Their position is that once the vehicle was sold to the kid, they no longer had to get permission from the court to repossess it.

So, the “freelance” salesman dude did list the 2016 Mazda CX-5 in his bankruptcy plan (in October of 2021) and, as part of the plan, intended on paying $271/mo. on the reported $14,580 balance for the next five years.

“Freelance salesman” as in “We don’t want to pay employment taxes, so we’re going to 1099 this guy even though he meets the definition of an employee?”

I’ve had a ridiculous GMC Yukon as a loaner while my car is being repaired from the injury inflicted upon it by a wayward semi, and I’ve been surprised the gas mileage it gets is as good as it is.

A guy I was in a band with in junior high and high school and who spent his twenties growing pot in his closet and getting addicted to stronger and stronger drugs has, in his 40s, become quite a right-wing zealot, though now that I think about it, I think there was a skinhead portion of his drug addiction days that…

Let’s not expect miracles here.

He’s been bad news ever since he got mixed up with Wes Mantooth and the Evening News gang.

He told us in Capricorn One that he was a terrific guy, so I’ve always thought so.

Lena Guerrero arguably lost re-election to the Texas Railroad Commission for claiming she had graduated college when, in reality, she had left before finishing. It was a huge scandal at the time.

Before Airtags, I bought a GPS tracker for my outdoor cat. Cost $30 and worked on the Verizon cellular network. It was only marginally larger than the Airtag.

It would be socialism to have the taxpayers pay for the cleanup.

Hosam Smadi didn’t even have a real bomb and got 24 years in prison.

I have a Yukon as my rental car right now as my car is being fixed after a semi decided it wanted in my lane before I had vacated it, and I’m getting 18-21mpg on my commute to work. 

How would you not know it was fraud? AAA pays for a tow at a specific time from/to a specific place. If I do the tow, tell the customer to sign-up for AAA after-the-fact and then submit the paperwork to be paid for the tow claiming the tow happened at a completely different time, that’s very obvious that I’m doing…

But it all took place inside Tommy Westphall’s head.

Which is, of course, the Russian of Germany.

Where I live, high-speed chases are only approved if probable cause exists to believe a felony was committed that involved the use or threat of force. I mentioned carjacking would likely fit that definition, as would armed robbery. Stealing a car by itself would not.

The tracking thing adds a layer to the story, but even in cities where police chases are restricted, a chase in this case would likely have been approved (carjacking at gunpoint is considered a violent offense in many jurisdictions).

On a different note, when I was 15 years old, my Dad agreed to drive me to pick up a girl from school for our first date and drop us off at the movies. He decided he would show off a little and took his Porsche 911 Turbo. Right in front of her house, my Dad failed to see a median and drove right over it, messing up…

Back when I was in my early-20s, I was too embarrassed of my Yellow Nissan NX1600 to ask a particular woman out. I look back now and cannot figure out why I was so embarrassed of that car when it came to the idea of showing up in it for a date since it was a perfectly fine car... it was just yellow and a little funny…