Re:The Learjet repo man
by carbon8 on Monday June 08, 2009 @09:47AM
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There are legal frameworks in place for repossession. It's not just and ad hoc grab and run situation. As I understand it, it's indeed true police usually can't get involved beyond keeping the peace since it's a civil issue and they open themselves up to civil liability, but it's very different from theft.
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Yeah, it seemed to me that the ability of his organization to rapidly process paperwork was more important to his bottom line than the bad-assery of stealing aircraft.
Most of the time they just fill out the paperwork and go get the plane. But getting the paperwork straight and finding the thing are really hard to do unless you've got a good team of experts ready on a moment's notice. Which he has. But that would make for boring TV.