I have had to call for a tow lots of times in my life when I have been stuck in the breakdown lanes or spun into a ditch due to inclement weather. The brave dudes who drive tow trucks I have encountered were always gruff, hard-working men, doing a tough job under harsh conditions.

But then again, there are those predatory tow truck drivers who haunt apartment complexes late at night towing anyone who doesn’t have a current parking pass, or the ones who circle the blocks downtown waiting for the parking meters to flash zero so they can nab a vehicle and hold it hostage for a couple of hundred bucks. Those guys are pretty scummy.

But I think worst of all are the repo-men. No, I don’t think that deadbeats who default on their car loans should get to keep their cars, but there is something really scummy about the repo-men who take pleasure in carjacking on behalf of the bank. And when one of them winds up in the news squished under the car they were trying to repo, I grin a little on the inside.

From NBC4 here:

A Newport News man trying to repossess a car died Saturday when he became pinned under the vehicle.

Darrell Lee Jones, 36, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Jones was using a wrecker to repossess the car when it rolled off the back of the truck. When Jones tried to stop the car, it rolled into a ditch and dragged him beneath it.

Police found out what happened after reviewing videotape from the wrecker’s camera system.

The dolt tried to stop it with his hands. Epic Fail. Maybe I’ll get to see that video on MaxX one late night.

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