The subject of repo reminds me of my visit from Dallas to Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1984 to negotiate the sponsorship of the 1985 7-Eleven Cajun Nationals NHRA drag racing event.
The then promoter of Baton Rouge's State Capital Dragway was Norman "Moose" Pearah, a big fellow who favored low cut shirts and many "Mr. T." style gold chains. Moose took me sowewhere out in the bayou country that night to eat spicy, spicy, extra spicy crawfish, which of necessity had to be washed down with numerous pitchers of draft beer - don't believe it was Shaefer, though, Chase.
Earlier in the day, Moose had taken me by his latest Baton Rouge business venture, a Rent-to-Own auto lot. On the corner of the lot, Moose also had an auto insurance agency where he peddled the state required policies to his rent-to-own customers.
The beauty of his operation, explained Moose, was that most of his rent-to-own customers soon missed a payment and state law allowed him to simply call the parish sheriff who immediately located the vehicle and brought it back to Moose's lot, to be rented to be owned once again, perhaps to the same customer with a hefty upfront fee and a new auto insurance policy.
The relatively new rent-to-own automobile business in Louisiana was proving very lucrative to Moose in 1984 due to the ease of repossession by the local sheriff for the lot owner.
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