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(#5) There's Never A Boring Day When You're A Repo Man
From Redditor /u/DocOcarina:
A woman who was about to have her car repossessed jumped between the tow truck and her car, and shouted that she was 8 months pregnant, and if the guy wanted the truck, he'd have to run over her and be a baby killer.
A debtor was having his truck repo'd, so he got in his other car, and ran over the tow driver while he was hooking the truck up.
A driver hooked up a woman's car, and she freaked out, screaming that her wallet was in the back seat. The driver let her open the door to get it, and she jumped in the back seat, and said she wasn't leaving. The driver shrugged, and drove to their storage lot a couple of miles away, with her screaming in horror the entire way. Wasn't 100% allowed, but I totally enjoyed the story later.
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(#9) People Shoot At You A Lot
From Redditor /u/DocOcarina:
Guy had just pulled out of the driveway with a debtor's truck, and the debtor charged out with a rifle and shot at him. The driver dove out of the truck and called the police, and the debtor was arrested. A couple of weeks later, we got a call from the debtor that he had paid off his truck and got it back, but he wanted to report damage to the vehicle caused by the driver. The damage? A bullet hole.
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(#7) People Will Go To Great Lengths To Get Out Of Paying
From Redditor /u/starchaser57:
This is my all-time favorite repo story. Years ago we had a customer that took out a loan for a vehicle. In the beginning this customer paid very well but all of a sudden her payments kept getting further and further behind [until] she was way behind and in trouble. She called the manager to talk to him about what she could do, and told my manager that her son had heart problems and was in a local hospital that specializes in children.
We worked out something for her but she still did not make payments. She came into the office when the other lady and I were the only two there. She told us all about her son's illness and that he may need heart surgery. Her son wasn't even school-age. We'd seen that child. He had come into the office with his mother more than once. We were heartbroken for this lady. She was crying and we were crying with her. I asked if [she would] like my church to pray for her child and her family. She said she would.
Although no names [were] used, a person we knew thought they recognize[d] the family. He went to speak to the family. Later he told me that he must've been wrong because the child of the family he knew was perfectly well.
When he told me the name of the family he went to, I knew that was my customer. She had been lying to us about that child this entire time. Not only was that child not in the hospital, but he had never been sick. Her husband didn't know she even had this loan. He certainly did not know that his son was being used as an excuse for not paying this loan.
My repo company repossessed that car on the parking lot of Toys ["R"] Us on Christmas Eve. It had Santa Claus in the backseat. I still think about that stupid woman and I wonder if she and her then husband are even still married.
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(#6) Getting Creative Around The Holidays
From Redditor /u/starchaser57:
My company doesn't do this anymore, but... my repo company used to find most of [its] cars on Christmas, Christmas Eve, or Thanksgiving. Everybody goes home for the holidays. He has picked a few cars up at mama's house. Now our company has a repo freeze around the holidays.
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(#13) Too Drunk To Escape Properly
From Redditor /u/CountryGirlInHerFORD:
Maybe the guy who was so drunk he ran a stop sign at a "left or right turn only" stop, and hit a church? Then called us, begged us not to call the cops on him, and pointed out his house up the road to prove he was okay to make it back.
Maybe the car we repo'd from a well-known drug-infested apartment complex? We let them come by to get their stuff from the car and they came and picked up a bag full of drugs from the trunk (they checked to make sure all the drugs were there). They left the rest of their belongings though, including a baby's car seat and a photo album.
Maybe the car we towed from a private lot across the street from a sex club? The couple came to retrieve it dressed in crotchless and topless leather sex outfits. The woman then offered my coworker a bl*wjob and to let me f*ck her man if we released the car back to them for free. She was quick to pay when that was denied.
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(#8) Quick Reactions Can Save Your Life
From a Redditor:
Craziest one. I was doing a solo contract on a $120k motor home, I had a set of keys so I figured [it would be] a quick in and out job and it was, got in and out in 5 minutes.
So I'm cruising back to the lot to return it, a 20 mile jaunt, and about 5 miles into the trip [I'm] jamming on some music and I [feel] a cold gun barrel against the back of my ear... Some old dude said pull over or I'm dead and instinct kicked in, I slammed on the brakes and dude slams into the dash and windshield and ends up shooting himself in the gut during the brake test and dies.
Turns out it was some dude frogging the owner's wife in his motor home, so she gets busted and her hubby loses his motor home in one night. Good times, crazy people.
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What should be clear is that the job to take things from people who are not paying for them is not always interesting. If the debtor fails to fulfill its contractual obligations, security interest holders in all 50 American states generally have the right to repossess the goods. Repo men and women have to deal with this seemingly simple task every day that is often arduous and dangerous. Some debtors may be violent, which forces repo men to take precautionary measures to repossess purchases and protect themselves.
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