Just offer up free tickets to the Alabama-Auburn Iron Bowl...
http://www2.wrbl.com/news/2011/jul/29/ticket-rouse-nabs-parents-unpaid-child-support-ar-2205962/
Included is a video of the set-up, full with balloons and coverage of the lucky fans, then BAM, we have a warrant for your arrest, hilarious...
Hah! 
Reminds me of...
Homer: Up and away in my beautiful motor boat! Da da da da!
Bart: But we didn't enter any police raffle.
Homer: That doesn't matter, the important thing is we won.
priceless
and the last guy says... do I still get my tickets?
funny... yet I don't understand how putting someone in jail helps anyone get a dime... and i'd bet most of the other 1/2 of the procreation actions are more often then not just as bad as these idiots
Same thing has been done for a long time in other cities. They'll do it for any warrants. In Saint Louis, we have "No Warrants Pursued Day" where no one gets arrested for having a warrant and a line wraps the City Courthouse is wrapped three lines deep with people paying off their fines.
N Sperlo wrote: Same thing has been done for a long time in other cities. They'll do it for any warrants. In Saint Louis, we have "No Warrants Pursued Day" where no one gets arrested for having a warrant and a line wraps the City Courthouse is wrapped three lines deep with people paying off their fines.
So is the point of that actually collecting the money by giving people a free pass for the day? Or is it a ruse to bring people in?
I never understood the people who fall for that,
If you have a warrent out for your arrest and suddenly get a notice that you won something and need to go get it... wouldn't that strike you as a bit odd.. especially if you did not remember entering a contest?
Mad_Machine said: I never understood the people who fall for that, If you have a warrent out for your arrest and suddenly get a notice that you won something and need to go get it... wouldn't that strike you as a bit odd.. especially if you did not remember entering a contest?
Luke wrote:
The type of people who get caught in these schemes are people who are generally not to bright. They have evaded being caught mostly by luck and because noone was looking that hard for them. I used to help a guy with repos. He was usually the second or third person to try these after the cheaper person the banks normally used couldn't get them. It's amazing how many people who have hidden a vehicle for months/years will tell you where they are to have afree prize dropped off. And if they don't they have an easy to find well meaning mom, sister ect that will tell you where to bring their prize. If you walk up to someone's house in a suit with a color tv box or a large check and a camcorder (my favorite game) they will tell you almost anything.
Playing "publishers clearing house"?
Nobody can resist the Prize Patrol
Anybody else remember the opening scene in "Sea of Love?" Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin. I think the bait was meeting Yankee players. Last guy shows up late with a little kid. Pacino shows him the badge and says: "Catch you next time."
Wally wrote: The type of people who get caught in these schemes are people who are generally not to bright. They have evaded being caught mostly by luck and because noone was looking that hard for them. I used to help a guy with repos. He was usually the second or third person to try these after the cheaper person the banks normally used couldn't get them. It's amazing how many people who have hidden a vehicle for months/years will tell you where they are to have afree prize dropped off. And if they don't they have an easy to find well meaning mom, sister ect that will tell you where to bring their prize. If you walk up to someone's house in a suit with a color tv box or a large check and a camcorder (my favorite game) they will tell you almost anything.
I've always thought it would be fun to be the repo guy. You've further solidified that theory.
until somebody shoots at you?
I know one of the tricks they use around here is a "recall" notice.
In reply to mad_machine:
In 8 years of repos and private impounds I was never shot at, and only even threatend a handful of times. One way to do the job well and avoid problems is to not be a dick. While it makes for some entertaining tv on those awful staged shows its an easy way to shorten a career. A lot of young guys come into the business thinking that showing up at people's houses like a swat raid is the way to get things done. Most of them go broke or get hurt early on. We used to specialize in the ones that those kids couldn't get. We did a lot of "creative" things like the prize patrol type scams, but never stormed a place to take something.
Why does it not surprise me at all that Alabama football tickets were used?
That's what i've been told from a few repo dudes I knew. One guy in particular was adamant about hiring young dudes (like 18, fresh to the world) so he could teach them not to be dicks to the people losing their cars. The simple fact of the matter is- people are already in a bad enough spot when they get their vehicle repo'd. No sense in pouring salt in the wound. I just like the idea of the finding the cars and the detective work, etc etc.
a couple of years ago.. girl down the street from me had her mustang repoed.. they came in the middle of the night,grabed the tyres, and hauled it off.. only stopping once they got outside my place to actually strap it in
93EXCivic wrote: Why does it not surprise me at all that Alabama football tickets were used?
That's exactly what I was thinking. They could catch a lot of folks if they do that for Alabama tickets in this state. That sting was near Auburn.
I think it was Steve McQueen that played a bounty hunter, He had a flywheel in a pizza box to clober the guy he was after. He drove an old ragtop.
In reply to mad_machine:
We didn't do many of the easy ones like that, although most private impounds I did were about that easy.
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