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A guy left a note in his glove box in case his car got stolen. It actually worked.

Reddit user mfiasco posted an image of a note he left in his glove box that he claims resulted in the return of his car after it was stolen. Whether or not the car was actually stolen and returned is unknown, since the procedure would not have resulted in any actual police reports. However, the images of the letter and envelope certainly make them look like they spent time in a glove box or under a windshield wiper. And it would be nice to hear a story where leaving a nice note is more effective than leaving an absurdly mean one:

Hello!

If you're reading this, you are probably stealing my car. I'm a nice person and likely would have given you a ride, but obviously we're past that.

I would love to afford a car that doesn't get stolen and burglarized all the time, but I'm broke and this is what I'm stuck with. So, you got me. Again.

You're not going to get into trouble for stealing my car. As long as you don't f**k around and kill a pedestrian, you'll just leave this somewhere and go about your business. Nobody investigates this tomfoolery.

One quick favor: please do not leave my car somewhere it will get towed. If I have to deal with one more f**king impound lot holding my stolen shi**y Honda for ransom, I am going to lose my mind. And my car, because I can't afford to keep bailing it out of car jail. If I had any money I would just go buy a goddamned car that wasn't constantly getting stolen in the first place.

Please just leave my old piece of sh*t car in a neighborhood or something. There's a note in this envelope; just stick it on the dash or under the wiper. A passerby will see it eventually and call me and then I can come get my car. No cops, no questions asked; I'm not even mad at you.

It's win-win: I don't have to deal with police reports, insurance claims, and tow trucks, and you don't have to feel like a jerk for ruining the month of a nice person.

There are countless safe places to leave this thing. Drive the car, take my first aid kit and emergency supplies in the trunk (my stereo is worthless) and just leave this motherf**ker in front of someone's house when you're done with it.

Thank you. Enjoy your ride.

PS if you don't mind committing another misdemeanor tonight, feel free to go throw a brick through the window of (redacted) Towing in Vancouver. They are literally the f**king worst. Thanks. Have a good night.

The author of the note apparently assumes that someone is just stealing the car to travel somewhere, which is certainly less expensive (but also more complicated) than requesting an Uber. Or perhaps the thieves are after those sweet, sweet first-aid kits. One day, this driver will hopefully own a car that does not inspire "tomfoolery" from misguided thieves.

London Police Allow 36-Hour Rave To Go Undisrupted

Last weekend, London authorities stood idly by while over 500 ravers occupied the abandoned Citicape building near Holborn for an all-out, day and a half street party. According to police, the event “was too dangerous” for them to step in and attempt to break up.




The “incredibly powerful” sound system that raged on in central London was originally intended to be hosted in Fenchurch, but was moved to a soon-t0-be hotel in Holborn after attendees were forced off the premises.

Local authorities issued a brief statement about their capacity to intervene in such events:

We had shut down the main rave earlier so officers had been deployed there, but as is often the case with these raves, the organisers have a number of locations to fall back to. Most of the time people don’t know where it is until minutes before, so it is very hard to act fast enough to prevent them from occurring, which can only happen if you get there ahead of time. If you have more than 500 people inside, then you have to make a judgment call about how to proceed – it is a balancing act taking into consideration the safety of people inside. If you go in to forcibly remove people then it can be too dangerous with numbers of that size.

Police arrived to the rave at 2 am on Saturday, and ushered people away from the outside of the venue until midday Sunday.

Their decision stems, in part, from an incident that occurred five years ago in which riot police were assaulted with bricks when they attempted to break up a Halloween rave in the same city.

Neighbors located near this weekend’s party were told by police that they were under-sourced after some of the attendees attempted to break into their apartment block.

You’ That didn't just happen... Right? by alex zalben 1h ago Share to Facebook Tweet to Twitter WhatsApp Email For those of you who were worried the Grimes Gang’s extended stay in Alexandria would be Hershel’s Farm redux… Yeah, if it wasn’t put to rest during the season premiere, or the apocalyptic — even for post-apocalypse — “JSS,” then it definitely was when “The Walking Dead” proceeded to shatter our hearts into one million tiny pieces, never to recover again with “Thank You.” We’ll get to that big moment — you know the one — in a bit, but first let’s recount all the abject horror and terror happening outside Alexandria during the episode. “Get Back Safe” For all the insanity that goes down pretty much from minute one, “Thank You” is a pretty simple episode that breaks down to a few complimentary missions. We pick up seconds after the premiere, with what we now know is the horn from the truck that smashed into Alexandria blaring, and the rest of the herders headed back home as quickly as possible. They’re about 10-20 minutes ahead of the back half of the herd, which broke off as soon as the horn started blaring; while Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), along with Daryl (Norman Reedus) are still driving the front half of the herd to the clear zone, where the thousands of walkers will be safely away from Alexandria. Since some of the Alexandrian Red Shirts are injured, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) decides to Running Man it out of there, but before he does he makes a terrible, terrible leadership decision: he tells Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) that not everyone is going to make it; and when they fall behind, leave them and get back home. Problem is, he does it in earshot of Heath (Corey Hawkins), who proceeds to run the normal gamut of, “We have to be better than this!” before later getting slathered in blood, looking at his own reflection and realizing the world has changed. Before that happens, though, Heath causes a fair amount of trouble, and continues to raise doubt to Michonne about Rick’s leadership. And an interesting divide arises: Michonne explains to Heath that it doesn’t matter what Rick says, she’s going to get them back safe — but when the chips are down, she’ll also do what needs to be done. “Rick said what he said, because sometimes we don’t have a choice,” Michonne tells Heath. That’s the crux of it, right? The line that’s hard to explain to those who haven’t had to face Woodbury, Terminus, and bite off a man’s neck. You’re not abandoning people at the first sign of trouble, but Rick’s way is that if you need to kill someone that’s bit, or there’s a chance of saving the many at the expense of the few, he’ll take it. Heath, and everyone who argues otherwise, those who hold on to old world sentimentality, are likely dead. And he doesn’t show up this episode, but as we progress further into Morgan’s (Lennie James) story line, it’ll be interesting to see how he actually falls on this line. Daryls Of Anarchy Gene Page/AMC Let’s briefly talk about Daryl’s arc, because he’s someone who has been wrestling with Rick’s leadership all season long, dropping snide comments and seeming like he’ll soon be revolting. Realizing Alexandria is in trouble, he tells Abraham and Sasha he’s going to break off from the herd. “You want to go we can’t stop you,” Sasha tells him. “But without you, they could stop us.” To which Daryl casually drops, “Nah. I got faith in ya,” and he leaves. And for most of the episode, he rides away, until he hears Rick explain why they need to keep moving forward over a walkie talkie. “We keep going forward for them, we can’t turn back because we’re afraid…” Rick says. “Going back now before it’s done, that would be for us.” And Daryl drives… We think at first to where Rick is, because Rick is in trouble (we’ll get to that in a moment), but really it’s to finish what they started. He goes back with Abraham and Sasha, for better or for worse — and when Daryl finds out what happened, not just in Alexandria, but outside as well… How’s he going to feel then?

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