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[dagwud]

That is simply amazing, 298 new cars missing and no one noticed for 5 or 6 years.

Reminds me of the the news story I saw on NBC's Today show last week about an Illinois town that had an annual budget of $9 million but did not notice for years that the city manager had embezzled $3 million.

[bruce MN]

Just think how things might work if govt at all levels was exclusively staffed by the most competent, capable and honest people in the pool. I'd expect you'd like it even that much sless. Rest assured that the general set of handicaps it works under is more to your benifit as a primary economic player than if it were otherwise.

[Jim B. in Iowa]

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@dagwud wrote:

That is simply amazing, 298 new cars missing and no one noticed for 5 or 6 years.

Reminds me of the the news story I saw on NBC's Today show last week about an Illinois town that had an annual budget of $9 million but did not notice for years that the city manager had embezzled $3 million.

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Dag...it was $30 million in five or six years from an annual budget of $9 million. 

[Democratforlife]

It is government, it is not their money. They don't care how it is used.

[Nebrfarmr]

Nothing to see here....please move on to the next building, where it will be explained to you, why taxes need to be raised, because spending has already been pared to the bone...

[kraft-t]

at the local bar. When he left he got into his neighbor's car and drove it home. It happened that heand his neighbor have the same model and the same color car.

When hos neighbor left the bar he noticed that his car was gone and the other guys pickup was parked there. So he drove the drunk guys truck home and they made the swap the next day.

I wonder when the drunk came to the realization that he had twin cars at home or maybe he thought he was just seeing double.

BTW.. in our small town very few remove the keys from a vehicle. Another guy was working the night shift and his fellow workmen moved his car to another part of town and parked it in the driveway of an older widow.

[dagwud]

I like the prank about moving the nighshift worker's car to an old widow's house.

Many years ago we had a family reunion at my parents farm house.  We had a cousin come out from L.A. and introduced us to his new wife (2nd or 3rd I forget) who was a nice oriental gal that had lived her entire life in L.A.  She could not get over the fact that our closest neighbor was half a mile away and shot a whole roll of film taking pictures of my hogs as it was the first time she had ever seen any up close.

She asked my dad if he locked his cars at night to which he replied heck no.  When she asked him why not he answered that if someone wants to steal them at night he sure doesn't want them coming to the house looking for the keys.