramseur.
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The man, she said, told her the car was towed and he was there to take her to the towing location.
“I didn’t know what would happen. Could have been somebody trying to knock you in the head, try to rob you or anything,” said Ramseur.