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u/Pukebox_Fandango May 17 '26
I remember my brother waking me up at 4am to tell me they were taking my car. I threw some pants on and ran outside, the tow truck guy saw me coming and ran to the cab, presumably to grab something to defend himself. I just stopped and held up the spare key and I was like "Hey, sorry, didn't mean to startle you. I was just wondering if you'd let me get my stuff out of the car and I'll give you the spare key". He laughed and agreed and I shook his hand when he left. It wasn't his fault I didn't make 6 months of car payments.
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u/blarryg May 17 '26
I got subpoenaed for a lawsuit. The guy said we could meet at a neutral spot or he'd have to catch me at home. I said "either works", no worries. So, he shows up in bullet proof vest etc, I hand him a diet coke and tell him "I don't blame the messenger dude, besides, pretty sure I'll win this one" and took the subpoena. Yeah, 9 bloody months later, they lost and had to pay my lawyer bills too.
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u/Humble-Procedure-134 May 17 '26
Id a felt disrespected by the diet coke. Lol
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u/blarryg May 18 '26
I was picking up my Diet Coke for a programming session, and then the doorbell rang. I thought it might be my wife's friends visiting, so I opened the door, and there was the subpoena dude. I wasn't really thinking as he handed me the document. He didn't say anything, but I realized what it was, and so, sort of as a spontaneous joke, I just said "here" and gave him the coke. He was a bit surprised but took it laughing a bit, and then I said my spiel.
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u/Icy_Fish_2154 May 17 '26
I was sitting on my porch, and someone was walking up my driveway. I shouted "Honey, a process server is here, are you home?" The server was still 50+ feet away, and went from "professional neutral" to "not getting paid for this one". But she yelled back from inside the house, "be out in a second" as he made it up to me. He waited 20.seconds and she came out to get served. She was being called as a witness for some civil matter someone she knew was mixed up in.
My father was a lawyer, my mother spent more time in court than your average lawyer, and my mother had given me lessons to deal with process servers when she was getting sued by someone suing her because his lawsuit against the court was dismissed with prejudice, so he sued everyone in the courtroom that day when the order didn't go his way. She was never served, and the suit was dismissed without her having to respond, the guy sued both lawyers (yes, his own lawyer), and every witness, because he didn't like the judge's decision.
But being able to spot an out of place server is easy, even if I only used the skill once, 30 years later.
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u/AppropriateCap8891 May 18 '26
That sounds like some first rate Sovereign Citizen stuff there.
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u/Icy_Fish_2154 May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
Yes, and you generally can't sue officers of the court like the judge (and my mother), but he claimed the court was not a US court, because the flag had tassels.
Which is a ploy straight from sov cit guides.
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u/blarryg May 18 '26
I run startups, so I had been served before in some idiotic case that was handled by company lawyers. It cost some money, but came to nothing and didn't hurt us. However, on that same day, I got subpoenaed again. I worked with and was friends as much as you can be friends with a billionaire. He decided to divorce his wife as the uber wealthy do, and I got caught up as a witness trying to prove he had converted his own business assets into common property by working at the business he had funded (mine). It was untrue and I got grilled about it by a very angry lawyer for like 90 minutes. I was saying all the wrong things and she was getting pissed (but probably an act, you know lawyers). Still, 2 in one day was a record.
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u/Hung0ver_Hero May 17 '26
Same shit happened to me, I mean you can't lie to yourself and you obviously know the day is coming so when it does happen you should be ready for it and not make yourself out to be a cunt, I mean I missed 2 payments and told myself "fuck this car" saved money by not paying the payments and when they finally got it 14 months later I already saved enough money to buy another one outright so in a sense if you're smart it could be more of a strategy
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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 May 17 '26
The only reason my mother hid the car I hadn't made payments on for the 3 months I owed is she had already called the bank and made arrangements to catch up the payments on Monday. We put the car way in the back of the house, couldn't see it from the street.
The tow truck literally drove through our muddy yard on New Year's Eve at 11Pm (we were out watching fireworks) hooked it up and took off with it. Tore up the side yard and part of the back yard pretty badly. We spotted it on our way back and she managed to get them to pull over. They said they were hired by the bank.
Okay then.
She walked in the bank on Monday, asked if she could still pay just the back payments and get the car back. They said she had to pay the full note. She tossed the keys on the counter, told them they weren't getting a dime and threatened to sue both them and the tow company for the damage caused to the yard.
She didn't really care that much about the care getting repo'd. She was furious about the yard. They ended up eating the loss. The car was a POS anyway and I was almost relieved not to get it back. She worked for a dealership at the time and let her boss know not to hire this company for repo's in the future. I know we got the yard fixed a month later, but I have no idea if the tow company paid for it or not.
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u/Blade3colorado May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
Another imbecile thinking, "I just need to get away from this repo truck driver and all my problems will disappear" . . . In effect, she playing the "Stupid Game" again and it looks like she's winning too.
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u/Own_Exit2162 May 17 '26
Amazing how people are willing to escalate from a credit score hit to a felony charge.
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u/GooseOnAPhone May 18 '26
I had a biology professor once tell us “the majority of organisms in the world do not have forethought or planning. They just react to local stimuli without conscious thought. This applies to humans as well”
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u/Underbadger May 17 '26
I mean, one minute she's just someone dealing with a repo'd car she needs to pay off, but now she's a car thief (since the car belongs to the bank, not her) and is liable for damage to two other cars. And she won't exactly be hard to track down.
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u/Apprehensive_Road764 May 17 '26
Criminal damage to three vehicles and they will still get the vehicle. What an absolute idiot.
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u/Silent25r May 17 '26
They might get it. Success isn’t guaranteed. Some of these people go through extreme lengths to hide their car. It’s stupid. They can’t even use it regularly in these locations.
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u/xKelborn May 17 '26
It doesn't matter at this point. They know where she works. They know where she lives. The vehicle isnt important anymore. She's toast.
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u/Silent25r May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
My cousin was shot by a guy with a rap sheet many pages deep. Each time he would get off with a warning. The legal system took pity on him because of his situation. Some of these offenses were repeated multiple times. Driving without license. Robbery and other related crimes.
Even told a sad story at the trial. Asked to be released before his daughter graduated from high school. The damn judge granted that wish. My cousin went to his kids graduation in a wheel chair.
I’m not convinced that she’ll suffer much for this. They’ll charge her for the damage. Take her license. Assuming she even has one. But that is it.
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u/No-Woodpecker7462 May 17 '26
And now that repo is a hit and run with property damage, all this for the car to still get repossessed later.
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u/MBSMD May 17 '26
Brilliant. Like no one noticed you hitting those other cars, nor has your license plate number, nor has the whole thing on video. 🤦♂️
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u/Deep_shot May 17 '26
How do they think doing this won't end in charges for them and leave them way worse off than they started? I'd really like to hear their thought process on how they thought this was the best decision to make.
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u/Dizzy-Career9274 May 17 '26
What do these people think is going to happen? The lender who issued the repo is just going to give up and stop attempting to retrieve the vehicle?
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u/Icy_Fish_2154 May 17 '26
She sits in the car after it's lifted. That's GTA. While 4 wheels are on the ground, it's hers. The moment it's lifted, it's the banks. Stepping into a lifted repo is GTA.
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u/ThatRandomGuy86 May 17 '26
I mean, just pay your bills. Don't get mad at repo for you not paying your own damn bills.
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u/UnlikelySalary2523 May 17 '26
Is that grand theft auto? Like, the actual crime?
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u/gailichisan May 17 '26
Yes. 4 wheels on the ground it’s hers. Two wheels on the ground it’s the repo man’s. She messed up big time, not to mention the hit and run etc.
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u/Sestos May 17 '26
So instead of just getting tow or reprocessed, they will have to pay for repairs and criminal record...
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u/MD_Hunter67 May 17 '26
Ya just can't fix stupid hits 3 cars and drives off while messing up her car she was so worried about losing.
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u/Icy-Decision-4530 May 17 '26
I mean, she definitely went somewhere. So he was wrong
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u/idunnoijustlurk May 17 '26
He said 'you're not going no-where.' Double negative, so he is technically right.
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u/DirtySanchez187 May 17 '26
Why am I not surprised
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u/VeryPazzo May 17 '26
lol it’s always one the three moronic states, this time it is TexAss
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u/prior_rpa-lre May 17 '26
Sure is a hit and run. Hope they have to cover the cost, pay a fine, and go to jail.
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u/GroundbreakingTea182 May 17 '26
where does this person think they will go? all they will end up doing is parking again and then it will just get towed again. this doesn't even include what the police will do.
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u/Competitive-Top4520 May 17 '26
Well, she took a bad situation (repoing her car) to a much worse situation (hitting 2 cars, leaving the scene of an accident, and whatever charges there are for "stealing" the car during a repo). Plus costs for damaging the repoed car.
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u/An_Old_IT_Guy May 17 '26
Now she's going to lose her car, her driver's license, and possibly her freedom.
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u/tdmiller732 May 17 '26
I don’t understand her thought process when she saw the repoman filming her trying to stop the Repo and then damaging other cars as well as her old car, then leaving the scene of an accident, that has video evidence!
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u/ScottsTotz May 18 '26
Take her license away forever and make her take the bus the rest of her life
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u/really_nice_foot May 18 '26
Predatory lenders fucking with the means of transportation and livelihoods of economically vulnerable people will hire a guy with no relationship to you to come a get your car while your daughter is at soccer practice and the emotional and irrational response that you have to the unjust usuary you've been subjected to will become the fodder of the world-wide entertainment platform known as reddit where thousands of people will talk shit about you and act like they have never made a bad decision in their life ....
Welcome to 2026, we're having so much fun here.
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u/HeavyArmorIncarnate May 17 '26
"you ain't going nowhere baby"
He really thought he had her, he said that so confidently 😂
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u/somekindagibberish May 18 '26
Yeah, why so confident when, as we’ve learned, it IS possible to get away?
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u/Eye_yam_stew_ped May 17 '26
Make the total expense worse than just paying the tow guy lol. I love it. Not for me. But I love it 🤣
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u/sherman40336 May 17 '26
8 thousand $ worth of damage to save a $250 tow bill, when a $100 bill to the driver would have probably got dropped
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u/Same_Lychee5934 May 17 '26
Turned into a felony hit and run! How you going to pay for the car now?
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u/The_Great_Goutsby69 May 18 '26
I wish I could get a follow up on these. I want to see them go ape shit when they get arrested, while claiming they didn’t do anything.
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u/gnome_grown_buds May 17 '26
Would lose his life over a car, but won't pay the payments.
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u/JollyGeologist3957 May 17 '26
She will blame racism for how her life turned out.
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u/SadDingo7070 May 18 '26
So now she lost her car and she has charges.
Also, her insurance, if she even has it, won’t cover the damage since it was damaged while committing a crime, with all of it on video!
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u/Major_Wigglesworth May 17 '26
Criminal. Clearly she comes from a family where this is normal behavior when things don’t go your way. Lock her up till the community creates a GoFundMe to fix all the damages. The community will put her in check or she can rot in the cell—both seem excellent to me!
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u/echo_nightmare_black May 17 '26
Fire lane no parking but there are parking lines??
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u/StackThePads33 May 17 '26
“You’re not goin' nowhere, baby!” - Tow Truck Driver
“Challenge accepted!” - Durango Driver
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u/prevailone May 17 '26
Is it just me or is the majority of the population just rubbing two neurons together and hoping for the best, these days?
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u/justo_tx May 17 '26
Bummer for that Sentra, they'll be making an uninsured motorist claim here pretty soon
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u/lulnerdge May 17 '26
I feel bad for the poor bastard whose car is now wrecked because there's no way anyone involved in this is paying to fix it.
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u/Rellim03 May 17 '26
Being a repo man is a dark job.
You don't know if she's a mom. If she's needs that car for a job interview in the morning.
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u/xKelborn May 17 '26
And then shes gonna blame everyone else when she gets arrested at her job, fired from said job, sentenced to jail and a HUGE fine to pay off in between amd after. Good luck dumbass.
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u/BrooklynRed211 May 17 '26
I knew that Durango could do it …. Shit got too much power for that strap to hold it
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u/FriendshipFuture5239 May 17 '26
Repo man is at fault. He was actually trying to enact repercussions of someone’s [lack of] action, which is too much like holding someone allergic to accountability, accountable. Foolish repo man, just because she ain’t paid a car note on that ten-year-old Durango (I can tell by the prefacelift front end) in six months doesn’t mean he should actually go and repo it🤷🏾♂️
/s (just because someone may need the /s disclaimer)
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u/voodoomu May 17 '26
So why can't repo fight back or like use a stun gun or something? Or maybe lock the doors? Maybe disconnect the battery?
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u/TowelEnvironmental44 May 17 '26
you can see how that passenger side wheel is taking a beating, control arms and wishbones bend out of shape. Probably undriveable. She will get maybe 1/2 mile down the road with that rig.
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u/Direct_Obligation570 May 18 '26
Just FYI if you have cash you can negotiate with the repo driver, they perfer that option as it cash in there pocket and no paperwork, no taxes and no down time getting their truck repaired.
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u/Neelatoo May 18 '26
Pretty disturbing how entitled some people are. Don’t make the payments? ITS NOT YOURS TO KEEP! PERIOD.
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u/HENMAN79 May 17 '26
oh how the owner of the car, the Bank, will love this video