Student claims moving violation: College kid says she was locked in van

[andyjackson1828]

New England School of Photography senior Karen O'Neill yesterday nearly got taken for a ride - literally.

A beef with movers over the price to cart the 22-year-old's stuff from a Beacon Hill apartment to one on Park Drive in the Fenway erupted into a screaming match, and before it was over, O'Neill was locked in the moving van with workers threatening to take off with her in it.

``I started freaking out and screaming and pounding (when the doors closed),'' O'Neill said.

The brouhaha started, O'Neill said, when the movers pulled up to her new apartment yesterday morning, with their truck full of her furniture, and demanded $600 before they would unload it - $150 more than the written contract they had agreed to.

http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/van09022003.htm


Three cheers for this young woman!

[damnraddem]

1. Movers often pull this type of thing.

What's unusual is that the police backed up the victim. But then it's also unusual that the victim could have tried having the movers arrested for false imprisonment. Yes, they could claim that she tresspassed on their truck; but that does not forgive false imprisonment.