Guy steals his car back from repo man - GIF

[ToolTalkBot]

Guy steals his car back from repo man.




Previously:

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Thieves steal boat, and are so fat they almost sink it - GIF
Thieves stealing car using relay attack - GIF
Thieves use excavator to steal ATM - GIF

[IntheGroove]

Staged. The car would have been strapped to the cradle...

[hemmjo]

NOPE, not when a repo-man picks one up. Too much risk of being caught. They back up, slide the lift under the car, pick up the back tires and drive away. Don't even get out of the truck, all of the hydraulic controls are inside the truck

[Karl_H]

Staged. The car would have been strapped to the cradle...

On the re-po and parking violation videos I have watched (though they may be staged as well) they often go a couple of block before strapping, just to get to a safe zone where they don't have to worry about the owner fighting them.

[IntheGroove]

Where I live the Highway Patrol would cite you if you broke this law, repo or not...

29003-c. The raised end of any motor vehicle being transported by another motor vehicle using a tow dolly shall be secured to the tow dolly by two separate chains, cables, or equivalent devices adequate to prevent shifting or separation of the towed vehicle and the tow dolly.

[Karl_H]

Where I live the Highway Patrol would cite you if you broke this law, repo or not...

Suppose the re-po guy could get a Highway Patrol escort to protect him while he secures his load?

[carl blum]

If you are behind on the payments, whose car is it anyway?

When I had my school bus towed to the junk yard, the front axle wasn't clamped to the lift bar, just two loose safety chains.

[Elizabeth Greene]

The original title "Guy steals his car back from repo man." is incorrect.

A correct title is "Person refuses to pay bills, loses car, and steals it from the rightful owner while endangering others on a public motorway."

Buying cars you can't afford is the biggest poverty trap foisted on the last three generations. They won't listen when you warn them, either. My 19-year-old overpaid by $10k for a used Mustang and then, insult to injury, was paying 17% interest on top of that. That dealer was downright predatory. Stealing the car from them wouldn't make that right.

Luckily? Someone hit him, totaled it, and the gap insurance (they forced him to buy) paid it off. He's in a used Ford Focus now that cost less *total* than a year's worth of payments on the Mustang.

[Elizabeth Greene]

Staged. The car would have been strapped to the cradle...

It is very common for Repo trucks to "snatch" the car as quickly as possible, move a short distance to a safe location that is out of shooting range, and then strap the car down. They do this because the job doesn't pay enough to compensate for physical violence.

"But they shouldn't do that?!"

Yes, and people should surrender the car when they can't pay for it. We don't live in perfect. People are the reason People can't have nice things.