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Re:The Learjet repo man by staunch on Monday June 08, 2009 @02:22AM (#646909)
Getting the plane doesn't seem like the scary part. You know you're safe once you're flying away. The scary part is knowing that you just made enemies with someone who owned a $100 million toy. If just one of them is the vengeful type they might have your entire family killed.

Talking about it publicly seems about the dumbest possible thing to do.

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Re:The Learjet repo man by jrockway on Monday June 08, 2009 @03:40AM (#646957)
someone who owned a $100 million toy

No, someone who missed several payments on a leased $100 million toy. The ultra rich-and-powerful don't miss the payments.

Also, if the repo man dies shortly after repossessing your property, you are probably going to be at the top of the list of suspects... so killing the guy's whole family is probably not a good idea.

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Re:The Learjet repo man by blhack on Monday June 08, 2009 @12:24PM (#647521)
Maybe you didn't read the article completely.

He isn't just repossesing airplanes from businessmen, he is repossesing them from psychotic foreign dictators, drug dealers, warlords, etc.

This is why he has ended up in South American prison.

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Re:The Learjet repo man by asciilifeform on Monday June 08, 2009 @07:56AM (#647128)
Anyone who can buy a jet plane, can buy a judge.
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Re:The Learjet repo man by Luc on Monday June 08, 2009 @10:27AM (#647303)
Like Martin 'Baby Branson' Halstead: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/4413370...

He's got the mob name already!

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Re:The Learjet repo man by mrkurt on Monday June 08, 2009 @08:59AM (#647190)
Most of them are probably owned by flailing corporations, not John Travolta. Flailing corporations make nice enemies. :)
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