# New trend to dispose of stolen vehicles?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-trend-to-dispose-of-stolen-vehicles/184839>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [June 23, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-trend-to-dispose-of-stolen-vehicles/184839 "2022-06-23T23:56:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-trend-to-dispose-of-stolen-vehicles/184839/1 "2022-06-23T23:56:49Z")

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So Car fire near us, ended up being a neighborhood meeting. Full of fireworks and an obvious leaking gas tank. One guy said there had been 3 out by his mothers house. Have you heard of this activity/

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**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-trend-to-dispose-of-stolen-vehicles/184839/2 "2022-06-24T00:22:25Z")

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Only in mystery books. But it’s hard to get prints off of charred sheet metal. Note to thieves, they don’t take prints for theft anymore. So unless it’s murder, why bother?

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**Author:** ![wolyrobb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wolyrobb/32/45497_2.png) [@wolyrobb](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wolyrobb)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-trend-to-dispose-of-stolen-vehicles/184839/3 "2022-06-24T00:34:56Z")

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Seems like they’re more often stripped of parts and just left somewhere, at least a friends 2001 Accord was stolen from Seattle awhile back and basically just the shell was recovered.

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-trend-to-dispose-of-stolen-vehicles/184839/4 "2022-06-24T20:19:09Z")

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Haven’t noticed that here in San Jose area. I did see a car on fire the other day mid-intersection, but it had crashed into another car.

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**Author:** ![wolyrobb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wolyrobb/32/45497_2.png) [@wolyrobb](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wolyrobb)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-trend-to-dispose-of-stolen-vehicles/184839/5 "2022-06-24T21:31:50Z")

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Recently happened to someone in Britain, Triumph Dolomite Sprint stolen and found burned, had been owned by one family since new.  
 ![dolo2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/e/e/ee5391410bf9f94e36cecb6207256b949f9b0878.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-trend-to-dispose-of-stolen-vehicles/184839/6 "2022-06-24T22:04:29Z")

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Photo reminds me of episode of Doctor Who , DW and assistant standing in similar looking wheat field, DW’s cute-young-woman assistant says to DW: “what is corn used for?, what do they make with this stuff?” DW doesn’t seem to know either … lol…

- corn == wheat in UK