Violent early morning repo

[Ivana Olson]

That's what got me.. when I first heard the shouting I thought the car was 
being stolen.

Financial issues aside, I think the repo person should be required to give 
the people a chance before assuming the worst and pulling a gun.



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Jo Clute" <josepi at doitnow.com>
Reply-To: central-city-discuss at gcna.info
To: <central-city-discuss at gcna.info>
Subject: Re: Violent early morning repo
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:25:52 -0700

A friend of mine used to repo cars and from what I know its usually the car
owners pulling the guns on the tow truck drivers. So the drivers are always
skidish to begin with  but I had a roommates car being repod on my old house
on 12th st and the event scared me so bad having someone come into my
property and coming inches from hitting my boat that once I realized what
was going on I gated him in and called the police.

I then flipped out on my roommate for putting me in that position.  I
thought I was being robbed and I was waking up being terrorized.   But when
people don't make their car payments and aren't in communication with their
bank, what do they expect is eventually going to happen?  fiscal
responsibility,proper financial planning, and flexible spending habits, are
just so imperative.



From: "Ivana Olson" <hazey_marie at hotmail.com>
To: <central-city-discuss at gcna.info>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:12 AM
Subject: Violent early morning repo


 > Just recently (about 2:30am) the house had gotten quiet and I heard some
 > car
 > doors slam and the neighbors car alarm was going off. I looked out the
 > window to make sure it wasn't our new car, since I'm not familiar with
 > it's
 > alarm yet and I didn't see anything here or across the street (which is
 > where the alarms usually come from). A few minutes later I heard loud
 > shouting and lots of cuss words very clearly coming from outside.
 >
 > A man with a tow truck had backed up to my next door neighbors driveway
 > and
 > hooked their car up to his truck. The neighbors heard their car alarm go
 > off
 > and came outside to see what was going on. The tow truck driver ignored
 > them
 > at first, continuing to hook up the the car to his truck, then when they
 > couldn't get an explanation out of him they blocked his truck with their
 > recycle can (I'm assuming to get his attention?)
 >
 > The tow truck driver then pulled out a gun and started yelling and 
cussing
 > at them. This was all going on when I got to the window closest to their
 > drive way and was able to get a closer look. He grabbed the recycle can
 > and
 > threw it back at my neighbors (2 young hispanic couples who have been 
very
 > quiet and pretty good neighbors to us). One of my neighbors ran inside to
 > call the police and the tow truck driver got in his truck and sped off
 > with
 > their car.
 >
 > When the police got here I went out to see if everything was okay and
 > maybe
 > offer what I saw if they needed it but even with 3 policemen no one would
 > talk to me, even when I told them I saw what happened. I overheard one 
cop
 > telling the neighbors that the towing company called them ahead of time 
to
 > say they would be picking up the car.
 >
 > None of this explained the violence used or the gun he pulled, though and
 > I'm wondering if they even believed my neighbors when they were reporting
 > the incident. Seeing as how they wouldn't even listen to what I saw I
 > figure
 > they were either ignoring me or they believe the neighbors story and 
don't
 > care.
 >
 > Is this common practice when a car is reposessed? Is the towing company
 > really allowed to come at 2:30 in the morning and pull a gun on the
 > owners??
 >
 > This really concerns me. These neighbors have never shown any loud or
 > violent behavior and even with what I saw tonight they weren't more than
 > passive agressive, understandable as they obviously didn't know why
 > someone
 > was taking their car out of their driveway.
 >
 > I don't know about their finances or if they were warned ahead of time
 > about
 > the repo but I know they were taken by suprise and that this incident
 > really
 > scared them, as it did me.
 >
 > -Ivana
 >
 >
 >
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