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Police find "stolen car graveyard" in Washington lake
Finding a stash of vehicles left to rot can be exciting, like if they're in a barn and they're vintage and would have some high collectible value once fixed up. Finding a stash of cars left to rot at the bottom of a lake, well, that's a downer for everyone. Authorities in Camas, Washington (the state) recently pulled five gutted cars from Lacamas Lake, all of which had been stolen: two Hondas, two Acuras, and a Chevy Tahoe. The lake's water level is low this time of year, which allowed boaters to see the cars underwater. It's the second time the police have had to do salvage duty in the same lake for the same reason, and by their own accounts it is a "stolen car graveyard." If you live in Oregon's greater Vancouver area where the cars were stolen, it could be time to invest in... a snorkel. Thanks for the tip, Thom!
[Source: KPTV]
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JDMlover 6:09PM (9/11/2008)
wow...that's a sad faith for the cars...
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thomas 6:10PM (9/11/2008)
a snorkel. nice.
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old blighty 6:22PM (9/11/2008)
Oregon's great *portland* area.
Vancouver is over the border in washington and is small.
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Samurai Jack 7:24PM (9/11/2008)
Not that small. It's Washington's 4th largest city.
Tired 7:46PM (9/11/2008)
Never would I have thought the city I live in would have been mentioned on autoblog.
Lacamas lake isn't all that big, crazy that there were that many cars in it.
G-Meister 6:24PM (9/11/2008)
just how do you go about sinking the carcass of a Tahoe in a lake? slide it onto the ice?
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Seanross 6:37PM (9/11/2008)
Someone picked it up and threw it of course.
Jeff Pollak 7:11PM (9/11/2008)
Is thet a picture of you now or is that really you, Chevy?
Viper007Bond 7:02AM (9/12/2008)
Ice? Not around here. We're "lucky" if we get an inch of snow a year.
Ken Stamper 6:37PM (9/11/2008)
I used to work for Enterprise Rent A Car in Gresham,OR across the river from Camas. When someone would come in to rent a car through their insurance b/c their car was stolen, at the counter we would just say "Civic"?
90% of the time it was either that or an RSX/Integra.
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tekdemon 1:57AM (9/12/2008)
Yeah, my classmate didn't show up for class one day because her car was missing. And the first thing I asked my other friend was what car she drove...and it was not at all surprising that it was an older Civic. Needless to say, the car was stolen and not just towed.
Anybody who drives a pre-2001 Civic had better invest in a serious engine immobilizing alarm if they want to keep their car.
On a side note, someone else I know had their Civic stolen and it gave me just a little bit of pleasure since they were the ultimate example of a retard ricer (I wouldn't even care except they spent half their time trashing Civic Si's [at the time I owned a stock Civic Si] while owning and continuously ricing a Civic Si...the level of self-delusion was unbelievable).
Rocketboy 9:17AM (9/12/2008)
"Needless to say"...
well thanks, now I don't have to bother with the rest of your post, as it was all "needless".
bill 6:38PM (9/11/2008)
Speaking of Portland, Oregon, the poor dumb idiots that run the city thought it was a good idea to punish car stealing jerks by issuing them citations. Like paying a $200.00 fine after parting out a $40,000 BMW was going to be a deterrent.
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catgirlshyla 7:26PM (9/11/2008)
You think that's bad? I've heard Maui in Hawaii fines folks for Abandoning Cars on the side of the road as Littering.
One problem: many of the cars are abandoned by transient folks who take the next plane out of Hawaii or buy another beater and a good portion of them aren't properly registered, so it hits the last previous owner, sometimes Grandma that is either in a Nursing Home or is six-feet under.
DKB_SATX 7:35PM (9/11/2008)
There's a right way to do it, though. Make it a $200 fine that MUST be paid from the perp's earnings at $0.01/hour on a chain gang...
Reader 7:50PM (9/11/2008)
Haha, Vancouver might as well be in Oregon. We buy their fireworks, they buy our groceries.
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AMcA 8:44PM (9/11/2008)
How many of these vehicles had keys in the ignition, and a rock tied to the accelerator?
These babies weren't stolen. Not in the conventional sense. They were reported stolen, and insurance claims were filed. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
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Dane 11:47PM (9/11/2008)
Not only does the area suck (at least the people), they steal bad cars too!!!!
One for the white trash nation of Portland!!!
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ƒlow 12:33AM (9/12/2008)
Just 5?
These guys were after 120!
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24139633-2862,00.html
Got 70 in the end:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/05/2356542.htm
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anahit 5:09AM (9/12/2008)
Many more than 5 cars are found every time the police bother to check the bottom of Portland's Willamette River at the Cathedral Park area. It's not regularly-checked so it's usually a watery car graveyard.
I used to be a Portland cop and those dredgings were good times. It's alarmingly common for car thieves - well, joyriders - to do this. It doesn't help that Portland has a much higher rate of property crimes than similar U.S. cities (and thankfully a much lower rate of violent crimes).
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