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    Legacy Auto Sales Execs Nabbed In Stolen Dealer Cars Caper

    Nebraska Car Dealers Disappear, Take Dozens Of Cars With Them
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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    03/13/09

    In reply to Legacy Auto Sales Execs Nabbed In Stolen Dealer Cars Caper
    So, no woodchippers then?


    So disappointing...

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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    03/13/09

    In reply to Legacy Auto Sales Execs Nabbed In Stolen Dealer Cars Caper
    Car heists are not a new thing; they've happened before. Yet, somehow, I sympathize with these outlaws. A criminal is generally a criminal, a man who sets out to break the law and just that. This trio of now-criminals? I somewhat doubt they began working at that car dealership with the intent of stealing cars.


    Whats next in this economic downturn?

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/13/09

    @Ford Tempo Fanatic: The economy doesn't steal cars, people steal cars.


    I don't feel bad for them at all. I also don't feel bad for people who rob banks because they lost their job. There are a lot of people out of work who aren't breaking laws.


    It's this guilt about people's situations that makes us do stupid things or let criminals off the hook. I'm tired of it. I was watching the news the other day and they were trying as hard as they could to make that shooter in Alabama out to be a victim of the economy.


    I feel bad for people who lose their jobs, naturally. I don't feel bad for people who take advantage of an economic situation to try to enrich themselves.


    /rant

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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    03/13/09

    @engineerd over 200 served: I agree. Like so many stories about the carpocalypse, this is about greed as far as I can tell. Everyone is suffering from the financial downturn, but some decide to work hard and try to persevere while others decide they're going to take the easy way out. Being lazy and a thief does not get you my sympathy.
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    03/13/09

    @engineerd over 200 served: I agree as well. No excuse. I had just finished playing 2K Australia's dystopia based video game, BioShock, for Xbox 360. I can almost see some relation to that video game, America's current situation, and the fall of Rome. What do they have in common? Bad leadership, and deterioration of society. While I am still doubting that American citizens will be reduced to acts of severe vandalism, burglary, other horrid acts of crime, and a complete and total collapse of the U.S. as a nation and economy.. Wait a second. While unlikely, its all possible. Crime is crime, crime is wrong, but when people genuinely start committing crime because crime is more profitable then working, you've got a very real and almost unstoppable problem. Whether this small example of dealer car thieves is just another crime or something deeper, well, we won't know for many years. It took Rome hundreds of years to fall, it took the fictitious city of Rapture less then a decade.


    Sorry. I am a sucker for apocalyptic stories (real or otherwise).

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/13/09

    In reply to Legacy Auto Sales Execs Nabbed In Stolen Dealer Cars Caper
    Looks like I'll have to rework my sure-fire plan for getting a great deal on a new car...
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    Image of OldeEnglishD OldeEnglishD
    03/13/09

    In reply to Legacy Auto Sales Execs Nabbed In Stolen Dealer Cars Caper
    Wait, how could the dealership be failing? They were selling Toyota vehicles! I thought the super number one bestest Japanese car maker was bullet proof?
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    03/13/09

    In reply to Legacy Auto Sales Execs Nabbed In Stolen Dealer Cars Caper
    Why is there always a guy with a mustache?
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/13/09

    @smalleyxb122:


    See? See? Didn't I tell you this lot looks like the stereotypical group of con-artists?

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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    03/13/09

    @smalleyxb122: It's part of the disguise. No one will recognize you if wear a mustache, or glasses/eye mask.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/13/09

    In reply to Legacy Auto Sales Execs Nabbed In Stolen Dealer Cars Caper
    Okay, I admit it.


    I'm asshole who perpetuates stereotypes.


    But come on, after just looking at these three, does it surprise anyone that they tried this? Does it surprise anyone that they got caught?


    Seriously?

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    pauljones was starred pauljones was unstarred
    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    03/13/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: Are you suggesting that, had they pulled it off, Velvet Elvi would have played into the story shortly?
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/13/09

    @SirNotAppearing: Yes. Followed shortly by Dirty Harry.
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    Image of Tucker589 is Hoarding James Dean's 550 Spyder Tucker589 is Hoarding James Dean's 550 Spyder
    03/13/09

    In reply to Legacy Auto Sales Execs Nabbed In Stolen Dealer Cars Caper
    Sheriff John Bunnell says "These crackpot car-theives thought they could cash out on a trip to the auction, now they'll be taking a trip....TO JAIL..."
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    03/13/09

    @Tucker589: OK, heart-click for making me (literally) LOL- nice one.
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    03/13/09

    @Tucker589: *car carrier makes tire squealing noise when turning the corner at 5 mph*
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    03/13/09

    In reply to Legacy Auto Sales Execs Nabbed In Stolen Dealer Cars Caper
    So Covello was a Fait accomplice?
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    Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) was starred Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) was unstarred
    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/13/09

    In reply to Legacy Auto Sales Execs Nabbed In Stolen Dealer Cars Caper
    Dammit. I was hoping those Toyotas were gone for good.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    03/13/09

    In reply to Legacy Auto Sales Execs Nabbed In Stolen Dealer Cars Caper
    Police are still searching for a Tru-Coated tan Ciera, license number beginning in DLR.. last seen heading in the direction of waffles house.
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    Image of aSoundofSleep-less nights aSoundofSleep-less nights
    03/13/09

    @Slantsick, with Infinite Improbability Drive:


    Mmmm Waffle House ... Cheesy Hashbrowns....

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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    03/13/09

    @aSoundofSleep saw Roy Wort take the preview button!: Man, there is a Waffle House right across from my office. The only thing that stops me from going there for lunch every day is the 4 divided lanes of 50mph traffic between us, threatening to scatter/smother/dice/chunk/top/cap me.
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    Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) was starred Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) was unstarred
    Image of Syrax Syrax
    03/13/09

    @Ash78: And you don't think it's worth the effort? Craziness can also be called Walking Hoonage.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    03/13/09

    @Ash78: I'm not sure they even have them up here- went to one in SC once, food was excellent.


    I blew the line though, it's pancakes.. Doh!

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/13/09

    @Slantsick, with Infinite Improbability Drive:


    It's all about Roscoe's fried chicken and waffles at 11 am after a hard night of drinking and a scary, hung-over drive to get there.

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    pauljones was starred pauljones was unstarred
    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    03/13/09

    @Slantsick, with Infinite Improbability Drive: People knock Waffle House because of the trucker/drunk crowds it attracts, but it's the best road-trip food. And for all its flaws, I dare you to find a chain of 24-hour restaurants that consistently have upper 90s on their health inspections.


    Homer: I'll have the smiley face breakfast special. Uhh, but could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon mustache, five o'clock shadow made of bacon bits and a bacon body.


    Waitress: How about I just shove a pig down your throat?
    (Homer looks excited)


    Waitress: I was kidding.


    Homer: Fine, but the bacon man lives in a bacon house!


    Waitress: No he doesn't!

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    Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) was starred Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) was unstarred
    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    03/13/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: We drove all over looking for Roscoe's last time we were in LA. I don't think it exists. It's a joke they play on out-of-towners.
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    SirNotAppearing was starred SirNotAppearing was unstarred
    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/13/09

    @SirNotAppearing: LOL!


    It's in Long Beach. The joke is that we tell everyone it's in Santa Monica.


    [www.roscoeschickenandwaffles.com]

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    pauljones was starred pauljones was unstarred
    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    03/13/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: Oh well, we settled for a hot dog stand (Pink's or something). And we watched as a Prius nailed a cyclist, and the cyclist politely lectured the driver on sharing the road. You don't get that kind of entertainment in NC!
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    SirNotAppearing was starred SirNotAppearing was unstarred
    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/13/09

    @SirNotAppearing: You don't get that kind of entertainment in LA much, either.


    Usually, the bike rider would be packin', and would have blown the Prius driver away, jacked his wallet, bought himself a hot dog, and then ride off on his bike while leaving the Prius there.


    LA is such a beautiful place.


    And Pink's is totally overrated.

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    Image of Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
    03/13/09

    @SirNotAppearing: There is one in Hollywood. Gower near sunset.
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    Image of ptmeyer84 ptmeyer84
    03/11/09

    In reply to Nebraska Car Dealers Disappear, Take Dozens Of Cars With Them
    Actually, these guys have always been jealous of the neighboring city of Chadron's monument, Carhenge. So they set out to make their own version. Gotta love Nebraska.

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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/11/09

    @ptmeyer84 - Prancing Moose Edition: Carhenge is in Chadron Nebraska? I had no idea. Chadron's police blotter is one of the most consistently entertaining ones out there.


    [www.thechadronnews.com]

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    03/11/09

    In reply to Nebraska Car Dealers Disappear, Take Dozens Of Cars With Them
    Ruh-roh!
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    03/11/09

    In reply to Nebraska Car Dealers Disappear, Take Dozens Of Cars With Them
    That's a good 9-10 transport Semis.


    I gotta give them props for getting it done quick, though wtf they plan to do with 81 vehicles is beyond me...


    Zombie Apocalypse survival vehicles?

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    Image of BTLFED BTLFED
    03/11/09

    In reply to Nebraska Car Dealers Disappear, Take Dozens Of Cars With Them
    Sidenote: That is the first time I have ever seen a Direct TV dish on the side of a Tractor trailer.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/11/09

    @BTLFED thinks leavethegun- is starworthy: I have, it's actually fairly common. They're usually not out unless the truck is parked so unless you are in a place where truckers park for their rest periods (rest areas, truck stops, Sam's Club parking lots, etc.), you probably wouldn't see them.
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    03/11/09

    In reply to Nebraska Car Dealers Disappear, Take Dozens Of Cars With Them
    "I'm cooperatin' with ya! I cooperatin'! Really, I am!"
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    03/11/09

    @Tanshanomi: "You're darned tootin!"
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