Sunday, July 10, 2005
Just 'Desserts'
Nothing better to finish in meal in the summer heat than a little watermelon. Well usually.
Eley's truck was repossessed July 29, 2002, a day when the temperature would reach 98 degrees with 89 percent humidity. She had missed two payments.Not a very gentlemanly way to do business. Repossession is sad fact of life, I am not one of those that think the "repo man" is definitionally evil -- people who make thier payments, never meet one. But people in the repossession business don't do themselves any favors when they pull stunts like this. That's what made this wonderful
The men refused to let her unload the produce. And their boss refused to let Eley retrieve her melons later that day from the yard.
Two days later, the company had second thoughts.A court decided that the repo firm had to pay the woman treble damages for the cost of the melons. It pays to do business in a straightforward fashion.
"The watermelons are rotting, and the smell is polluting the storage lot," the company wrote to Eley, demanding that she take her melons or pay the cost of removing them.
