Image via miamirepo/YouTube
One of the more emotional things in the auto industry is car repos. They usually come after months of someone not paying for their ride, maybe as they watch the rest of their life come apart. Already frazzled, when they see a tow truck pull up to take their method of transportation some go into fight mode and try stopping the repo man.
Watch a father hold up the repo man trying to take his son’s car.
That’s what this guy did as a tow truck backs up in the included video, ready to scoop a Chevy Equinox sitting in a driveway. It’s obviously late at night, or early in the morning, and completely dark. Perhaps the repo man thought that would make the job easier.
If so, he was wrong. Just as the tow truck’s boom starts lining up with the front wheels of the vehicle, out of the shadows emerges who we can only assume is the debtor. He might call himself the owner of the Chevy, but let’s be honest, the bank owns that car.
He does the classic move of trying to block the repossession by standing at the front of the car, blocking the boom from hooking up to the front tires. But that doesn’t work and you see the boom start lifting the front of the vehicle.
Realizing the repo is going to happen anyway, the guy pulls a silver handgun from his waistband. He’s not content to just brandish the firearm. The debtor the points it in the direction of the repo man in the tow truck’s cabin, a clear threat to the working man’s life.
Who knew some junky Chevy Equinox was worth a human life? What a messed up way of seeing things. Even a Ferrari isn’t worth a life, but this is how some people think about things.
Image via miamirepo/YouTube
