This afternoon my parent's car broke down on a street in my town.  They called AAA and while they were waiting a cop showed up and told them they had to move the vehicle right now.  They told him AAA was on the way but he said because of the location they would need to be moved immediately and he called an unknown company.  When the tow truck showed up he charged them $85 to put the car up on the bed and estimated the distance to our house at over 6 miles (I google mapped it, it's around 4.) The whole thing came out to $115 for a 4-6 mile tow. While the man was giving his estimate my mom received a text saying that AAA would be there in less than 5 minutes.  The cop insisted they had to move now and use the guy he called. 

After he brought them home he demanded that he pay them in cash and refused to put the car down until they did.  This all sounds sketchy to me. Am I missing something? What can we do?
user
My parent's car broke down and the police made them get it towed by a
assistant
This afternoon my parent's car broke down on a street in my town.  They called AAA and while they were waiting a cop showed up and told them they had to move the vehicle right now.  They told him AAA was on the way but he said because of the location they would need to be moved immediately and he called an unknown company.  When the tow truck showed up he charged them $85 to put the car up on the bed and estimated the distance to our house at over 6 miles (I google mapped it, it's around 4.) The whole thing came out to $115 for a 4-6 mile tow. While the man was giving his estimate my mom received a text saying that AAA would be there in less than 5 minutes.  The cop insisted they had to move now and use the guy he called. 

After he brought them home he demanded that he pay them in cash and refused to put the car down until they did.  This all sounds sketchy to me. Am I missing something? What can we do?
user
my parents got charged $115 for a tow that ended up being 4-6 miles away.
assistant