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Larry Gibbons

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Your Steam Name: Larry Gibbons
Your SteamID: STEAM_0:1:26456186
Your Character Name: Larry Gibbons

Target Steam Name: JohnConner235
Target SteamID: STEAM_0:1:79053615
Target Character Name (if known): Ryan Brian

Request Reason: Abuse of Police Tow Driver job, Corruption in a job without permission
When did the situation occur?: Approximately at 10pm EST on 11/29/21
Your evidence to support your claim:
Part 1: https://medal.tv/games/undefined/clips/4YScrAhsA_RX4/Pd2mGDSaGen3
Part 2: https://medal.tv/games/garrys-mod/clips/4YSjfrMgGjKBu/EY4vPV0pL3oV

Explanation of the evidence:
In part 1, as the Police Lieutenant, you see me respond to a call of Shots Fired at City Hall. I respond with my emergency lights turned on and my vehicle parked up half on the sidewalk and half on the roadway with the ELS lights on. After being revived from the situation in part 1, I return to where I left my vehicle to respond to the other callouts, but it wasn't there. I look to see where my vehicle went on the map and I saw that it somehow moved to the Police Garage. Once I get to the Police Garage, I observed my vehicle on the back of a Police Tow Truck hook, still attached with no driver in sight. This prevented me from being able to do my job and was extremely inconvenient and aggravating. I begin to confront Ryan Brian about the situation which spills into Part 2.

In part 2, the conversation had kind of slipped into OOC context, not intentionally, but it was unavoidable due to the factors of the situation. I attempt to explain to Ryan Brian that my ELS lights were still on when he towed my vehicle. He stated that for him, my ELS lights were turned off. As you can see from the part 1 video, my ELS lights were on from the time I responded to the initial callout, all the way to my vehicle on the hook in the Police Garage. I attempted to explain to Ryan that his game was glitched on his end, but he argued with me and insisted that it didn't matter and that it was still a valid reason to tow the vehicle.

I need to address a few things here and make a couple things clear. I harbor no ill-will against Ryan. I simply believe his behavior is absolutely disruptive and completely out of place for someone who is considered a Mentor in this community. Every single time Ryan plays as a Police Tow Driver, this exact same issue occurs. Other officers on the radio become irate with him for towing their vehicles away for the same thing, if not other menial issues. He also argues back with officers and other people on the police radio, abusing the radio system. This causes frustration with almost the entire department, almost every time he does it. This guy is a MENTOR in the community, he should be held to a higher standard.

The rules and specific job function of Police Tow Driver should be better specified, and I know this is not the place for that, I will address that separately. But this simply ruins the roleplay and immersion when someone who is supposed to be working with you decides to screw you over and waste time all because "its allowed because its in my job description". This is ridiculous and needs to stop.

Additional members involved/witnessing: N/A
Read, understood and followed player report rules?: Yes
 

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When I first saw the Explorer, I saw no lights on and I looked around and saw no cop. So I saw an improperly parked SUV or possibly been a stolen SUV, so how am suppose to Know it was his car, as I was recovering and towing other cars at the time and the radio is a cluster F***.

Here are the pictures of the lights being off that I currently had evidence for the recovery.
(Picture 1) (Picture 2)
So for common sense for me for the past 3 years on the server, if a vehicle is parked on the sidewalk is considered as a tow away if it falls under a certain category I felt safe to be reasonable. His vehicle from my point of view was on the sidewalk, without lights, and next to a firehydrant, so I considered it a RECOVERY. If there was a Civ car in that exact placement, it would be considered as a TOW AWAY.

So I would understand Larry calling me out as a corrupt tow operator, but at the same time, Im simply following my jobs description Impound and ticketing, so the would be considered Impound, but as it is a career car, its a recovery. And the server laws did state "ALL US TRAFFIC LAWS ARE APPLIDE TO MONOLITH", There is several states with different laws regulations on parking authority I would consider empty PD cars with no lights would fall under illegal parking for where it was parked.

I did a lot of research to find a US. law to help me, but that will take me days to find the correct City ordinance code for it, but simplicity I placed him in the civ category if their lights are not on.

I agree to the videos, I really care if Im an A**hole, but my job is allows me to tow, so if the staff wishes to change something with the tow job you can and maybe give ticketing a job with a tiny parking maid car that is as big as the tricycle to allow traffic maids to work. But back to the tow, I tow civs they think im a A**hole, I tow Pd, FD, EMS they think im a A**hole, but a job is a job.

Towing: I'm simply do the job as a traffic officer over traffic regulations, such as Double parking, Mounted on the curb, Parked on the sidewalk, Parked in a crosswalk, Adandoned vehicles, Booted cars, Parked in a "No parking" zone, Tow away zones, Emergency vehicles(Bearcat, SUV, Crown vic, Raptor, MMR, Ambulance, EMS Charger, Firetruck, FD SUV, Mayors Limo, SS SUV, SS Charger) without lights from the stated traffic violations or ordered to tow.

Ticketing: Double parking, Mounted on the curb, Parked on the sidewalk, Parked in a crosswalk, Illegal tints, Fix it, Expired License, Parked in a "No parking" zone.

Be aware he didn't sent me a link to me to see the recording, until I just hoped onto the forum site 1 hour 30 minutes ago to see this report.
 

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The issue is, your not using Common Sense. Towing away police cars while they are responding to an emergency is not realistic at all and is just FailRP. You will never see a Tow Company just come up and tow a Police Vehicle for parking in a fire lane while they are out conducting business, regardless if their lights are on or not. It just doesn't happen. I get it's a game, but make an effort to contact officers via radio BEFORE you tow away their vehicles. It ruins the immersion and yes, you make yourself seem like an asshole for doing that.

VCMod is broken for you clearly as the lights were on as the evidence clearly shows. Either fix it, or stop playing in a job where you need to use it. It is not fair that the lights were turned off on your end, but clearly they were on server-side. The tow was not allowed, and abusive.

I honestly could care less about your research on US traffic laws, because every state is different, so that really doesn't make any sense. This should be changed in the server and simple traffic laws should be codified to prevent confusion.

You need to stop playing as a Tow Truck Driver if your going to behave this way. It is an impediment on Emergency Service jobs trying to roleplay. Additionally, having a meltdown and screaming about your IRL problems is not something I would consider professional or conduct becoming of a Mentor.
 

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I'll keep playing the job and I'll play it as I have been for the past 3 years, there is nothing wrong with what I was doing as like you said, it is a game and this is a semi-realistic rp. So I was doing my job. You aren't going to change my ways of doing things. If you don't like it, I dare you to do my job better and fictional.
 

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In this situation, there is no real need for punishment. However, in the future be careful when towing emergency vehicles. If one is illegally parked get a supervisor and ask them for permission to tow the said vehicle back as situations like these tend to happen.

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