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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 11:14 PM
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Reposession agent takes away a woman's car - with her two-year-old son sleeping in the back seat
Right now a lot of Americans are struggling to keep their houses, cars, whatnot property in this economic recession.

Because one woman from San Jose, Isabel Leuvano, was 17 days late on a car payment, a repossession agent drove her car away while she was picking up her daughter...even though her son was still sleeping in the back seat! This is her story.

Isabel Leuvano was late with her car payment.

On Tuesday night, the repo man came.

Trouble was, when he snatched back her 2000 Honda Accord, her 2-year-old son, Cyrus Lopez, was repossessed, too. He was asleep in the back seat.

Frantic, Leuvano called 911. She thought the car — and her child — had been stolen right before her eyes as she stepped outside to pick up her 6-year-old daughter.

Police swarmed to her rescue. A search helicopter circled the air.

And 31 minutes later, San Jose Police found the boy after astutely figuring out to call Alberto's Auto Sales on East Santa Clara Street to discover that little Cyrus was in the lobby, his eyelashes stuck together in clumps because he had been crying so hard.

"It was a nightmare," Leuvano told the Mercury News. "I thought I was losing my mind. I kept thinking, 'Who hates me enough to take my son?' I was freaking out."


Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14181997
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 11:16 PM
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1. "agent" That's a laugh n/t
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 02:54 AM
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15. Yeah. I did repo work for one weekend back in my early 20's.
Edited on Fri Jan-15-10 02:54 AM by Iggo
We were not agents. We were car thieves, pure and simple.

EDIT: I before E. I before E. I before E...
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 11:19 PM
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2. I hope this woman sues their butt.
I am hardly a proponent of lawsuits but this situation merits one.

The repo man didn't notice the screaming kid in the back of the car?

"The life of a Repo Man is always intense." I think this guy's life just got a bit more intense.

Mz Pip
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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 11:35 PM
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6. no, the kid was sleeping, read the article.
And then he wakes up with strangers and cries his heart out for mama.
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 11:28 PM
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3. He did not follow the law, according to his own statement to police
"Luna acknowledged he failed to check the vehicle identification number on the car before taking it as required by law, but he said he was "sure" it was the right car."

What if it had been the wrong car with some completely uninvolved mother's child? I'd bet he would have abandoned the car and not felt one bit of remorse. And when he realized he had the kid, did he call the police? According to the story, he did not. Nail the bastard for pain and suffering.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 11:31 PM
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4. Shouldn't she be charged with negligence like a lot of parents who leave their kids in the car?
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 11:44 PM
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9. Can you imagine the number of tickets they could write at gas stations?!?


It's not illegal to exit your car when there are children in it.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 11:47 PM
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10. In our state, you can't leave...
...your child in a car that is running. Even if you have it in park, if it is
running, it's illegal.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 01:30 AM
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11. You're supposed to 'stop engine' when getting gas.
Not that I actually do.

Of course, children have died because parents didn't leave the care running with the A/C on when they accidentally locked them in.

We have a shitload of stupid laws in this country. The Law can't address every damn thing in black and white.
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left coaster Donating Member (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 11:31 PM
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5. Irresponsible repo men, yes..
..but I have one problem with mom's account.. if she really was standing next to her car when the repo guy jumped in, she would have shouted that her child was in the back, wouldn't she have? ..and what repo guy wouldn't at least check to verify, at that point? I'm wondering if mom was in fact on the porch, or even in the house, while her sleeping child was alone and out of eyeshot, in the back of a running car.. if that's the case, that woman is lucky that it was a repo man and not just car thieves who jumped in to her car and drove away.

..doesn't excuse the repo 'agents', but mom wasn't exactly on the ball either.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 11:40 PM
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7. Why was THIS story unrecd at least TWICE?
Wow.

We've got some assholes around here.
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Waiting For Everyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-13-10 11:43 PM
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8. She should sue.
That should pay her car payment for a long while.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 03:43 AM
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12. The comments by the trolls after the article are too precious for words
some of them are worse than by people here. I especially liked the judgement passed on the woman because she is a single mother with kids.....
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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 01:13 AM
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14. On the websites for the San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle
often freepers post idioted/borderline bigoted comments. in the case of the chronicle dittohead zombies hit recommend in mass to put them out in the open
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RedRocco Donating Member (253 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-14-10 04:45 AM
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13. so, is the repo agent
going to be charged with kidnapping?
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