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Someone should make a movie script about this guy!

• dkokelley 17y ago
  I was just thinking that, or maybe a TV series. This is great stuff. It reminds me of Catch Me If You Can.
• derefr 17y ago
  As low-brow (or pop-cultural) as this comment might be, I can't help but make the analogy: repo men are the modern day ninja. Being a ninja was never about martial arts; it was about subterfuge, and about protecting the assets of your lord by any means necessary. In the modern age, the lords are the banks.
  • sketerpot 17y ago
    From what I recall, being a ninja was about being sneaky and undignified enough to succeed. Being a ninja was about dressing up as a gardener so nobody would suspect that you were about to shiv them with an abnormally pointy trowel. Being a ninja was about setting off firecrackers as a distraction -- people assume that explosions are important, and ninjas knew this. Being a ninja was about hiding in an outhouse so you could assassinate some dude from inside of his toilet (holy shit!). Ninjas were clever bastards, not necessarily badasses.
• callmeed 17y ago
  A reality show about a regular repo man is apparently quite popular among spanish-speaking tv viewers: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104597449&ft=1&f=3 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1045974...
• prodigal_erik 17y ago
  I was thinking there's a pretty good Stephenson novella here.
• uuilly 17y ago
  Tom Wolfe wrote a book called "A Man in Full" that had a very similar character. He said that the formerly wealthy hang on to their private jets harder than anything else. They even went as far as creating fake airline stubs for debt collection meetings to act like they were flying commercial. Quite entertaining.