Let the Buyer Be Dumb
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 • Filed under Cars, Drugs
Remember the first used car you ever got? Boy, do I remember. That’s because I’m still driving it. “Used” doesn’t even describe it, that implies you can actually “use” the damn thing. The only “use” I get out of it is a lot of anerobic exercise from pushing it so much. It’s too bad the resale value is so low that’s it’s not even worth giving it back. Then again, I could find a chump. Maybe I can sell it to this guy in 10 to 20 years…
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) — A man who reported he was carjacked cooked up his story after he later regretted selling his car to a teenager in exchange for a $150 bag of cocaine, police said.
Neal Stevenson, 21, told police Thursday evening the car was taken from him by force at the Fort Henry Mall.
But police found the 1999 Honda Accord being driven the next day and tracked it to a 16-year-old boy who told officers that Stevenson sold him the car for drugs – and produced the title signed by Stevenson.
Drugs for a car? How dumb is that? Was this guy high or something? Oh wait, I guess he was.
Did the guy get ripped off in the monetary sense? I guess it depends on how much maintenance and cleaning he kept up on the car. And considering that he’s got a $150 a day drug habit, it’s probably not much. The kid was lucky if the thing still had all four wheels.
Stevenson faces charges of filing a false report, the identified teenager faces runaway and drug charges and the world faces the full brunt of the blame of driving both of them to do what they did. Shame on you Earth! Shame!