"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> Paul M. Cook wrote:
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote
>
>>> Someone abandoned a car in front of my house once. Long
>>> story short, after a week I called the cops to report it. He
>>> said, with all the disbelief he could muster, Abandoned?
>>> I explained the story, boy after he heard it had New York plates
>>> that were now gone he couldn't arrange to come get it fast enough. Once
>>> I'd finished explaining the circumstances,
>>> it was all I could do not to say, ie, abandoned. (laugh)
>>
>>
>> The cop got a free car. I know here if you file an abandoned vehicle
>> claim and it goes 10 days without the owner coming forward the car is
>> yours.
>
> Hah, you mean free clunker. There's a reason it didn't make it down
> the shore from Brooklyn. Old junk car/bald tires. I called because I
> didn't want it in front of my house.

See this is where girls don't get guys. The cop saw a deal, just needed a
"little work, a tune up, touch of bondo here and there." I know lots of
guys who loves clunkers, so long as they are like 500 bucks or less. But
I'll confess I don't get it either.

Paul
> nancy