by Justine Work is killing me! I am busy, busy, busy and have no time to post. I’ve missed so many things that I wanted to post about but just haven’t had the time. I need to start doing more Quickies… but only in the blogging sense.
Here’s a big fat juicy Blog Buzz. Mmmmm meaty!
Earlier this week Kea posted about our lack of movie theaters in the ‘perntand wouldn’t you know it, New York…
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RE: the guy selling stolen cars “claiming to be the owner of these vehicles he was selling for scrap,” nothing surprising about it because, as is explained in the linked article, he was posing as a guy who buys cars that the owners want to junk.
He stole the cars simply by towing them away with a tow truck. There’s a form that can be used be used, when a car is being scrapped, that allows it to be done without the title on hand. It’s primarily in place so that abandoned cars can be processed when the owner can’t be contacted, but can be used otherwise — I’ve used it once myself. That’s how he was able to turn them over to the scrap yard.
So he wasn’t claiming that he was the “owner” in that these were his cars that he’s been using for transportation. He claimed to be the “owner” for the past couple of hours after having bought them from someone who wanted to get rid of them.
Ah! I get it now, thanks. So yeah, it wouldn’t raise any red flags necessarily.
biggest blog buzz of all time. its gonna take me an hour to read this thing!
Love Queens Hideaway and will definitely miss a place that isn’t Japanese, Thai or Polish.