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Here’s six minutes of your life well-spent, trust me.  The first minute-and-a-half is amazing.  The rest isn’t bad either.

It’s quiet in the beginning, so don’t go cranking the volume.

The Lear Jet repo man: This guy has one of the most interesting jobs in the world.

Nick Popovich is a repo man, but not the kind that spirits away Hyundais from suburban driveways. Popovich is a super repo man, one of a handful of specialists who get the call when a bank wants back its Gulfstream II jet from, say, a small army of neo-Nazi freaks.

James Bond’s life is downright sedentary compared to this guy.  The article is full of crazy stories of dering-do, around the globe, involving hundreds of millions of dollars of aviation hardware.

I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time.  After watching this, it makes me wonder what the hell the video was about in the first place.  I mean, I know it was the 80s and everything, but who could possibly defend this video now?  Who could possibly explain the artistic or interpretive value behind this?  This is probably the absolute height of 80s pretentiousness.