Police in Chicago are looking for two suspects that ran over a pregnant woman and stole her car with her two-year-old son in the back seat. NBC’s Steven Romo has more on why law enforcement says Volkswagen could have helped track the vehicle but refused until they paid up.
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#NBCNews #Volkswagen #Toddler
Don’t buy a VW
Why, because it may not comply?😂
The problem was with Car-net not VW
Farfignuten
📌The Volkswagen “refused” to track toddler. So in other words the Volkswagen wouldn’t cooperate?🤔 These news media platforms continue to amaze some of us.😂 #herbie
The simple rule of thumb applies here; *You work a man, you PAY a man!* . Why are people mad at the Volkswagen company for not footing the bill to pay an outside contractor monitoring car trackers? *It’s a subscription service meaning people are on the clock* tracking vehicles of paid customers requesting help so *if you haven’t paid then you shouldn’t be complaining* regardless of the situation. *Nothing personal, just business!* . Their policy is that you pay first then get the service. Volkswagen had nothing to do with the situation and if the customer had already subscribed then help would’ve been much sooner. If you bend the rules for one then you’re expected to do it for all other situations in the future otherwise it wouldn’t be fair.
I’d say the life of a child supersedes that rule in any case.
Obviously you didn’t even watch the story. IT IS IN THEIR POLICY to help with emergencies. The agent they got didn’t follow procedure / didn’t connect them to the emergency department.
My God take a moment to actually listen and maybe you can learn something instead of preaching ignorance 😒
From your comment, I see what the real problem is here. The problem is that people do not try to listen or try to understand the situation presented to them. No wonder everyone is so often frustrated by the service companies or governments provide these days.
If she had been appropriately armed in her own driveway for the defense of herself and her children, she could have assisted in the permanent & swift retirement of the criminal aggressors who might not have successfully victimized her and her family.
“Appropriately armed.” LMAO. You want everyone walking around like it’s the wild west. Fastest draw wins!!! Soon people will just be snipered. Never see it coming.
@M F
No, no. Of course not.
It’s a much better idea to be unarmed on your own property and completely defenseless and at the mercy of savage criminals who will take everything you have, including your life, without hesitation or regard for your feelings or your worth.
Embrace that victim mentality!
That way, you never have to be bothered with being accountable or responsible for your own safety!
Life doesn’t really matter, anyway, right?
And what doesn’t matter would thereby, then also be not worth defending or protecting. Right?
No one has to carry a gun everywhere.
@allemander it’s is victim blaming. lol you’re blaming her for not having a gun in her own driveway. instead of blaming the criminals for trespassing, grand theft auto and child abduction…
@Vivi
All parties involved share in the responsibility for the outcome, in different ways.
VW is garbage, make they go out of business
Yet another reason NOT to give VW your money.
How do you just withhold that information, they can’t seriously be paying you that much. What is with incompetent people working literally every single job nowadays
Time for a situation like that to be made illegal, so future instances can be prevented
Disgusting. Who’s the VW employee that refused to provide the information to the sheriff? We need the names. Stop hiding
I’m willing to bet the house it was to a calling center in India. Where they never think for themselves. And only Stick to the script.
I hope she sues!!! People should stop buying Volkswagen!!!
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V. W. That’s sad.
Jews children Germans are ruthless
That should be illegal and makes me wanna puke wth is wrong with us
Jus like Fox News they care about money then lives
It doesn’t seem right to me that the police would be searching for someone in the U.S. and not mention what color the person is , “tall and thin” just don’t cut it not in the U.S. where a persons color is a major part of their idenity. I believe when they count the census they ask people what color er race they are , don’t they ? If it is so important for the census , then it should be important for everything ….Zulu
This is America. We are a few Presidents away from paying for 2 lung fulls of air or 5 for the low price of just 4.
Everybody has gone crazy I’m trying to collect everyone in my mind but everybody’s scattered everywhere doing God knows what and the devil loves it.. everyone was on their best behavior when Obama ran I guess they didn’t feel like being calm anymore..I don’t know ..I don’t know anything anymore
That just show what they can do with our cars. They always know were you are even if you dont have the service
I bet that service was installed when manufactured. What other info is the car transmiting and where to
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It’s All About Money Ain’t A Darn Thing Funny 🤑
Discretion. The lack of
The company was founded by Nazis, people…
Didn’t AOC support them over Tesla?🤣🤣
Makes sense. We’re talking about a Nazi company here.
VW stock is going down
This is not the first time German car manufacturers gave the 2 fingers to the planet💩
Still a little nazi in them I see.
VW sucks for this and I hope they go bankrupt!!!
I’m guessing we won’t get much information on the “tall and thin” individuals who attacked the woman, stole her car and ran over her.
The Usual Suspects….
The fellas
I think we got all we pretty much need to know
They were white .
i think the feds need to kick in a law that requires a back door in the tracking device so they can take over in an emergency.
in the same way that the feds can break encryption on devices they should be able to override the status of the service.
“govt should be able to breech expectations of privacy of american citizens in order to ‘stop a few crimes’.” fixed it for you.
Volkswagen needs to be charged with obstruction. They could’ve killed that child
When policies override common sense
That’s why everybody should be able to carry a Pistol no licenses required It’s constitutional privilege not your state laws The only reason they are gun laws is so black people can’t have them stupid Meanwhile gangsters and criminals get them on a street old day If I want to buy any legal gun right now I can get one So Laws on guns is a waste of time Because criminals get them and carry them anyway As we can see here in america Guns are primitive technology They can be made at home With the right little tools. Remember they were making guns before there was power tools An hour in the wild wild west again
That is really messed up what they did to the cops
Isn’t that obstruction of justice???
The only thing that makes me “scared and frightened” is the fact police (and a lot of people) think that private corporations should be required to give information to the state to help investigate crime. They are not cops. They did not put the tracker there to track crimes. They have no legal requirement to give that information.
Is it a terrible situation? Yes. But bowing down to fear and forfeiting rights for these scary situations will end worse for the masses in the end.
Excellent point.
Vw just want to be boycotts… 😂
With a baby inside whath kind of monsters exist over f car have same spray in their face.nothing toxis r gular hair spray in their eyes.least left a he keeps d unharmed.
Car companies sucks in a matter of emergency, all they do is money first. This not how they treat their customers, and CarNet should be a service given free for a decade not just 5 years
What a horrible company VW is. The rampant, craven greed of corporations is bordering on criminal.
WHAT? THIS IS NOT THEIR JOBS INVESTIGATING, CHASING OR TRACKING *”CRIMINALS”*
POLICE CAN INSTALL TRACKER?
OWNER CAN INSTALL TRACKERS?
NO BRAINORS…
Nazis don’t want to be accused of tracking ppl down for the police st.
TITLE OF VIDEO:
*”USELESS POLICE INVESTIGATORS”*
AND OWNER CAN’T INSTALL A TRACKER? RIGHT?
Its sad but you can’t let safety trump freedom’s, warrants are a thing for a reason, you can’t just let cops say well it’s ok this time
$150 wow
That is ridiculous and that is what you run into at all times with any company now. To have morons on the other end as well as I’m sure it probably took them 5 minutes to get through to the right thing to an automated system to start with
Absolutely disgusting. 🤮Disgusting that someone ran over a pregnant mom. You know she is already overwhelmed trying to take care of probably a baby and a toddler. Now she has to limp around or be confined to bed. Hope her relationship is good with her parents, because they are going to have to pitch in now so her husband can work instead of caring for her. (I say and assume husband because she’s clearly popping them out in rapid succession). Disgusting that Car Net doesn’t have emergency policies to assist police. Hearing this information, I bet a lot of their subscribers are going to drop that service and they will be out of business, as they clearly should be. Volkswagon, Das Greedy MFers!
victim is my cousin, wanted to clear some misconceptions
1. she has a toddler and a 6 year old
2. she’s doing her best with recovery and as her family all of us are doing our part and helping her
3. she is engaged, not married
@Rachel Shepherd My sympathies to your cousin.
Any description of the primates
To be fair it’s CAR-NET not VW.
Everyone is knocking VW, but remember Car-Net needs to be held accountable here too.
VW does not. The vehicle was not registered with Car-Net.
I’m sick and tired of the “Suspects”being identified as such . WE ALL KNOW WHO IS COMMITTING THE CRIME..💩🍗🍟🤦🏾♂️
OMG I can’t believe they would do that..VW would not help..unbelievable
SUE the company, and get a refund.
Seems normal for business, $$$ first, lives second.
I’ll remember that next time I’m looking for a car it won’t be a BMW. The guy is full of s*** they’re just greedy
Sounds like accessories after the fact
I see NBC is doing their part in protecting the criminals! They gave a description of the perps EXCEPT for their race! The mom knew their race, the good Samaritan knew their race and the cops knew their race! But, since NBC is a democrat owned and affiliated news outlet they protect their criminals by withholding vital information! Yet they have to gall to call out Volkswagen for actions that delayed finding the criminals? HYPOCRITES!
Volkswagen can stick their Nazi cars where the sun don’t shine.
Of course not. Same people that deem it too expensive to put backseat warnings for seatbelts. Oh wait that’s every car company.
That might be the most costly $150 Volkswagen has ever made.
VW should have a list of approved official phone numbers so when the police call in from those numbers they can get immediate confirmation and give access to the location. When that happens the car owner should be notified within a day or two that its location was accessed to prevent abuse. There should be strict guidelines on when this can be used.
Car-Net was not registered so VW would not have been tracking the vehicle.
HOW MUCH DO BLACK PEOPLE HAVE TO PAY THE FUZZ TO STOP THE FUZZ FROM SHOOING BLACKS. AHAHAHA AHAHAHA LOL.
my cat died because of the preston leak he was in pain has F….. F Uvw NAZI’S car
It’s always about the money,!!
NAZI’S car at his best
Hitler supported VW…enuff said
Isn’t it that third party service, Carnet that should be named in the story title? Volkswagen itself didn’t appear to be in control.
Lazy
This is why you don’t buy German. Give German car thumbs down. The mom is brainless. She needs to take both her kids together. Knowing that people leave their children in the car and the kids die of heat all the time. Why am I not surprised. This is why citizens need to carry weapons. If I die protecting my family and get gun down, at least I knew I got a shot at defending myself.
my cousin happens to be the victim and I can tell you that she is the most caring and considerate person. I genuinely can’t believe you can say something about her like that. Her older child, the one who wasn’t in the car is at the age where he is quite capable of getting around himself. From my understanding of what happened, she was attempting to get him out of his car seat and they stole the car in her own driveway. have some heart and maybe use your brain before calling other people brainless.
abolish car companies, abolish private corporations, and establish a one party socialist state NOW
This world is so F’d! So you’re telling me a 2-year-old is worth is $150… WOW!
In today’s world of endless phone, menus, prompts, pathetic attempts at AI voice assistants , recirculation’s and disconnections… I’m surprised they even spoke to an employee at all…
No payment should have EVER been required!!!
Nobody has a credit card????
VW was right to refuse. What made them change their mind?
Shame on VW and Car-Net… greed for money
VW is not your friendly European trendy car maker of the pop-up bus camper anymore.
That VW has become a destructive behemoth in the car industry in a war with rival car makers.
My cousin sold his car because of this story
Sue, craft legislation that can aide for the future, the state maybe could also sue.
If a court order is needed is bad when something like that could slow down the possibility of that function being removed from a car with in a time.
Disgusting.
Might have to put a tile tracker instead
Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution Volkswagen Key Facts 1 The Volkswagen company originated during the Third Reich. Volkswagen used both Jewish and non-Jewish forced labor, primarily from eastern Europe. The company operated four concentration camps and eight forced-labor camps on its property. 🤫🤔🖕
These brothers are heartless! Running over a pregnant woman and taking a car with a baby in it!? How embarrassing for the BC, another L.
Dam no more vws for my family
$150 compared to a life ain’t nothing especially a baby I wouldn’t care how much it cost I would just pay it
That employee should be fired
You need to fix your “procedure”!
That’s VW customer service for you
What a sheety company. Note to self: Never buy a VW. They literally valued $150 over a toddler’s life. Wow.
This is because all big companies want to pay 3rd party employees out of the USA Pennies and they don’t understand basic emergency situations because in India they don’t exist they just know how to keep asking to please pay them and show bob then they can help
Good. Vw has no right to track anyone.
Shame on Volkswagen!!
🚘 ~ I actually sympathize with Volkswagen. There’s an old phrase that says “why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free“. That’s like trying to buy homeowners insurance after your house is destroyed by a tornado or a hurricane. The whole point in buying a service is because you may have to use it and you may not have to use it.
Obviously it’s bad PR not to waive the expense disabled child, but if everybody gets to get the service for free that much less people pay for it. Of course I support saving someone’s life and not taking longer for the service to be reactivated, but it’s not fair to a company who invest all this time and expense and equipment for a person to get it completely for free. So I would say if you want the service activated immediately you need to pay closer to $1000 but maybe that’ll just be billed later so it doesn’t delay turning on the service.
Well the people in USA should quit buying there vehicles and Make them across the world as people who just wants to sale vehicles and not care about there customers
VW should be shut down for good