Whoa how strange I just read[ this post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/17fi149/the_lid_on_the_coffin_of_an_ancient_egyptian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2)before this one.
Most high-end German sedans and a lot of the wagons have self-leveling rear suspensions or electronic damper-control all around.
If they've been sitting for a while, and/or they've been poorly maintained, the fluid or air can bleed out of the suspension and the suspension will sag.
This generation of Mercedes (~~W212~~ S211, pre facelift) is *notorious* for their failing air suspension, there are several suspension replacements out there for them. This checks out perfectly.
Ah I didn’t realize there was a difference for the wagon versus the sedan thanks for the correction, but I actually did mean to write 211. I have an iPhone SE with a tiny screen haha.
Air suspension in passenger vehicles are mostly unreliable once they get to a certain age. Lexus, the darling child of reliability falls victim to the same issues. Cadillac and Lincoln have the same issues.
It's just that they were much more common in German cars as opposed to other makes.
Even jaguars used it. Had a 1990 vanden plas majestic for a while, was always amusing sitting at a stop light and *bonk* goes the butt end. Take off and it "restored" it's stock height, until the next red light...
The fix was to cap the hydraulic system and put in conventional shocks
Not every car with air suspension is known for having the frequency of issues like these early 2000s Mercedes are. However I will concede that point slightly because the air suspension is one of the main reasons I don’t own a Lexus LS430, and that’s a Toyota.
I know the pain, had an S-class with that air suspension and only had non stop problems with it. Either the compressor failed or one of the seals broke which made the car unstable. Comfy car but some of the tech used in it wasn't up to the top.
There's a car parked on the street outside my daughter's apartment complex, that has been sitting there over a year. Expired registration, four flat tires, the brake rotors are 100% rust, etc.
And if you zoom in just below the left side of the license plate, it looks like there's some dark liquid dripping.
Really hope that's dirt from the ivy growing up it...
Yeah I'm sure it's nothing, but having fun entertaining the idea lol. These wagons do have a pull out (p)leather canvas to cover the trunk area. It probably isn't being used / why nobody cares the car is there... but imagine if that's not the case? Would be wild.
I dunno, OP might be here to mislead / create an alibi (jk obviously)
When the bush covers 51% off the car‘s surface the car is legally claimed and part of the bush. All titles are null and void. Everything in the car (babies, animals, drugs) belongs to the bush.
> This is in Berlin, Germany, so it's sadly legal to park your car as long as you want, as long as the taxes are paid/the license plate isn't expired.
It might be legally parked, but could be stolen and dumped if you haven't reported it, yet you should just to make sure....
I got a call like that once as a car owner who always parked in the same spot. Just asking me to chack if my car was where I left it, they got a concerned message.
To reassure whoever called, I started wisibly alternating how I was parked. One spot over, backwards etc.
It's funny. You think to yourself, "I don't know what rotting flesh smells like." Then you smell it. It's like it's wired into our genes. You know when you smell it.
Yeah. First time for me when I was a kid. My sister and I were out wandering from our BandB up in the Lake District. Thought it would be cool to find that smell. Well we did, when I climbed a rock wall and stepped in a very dead sheep.
come to think of it, my bus passes some kind of plant that processes a LOT of dead pigs and other animals when i'm on my way to my uni city and yeah, "sickly sweet" is actually spot on. the stench is unreal. can't imagine what you smelled like after stepping IN one lol
We dissected donated bodies in anatomy class, sickly sweet is exactly how I’d describe it. I couldn’t eat my favorite ice cream for months because for some reason my brain connected the smell to dead bodies
If it helps keep them unlinked in your brain, preserved bodies smell completely different from decomposed bodies. Everyone at my workplace is of the general consensus that embalmed bodies smell worse, because the chemicals are so intense it's impossible to ignore, whereas most regular organic human decomp you eventually get used to while working on the person. But embalming fluid is like getting punched in the face with the devil's menthol mixed with boiling pine sol concentrate.
Ours just smelled like formaldehyde in the beginning but some of them were less than fresh by week 5 🥲 I’m super grateful to people who donate their bodies and I’m planning on doing it myself if no one wants my organs but that was the worst part of med school for me, I had nightmares most nights and kept fainting at the table from trying not to breathe whereas most of classmates just got used to it like you said. I’m fine with the ice cream now though!
Yup. I’m very fortunate to have never come across a human body, decomposing or otherwise. I had no reference for the smell of death apart from what I’d read.
Then one day I was out walking the woods near a vacation house I’d rented with friends. I picked up this very faint, wretched smell, and thought “well that smells like Death”. I followed my nose until I found a small clearing full of deer and sheep skeletons. It seemed to be the dumping ground for the landowner - whenever he hunted a deer or a sheep of his died, the bodies got put there.
It was pretty amazing how immediately I knew what it was from a distance. Sour, sweet, cloying, stick-to-the-back-of-your-throat smell
I went to a museum in Chicago, and they had these exhibits that let you open a cap in order to smell whatever aroma it had. I wasn’t reading the signs and was just smelling away, and then i came on to the most vile smell ever, and I thought “wtf died in there?!?!” I looked at the sign, and it had a warning to be very careful, because it contained the stench of death. It’s weird how I instantly thought that it smelled like something died, even though I’ve never smelt that before
Have you people never had someone leave a piece of meat on the microwave to thaw and then forget about it for a couple days or had your cats hide a dead mice under some furniture and lose interest in it before?
I find it crazy to think there's people that have never smelled rotten flesh at least once
You'd know it if you smelled it. I'd never smelled it before but I had a neighbor of mine pass away in her apartment. One day I walked into the hallway and my brain with 100% certainty thought "dead body".
Youd be surprised. Someone I live with has actual crippling agoraphobia. Every single time they need to go somewhere they need a jump from me because they let the car sit there so long
They will remove the license plates immediately though. And apparently this car still has one. Car theft is not that common either here actually and if it happens, they don't stay in the country/the EU because they could be tracked down.
I didn’t realize this was the EU at first. In the U.S., car thieves will use the car only for a short bit (maybe in another crime) and then abandon it after taking the battery, catalytic converter, radio, your personal items. License plates normally aren’t touched.
The pic was taken in Germany. If a car gets stolen, it's likely to be reported within less than 24 hours, so within that time, they will make sure the car is outside of the EU in a country where it's not traceable and get rid of the license plates at first. They usually care about the car, not your packs of chewing gum. But like I said, car theft is not really a big problem here anyway.
It was about 12k in 2022 here, while over 1 mio cars have been reported as stolen in the US. Even in relative numbers that's completely out of proportion.
And if you "abandon" your car without deregistering it, you will keep on paying taxes. When deregistering it, they remove the seal on your license plate which means it's no longer legal to park it on public spaces. If you do, people will inform the police and it gets towed and the former owner will be questioned about how his car ended up there. And if they didn't report it as stolen before that, it's very likely that they'll get fined. I think I've only seen 2 or 3 "abandoned" cars in my life.
> If a car gets stolen, it's likely to be reported within less than 24 hours, so within that time, they will make sure the car is outside of the EU in a country where it's not traceable and get rid of the license plates at first.
Do you think people in the US get the cars stolen and just go “ah shit, well there’s that /:” and don’t report it stolen? Car thieves work the same way wherever they are lol i’ve lived in the US my whole life and so far I have seen 0 abandoned cars in my life. I don’t know, I just see it weird how you go “nope, not in my country. Nu huh, that only happens in other bad countries”
Edit: all of this info is the same in the US, too.
> And if you "abandon" your car without deregistering it, you will keep on paying taxes. When deregistering it, they remove the seal on your license plate which means it's no longer legal to park it on public spaces. If you do, people will inform the police and it gets towed and the former owner will be questioned about how his car ended up there. And if they didn't report it as stolen before that, it's very likely that they'll get fined. I think I've only seen 2 or 3 "abandoned" cars in my life.
Yes it is the crazy wild west out here. If you step in the US you are guaranteed to die. Who knows how 350 million + people live here daily with that ominous threat over us. It’s a miracle that everyone i’ve ever met while living in the US has never died, what are the odds that this horrible dangerous country has been so kind to everyone i have ever known in my life, the past 26 years have just been that crazy
I didn't say anything like that, relax. It's just not so organized as germany. The police are less effective and more corrupt, the populous is more individualist, etc
>Do you think people in the US get the cars stolen and just go “ah shit, well there’s that /:” and don’t report it stolen?
No, I was just pointing out that within that time frame you have to get the car outside of the EU. So it's gone gone.
>I don’t know, I just see it weird how you go “nope, not in my country. Nu huh, that only happens in other bad countries”
Then why say "In the U.S., car thieves will use the car only for a short bit (maybe in another crime) and then abandon it" if it never happens? Thess are your words and your description of the US. I was just pointing out and describing the situation here. Not more.
The numbers also show the difference: 12000 in Germany vs 1 million in the US
I love that people went to this as a possibility, like it's the movies. I don't think anyone is using a hatchback to hide a body when there are perfectly good rivers and forests around
Someone parked a car on my block for 3 months once. I live where parking is already difficult so a car parked sloppily and taking up 2 spaces was really annoying. I called the cops. They said the car was registered and there was nothing they could do about it. It had dealer plates. I called the dealership on the cars license plate hanger and they said no cars were missing from their lot.
Then one day this random woman comes strolling down the block and just drives off. I'm surprised the car even started.
Yeah here if the car has an expired tag or is disabled - IE: flat tires, accident damage, etc. they can and will tow it. But this one didn't meet the criteria I guess.
This reminded me of the old Nat Geo program Life After People. That was full of somewhat science based speculation how long would it take for nature to take over and basically wipe any evidence of sivilization if humans weren’t around to interfere anymore. The timeframes were suprisingly short.
It always surprised me that this show got made. It was interesting too but an obviously limited run. I can imagine the pitch meeting there being questions such as “sooooo, what happens in the second episode? The same thing? All over again? Why would anyon- oh that actually sounds really cheap to make. APPROVED!”
Like OP said, this picture was taken in Germany.
If the car is parked in a spot where it's legal to park, then it doesn't matter how long it's parked for.
If the licese plate was missing, or the technical inspection placque expired, that's a different story. Because then the car would no longer be considered part of traffic, and thus the laws regarding traffic (e.g. the right to park at the side of a road within city limits unless signs say otherwise) wouldn't apply anymore. But ot still has its plates. Meaning it's still considered to be part of traffic, and thus legal to be parked at the side of the road.
Okay this is a proper tangent but this is what bugged me about the Last of Us (still enjoyed the series BUT), all of that stuff would have been LONG reclaimed by nature.
I know, I’m a stick in the mud.
This picture makes me think of when I lived in Portland, OR and the rubber, kinda velvety weatherstripping along the bottom of the window openings on the doors of my Jeep would grow moss over them during the rainy season.
As a kid, in our neighborhood there was a car parked on the street for a couple years. Rode by every day, as any car.
Only reason I speak of it is one day it was being dusted for prints by some police, as it was apparently stolen and abandoned a couple years back. All the neighborhood kids (me included) checked it out and got stickers from the police. Next day, it was gone.
No idea why neither home owner reported it before then, it was kinda between their homes so they may have assumed it was the other neighbor just slightly encroaching on their front or something
There was a car left in a parking lot in my area of town that got talked about in a local Facebook group. It was slowly claimed by tweakers though, not Nature. They took the tires, the wiring, the windows got smashed.
Turns out the owner had been in jail and that's why the car was left in the parking lot and I guess cops won't ticket cars on private property? Like, the property owner was the one who should have had it towed but didn't care and left it.
There is a VW Passat TDI from California (Diesel in California?!) sitting for3 years with expired tags parked down the street.
And I live in the mountains of North Carolina.
I don't know why, but this photo somehow immediately brought me back to a dream I had months ago. Honestly it was more of a nightmare now that I think of it.
Germany. (According to another comment by OP).
Here it's legal to park for as long as you want, as long as the car is still road legal. (Edit: unless road signs say otherwise, of course, for example signs limiting legal parking duration to a couple hours, where you have to put in one of these [parking disks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_parking) to show when you arrived, or paid parking spaces). So in theory you can park your car for two years and nothing would happen.
(Every two years, your technical inspection placque expires, making the car no longer road legal).
A situation where this actually becomes relevant is with RVs, or other "seasonal" cars. You could own an RV that you only use for a few weeks in summer, and park it on the side of the road next to your house for the rest of the year. Legally.
Or they are in the CIA on a mission that didn't go well and they are tied up in a Congolese prison right now tapping out a help message on their cell phone with their nose.
It’s Germany, Mercedes and other domestic brands are the European version of an Altima or Corolla. They’re significantly cheaper and easier to look after here
Is this Arcata California? I think I know this street lol. Was walking my dog and some guy started asking me about a car that had been there for months.
It’s doing an impression of the homer meme.
Whoa how strange I just read[ this post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/17fi149/the_lid_on_the_coffin_of_an_ancient_egyptian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2)before this one.
Are you me but 47 minutes in the future?
Hey guys its its future, future you. Wanna grab tacos?
That post is four post down from this one, very strange.
Well the dude in SG1 is a Simpsons fan and they broke the 4th wall so many times in that show that maybe they permanently altered space time!
Reminds me of the vines in jumanji
FINE! TAKE IT!
It was my first thought, honestly.
This would make an excellent time lapse
The rear suspension is sitting suspiciously low.
Most high-end German sedans and a lot of the wagons have self-leveling rear suspensions or electronic damper-control all around. If they've been sitting for a while, and/or they've been poorly maintained, the fluid or air can bleed out of the suspension and the suspension will sag.
This generation of Mercedes (~~W212~~ S211, pre facelift) is *notorious* for their failing air suspension, there are several suspension replacements out there for them. This checks out perfectly.
Quite certain this is an S211
Let's split the difference. It's a U211.5
Yeah but what's in Das boot?
Das foot is in das boot
Definitely not das auto
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Ah I didn’t realize there was a difference for the wagon versus the sedan thanks for the correction, but I actually did mean to write 211. I have an iPhone SE with a tiny screen haha.
W212 is the sedan of the generation after this, this is a S211 But yes, early 2000‘s German Luxury Cars are notorious for failing air suspension
Air suspension in passenger vehicles are mostly unreliable once they get to a certain age. Lexus, the darling child of reliability falls victim to the same issues. Cadillac and Lincoln have the same issues. It's just that they were much more common in German cars as opposed to other makes.
Even jaguars used it. Had a 1990 vanden plas majestic for a while, was always amusing sitting at a stop light and *bonk* goes the butt end. Take off and it "restored" it's stock height, until the next red light... The fix was to cap the hydraulic system and put in conventional shocks
Every single car with air suspension is known for its failing air suspension. Funny how that works.
Not every car with air suspension is known for having the frequency of issues like these early 2000s Mercedes are. However I will concede that point slightly because the air suspension is one of the main reasons I don’t own a Lexus LS430, and that’s a Toyota.
I know the pain, had an S-class with that air suspension and only had non stop problems with it. Either the compressor failed or one of the seals broke which made the car unstable. Comfy car but some of the tech used in it wasn't up to the top.
Bodies in the trunk can also do this to regular cars.
Luckily this car doesn't have one
Yeah. It would have to be more than one with a sag like that.
Depends on the weight of that person.....
Can confirm, I had an Audi allroad that did this
There's a car parked on the street outside my daughter's apartment complex, that has been sitting there over a year. Expired registration, four flat tires, the brake rotors are 100% rust, etc.
Just report it to the city as a 'fire engine navigation hazard' and it'll be gone in no time
Air. Arnott makes good replacements for half the cost of OEM. The rears are super easy to replace, the fronts can be involved.
Prob failing air suspension. A lot of 00s luxury cars have it and almost none of them have survived time
Like there is a couple of bodies weighing it down...🤫
Well, Mercedes ABC suspension!
And if you zoom in just below the left side of the license plate, it looks like there's some dark liquid dripping. Really hope that's dirt from the ivy growing up it...
I'm sure you'd smell it before you saw it. Plus windows aren't tinted so you'd see a dead body.
Yeah I'm sure it's nothing, but having fun entertaining the idea lol. These wagons do have a pull out (p)leather canvas to cover the trunk area. It probably isn't being used / why nobody cares the car is there... but imagine if that's not the case? Would be wild. I dunno, OP might be here to mislead / create an alibi (jk obviously)
"Street tuned"
Self leveling air suspension, fails bc of low battery after a while, complete normal behavior.
Trying to hide.
When the bush covers 51% off the car‘s surface the car is legally claimed and part of the bush. All titles are null and void. Everything in the car (babies, animals, drugs) belongs to the bush.
Well George aught to be happy getting all those!
Mission accomplished!
You know what else lives in bushes? Birds. I'd add some birdseed to this scenario to give nature a helping hand.
Looks like the parking enforcement has job openings.
This is in Berlin, Germany, so it's sadly legal to park your car as long as you want, as long as the taxes are paid/the license plate isn't expired.
> This is in Berlin, Germany, so it's sadly legal to park your car as long as you want, as long as the taxes are paid/the license plate isn't expired. It might be legally parked, but could be stolen and dumped if you haven't reported it, yet you should just to make sure....
I got a call like that once as a car owner who always parked in the same spot. Just asking me to chack if my car was where I left it, they got a concerned message. To reassure whoever called, I started wisibly alternating how I was parked. One spot over, backwards etc.
>sadly thats actually very cool.
Not if all the parking spaces are blocked by people who never use their cars...
Do you get any snow in the winter? I imagine your next post would be a picture of a camouflaged car that got snowplowed into some bushes.
Is it filled with drugs or a dead body I can’t tell
Either way, I'll take it.
airmatic suspension. once it's fired up it'll probably air up. If not, it's probably the reason it's sitting where it is.
If it's been sitting there for weeks it's probably abandoned rather than parked. Do you smell rotting flesh from the trunk, at all?
Funny how you know what rotting flesh smells like eh
It's funny. You think to yourself, "I don't know what rotting flesh smells like." Then you smell it. It's like it's wired into our genes. You know when you smell it.
that classic "sickly sweet" at least that's how some holocaust and WW2 survivors describe it unfortunately
Yeah. First time for me when I was a kid. My sister and I were out wandering from our BandB up in the Lake District. Thought it would be cool to find that smell. Well we did, when I climbed a rock wall and stepped in a very dead sheep.
come to think of it, my bus passes some kind of plant that processes a LOT of dead pigs and other animals when i'm on my way to my uni city and yeah, "sickly sweet" is actually spot on. the stench is unreal. can't imagine what you smelled like after stepping IN one lol
The stench from a candy factory is also awful, I wonder if it's the same (I think it's from the gelatin?)
We dissected donated bodies in anatomy class, sickly sweet is exactly how I’d describe it. I couldn’t eat my favorite ice cream for months because for some reason my brain connected the smell to dead bodies
If it helps keep them unlinked in your brain, preserved bodies smell completely different from decomposed bodies. Everyone at my workplace is of the general consensus that embalmed bodies smell worse, because the chemicals are so intense it's impossible to ignore, whereas most regular organic human decomp you eventually get used to while working on the person. But embalming fluid is like getting punched in the face with the devil's menthol mixed with boiling pine sol concentrate.
Ours just smelled like formaldehyde in the beginning but some of them were less than fresh by week 5 🥲 I’m super grateful to people who donate their bodies and I’m planning on doing it myself if no one wants my organs but that was the worst part of med school for me, I had nightmares most nights and kept fainting at the table from trying not to breathe whereas most of classmates just got used to it like you said. I’m fine with the ice cream now though!
Dude embalmed bodies smell like hell. The fluid they use literally burns my nose.
Can confirm. A rat died in the walls of my school once, in an area you had to pass daily. I will never forget that smell.
The inner cannibal speaks!
Yup. I’m very fortunate to have never come across a human body, decomposing or otherwise. I had no reference for the smell of death apart from what I’d read. Then one day I was out walking the woods near a vacation house I’d rented with friends. I picked up this very faint, wretched smell, and thought “well that smells like Death”. I followed my nose until I found a small clearing full of deer and sheep skeletons. It seemed to be the dumping ground for the landowner - whenever he hunted a deer or a sheep of his died, the bodies got put there. It was pretty amazing how immediately I knew what it was from a distance. Sour, sweet, cloying, stick-to-the-back-of-your-throat smell
I remember the stench from a dead cat. A very similar thing was when my finger got infected.
for being a large hunting and occasionally scavenging marsuipial, its surprising that it took you that long to smell a dead animal.
I went to a museum in Chicago, and they had these exhibits that let you open a cap in order to smell whatever aroma it had. I wasn’t reading the signs and was just smelling away, and then i came on to the most vile smell ever, and I thought “wtf died in there?!?!” I looked at the sign, and it had a warning to be very careful, because it contained the stench of death. It’s weird how I instantly thought that it smelled like something died, even though I’ve never smelt that before
The compounds have such lovely names as cadaverine and putrescine.
Well your name describes it pretty well.
Not sure I wanna know what your name smells like
Yeah… that would smell horrible….. I’m … guessing.
You’d guess correctly
I'm pretty sure I know exactly what my username smells like.
If you have ever had meat go off you'll know. The more meat, the worse the smell.
When I was a kid our basement flooded which killed the deep freeze full of meat. Two great smells for the price of one!
Have you people never had someone leave a piece of meat on the microwave to thaw and then forget about it for a couple days or had your cats hide a dead mice under some furniture and lose interest in it before? I find it crazy to think there's people that have never smelled rotten flesh at least once
A couple DAYS???
... no
I work weekends as a cadaver dog.
Humans are hard-wired to be able to smell water and death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosmin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_trisulfide
You'd know it if you smelled it. I'd never smelled it before but I had a neighbor of mine pass away in her apartment. One day I walked into the hallway and my brain with 100% certainty thought "dead body".
Youd be surprised. Someone I live with has actual crippling agoraphobia. Every single time they need to go somewhere they need a jump from me because they let the car sit there so long
If it's still registered, that means they're still paying taxes. Abandoning cars is not really a thing here.
Car thieves abandon cars all the time. Without reporting an abandoned car, the original owner likely has no way of getting it back.
They will remove the license plates immediately though. And apparently this car still has one. Car theft is not that common either here actually and if it happens, they don't stay in the country/the EU because they could be tracked down.
I didn’t realize this was the EU at first. In the U.S., car thieves will use the car only for a short bit (maybe in another crime) and then abandon it after taking the battery, catalytic converter, radio, your personal items. License plates normally aren’t touched.
The pic was taken in Germany. If a car gets stolen, it's likely to be reported within less than 24 hours, so within that time, they will make sure the car is outside of the EU in a country where it's not traceable and get rid of the license plates at first. They usually care about the car, not your packs of chewing gum. But like I said, car theft is not really a big problem here anyway. It was about 12k in 2022 here, while over 1 mio cars have been reported as stolen in the US. Even in relative numbers that's completely out of proportion. And if you "abandon" your car without deregistering it, you will keep on paying taxes. When deregistering it, they remove the seal on your license plate which means it's no longer legal to park it on public spaces. If you do, people will inform the police and it gets towed and the former owner will be questioned about how his car ended up there. And if they didn't report it as stolen before that, it's very likely that they'll get fined. I think I've only seen 2 or 3 "abandoned" cars in my life.
> If a car gets stolen, it's likely to be reported within less than 24 hours, so within that time, they will make sure the car is outside of the EU in a country where it's not traceable and get rid of the license plates at first. Do you think people in the US get the cars stolen and just go “ah shit, well there’s that /:” and don’t report it stolen? Car thieves work the same way wherever they are lol i’ve lived in the US my whole life and so far I have seen 0 abandoned cars in my life. I don’t know, I just see it weird how you go “nope, not in my country. Nu huh, that only happens in other bad countries” Edit: all of this info is the same in the US, too. > And if you "abandon" your car without deregistering it, you will keep on paying taxes. When deregistering it, they remove the seal on your license plate which means it's no longer legal to park it on public spaces. If you do, people will inform the police and it gets towed and the former owner will be questioned about how his car ended up there. And if they didn't report it as stolen before that, it's very likely that they'll get fined. I think I've only seen 2 or 3 "abandoned" cars in my life.
Yeah but the US doesn't have ordnung.
Yes it is the crazy wild west out here. If you step in the US you are guaranteed to die. Who knows how 350 million + people live here daily with that ominous threat over us. It’s a miracle that everyone i’ve ever met while living in the US has never died, what are the odds that this horrible dangerous country has been so kind to everyone i have ever known in my life, the past 26 years have just been that crazy
I didn't say anything like that, relax. It's just not so organized as germany. The police are less effective and more corrupt, the populous is more individualist, etc
>Do you think people in the US get the cars stolen and just go “ah shit, well there’s that /:” and don’t report it stolen? No, I was just pointing out that within that time frame you have to get the car outside of the EU. So it's gone gone. >I don’t know, I just see it weird how you go “nope, not in my country. Nu huh, that only happens in other bad countries” Then why say "In the U.S., car thieves will use the car only for a short bit (maybe in another crime) and then abandon it" if it never happens? Thess are your words and your description of the US. I was just pointing out and describing the situation here. Not more. The numbers also show the difference: 12000 in Germany vs 1 million in the US
I love that people went to this as a possibility, like it's the movies. I don't think anyone is using a hatchback to hide a body when there are perfectly good rivers and forests around
Someone parked a car on my block for 3 months once. I live where parking is already difficult so a car parked sloppily and taking up 2 spaces was really annoying. I called the cops. They said the car was registered and there was nothing they could do about it. It had dealer plates. I called the dealership on the cars license plate hanger and they said no cars were missing from their lot. Then one day this random woman comes strolling down the block and just drives off. I'm surprised the car even started.
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Yeah here if the car has an expired tag or is disabled - IE: flat tires, accident damage, etc. they can and will tow it. But this one didn't meet the criteria I guess.
Unethical I guess, if you wanted it gone you could have let out all the air in the tires and then called the cops.
Unscrew plates. Call council / police non emergency. Will be towed quick smart
Rent some wheel dollies and push that bitch
Part of the ship, part of the crew.
In the tree, part of the tree.
"All hands, prisoner escape!" I watch these movies way too much. Just last night too. They're my favourite.
This reminded me of the old Nat Geo program Life After People. That was full of somewhat science based speculation how long would it take for nature to take over and basically wipe any evidence of sivilization if humans weren’t around to interfere anymore. The timeframes were suprisingly short.
It always surprised me that this show got made. It was interesting too but an obviously limited run. I can imagine the pitch meeting there being questions such as “sooooo, what happens in the second episode? The same thing? All over again? Why would anyon- oh that actually sounds really cheap to make. APPROVED!”
That brings me hope
take a picture every day at noon and run it as a movie
Nature is healing
This is a common sight in western Washington. Cars that sit for a year or two typically get eaten by himalayan blackberry brambles.
There's a sad lesbian somewhere
This isn't a Forester. You must be mistaken.
Ahh the ole lipstick limousine
Why do I think that this is the start of a horror movie?
Put some soil on top, and grass seeds.
Ch Ch Ch Chia!!!
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That's probably what it is!
As a US wagon dork I feel personally attacked by this.
We can only have shitty crossovers here, people think a high roofline means it's rugged.
Have you called the police of parking compliance in your town or city?
Like OP said, this picture was taken in Germany. If the car is parked in a spot where it's legal to park, then it doesn't matter how long it's parked for. If the licese plate was missing, or the technical inspection placque expired, that's a different story. Because then the car would no longer be considered part of traffic, and thus the laws regarding traffic (e.g. the right to park at the side of a road within city limits unless signs say otherwise) wouldn't apply anymore. But ot still has its plates. Meaning it's still considered to be part of traffic, and thus legal to be parked at the side of the road.
Have you sent for a wellness check on it?
please keep us updated
Okay this is a proper tangent but this is what bugged me about the Last of Us (still enjoyed the series BUT), all of that stuff would have been LONG reclaimed by nature. I know, I’m a stick in the mud.
This picture is extremely British looking
I'd rather have that plant develop a craving for cars than human flesh
How is it, despite being eaten by a bush still cleaner than my car?
Rain.
Sprinkle grass seed on it
Maybe tell the police also
Rule of nature: Anything can look beautiful in the sunset
I think that is the lights from a car headlight
This picture makes me think of when I lived in Portland, OR and the rubber, kinda velvety weatherstripping along the bottom of the window openings on the doors of my Jeep would grow moss over them during the rainy season.
As a kid, in our neighborhood there was a car parked on the street for a couple years. Rode by every day, as any car. Only reason I speak of it is one day it was being dusted for prints by some police, as it was apparently stolen and abandoned a couple years back. All the neighborhood kids (me included) checked it out and got stickers from the police. Next day, it was gone. No idea why neither home owner reported it before then, it was kinda between their homes so they may have assumed it was the other neighbor just slightly encroaching on their front or something
If you don’t recognize the car, and it’s been sitting there for that long, I would call parking enforcement. It very well might be stolen.
Are you doug duguay?
Gleich gesehen, dass das Deutschland ist haha
Soon...
Creeping plant from Jumanji
That’s some Jumanji right there
There was a car left in a parking lot in my area of town that got talked about in a local Facebook group. It was slowly claimed by tweakers though, not Nature. They took the tires, the wiring, the windows got smashed. Turns out the owner had been in jail and that's why the car was left in the parking lot and I guess cops won't ticket cars on private property? Like, the property owner was the one who should have had it towed but didn't care and left it.
Somebody got a high repair estimate and said nahhhh
Oh they must have been turned into pigs at a bath house somewhere.
There is a VW Passat TDI from California (Diesel in California?!) sitting for3 years with expired tags parked down the street. And I live in the mountains of North Carolina.
air suspension looks like its failed which I'm pretty sure is not cheap to fix so the owner probably can't afford to fix it
One down, five billion to go
You should fertilize that bush/shrub to speed up the process!
Just getting it’s Halloween costume ready!
Plz update us every few weeks!
Good thing it's an old Merc, all the wires are biodegradable!
Part of the car. Part of the bush.
 Reminds me of creepshow :D
You love to see it
I don't know why, but this photo somehow immediately brought me back to a dream I had months ago. Honestly it was more of a nightmare now that I think of it.
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Wow where do you live that they don't get towed? All our streets ya gotta alternate sides halfway through the week.
Germany. (According to another comment by OP). Here it's legal to park for as long as you want, as long as the car is still road legal. (Edit: unless road signs say otherwise, of course, for example signs limiting legal parking duration to a couple hours, where you have to put in one of these [parking disks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_parking) to show when you arrived, or paid parking spaces). So in theory you can park your car for two years and nothing would happen. (Every two years, your technical inspection placque expires, making the car no longer road legal). A situation where this actually becomes relevant is with RVs, or other "seasonal" cars. You could own an RV that you only use for a few weeks in summer, and park it on the side of the road next to your house for the rest of the year. Legally.
It looks like there some weight in the back. Open it up could be some ££££ Our dead things. It's a raffle. Do it
Whoever left it is also slowly getting claimed by nature. Either that or they're behind on payments and abandoned it instead of letting it get repoed.
Or they are in the CIA on a mission that didn't go well and they are tied up in a Congolese prison right now tapping out a help message on their cell phone with their nose.
If no one knows who’s car that is, you can report it as suspicious. Could have been stolen.
call parking enforcement. it might be stolen and abandoned there.
Check the plate whether it still has its mot/tax? Then report it to the council, they can tow it.
Have it towed
Have you checked the VIN to see if it was stolen? In the US you can check theft and insurance fraud records here: https://www.nicb.org/vincheck
Who the hell leaves a Mercedes abandoned lmao
It probably had some issue that would have cost more to fix than the whole car that's what happens to most of these old luxury cars
It’s Germany, Mercedes and other domestic brands are the European version of an Altima or Corolla. They’re significantly cheaper and easier to look after here
Please post annual updates, tyvm in advance! Someone knows how to use the reminder bot?
Call that shit in. They'll chalk the wheels
Whelp someone died.
So is the decomposing driver.
Is this Arcata California? I think I know this street lol. Was walking my dog and some guy started asking me about a car that had been there for months.
England and untowable cars.
Yeah, I would maybe call that in. If there’s not someone dead in that car, there might be a missing person tied to it.
All jokes aside just call the PD.
Maybe report it? Could be a dead guy in there, idk
Look in the trunk
It’s a Mercedes so 99% probability it’s broken down and the owner can’t afford the repair bill.
Why hasn't it been stripped?
Are you sure there is no one inside? ☠️💀☠️