Every tow truck driver has stories. But this guy? He’s got the story. A AAA call turned into a fake emergency which turned into a driver taking glorious revenge. A drunk dude tried to game the system with a lie about a baby locked in a car. Our hero gave him something else to cry about.

Fake baby emergency earns a real lockout

A tow truck operator working the overnight shift as a AAA driver got a 10 p.m. call no one ignores: a baby locked in a car with the keys inside. He later wrote on Reddit, “I sped down the highway as fast as my truck could take me.” It was Friday night, so AAA was slammed. But a baby locked in the car always takes top priority.

The driver arrived to find two cars in a dark corner of a parking lot. “I jumped out of the truck, identified the owner, and asked him if this was his vehicle?” the driver remembered. “Yup, sure is!” the guy answered, without a care in the world. When asked if the child was asleep in the backseat, the man mumbled, “Yeah, he’s asleep.”

The AAA driver got to work. As soon as the lock clicked, the guy yanked the door open—grabbed his keys and a six-pack of beer—and stepped back with a smirk. He even let out “a little smart-a– chuckle.”

“I poked my head inside the car and looked into the backseat. There was no baby.”

So the driver improvised. “Instinctively I snatched his keys away from him, tossed them back into the car, pushed the lock button on his door frame and slammed it shut.” Then he delivered the line heard ’round Reddit: “‘Go f*** yourself. Now you can stay here all night.’”

The AAA driver makes sure one jerk never games the system again

The tow truck operator admitted no one said a word. “The driver stood there dumbfounded, holding his beer to his chest as I drove away.”

The AAA driver called dispatch, explained the situation, and made sure the guy wouldn’t get help if he tried the same stunt again. “They made a note not to send any other drivers out to this account for a lockout situation.”

Redditors couldn’t get enough. One wrote, “Maybe petty, but it’s magnificent.” Another added, “Brutal. I didn’t expect to enjoy this revenge story that much.” A fellow AAA dispatcher even chimed in to say, “I’m so glad that you did that.”

One selfish driver thought he could play the system. Instead, he played himself. And thanks to one very done AAA driver, he’ll be waiting a long, long time for his next roadside favor. You can see the original Reddit post embedded below:

Made a fake call about your baby being locked in your car with the keys? Now your car is locked with the keys inside again.
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