BMW has become renown over the years for
the many luxurious options their customers can request for new cars. Heated
leather seats, high-tech stereo and GPS systems, armed repossession teams
showing up at your place of business accompanied by helicopter support to
encourage timely monthly payments - you know, the standard fare. In actuality,
that last option is not yet available to the general public but was recently
beta tested on a South African man who hung on to a loaner a little too long.
We wish we were kidding.
This potential deleted scene from
"Expendables 2" begins innocently enough. Mr. Ravindra Jainarian took his brand
new BMW 320d back to Auto Uhmlanga BMW when the air conditioning suddenly
conked out. After the initial repairs were completed, Mr. Jainarian wasn't
happy with the results and decided to hang on to the loaner, a BMW 325, until
the AC unit had been fixed to his satisfaction. This is the point at which the
relationship (and possibly helicopter) went South.
No doubt soon to be a show on Spike TV,
this extreme repossession unfolded with a team of professional (and, once
again, armed to the teeth) repo men departing from an armored car before bursting
into the culprit's Durban, South Africa workplace. For just a little extra
insurance a spotter Netstar helicopter circled the building from above in
anticipation of a foot pursuit. Regardless of how one might try and sugarcoat
it - that's just not going to look good on Ravindra's quarterly performance
review.
The law sided with the understandably
shaken "loanee" who is now in the process of taking the dealership to court
over its heavy-handed repossession tactics. Even BMW has stepped in, dictating
that Mr. Jainarian is welcome to use the vehicle for the length of the trial.
BMW of Sioux Falls located
at 101 S. Carolyn Ave Sioux Falls, SD 57107 thinks the smart
money is on Javarian. Be sure to stay tuned for late-breaking updates to this
strange tale and if you need to schedule BMW service for your
car (even if it hasn't been involved in a high speed chase through the back
streets of Johannesburg,) you can do so online or by phone at 605-221-2000.