Clearly. Ever seen the movie Hell Or High Water. Two brothers robbing banks. They own a farm and each time they bury the car on their land. Or this could be as simple as an insurance scam. Plot twist, they find the missing wife of the previous owner in the trunk. Speaking of which, have you read the stories about cars being found in bodies of water with human remains? With the advent of better search technology this has exploded. One police force was just testing their new equipment and found not one but two vehicles with human remains in them. https://abcnews.go.com/US/cars-skeletal-remains-found-feet-bottom-oklahoma-lake/story?id=20293329
There is a YouTube channel also.
Here's a story where someone was looking at a neighborhood via Google maps and in the lake nearby saw a car submerged. It was a 22 year old missing persons case. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49677843
This is the [case](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/traveling-for-the-holidays-be-sure-to-do-it-in-style-thbpicks-this-great-new-fridayfind-a-french-vintage-steame--558657528748276008/) I thought of too.
My cousin is a detective. I jokingly asked “so, have you solved crime?” He said nothing ever gets solved, they just go through their paces and once in a while they just get lucky
This happened in the apartments where I used to live. There were small and large lakes interspersed among the buildings. Some drunk guy drove into one and wasn’t found until 12 years later. Guy had just left a convenience store in a huff because he was obviously drunk and the clerk had refused to sell him more.
Edit: I live in Florida and because of the lakes, ponds, and retention ponds everywhere, this is more common than you think.
In the movie The Irishman there is a scene where a murder victim is incinerated in a mortuary. Supposedly this is the story of how Jimmy Hoffa died but the mafia member who told this story may have not been telling the truth. Some are skeptical. But my point is, that is the ultimate way to hide a body. Destroy it. You'd think it would be hard to incinerate a body secretly but it is actually a poorly known and even more poorly regulated industry. I read a book named Chop Shop about a guy who would incinerate bodies 10, 15 or 20 at a time and then give families the comingled cremains. He was taking bodies from other funeral homes and giving bargain basement prices. He also cut up bodies and sold organs without the knowledge of the families. Thus the moniker, Chop Shop. But I doubt it would be hard for criminals to destroy a body this way. I've read though that sometimes they want the body found, as a message or warning. With Hoffa, and others, they wanted him simply gone. If there's no body, there's no murder.
In Georgia there was a crematorium that just stopped cremating bodies and piled them up. Investigators found 339 uncremated bodies. They were giving families concrete dust. It really is a poorly regulated industry.
Cemeteries too. There are YouTube videos of abandoned cemeteries where grave robbers run amok and no one seems to care. Mausoleums with caskets pulled onto the floor and valuables looted. It is really wild what happens after you die. I belong to a group named Order of the Good Death that is trying to expand options beyond burial and cremation as well as rein in deceptive and high pressure tactics. "Don't you want grandpa in the Gold Plated Presidential casket? Didn't you even love him enough to give him what he deserves?!" Meanwhile the $12,000 retail price nets the funeral home $9500 profit.
I think it is an unholy partnership between business and government. If I own a large multistate funeral home chain I will make campaign contributions, to both sides, then lobby for legislation that suits my profits. No burying grandma in the back yard. Has to be in the special piece of land I own that I sell for thousands per square yard. Can't be a wood casket. Gotta be hermetically sealed and indestructible. That costs more thousands. Viewing, service, limos, internment. Before you know it you've spent $10,000-15,000 on a completely contrived system that enriches politicians and businesses.
I just cremated my mom at the end of February. $1500 was a lot for me. Maybe not for some but for me, all of a sudden it was… such a terrible thing to do to someone already grieving.
I'm so very sorry for your loss. My late wife, whom you may have heard of, "I also choose this guy's dead wife," detested funeral costs. She also chose initially to be cremated. It was $1800 in KY and that was 2007. She was livid but refused all other funeral trappings, even embalming. But just before she passed from terminal cancer her uncle died and he'd donated his body to the University of North Dakota. My wife was intrigued because they cremate the remains after students are finished dissecting it and return the cremains to the family. So we contacted the University of Kentucky and sure enough they were willing to take her. So she eagerly signed up and avoided the cost of cremation. It was the happiest I'd seen her since we'd been giver her terminal diagnosis.
As soon as you die the funeral home or the cops get called. Either way they get fresh, unembalmed remains and this guy was selling organs for research and to school supply companies. "Got a rush order for 300 hearts." They'd dissect the bodies then cremate them at bargain prices. By cremating more than one at a time, and by selling organs, "Need 200 livers, Larry," they made a bundle.
In the book Vengeance (which the movie Munich was based off) they talk about how the mossad and other spy agencies used mortuaries on the regular.
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Not necessarily. I work as an earthmover/equipment operator and more than once I’ve been asked to bury an old dead vehicle in an area where removal cost money. Way up north guys will sometimes bury dead heavy equipment when removal is more expensive than the machine.
But yeah, maybe.
Thanks for the info, I can totally see that. It makes me think about how well we actually recycle waste and why I shouldn’t have the warm and fuzzy just because the streets aren’t covered in trash as bad these days.
Where I'm from, you just dump your unwanted thing into a river. There's guys who make a living salvaging metal stuff from the river, just as someone else is dumping their old fridge into it upstream
And yet there are several other top comments here talking about just that with first hand anecdotes (and people replying to me with more!). If you're digging a hole/leveling off land for foundations anyway and you live somewhere where at the time it wasn't so easy to get a car removed, or a dodgy contractor that needed some free filler material to hand it's not so wild. Especially in rural locations people used old cars for all kinds of stuff, and built stuff with whatever they had to hand, there is a make do with what you've got attitude. You can get the car towed and then pull in a few extra tons of paid for aggregate or you can just push the car in. Win win.
I know of a farm near me where old cars were used with dirt to build up a levee, you can see parts sticking out at points. Loads of the places around have half a dozen wrecked out cars lying around that never get towed.
Not saying its what happened here (I just gave an example of the least exciting possibility) and a crime is more likely if its non rural, but plenty are talking like the only option is foul play.
This is the most likely explanation. I've definitely seen this first hand. One guy I worked for as a kid did this, just dug a hole for the sole purpose of burying shit instead of dealing with hauling it away. People are acting like it's some huge job but he had a backhoe and it took all of maybe 2hrs to dig, fill and bury. If you're already building a foundation it's an extra 10mins of work to push the car in there.
This guy drove his trucks into a broken levee to plug it up.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43324345/ford-f150-chevy-silverado-california-farmers-levee-breach/
There are at least two cars buried behind my childhood home. One belonged to my parents - it was just old and we happened to have an excavator around. It stabilized a hillside nicely!
A dude I worked with told me in his youth he would wreck so many cars drinking and driving that he'd just use his dad's excavator to bury the totalled cars and hide the evidence.
Seems like an "I know a guy" contractor poured this foundation. I'd bet it was some type of disposed crime evidence.
Or maybe I just watch too many crime shows.
RUN THE VIN!!
This happened once. A car was dug out a yard and that’s what they used to charge and eventually convict the guy. They just needed to PROVE that he was with her and the car in his yard did that, iirc.
This happened just recently I am about to Google it, but they found a car buried in the yard of some property that the owners didn't know about. Apparently the previous owners buried it and I guess the cadaver dogs were alerting on it but no bodies so not obvious why
This happened about 6 months ago, I believe it was in Beverly Hills or there about. Found a Mercedes buried under a slab of concrete. Turns out the the previous owner of the house was quite the conman. He had claimed the car had been stolen and collected the insurance money on it. He served a fair amount of time in jail for other things he had pulled. If I remember correctly, it had been buried for 30-40 years, the guy has long since died.
When you collect an insurance claim for a stolen car. That car is now owned by the insurance company.
I’m not sure what the laws are for abandoned property? The insurance company should be informed to collect to reclaim the car off your property. But after a certain time period of abandonment. You can claim ownership, after exhausting all efforts to return it and the owner refuses to collect.
I worked at a salvage auto yard and the number of people that did not realize the vehicle in our yard did not belong to them anymore was damned near 100%.
If someone gives you money for something, you generally don't own it anymore. There was a guy on one of the Tesla boards that was lemon law-ing their car and they wanted to claim the EV tax credit even though they unwound the sale when they lemon law-ed it. Sometimes, people seem to have the hardest time understanding the easiest concepts.
Here’s a link for those interested
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/22/1130703929/a-car-was-found-buried-at-a-california-estate-once-owned-by-a-man-convicted-of-m
If you sell it, you’ll get what it’s actually worth instead of what “fair market value” is. So if it’s in exceptionally bad shape, much better idea.
And leaving the car in the ignition might work. But a few problems -has to be worth stealing, it has to *run*, and you have to make sure they *dont* find it again (because then you’ll get it back).
When my in-laws were building their house, they buried an old car left on the land under the now garage floor.
They said it was cheaper than paying to have it removed.
yeah, everyone in here like "there's a body inside!" and I'm just over here like "looks lie a cheap contractor saw a way to save on some concrete AND get rid of an old car without paying for anything!"
Burying an old car under your house is a good compromise with your inner child that wants to blow it up. Way too much hassle to drag it out in a field somewhere and blow it up with some tannerite, and then have to clean it up. Still cool AF to have some buddies over and bury your old beater though, I'd like to think they had a little funeral for it and joked about how people with flying cars are gonna find it and not know what it is
RIP the farmer who tries to work land where a car was once blown up with tannerite. I can hear the sounds of the metal running through the tiller now and firing out the back of it.
Growing up in the south I went to school with a guy who was bullying another kid because that kids family farm would do stuff like drop nails out of their crop duster or accidentally spill pesticides on the other farms organic crops. They got arrested like 3 times for launching flaming tractor tires into the field because the bullied kid got video of them doing it and recordings of them doing it but as it was a two party consent state the police officer wouldn't even look at the video.
They eventually someone stole catapult they used to launch tyres and no one admitted to it. Even when the police questioned the whole school threatening us with jail time if it was found out you were hiding who it was. It was that day I realized that police don't care much for the magic trick of escaping from handcuffs got a free ride out of town for my efforts.
Yup. Back in the day here in the Midwest a lot of people and farmers used cars to bury cars on sides of rivers and creek to hopefully keep the soil together and not erode further, I think nowadays they used large rocks or concrete chunks.
I got to the river a lot for fishing or hanging out and I'll be sitting besides an old muscle car, it's pretty neat!
Yeah absolutely.
Older cars are movable environmental and health disasters. Lead, asbestos, the decades-long banned fluids…
DONT bury them besides a river bed.
Mercury is a big one. OP has a lawsuit on his hands; that soil is contaminated and to be able to sell now is going to require thousands in remediation…
Aren’t they still worth something as scrap metal? I’ve disposed of three cars that were only good for the junk yard. First one towed to a mechanic and then picked up by his scrap guy, second was donated to Kars for Kids who had it towed away, and third was picked up by a scrap yard I contacted. I’ve been paid $300-$600 for each car.
Heck, they used to just throw copper in a landfill. There is a former landfill in my city that has since been paved over, allegedly there is millions of dollars of scrap copper buried under it.
OP hasn't commented so I did wonder if it was their original photo or just something neat they found.
Though the Tesco Still Water bottle in the corner indicates the photo was taken in the UK or Ireland.
I can't help but think there are structural advantages or disadvantages. Does it give the concrete more give and less likely to crack or would the fact that the concrete isn't symmetrical make this more likely to crack at these points?
Given what we are learning about spalling, I don't see a car as being good for a foundation. Concrete is porous, it allows water in and out, which rusts the embedded rebar and in this case, the embedded car. Imagine having a car-sized rust hole in the middle of your floor, with only a couple of inches of concrete above it.
I'm not really sure people have thought about this during construction.
We're currently renovating an old house and sometimes you can't help but wonder how drunk the builders were.
Not nearly the same, but my grandmothers old cement step has a full car engine in it. The engine was no good and they used it as fill. They were super happy to have a way to get rid of the engine. (Before my time)
I found [this post](/r/whatisthiscar/comments/12ny9ky/a_full_car_found_in_a_houses_foundation_during/) in r/whatisthiscar with the same content as the current post.
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I remember something like this on American pickers where they knew about a guy who had buried an old Harley or something. They tore his yard up and got a bunch of rusty underwhelming trash. People are weird.
Wait is this in Pennsylvania? If so, DM me. My grandmother accidentally witnessed a car being buried in the barn by her mafia father and uncle when she was a little girl.
Is this in Michigan? The reason I ask is because my maternal grandparents had four daughters …and, according to my dad, they weren’t very good drivers. Whenever they wrecked a car, instead of fixing it, my grandpa used his bulldozer to dig a trench and bury the car (He owned a lumber mill and construction company). My dad told me: “There must be twenty cars buried on that property…” This was in Michigan.
In North Carolina they passed laws that forced power companies to connect homes up the mountains no matter the cost. Surprised this hasn’t happened in Alaska. Pay attention to who you elect.
Please let us know if it was Jimmy Hoffa
It’s probably not Hoffa, but that vehicle was definitely involved in a crime or two.
Clearly. Ever seen the movie Hell Or High Water. Two brothers robbing banks. They own a farm and each time they bury the car on their land. Or this could be as simple as an insurance scam. Plot twist, they find the missing wife of the previous owner in the trunk. Speaking of which, have you read the stories about cars being found in bodies of water with human remains? With the advent of better search technology this has exploded. One police force was just testing their new equipment and found not one but two vehicles with human remains in them. https://abcnews.go.com/US/cars-skeletal-remains-found-feet-bottom-oklahoma-lake/story?id=20293329 There is a YouTube channel also.
Here's a story where someone was looking at a neighborhood via Google maps and in the lake nearby saw a car submerged. It was a 22 year old missing persons case. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49677843
This was the case I thought of too
This is the [case](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/traveling-for-the-holidays-be-sure-to-do-it-in-style-thbpicks-this-great-new-fridayfind-a-french-vintage-steame--558657528748276008/) I thought of too.
That is so neat. The AI will be able to scan the whole earth like that
It already does. It finds singles in my area and tells me about it.
Cops and detectives are idiots.
My cousin is a detective. I jokingly asked “so, have you solved crime?” He said nothing ever gets solved, they just go through their paces and once in a while they just get lucky
Well in that case, I’m quite the detective myself
This happened in the apartments where I used to live. There were small and large lakes interspersed among the buildings. Some drunk guy drove into one and wasn’t found until 12 years later. Guy had just left a convenience store in a huff because he was obviously drunk and the clerk had refused to sell him more. Edit: I live in Florida and because of the lakes, ponds, and retention ponds everywhere, this is more common than you think.
"Don't drive angry."- Phil
You have to bury it where they’re not going to “put in a bunch of condos”. Goodfellas
In the movie The Irishman there is a scene where a murder victim is incinerated in a mortuary. Supposedly this is the story of how Jimmy Hoffa died but the mafia member who told this story may have not been telling the truth. Some are skeptical. But my point is, that is the ultimate way to hide a body. Destroy it. You'd think it would be hard to incinerate a body secretly but it is actually a poorly known and even more poorly regulated industry. I read a book named Chop Shop about a guy who would incinerate bodies 10, 15 or 20 at a time and then give families the comingled cremains. He was taking bodies from other funeral homes and giving bargain basement prices. He also cut up bodies and sold organs without the knowledge of the families. Thus the moniker, Chop Shop. But I doubt it would be hard for criminals to destroy a body this way. I've read though that sometimes they want the body found, as a message or warning. With Hoffa, and others, they wanted him simply gone. If there's no body, there's no murder.
In Georgia there was a crematorium that just stopped cremating bodies and piled them up. Investigators found 339 uncremated bodies. They were giving families concrete dust. It really is a poorly regulated industry.
Cemeteries too. There are YouTube videos of abandoned cemeteries where grave robbers run amok and no one seems to care. Mausoleums with caskets pulled onto the floor and valuables looted. It is really wild what happens after you die. I belong to a group named Order of the Good Death that is trying to expand options beyond burial and cremation as well as rein in deceptive and high pressure tactics. "Don't you want grandpa in the Gold Plated Presidential casket? Didn't you even love him enough to give him what he deserves?!" Meanwhile the $12,000 retail price nets the funeral home $9500 profit.
The funeral business really is a gigantic government-imposed racket.
I think it is an unholy partnership between business and government. If I own a large multistate funeral home chain I will make campaign contributions, to both sides, then lobby for legislation that suits my profits. No burying grandma in the back yard. Has to be in the special piece of land I own that I sell for thousands per square yard. Can't be a wood casket. Gotta be hermetically sealed and indestructible. That costs more thousands. Viewing, service, limos, internment. Before you know it you've spent $10,000-15,000 on a completely contrived system that enriches politicians and businesses.
I just cremated my mom at the end of February. $1500 was a lot for me. Maybe not for some but for me, all of a sudden it was… such a terrible thing to do to someone already grieving.
I'm so very sorry for your loss. My late wife, whom you may have heard of, "I also choose this guy's dead wife," detested funeral costs. She also chose initially to be cremated. It was $1800 in KY and that was 2007. She was livid but refused all other funeral trappings, even embalming. But just before she passed from terminal cancer her uncle died and he'd donated his body to the University of North Dakota. My wife was intrigued because they cremate the remains after students are finished dissecting it and return the cremains to the family. So we contacted the University of Kentucky and sure enough they were willing to take her. So she eagerly signed up and avoided the cost of cremation. It was the happiest I'd seen her since we'd been giver her terminal diagnosis.
Who would want those organs? Were the bodies delivered on ice?
As soon as you die the funeral home or the cops get called. Either way they get fresh, unembalmed remains and this guy was selling organs for research and to school supply companies. "Got a rush order for 300 hearts." They'd dissect the bodies then cremate them at bargain prices. By cremating more than one at a time, and by selling organs, "Need 200 livers, Larry," they made a bundle.
In the book Vengeance (which the movie Munich was based off) they talk about how the mossad and other spy agencies used mortuaries on the regular. Edit: typo
That Taylor Sheridan is quite the story teller.
Not necessarily. I work as an earthmover/equipment operator and more than once I’ve been asked to bury an old dead vehicle in an area where removal cost money. Way up north guys will sometimes bury dead heavy equipment when removal is more expensive than the machine. But yeah, maybe.
Thanks for the info, I can totally see that. It makes me think about how well we actually recycle waste and why I shouldn’t have the warm and fuzzy just because the streets aren’t covered in trash as bad these days.
Where I'm from, you just dump your unwanted thing into a river. There's guys who make a living salvaging metal stuff from the river, just as someone else is dumping their old fridge into it upstream
Or Billy Batts.
Get your shine box!
Damn you beat me to it!
Dang you beat me to saying you beat me to it! Updoots now!
More beatings here than a back the blue family reunion
The beatings will continue until morale improves
r/beatMeatToIt
I laughed way too hard at this
He’s sleeping with the fishes.
Frank killed him
I hear you paint houses
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That's a crime scene.
Allegedly.
I heard it was a sick ostrich.
How are ya now?
Good n' you?
Oh, not s’bad
Who brought the snipe?
Wheel, snipe, celly, boys
Ever been to Quebec?
Love fishin in Quebec
Great fishin’ In Kwee-bec
FERDA!
Takes more than one guy right?
ALLEGEDLY
You’d need at least two, maybe three guys…
Username check out.
STURT!
Can confirm
r/UnexpectedLetterkenny
Given their history.
But fuck can they run.
At most I bet it's insurance fraud and filing a false police report for the stolen car.
At the least someone cheap who just couldn't be bothered to get a broken down car towed away.
Digging a hole and burying a car is way more work than picking up the phone and having the scrap yard come pay you to haul the car away.
And yet there are several other top comments here talking about just that with first hand anecdotes (and people replying to me with more!). If you're digging a hole/leveling off land for foundations anyway and you live somewhere where at the time it wasn't so easy to get a car removed, or a dodgy contractor that needed some free filler material to hand it's not so wild. Especially in rural locations people used old cars for all kinds of stuff, and built stuff with whatever they had to hand, there is a make do with what you've got attitude. You can get the car towed and then pull in a few extra tons of paid for aggregate or you can just push the car in. Win win. I know of a farm near me where old cars were used with dirt to build up a levee, you can see parts sticking out at points. Loads of the places around have half a dozen wrecked out cars lying around that never get towed. Not saying its what happened here (I just gave an example of the least exciting possibility) and a crime is more likely if its non rural, but plenty are talking like the only option is foul play.
This is the most likely explanation. I've definitely seen this first hand. One guy I worked for as a kid did this, just dug a hole for the sole purpose of burying shit instead of dealing with hauling it away. People are acting like it's some huge job but he had a backhoe and it took all of maybe 2hrs to dig, fill and bury. If you're already building a foundation it's an extra 10mins of work to push the car in there.
This guy drove his trucks into a broken levee to plug it up. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43324345/ford-f150-chevy-silverado-california-farmers-levee-breach/
Drove the Chevy to the levee and now the levee is dry
There are at least two cars buried behind my childhood home. One belonged to my parents - it was just old and we happened to have an excavator around. It stabilized a hillside nicely!
What the fuck are you posting on your profile
It wasn't noodles and strudels 😭
I’m suddenly grateful I never liked papaya.
That's a papaya, dummy.
Until proven innocent.
You bet it is and it’s also a very well hidden act of I imagine revenge.
A dude I worked with told me in his youth he would wreck so many cars drinking and driving that he'd just use his dad's excavator to bury the totalled cars and hide the evidence.
*Hearsay!*
Seems like an "I know a guy" contractor poured this foundation. I'd bet it was some type of disposed crime evidence. Or maybe I just watch too many crime shows.
RUN THE VIN!! This happened once. A car was dug out a yard and that’s what they used to charge and eventually convict the guy. They just needed to PROVE that he was with her and the car in his yard did that, iirc.
This happened just recently I am about to Google it, but they found a car buried in the yard of some property that the owners didn't know about. Apparently the previous owners buried it and I guess the cadaver dogs were alerting on it but no bodies so not obvious why
This happened about 6 months ago, I believe it was in Beverly Hills or there about. Found a Mercedes buried under a slab of concrete. Turns out the the previous owner of the house was quite the conman. He had claimed the car had been stolen and collected the insurance money on it. He served a fair amount of time in jail for other things he had pulled. If I remember correctly, it had been buried for 30-40 years, the guy has long since died.
What a cool find and story. I would have the car turned into patio furniture
When you collect an insurance claim for a stolen car. That car is now owned by the insurance company. I’m not sure what the laws are for abandoned property? The insurance company should be informed to collect to reclaim the car off your property. But after a certain time period of abandonment. You can claim ownership, after exhausting all efforts to return it and the owner refuses to collect.
I worked at a salvage auto yard and the number of people that did not realize the vehicle in our yard did not belong to them anymore was damned near 100%. If someone gives you money for something, you generally don't own it anymore. There was a guy on one of the Tesla boards that was lemon law-ing their car and they wanted to claim the EV tax credit even though they unwound the sale when they lemon law-ed it. Sometimes, people seem to have the hardest time understanding the easiest concepts.
Complain about a thing loud or long enough and you might get your way. It's why Karen always speaks to the manager.
Here’s a link for those interested https://www.npr.org/2022/10/22/1130703929/a-car-was-found-buried-at-a-california-estate-once-owned-by-a-man-convicted-of-m
That seems like a terrible scam. Why not just sell it, or alternatively park it in a bad area with the keys in the ignition?
Says the guy who DIDNT illegally collect insurance money on a Mercedes Benz
If you sell it, you’ll get what it’s actually worth instead of what “fair market value” is. So if it’s in exceptionally bad shape, much better idea. And leaving the car in the ignition might work. But a few problems -has to be worth stealing, it has to *run*, and you have to make sure they *dont* find it again (because then you’ll get it back).
Was in Atherton, CA.
Definitely first thought was maybe a body is in the car lol
Same.
My first thought was the same.
My second thought was different.
My third thought was I need pizza.
My fourth thought was where's the damn pizza
When my in-laws were building their house, they buried an old car left on the land under the now garage floor. They said it was cheaper than paying to have it removed.
yeah, everyone in here like "there's a body inside!" and I'm just over here like "looks lie a cheap contractor saw a way to save on some concrete AND get rid of an old car without paying for anything!"
Burying an old car under your house is a good compromise with your inner child that wants to blow it up. Way too much hassle to drag it out in a field somewhere and blow it up with some tannerite, and then have to clean it up. Still cool AF to have some buddies over and bury your old beater though, I'd like to think they had a little funeral for it and joked about how people with flying cars are gonna find it and not know what it is
RIP the farmer who tries to work land where a car was once blown up with tannerite. I can hear the sounds of the metal running through the tiller now and firing out the back of it.
Growing up in the south I went to school with a guy who was bullying another kid because that kids family farm would do stuff like drop nails out of their crop duster or accidentally spill pesticides on the other farms organic crops. They got arrested like 3 times for launching flaming tractor tires into the field because the bullied kid got video of them doing it and recordings of them doing it but as it was a two party consent state the police officer wouldn't even look at the video.
Jesus Christ, fuck the law at that point, do what you need to do to protect your life.
They eventually someone stole catapult they used to launch tyres and no one admitted to it. Even when the police questioned the whole school threatening us with jail time if it was found out you were hiding who it was. It was that day I realized that police don't care much for the magic trick of escaping from handcuffs got a free ride out of town for my efforts.
My adult self would want to blow it up, as a kid I wanted to have a car
Rebar more like freebar
Hahaha well said.
Yup. Back in the day here in the Midwest a lot of people and farmers used cars to bury cars on sides of rivers and creek to hopefully keep the soil together and not erode further, I think nowadays they used large rocks or concrete chunks. I got to the river a lot for fishing or hanging out and I'll be sitting besides an old muscle car, it's pretty neat!
All fun and games until we can't figure out where all these chemicals in the water are coming from......
Yeah absolutely. Older cars are movable environmental and health disasters. Lead, asbestos, the decades-long banned fluids… DONT bury them besides a river bed.
Mercury is a big one. OP has a lawsuit on his hands; that soil is contaminated and to be able to sell now is going to require thousands in remediation…
Aren’t they still worth something as scrap metal? I’ve disposed of three cars that were only good for the junk yard. First one towed to a mechanic and then picked up by his scrap guy, second was donated to Kars for Kids who had it towed away, and third was picked up by a scrap yard I contacted. I’ve been paid $300-$600 for each car.
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Heck, they used to just throw copper in a landfill. There is a former landfill in my city that has since been paved over, allegedly there is millions of dollars of scrap copper buried under it.
Yeah this is what I was thinking. I've had two cars scrapped that cost me nothing to have removed from my property and instead made me money, lol.
“We’re out of fill” That one guy, “hold my beer, I got this”
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Not as good as a covered up murder.. but still a crime!
Was the bodies still inside?
“Y’all wanna see a dead body?”
Yes. Thats why we're asking
Instrumentals from my grandma’s Christmas party.
Hi! We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty…
Wonder who's in the boot.
OP is active in Ireland communities. IRA maybe?
OP hasn't commented so I did wonder if it was their original photo or just something neat they found. Though the Tesco Still Water bottle in the corner indicates the photo was taken in the UK or Ireland.
Also UK style plugs so the Ireland guess looks to be correct.
Earl definitely in that trunk
Goodbye Earl
Earl had to die.
We need a break!
“No lowball offers, I know what I got.”
Looks like a burial scene from the cars universe
I can’t think of any reason besides hiding evidence as to why someone would bury an entire car.
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Agreed - buried out in a field makes sense. Burying it in the foundation of a house/garage? Sketchy…
If the hole was being dug for the house, not really. They might not have had a big field to bury it in but this was convenient.
I can't help but think there are structural advantages or disadvantages. Does it give the concrete more give and less likely to crack or would the fact that the concrete isn't symmetrical make this more likely to crack at these points?
Given what we are learning about spalling, I don't see a car as being good for a foundation. Concrete is porous, it allows water in and out, which rusts the embedded rebar and in this case, the embedded car. Imagine having a car-sized rust hole in the middle of your floor, with only a couple of inches of concrete above it.
I'm not really sure people have thought about this during construction. We're currently renovating an old house and sometimes you can't help but wonder how drunk the builders were.
This sounded like a u/shittymorph set up.
Cheap ground filler.
Not nearly the same, but my grandmothers old cement step has a full car engine in it. The engine was no good and they used it as fill. They were super happy to have a way to get rid of the engine. (Before my time)
Cheap way to dispose of an old beater and it saves you money on fill.
Insurance fraud?
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Were the tags on the body's undies labeled J. Hoffa?
I remember something like this on American pickers where they knew about a guy who had buried an old Harley or something. They tore his yard up and got a bunch of rusty underwhelming trash. People are weird.
Cost saving on less concrete.
Check for bodies. Seems hella sus.
Wait is this in Pennsylvania? If so, DM me. My grandmother accidentally witnessed a car being buried in the barn by her mafia father and uncle when she was a little girl.
Check he trunk.
Is this in Michigan? The reason I ask is because my maternal grandparents had four daughters …and, according to my dad, they weren’t very good drivers. Whenever they wrecked a car, instead of fixing it, my grandpa used his bulldozer to dig a trench and bury the car (He owned a lumber mill and construction company). My dad told me: “There must be twenty cars buried on that property…” This was in Michigan.
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You’ve got to be fucking kidding me… Fuckin with me right?
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In North Carolina they passed laws that forced power companies to connect homes up the mountains no matter the cost. Surprised this hasn’t happened in Alaska. Pay attention to who you elect.
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Damn, this was legit more interesting than the photo.
TIL a lot about Alaska.
What? Damn! How long do they use it like that before selling it on fb?
Low miles Clean title/CARFAX Never been used as a septic tank A/C blows cold...
Make sure to get the body out of the trunk.
a full car? how many clowns is that?
That's a crime scene
Welp, apparently you *can* park there, but there are consequences.
Was Jimmy Hoffa inside?
It's a crime scene ... Someone wanted that car buried 🤷🏿♂️ and really BAD
Looks like you found AL Bundy's house.
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Call in forensics
🤳 hello is that forensics? I've got car, get here fast.
Oh yeah that’s where I parked Christine.
Hoffa
How many bodies?
Can't park there mate
Whoever owned that car def got murdered.
How did it get upside down? I mean, I can kind of see may be rolling a car in through the patio slider but how did they get it upside down?
Look like they used it to murder someone
I wonder if r/whatisthiscar can identify this car
That wasn’t involved in a crime 🙄
Probably just an insurance claim job.
Probably a body in there. Or it was a getaway car someone needed to hide.
The caption reads “No low ballers… I know what I have”
See if it's jimmy Hoffa in the car!
There's a body or evidence inside, guaranteed.
Might be a crime scene
I wonder if it’s a missing person..
That's some mob shit
Is Jimmy Hoffa in the trunk?
Probably from a missing persons case in another city. Body is elsewhere.
Someone took the "Like a Rock" slogan literally.
That car was absolutely used in a murder.
Hoffa
Run the vin online and share the link here
They do this at mini putt golf places too, junk cars can be cheaper to use as fill. It may not be the only one down there.
Why specifically mini putt courses?
Because regular golf courses are too conspicuous