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41.
FLOGGERS REPO SERVICE
 Floggers
is
one of the few places brave enough and skilled enough
to perform repossession services inside the
Zone. They have contracts with several banks and
finance corporations in the city, who pay them top
dollar to get back property. Mostly vehicles,
whose owners obtained a loan using a fake address (no
company will loan money to anyone whose address is
listed as inside the Zone). But they have also
been known to retrieve high end cyber and even full
conversion packages from clients who fled to the Zone
after defaulting on their loan. Of course the
job is high risk, and most of their retrievals are
targets of opportunity.
 They
chose their location strategically, as it is right
next to an Entry Point in the Zone, and they pay a
hefty bribe to the Checkpoint guards in case they need
to exit the Zone swiftly. It also allows them to
easily turn over the vehicles and properties they
manage to reclaim to the property holders In
addition to the bribes allowing Flogger Repo crews to
enter and exit swiftly, they also provide the security
gate police sentries with lists of vehicles they
currently looking for. If the vehicles are spotted,
they can call Floggers for a “bonus” if they stall the
vehicle long enough for a Repo man to tail the
vehicle, or if the occupants of the vehicle are wanted
or attempting
to smuggle contraband out of the Zone, they will stow
the vehicle for the Repo man rather than having it
impounded.
Every
member
of the Repo team is heavily armed, carrying at least a
heavy handgun at all times. They are also
usually wearing at least a vest, and depending on the
target, possibly metal gear (although the metal gear
is heavily used and battered, slightly degrading its
protection).
If
the
money is high enough, occasionally Floggers will take
a bounty, to bring someone out of the Zone. They
don’t go after gang members, as that would be near
suicidal if they planned to continue living in the
Zone afterwards. But if a criminal escapes into
the Zone, they will track them down and bring them
out, alive or dead.
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