On 08-31-97 Roy Witt wrote to Day Brown... 
DB> Another odd phenomena mentioned on Little Rock talk radio was the 
DB> fact that there are a lotta unlicensed junkers driving around. It 
DB> seems that when one is stopped and impounded, no one comes back to 
DB> pay the ticket and redeem it- and the impoundment yards are full. 
DB> 
DB> Seems like rather than buy insurance, inspection, & tags, they 
DB> just pick up a 200$ clunker that runs, and when the cops take it, 
DB> just get another one.  And now that the impoundment yards are all 
DB> full, the cops don't wanna haul it away unless they think it will 
DB> sell at auction for more than the cost of towing and storage. 
DB> 
DB> All in all, I cant blame them; minimum wage jobs don't pay well 
DB> enough to afford a reliable car anyway, the state is too rural to 
DB> have anything like a decent transit system, and the establishment 
DB> still wants these folks to get to work. 
 
 RW> The state of California would bill you for the tow and storage. 
 RW>  
 RW> They'd collect it too... 
Well, like they say, you can't get blood out of a stone, and the 
jails are so fulla drug dealers they aint got room to lock... 
 
There is a lotta old junk rolling around here too, so it don't 
stand out.  There is a lot of business now hauling stuff outta 
the woods. Lamd is so cheap, there ain't no state building code, 
so junkyards are scattered around all over the woods, some of 
which, like one a few miles from my place get rediscovered. I 
think they hauled 30 rigs outta there a few years ago, from a 
39 study pickup to some mid sixties sedans. 
 
the roads were so bad, they were so far back that it was not 
worth the trouble to haul stuff to the crusher, and there is still 
a lotta stuff scattered around. 
 RW>  
 RW>  
 RW> ... Somedays your the Dog, other days your the fire hydrant! 
 RW> --- 
 
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