[Publius Valerius]

A few years back they had a case in Texas where a person fired a rifle into the cab of a tow truck repo’ing a car from the guy at O’dark thirty in the morning, killing the driver. He was aquitted of any wrongdoing and the admonition was, IIRC, that if you had to do something like that you needed to do it in broad daylight and get the Sheriff with you if needed...

If this is true, I'll have to re-think my high opinion of Texas and its laws. The repo man is entitled to come onto your property in the middle of the night and he is entitled to take your truck if you've missed the payments. If the law condones that man's murder, it is a tragic--and stupid--law.

[Axenolith]

If the repo man is entitled to come on your property in the middle of the night and take stuff I’d strongly recommend that he do it in a vehicle sporting a large well lit “Repossession Service” sign glaring from the vehicle. Otherwise, how is a person to know it isn’t just somebody stealing a car???

[Axenolith]

It appears that that was actually around 1994 (story publishing date). I think it came onto my radar when it was either discussed here a while back or there was an actual indictment resolved in the defendants favor later than that.

In Killing of Repo Man, Law Shields the Killer