Most clients never find out his real name. Most people in town know him as Stranger, he said, and that’s all they need to know. If you make it too personal, you burn yourself up, he said.
That’s why Stranger never discriminates among the clients who take too long to pay him, he said. Sooner or later he shows up on every client’s doorstep.
When they don’t pay, Stranger puts them in his truck and has them put in jail. He always keeps handcuffs in his back pocket and pepper spray in his truck, and when he thinks he might need a gun, he carries two.
Stranger, 40, whose real name is Michael Belk, owns the bail bonding company A1A Bail Bonding in Gastonia. Clients call Stranger when they get arrested, and for a fee, he posts bail so they can get out of jail until their court dates.
[Read the whole story here at the Gaston Gazette.]
Tags: bail bondsman, bounty hunting, breaking and entering, identity, jail, skipping bail, Stranger, strictly business, warrants
August 30, 2009 at 6:52 am
“Did the Stranger get Nick Tabor out of jail? Is this what this is all about? Free advertising?”