Posted on 03/08/2021 2:51:11 AM PST by sodpoodle
If they look next to those cars, they may find a whole lot of firearms. I’ve heard the FR boating club is active in NC.
There is a great movie script here involving Ted Kennedy on a Southern vacation, and the case that still haunts Sheriff Andy from Mayberry.
My first thought was: I wonder if they found a Groundhog on the driver's lap?
Adventures With Purpose is a great Youtube channel. Some privateers with Sonar go around the country and solve missing person cold case files.
Looks to me like a small pickup truck
I know a guy that bought a car he couldn't afford. This was in 2003 and I think the payments were north of $700/month. He, fortunately, bought gap insurance because he put down like $100. I think the car was north of 40k. I don't recall exactly.
He decided he wanted to quit, but he knew the car was going to get repossessed and dinged on his credit.
He drove out to a quarry near Philedelphia and gave it the heave-ho, walked a couple miles and had his buddy pick him up. Called the police in Philly, said his car was stolen. It was found 6 months later when they drained the quarry. Insurance covered the entire loss. As a note, I'm not the buddy and I've not spoken to the guy for at least 15 years.
So a long story short, these cars could be crime cars, stolen or insurance fraud.
I grew up in Wisconsin, and for several years lived in Madison. In 2006 they found a car at the bottom of one of the lakes, and it had two bodies. The men had gone out driving on the ice after a night of partying and were never heard from again. That happened in 1961. For 45 years the families didn’t know what had happened to their loved ones. I couldn’t imagine NOT KNOWING. That would constantly eat away at you.
Probably stolen joy ride cars, or dumped for insurance purposes. When local lakes are drained for work on the dam and structures there are always autos found at the bottoms of the lakes.
A gravel pit, abandoned for decades, was drained and found to have lots of autos in the bottom of it.
I was just thinking of those wrecks when I read this article.
Reminds me of the old movie GHOST STORY (1981).
And Carnival of Souls(1962).
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In North Carolina? That’ll buff right out.
Canals here will make cars disappear if you drive off the roads. They found a minivan with a family in it after 30 years...
There is a program on Motor Trend TV called AutoBiography and one episode covers that Foss Lake story in detail. I believe it can be viewed at the web site.
911, what's your emergency? I just saw a car driven by Stacy Abrams going off a bridge... Ok, thank you. The Americans in Georgia will be fine...
Lots of similar stories abound. A couple were where people got lost, entered state or federal parks, and followed a road - right off boat launching ramp.
The one that I put in “A lousy way to die” file was a TV episode about a young guy in farm country, who owned a Jeep Cherokee and bragged “He could drive anywhere with it”. One night he picked up his date, drove off - and disappeared.
The authorities searched everywhere and found nothing.
Some years later, a farmer drained a cesspool-type of pond, used in dumping manure, out in the middle of nowhere, and found a car with two skeletons in it.
The only reason they could think of was that the guy thought he could take a short-cut through the farmers field and dove right in.
Stacy Abrams did not drive off the bridge... the bridge racially profiled her.
Yah, no frozen lakes in Raleigh.
Well, they were frozen but just no ice. (Democratic Party New Speak)
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