I am the owner of an Office Equipment Company and when I had a large number of copiers in the field sometimes I had trouble getting clients to pays me. So I would go to the customer’s office and remove a section of the copier and wait for a call. Then I would reinstall the part usually a fuser for the monies owed. Only did this a few times and it worked. I told another dealer about this and he tried it with a client that was located in Wilmington. So one day this dealer calls me and says he is afraid to go to this business and reinstall the fuser and collect his money, then asks me to do it. It was near Wilmington Hospital and I was going that way anyway so I said no problem. When I got to there office they acted a little strange and asked if I would mind coming to the back room where the copier was located. I went through a door and this little Italian guy follows me. As soon as I was through the door he pulls a 38 pistol and shoves it in my right side. I was pretty shocked to say the least especially when I looked it the copier room and saw two very large black guys (one was around 7’ tall) holding 45 Cal autos at there sides (fingers not on the triggers) The Italian had his finger on the trigger. I then proceeded to start asking lots of questions. It turns out this other dealer told theses guys I was a hit man, so after about 5 minutes and it seemed a lot longer they let me go. When I came out to the car I was white and an employee of mine noticed that I was shook up. I explained everything to him and went looking for the little lying dealer. He sorta disappeared for obvious reasons ( I think if I would have found him he would have went to the hospital.). The next day I get a call from the Wilmington Police Dept telling me I had to come down town. So into Wilm I go only to be harassed by two detectives who did not believe my story, they even hooked me to a lie detector. I was sitting getting the lie detector test when this guy I know peeks around the corner & asks what’s going on. It happened to be the Captain of Detectives who is the son of one of my neighbors for over 30 years. I saw those two detectives get red as beets when the Chief told them that I was an upstanding citizen and whatever I told them they better believe it . Well I got treated much better after that & it turns out this group of people that held me at gun point were con men from Phila. They got busted and went to prison. The two black guys were hired for protection and never really knew what went on and they were both retired Army. They both cooperated with the police to put this sleazy little Italian away. I got even with the other copier dealer, but that’s another story
Alan
Alan