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Captain_Tiberius t1_j2xcsgr wrote

Reply to comment by MediocreDriver in There’s a car in the middle of Shields Lake by Patthelionheart

Could be a stolen vehicle that was dumped overnight. No bystanders, and the operator would have fled.

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Littleprisonprism t1_j2xjtg7 wrote

Friend works for WRIC and said that the woman was trying to change her tire by the lake when it began rolling down the embankment and into the lake. Sounds like she wasn’t in it which is good

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floppydude81 t1_j2ydl91 wrote

Oof. Imagine bitching about your luck while changing your tire, then this happens.

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anony804 t1_j2z41zk wrote

“Of course my tire goes out. Today of all days. Murphy’s law.”

car starts rolling away

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MediocreDriver t1_j2xdu7x wrote

That makes makes more sense at face value than anything else I can come up with. The stolen car-joyride-dump scenario happens often enough, but why drown the car instead of abandoning it somewhere random? Is it just for kicks and/or to ruin any chance of finding evidence?

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