'72 Scamp Can I just fix the front brakes to get it home?

True story back in the day (80s) this neighborhood drunk type guy asked my buddy to help him flat tow a VW beetle. It was after dark kind of late my buddy says "not now see me tomorrow..." the guy couldn't wait, and I cant remember if he was drunk or not (probably was) he gets a chain and goes to flat tow that VW by himself with a van. At every stop the VW slammed into the back of his van all the way to his house. By the time he got it there, the VW was smashed up, and the back of the van was totaled Can't make this stuff up... :lol: