"Can I borrow your volvo for a day? Someone has been messin' with my mercedes..."
Alas, she had to turn him down as her beat-up car needed repairs.
I went back to L.A. a couple of days after that "accident" and my friend picked me up at the airport. As we drove up Highland at that spot I brought this up. She said she drove past there shortly after the "accident" and her observation was that there were lots of cars and suits there that looked like Feds, and the local cops hadn't arrived yet. My friend is totally apolitical and out of the loop news-wise, so she had no idea any of the story behind this incident at that point.