Violence between repo men, car owners on the rise - Truckers' Trucking Forum

Cybergal · **^ Top** #1 02.27.2009

Violence between repo men, car owners on the rise

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HALSELL, Ala. – Alone in his mobile home off a winding dirt road, Jimmy Tanks heard a commotion at 2:30 a.m. just outside his bedroom window: Somebody was messing with his car.
The 67-year-old railroad retiree grabbed a gun, walked out the back door and confronted not a thief but a repo man and two helpers trying to tow off the Chrysler Sebring. Shots were fired, and Tanks wound up dead, a bullet in his chest.
The man who came to repossess the car, Kenneth Alvin Smith, is awaiting trial on a murder charge in a state considered a Wild West territory even by the standards of an industry that's largely unregulated nationally. Since Tanks' death last June, two other repo men from the same company Smith worked for were shot, one fatally.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090227/.../repo_violence

rocknroll nik · **^ Top** #2 02.27.2009

We are gonna be seeing more and more of this stuff as the year progresses unfortunately. it is a sad sign of the times.

PharmPhail · **^ Top** #3 02.27.2009

Violence between repo men, car owners on the rise

Shoulda just started high and stayed there.

That's a terrible job.

rocknroll nik · **^ Top** #4 02.27.2009

No doubt!!! I wouldn't take that job even if it meant starving and living on the street!

Roadmedic · **^ Top** #5 02.27.2009

I have done that job. Back in 1980. Was not pleasant then, I am sure it is worse now.

Cybergal · **^ Top** #6 02.27.2009

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Originally Posted by PharmPhail

Violence between repo men, car owners on the rise

Shoulda just started high and stayed there.

That's a terrible job.

We know someone who does this job for a living not far from us.

He has Rottweilers in his front yard all fenced in to bark and show agression when someone is close to his house. He has an alarm system on his home too .. lol

I guess you could say hes a little paranoid if one of these dudes finds his home.

I don't blame him though. He has told us some really scary stories about his ventures.

Hurryupandwait · **^ Top** #7 02.27.2009

Doing a repo at 2 or 3 a.m. in a rural area is never a good idea (paging captain obvious) I used to work at a place when I was younger and the boss would send me out to do repos... sometimes he would even tell me they were repos. 1 time I drove down a dirt road about 10 km's because I thought I was just picking some propane tanks up to be filled and brought back turns out I was supposed to take them and get the h3ll out of there the guy wasn't too happy to see me and I didn't know why. He calmed down after a few minutes and even helped me load them on the truck. I had a nice chat with my boss when I got back

lol.

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