Towing Issues: Likelihood a Tow Damaged Tranmission, automatic transmisson, flatbed driver

Question
My alternator died on my 1999 Acura CL 3.0 (front wheel drive) and I had to get it towed. The flatbed driver arrived and when it came time to hoist the car onto up onto the flatbed, I would not get the car out of park since the alternator had taken out the battery and everything was locked up. The driver attempted to pull the car up into the flatbed while the car was still in park. I called for him to stop which he did after my second call to him (right after i heard a loud pop/bang after the car had moved about 1 to 2 feet. After jumping the battery, i could put the car in neutral and we got it on the truck. When i picked up the car after repair, it seemed to drive OK but in about 100 miles, i noticed extrememly roughness in all aspects of shifting and now the dealer tells me i have multiple problems with the transmission and it needs replaced at 130,000 Miles. Was the brief moving of the car in park about a foot, no more than two feet if it was more, enough to do significant damage? Or is that unlikley. Thanks for your help Richard.

Answer
well its hard to actually say if it caused the transmission to be damaged while rolling a locked car up onto a flatbed.  I have towed many vehicles with them locked in park with flatbeds and had to slide - drag them up the deck.

BUT things do happen, and while you mention it has 130,000 miles on it. There are also chances that the mileage and age have combined to make problems more visable.  

I would be curious to hear what kind of problems the transmission has...

Now for a guess, this vehicle has an automatic transmisson, as a side note, beside the shifter ( if on floor ) there is a key slot, which will release the transmission from park.

The loud pop / bang,  now that I have no idea what it could be.  I know that some times dragging or sliding the vehicle will allow the vehicles transmission to pop over the lock pins. This is also what happens when you park on hills and they are hard to get out of park, or even like in the movie " Beverly Hills Cop " where the vehicle rolls backwards when in Park...

It would be hard to place blame on the tow truck driver at 100%,  But I would at least have the transmission checked again by a shop and see what they say happened. Then it might be able to determine what happened and things can go forward from that point..  I would how ever contact the tow company, and talk to a manager and tell him that there is a POSSIBILITY OF TOW DAMAGE done to your vehicle.  This would also help in finding what happened...