Two if by sea
The motto, "We do it all," written on a map of Ohio, summarizes Skip Blowers' business. He has repossessed automobiles, planes and even seven pontoon boats.
Blowers says there have been a lot of exciting repossessions in his line of work. He recalls an instance when a bar was renting out pontoon boats to customers. But the club didn’t pay for the boats, so it became Blowers’ job to repossess all seven of them. Blowers and his crew of men took the boats by water instead of land, using trailers to sneakily haul them away. The bar had a guard working that was supposed to be on the look-out, but he didn’t see what was coming, Blowers says.
Another man had a Corvette that was to be repossessed. The man refused to pay off his bills or to turn it over and instead put the car up for sale in Massillon. The car was a two-seater, so Blowers acted as a buyer and pretended that he wanted to test drive the car with his wife. “We test drove it right out of there,” Blowers says with a chuckle. “The law says if (repo men) make a car disappear, you aren’t at fault. That’s how it is written. It’s just a matter of smoke and glass. You have to be discreet.
“Our job is like anyone else’s, fairly routine. Can it get old? Yeah. You get tired of getting yelled and sworn at.”
“Our job is like anyone else’s, fairly routine,” Blowers says. “Can it get old? Yeah. You get tired of getting yelled and sworn at.”
Although Blowers and Koskovics aren’t thugs on car-stealing power trips, you probably don’t want to cross paths with them. Sending your car payments in on time is all it takes to keep the repo man away from your wheels.
The Burr is produced by students at Kent State University twice per academic year.No part of The Burr may be reprinted without permission.