Yes. He had long-ago sold the car to the kid (maintaining in the bill of sale that there were no liens) but hadn’t transferred the title.

If the order of events was (and what it appears to be to me after reading the bankruptcy filings): They have Mazda on lot. Freelance salesman buys Mazda on credit from dealership. Freelance salesman sells Mazda to kid without disclosing outstanding loan or paying off said loan. Freelance salesman stops making…

It appears that the salesman bought the car from the dealership and had an outstanding loan on it when he “sold” it to the kid. Whoever held the note likely secured a lien when they sold it to the salesman.

He did know he wasn’t buying from the dealer. The bill of sale is from the individual salesman.

The kid is largely blameless. The grandpa probably should’ve known better, but didn’t.

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.

Just ten episodes of Boba Fett in full armor reading ‘The Princess Bride’ to Fred Savage.

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…