On a new Spike TV reality show, Repo Games, contestants vie to win their repo’d car back if they can answer successive trivia questions correctly. If they win, Repo Games pays to get their car out of the repo lot. If they don’t, the contestants are even more humiliated than already having had their car repossessed for falling behind on car payments. Public humiliation is one of the fiercest forms of humiliation, being humiliated on tv in front of millions of viewers is devastating.

Repo Games producers came up with a winning reality tv show formula combining a trivia game show with more on the line than winning cash or prizes. The show goes on location to the actual repo lots where the contestants must answer trivia questions under pressure to win back their cars. In the case of one contestant, a Red sports car owner who had already suffered the humiliation of losing his Red car to the repo man, losing at the trivia game and losing his Red car forever was more than he could bear. Caught on tape was his angry response as he picked up a large rock and smashed his Red car’s windshield, most likely adding more monetary injury to insult as the creditor may hold him responsible for the damages. Humiliating!

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