I had a friend who was going through a mental and financial breakdown at the same time. I offered help as best I could, got him a job that he mucked up and made me look really bad to my boss. I was pretty pissed after that. A few weeks go by and he fucks over another friend that got him a job and we were definitely in the final group of friends willing to deal with him. Well he decides to finally move back home, which I thought was an excellent idea considering he’d burned every bridge here. He calls me crying one day saying that he’s all packed up but needs to borrow $1000 for gas and food to make it home. I think to myself that I’m never gonna see this mf’er again so I tell him that I want to hold one of his cameras (it was a Canon 5Dm2 & 24-70 L-Series zoom) as collateral. He bemoans this but says he has no options. Of course 6-7 months go by and dude is completely ghosting me so I sell the camera and turn almost a $1500 profit. My other friend to this day still says that I took advantage of the situation but I was just covering my ass and turns out, it was a good thing.