Video: Watch Shopaholic's Range Rover Get Reposessed
Watching this clip of a high-rolling lady who has to remove all her bags of designer clothing from her fancy Range Rover before it gets repossesed made my day. Schadenfreude so good. Even when I learned that Operation Repo is a faux reality show where they do re-enactments of real repossesion stories, it's still all good, especially because of when the real reposesser says that if it weren't for his kind, no one would be able to afford a car. Food for thought.
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Food for though....
A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
i saw it last night. anyone see the ice cram truck get reposessed haha now thats a clip we need to see!
"faux reality" show? Does that air right after the Jumbo Shrimp Comedy Hour?
@AtConsumeristPanel_GitEmSteveDave: You're grasp of the english langauage surely embiggens your status among Consumerist readers.
Operation Repo is just a "re-telling" of events that have happened. Everyone on it is an actor. A lot of people are convined that it's the "real thing"
@robdew2: Yeah, it's really weird.
I watched a couple or three episodes once (I was miserably sick, and crappy reality TV is medicine). It's kind of obvious after a little while.
The thing that really confused me is that, in one of the episodes I watched, they wrote in a part where they get in an accident with the cameraman inside the car they were towing. So it seems like they actually make stuff up out of whole cloth.
I remember the one episode of Cheaters I watched was when the host got stabbed. Still waiting on Dog the Bounty Hunter to pick one up. But these guys would do too.
@undefined: @Spectre1125:
On one episode some crazy chicks got one of the guys on the side of the head with a glass bottle, it also cut his arm.
On another, the big wrestling type guy got kicked in the jewels buy some kid. And another episode the same guy got in a fight with a whole bunch of guys wielding pool cues.
@ash: Thanks for the info, I didn't know that at all. I never saw the show but just saw the commercial promos for it.
Just for the record, that is not a Range Rover, but a Land Rover LR3, about $30,000 less.
Gah - they go on to blame this on the economy - you know, the economy is bad, but it seems to me this is a situation of the owner mismanaging their funds.
And the lady talking on camera that she can't find a job? Get rid of the 'tats, lose the 'tude and dress a little more conservatively - I wouldn't want you representing my business either... unless I was looking for a repo-guy or a bouncer.
WOW. That was more surprising than expected. I love the quote "I don't care about the car. These things are new" (referring to her shopping bags). It's my second favorite to the husband's line of "This is the happiest day of my life."
@undefined: Why would it be entertaining to watch one of those people get stabbed. Dog the Bounty Hunter is trash, so I give you that. But for all it's worth, that slightly latina, tatted up mountain lady is an honest person. I'd be talkin a just a tad of trash in her position. Like she said, those are relatively well off people. All that wasted money on brand new shit, that's all the skinny cracker woman could talk about. Pay your bills, or face the repo depo.
LOL Trophy wife
The show is staged (or "re-enacted", whatever they want to call it.)
@spanky: Sonia the actor/repo chick was on camera complaining that she couldn't find a job outside of the repossession industry (which, as she's employed by this show, I assume she's including the show as part of the industry.)
Staged or not, the husband saying "finances are seperate" and "this is the happiest day of my life" means that their divorce will contribute to the economy soon enough. Priceless.
@ash: From what I understand, the Spanish version (Telemundo) shows real repos and the English version has re-enactments.
So the show "tru-ly" is a re-enactment? So much for Tru TV's slogan "Not Reality. Actuality."
@TheUncleBob: I assume her interview is just another scripted part of the show. I don't think the actors on the show even work in repo.
They're just actors acting out partially real or 'inspired by real events' repossession stories.
Hypothetically, though, you're also assuming that she'd dress like that while looking for a job. Take me for example. I have on jeans with a hole in them, bare feet, and I have a binder clip in my hair. When I'm interviewing for a job, though, I don't dress like this.
My neighbor's SUV was repo'd. Of course, in this case I'd mentioned to him the night before that someone had come by, so he (and his lawyer) had checked in with the bank in the morning.
Turns out that a) they were after his ex-wife (of at least 2 years back, maybe 3+), b) she had no ownership interest in the SUV, which had also been paid off for at least a year, c) the bank agreed to all this and provided him with a verification code in case the repo guys came back.
Which they did of course. After their service center's hours were over, so they couldn't verify said code. He checked with his lawyer (and possibly the police), then removed his items and let them take it. He then filed a stolen vehicle report, and I'm sure the conversation he and his lawyer had with the bank the next morning was entertaining.
Going after a small business owner whose lawyer is also a personal friend and taking his truck when you have no legal ability whatsoever to do so was undoubtedly a bad move in this case.
@spanky: But would you go on national TV like that complaining how you can't find a job? :)
According to Wikipedia (grain of salt), Sonia, the actor/rep chick in this clip was, at one point, a licensed repo agent.
Hey Ben Popken, the word Repossessed has 4 S's not 3. What's funny is that its spelled wrong two different ways- in the title, and in the article. But yeah this video made my day too, HAHA
I feel dumb just finding out this show is staged. After watching a few episodes and being disgusted by the way the repossessers, especially the bald guy, behave while taking the vehicle from the repossessees?, I stopped watching it all together. I'm happy to know this isn't happening in real time. While it's absolutely the responsibility of the person financing the vehicle make payments on time, I find the tactics they use a bit disturbing. Maybe it's just me.
@fencepost: I would have pushed the DA to file grand theft charges on the repo idiots.
Never assume banks have a clue what they are doing. A bank we used for a vehicle loan insisted on keeping the physical title in their possession and giving us some pointless certificate instead of the title. They never mentioned this until after the loan was done and the car bought. So I took them the title when it arrived. I get a call a month later from another loan officer demanding I cough up the title or they were coming to get the vehicle even though we were current on payments.
I showed up at the bank. This dingbat pulled out our file and started reading me the riot act and telling me I was lying. Then I notice a color printed piece of paper poking out of our file. It was the title. I pointed this out to her and she didn't even apologize for all the hassle she caused.
@TheUncleBob: Oh, hell yeah, I'd start a pirate TV station just so I could complain about it all day long.
I'd probably have a binder clip in my hair the whole time, too.
Its called synchronicity. The effect you describe is more easily explained by noting that a single instance of an event/thing, makes your consciousness more sensitive to it, so it picks it up again if it occurs within a short span amongst the multitude events/things that are noticed by your consciousness. You then attach meaning to the two unrelated events even though there probably isn't one.
Not saying there isn't something else going on, just that your example doesn't actually prove anything.
"Tru"TV indeed
What is "Food for though"?
@ash: BTW, most re-enactments they do in this show, are HIGHLY illegal, and in most states will get either your business license yanked, or you spending some time with real criminals.
You can't mace people. You can't engage in fist fights. I could go on and on with the stuff these re-enactments do is illegal, but it would take up the whole page
I think you mean "Schadenfreude". Or, perhaps "Schadenfreude".
If not that, then you surely meant "Schadenfreude".
I'm just sayin'.