Woman Crushed By Car as it gets Repossessed

CHINO HILLS (CBS/AP) — A Southern California woman has died after apparently trying to stop a tow truck driver from repossessing her vehicle. San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller says 42-year-old Lisa Via was pronounced dead early Tuesday after being struck. “A tow truck killed her right in her driveway,” the victim’s sister, Sandy Pavlik, said. Driver Leo Song told detectives he backed up his truck to a 2002 Buick parked in the driveway of Via’s mobile home in Chino Hills. As Song lifted the car, Via came out and begged Song not to take her car. He told her he had to take it. He said he assumed Via had moved away when he began to pull the car, but the woman’s husband approached him and said his wife was trapped under the Buick. “She got in between the truck and the car and supposedly the repo guy claimed he never heard her and he ran her over. Twenty minutes later she was dead,” Pavlik said.

Here's a question, would you rather be a Repo man or a corporate desk donkey such as myself?
There are alot of jobs I'd take over the monotony of sitting in the same damn cube, doing the same damn work every day, but you know what? I don't think Repo man is one of them.

Yea you're essentially a licensed car theft, which on the surface is awesome, but everything that ends up coming with that would suck.  The constant bitching and moaning from deadbeats who bought a Lexus they couldn't afford, the sob stories from single mothers when their '94 mini-vans are repossessed, and the straight up feeling of "am I going to get killed tonight" any time you roll into the wrong neighborhood to repo some gangsta's Impala.  That shit would be too much for me. I'd be a wreck, up all night on a mixture of coffee and anxiety pills. 

My job may suck, but I've never had to worry about accidentally killing some broad in her driveway in the early pre-dawn hours.  My biggest fear is probably congestive heart failure, but that's quite some time down the road, after years of living this sedentary lifestyle.  Maybe radon poisining too? I don't know, they did a special on the news about that the other day, apparently it's the silent killer, kind of got me freaked out. 

So basically what I'm saying is today is a good day.  It's not often I ponder a job I wouldn't take over this current one, but today I found one.  Brings a smile to my face.

And my condolences to Lisa Via. I'm sorry that your story became a muse for my blog.