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Another Fun Tale

Posted on August 8, 2022June 27, 2024 By stega
The untouchable wreck
The untouchable wreck
The untouchable wreck
The untouchable wreck
The untouchable wreck
The untouchable wreck
The untouchable wreck
The untouchable wreck

This past Boxing Day (the day after Christmas), I, Agent Smith, and a few intrepid residents managed to make the old burned out VW “magically” disappear. After a minor hiccup involving parking a pickup truck that was getting low on fuel on an incline, the corpse was loaded onto an open trailer and brought up to the waiting dumpster. It was then promptly cut into more conveniently stackable pieces and loaded into the dumpster.

Why did we do this you ask? Well, the CHP couldn’t help as it was on private land–they do not handle accidents on our road since it’s not a county-maintained road. The county sheriff couldn’t help as it was on private land, and said land has been in a continual cycle of being purchased by unsuspecting buyers who then discover a slide covering the parcel makes building on it next to impossible. They then sell it off to another person. (This has happened at least three times in the last six years and I have reached out to each new owner and requested permission to remove said car but have never gotten a response.) I even roped in County Code Enforcement to try to do something, and in two years they were just as unsuccessful; they have actual contact information for the current owners and were attempting to assess daily fines against them.

Anyway, besides Barbie running a bit low on fuel, the only other hiccup was that things were so soggy it was safer to drive Bambi (our excavator) down the road instead of through the south pasture, which is just across from where the car sat for some fifteen or more years. Thankfully I know how to switch off the incessant beeping Bambi makes when moving.

You’re probably also wondering why we didn’t just take the car to a metal recycler. There were two reasons for this. First and foremost, the dumpster service I contract with will just as easily recycle the metal and, more importantly, handing it over to them keeps them on our good side. This means when we have some old tires, a manky mattress or some other hard-to-dispose-of item that some random person dumped alongside our road, we can place it in a dumpster and they will dispose of it with no questions or extra fees. The second reason is that it was pretty cathartic for some residents to cut up this massive item that had blighted the landscape for so long.

Here are some images from the day of the removal service.

Property for sale, blight included
Property for sale, blight included
Ruins the view slightly
Ruins the view slightly
That'll buff out
That’ll buff out
Preparing for removal
Preparing for removal
Loading onto the trailer
Loading onto the trailer
Loading onto the trailer
Loading onto the trailer
Blight loaded
Blight loaded
Last wheels this car will ever see
Last wheels this car will ever see
Bye bye blight
Bye bye blight
Car cut-up
Car cut-up
Cutting up and disposing of the evidence
Cutting up and disposing of the evidence

One last bit of fun trivia: if you pull up your favorite mapping software and plugin the coordinates 37.339265, -121.764755, you can actually see the old wreck. Of course if you go for a walk along upper Higuera, you would now have no idea it was ever there.

Every Day Things, Update Tags:Road, Trash

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