One of my co-workers recently got his car – a relatively popular imported model – stolen.<\/p>\n
A few days ago, he got a call.\u00a0 The car’d been found.\u00a0 He went to the salvage yard where it’d been delivered.<\/p>\n
He came back to the office, perplexed; the car, which was in mint condition (it was a ’94, but my co-worker likes to tinker, apparently), was actually in better<\/em> condition than when stolen.\u00a0 More to the point, it’d been heavily modified; upgraded suspension, new wheels, all sorts of new, cool parts.<\/p>\n All of them <\/em>stolen as well, naturally.<\/p>\n They’re still trying to figure out how to settle that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my co-workers recently got his car – a relatively popular imported model – stolen. A few days ago, he got a call.\u00a0 The car’d been found.\u00a0 He went to the salvage yard where it’d been delivered. He came back to the office, perplexed; the car, which was in mint condition (it was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-geekery","category-hot-gear-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}