It is a nice read but not appropriate HN at all.
appropriate is really just anything of interest to the HN crowd i'd say.
And given the number of upvotes, stealing aircraft from armed mobsters seems to interest the HN crowd ;-)
The Learjet repo man
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#12Someone should make a movie script about this guy!
A reality show about a regular repo man is apparently quite popular among spanish-speaking tv viewers:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1045974...
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#13Getting 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.
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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#14It seems like a failure of the legal system that something like this is necessary. I guess there is no law-enforcement agency that can move fast enough to prevent a jet from leaving its jurisdiction.
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#15It reads like a Stephen Glass article -- though it's not clear what the balance is between sycophant writer and tale-telling subject.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
appropriate is really just anything of interest to the HN crowd i'd say.
And given the number of upvotes, stealing aircraft from armed mobsters seems to interest the HN crowd ;-)
I would guess that breasts interest a lot of the HN crowd too, but that doesn't mean they should be featured prominently in front page articles.
Oh well, at least it's not politics...
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#17It seems like a failure of the legal system that something like this is necessary. I guess there is no law-enforcement agency that can move fast enough to prevent a jet from leaving its jurisdiction.
Since you can get a warrant in mere hours in some cases, and it takes hours for this guy to even arrive, I don't think that's true.
There is some reason that they can't or won't just ask the police to secure the plane, though, and my guess is that the reason is more that it's legally unclear whose plane it is. That is, in some cases, this is legally just theft that's papered over later.
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#18Getting 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.
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.
Anyone who can buy a jet plane, can buy a judge.
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#19Getting 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.
Most of them are probably owned by flailing corporations, not John Travolta. Flailing corporations make nice enemies. :)
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#20It seems like a failure of the legal system that something like this is necessary. I guess there is no law-enforcement agency that can move fast enough to prevent a jet from leaving its jurisdiction.
I suspect that the problem isn't so much speed as motivation.
The police get paid whether they show up or not to handle your problem. The repo man doesn't get paid unless he delivers.
If you wanted your property recovered, who would you want on the job?