[lbo-talk] Spain deploys debt collectors in top hats and tails to humiliate debtors

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[Pic at URL of a dapper-looking Spanish debt
collector.  -B.]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_spain_debtors

Debt collectors in top hat and tails prosper

By Jason Webb Thu 
Aug 21, 2:12 AM ET

MADRID (Reuters) - If more confirmation were needed of
the funereal state of Spain's economy, it can be found
in the shape of The Debt Collector in Top Hat and
Tails.

That's a translation to English of "El Cobrador del
Frac", the name of a company which specializes in
sending men dressed like extras from a 1930s Fred
Astaire movie to humiliate debtors into paying up. Its
business is booming.

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