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NYC Tow Truck Destroys SUV - A dramatic YouTube video showing a city tow truck crunching a parked SUV in snowbound Brooklyn Heights went viral Tuesday with more than 700,000 people watching the clip. The caught-on-tape slam-a-thon shows a stuck front-end loader bashing into the parked vehicle as a tow truck tries to yank the loader out of a snowy parking spot. The yellow snow-mover careens into the city-owned Ford Expedition, then strikes it several more times as it lurches out of the spot. On the way out, the plow crashes into the window of the SUV, and also sideswipes another parked car. "It could had been completely avoided," said the wife of Eugene McArdle, 53, whose city-owned SUV was crushed. "It was a poor decision." NYC Tow Truck Destroys SUV McArdle is the emergency liaison for the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development and needs the vehicle for his job, a spokeswoman said. The SUV is a 1995 Expedition with 95,000 miles on it...