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Finance a la shmoop. What is repo or repossession? Well this is possession yes [Crazy looking woman in bed]

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the devil spirit inhabits your body you need an exorcism.. Yeah right just bring [Priest waving a cross at the woman]

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the PC, well this is a repossession like when you take your body, you know back

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from the devil thank you very much. Well the same thing goes for things you buy [Woman becomes normal again]

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like a car you could have and should have bought that very old but in good

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working condition Saturn with the passenger-side dent in the shape of an [Girl walking away from the car]

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ice cream truck you know that cost five grand. You could have paid for all of it

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out of your piggy bank and had no debt but no you had to have the Audi a7 with [Piggy bank smashes]

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the smartphone integration night vision and squirrel detection feature... That Audi [Squirrel detected in night vision]

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cost 30 grand even though it was used and after you put the five grand down [Stacks of money]

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you swore with your hand on your chest after signing promising documents 18

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times that you'd pay 500 bucks a month for about five years until that car was [Woman signging the contract]

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fully paid for but lo and behold you got fired from your job yeah, didn't plan [Woman looking angry walking out of her office]

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on that when you swore. You whine about it to your car loan robot and it asks in

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automated robot fashion why is that my problem so you go a month and then [Guy with a robot face]

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another and then another without paying and the nasty gram letters come from

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lawyers and from the bank and you know your credit is being destroyed but you [Final warning letters arriving]

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can't find a job in a tough economy yeah you really shouldn't have majored in [Woman watching the news with ice cream and crisps]

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French lit so then one day along comes Emilio Estevez in the middle of the

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night with a thing that looks like a special clothes hanger and a few other [Emilio holding a clothes hangar next to the car]

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tools and at 2:00 a.m. you hear your car is starting in the

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driveway as it magically drives away do you call the cops [Emilio drives the car away]

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you go downstairs to investigate and find a little note that says your car

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has been repossessed and you have a little bill there for back payments of [Total costs being calculated]

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three grand as well as the repossession fees of another grand and for a tidy

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four grand in change with interest accruing every month you'll one day be

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able to buy yourself out of your credit hole at least to some [Woman pops her head out the dirt and money flies out the hole]

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extent they'll be a scar a blotch on your record like that d- you've got in

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physics and yeah it's a bummer going through life with no Visa Amex or [Woman holding up sign on the side of the road for credit]

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MasterCard shoulda bought that Saturn.. Welcome to repossession hell [Guy has horns on his head]

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