Sounds to me like that guy dodged a real bullet with this one. Imagine if he had married her only to find out what kind of woman she actually is.

@donc9751

4 жыл бұрын

@Mark Smith Now that is a scary thought!!! He got off cheap in the long run!

@andersbenke3596

4 жыл бұрын

I believe there is an old saying, to the effect of borrowing someone money and having them never pay you back, is a cheap way to get rid of bad friends.

@nursinghomemaintence9927

4 жыл бұрын

@@andersbenke3596 I've done that ' small loan and never had to see them again.

@mexicanspec

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder how long she was with him. Women can hide who they are for about 2 years, then the truth comes out.

@riblets1968

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that ain't no shit. Small price to pay to get rid of a crazy.

Take EX girlfriend to scrap yard and part her out!😀

@JasonW.

4 жыл бұрын

She's already missed a vital component to survival and reproduction, the ability to have someone put up with her

@FUCKDSS

4 жыл бұрын

Heck yea

@jasonhamilton5756

4 жыл бұрын

You can't get much for body filler and cheap paint. Lol

@edhartgrove7552

4 жыл бұрын

defconid4 ● Only problem with that is, while the headlights were still good, her chassis was grossly overweight.

Lucky she didn't try to kick him out of his house, saying he abandoned it when he left.

@HollyAndMistletoe

4 жыл бұрын

That happened to my great grandmother while she was in the hospital with a broken hip and my grandmother, who lived with her, was in the hospital recovering from surgery to remove a cancerous lung. My uncle sold EVERYTHING.

@thomasmleahy6218

3 жыл бұрын

@@HollyAndMistletoe Extremely bad*ss.

Worked for an insurance company for many years. Had a claim where a tow company picked up a car on the freeway that had broken down. They hid it in their yard for 7 years. Then they tried to register it and it came up as stolen. They tried to charge 7 years of storage. Instead they were charged with grand theft.

Yet another reason to remain single

@davidmackiewicz6427

4 жыл бұрын

Live close, visit often.

Women will often push your buttons to see what they can get away with. But selling a guys project car?? From his own house?? That woman is going to make men miserable her whole life.

@LaurensSecretAdmirer

4 жыл бұрын

@ frickin funny

@genli5603

4 жыл бұрын

That is not a woman. That is a child.

@troman5000

4 жыл бұрын

No shit!!!

@jeffreydevoti8528

4 жыл бұрын

Succubus

@catslove3884

2 жыл бұрын

Woman here. I think you are right. She is a horrible person. My experience is, both my husbands (I have been widowed twice) wasted our money on toys and tools. Both expected me to work and support them. Still, that woman had no right, she was terrible. Better for you to stay far away from women, just as I will stay far away from men.

Phew ! He got Lucky there ! If she'd been a bit stealthier, they'd end up Married and then she could take the house, cars, shirt on his back ....

Woman who comes between man and his car shall now be forever known as ex-girlfriend.

@mexicanspec

4 жыл бұрын

I am surprised she isn't a missing person. he has 2 1/2 acres there.

My question is was the ex-girlfriend arrested? I can't believe the nerve she had to do this. Where do these kind of people come from?

@ericlivingston8027

4 жыл бұрын

He said in the video she was being charged with larceny.

@ED-es2qv

4 жыл бұрын

Quote of the day, "because vagina". I'm choking on my own spit from laughing so hard.

@loz911

4 жыл бұрын

They come out of the manholes without covers.

I'm glad you read the story. The first thing I heard was "... man's girlfriend...". Glad it is now ex-girlfriend.

Not the first junker I know of to get it in the shorts stealing vehicles. Saw a very profitable steal got TU when they stole a very pretty new deep truck - that just happend to have an experimental engine installed . Needless to say the OEM came down hard on finding their stuff which exposed the operation . FWIW, this guy was lucky to discover his GF's true nature before getting in too deep. Great tale !

This woman did not pass the test. It would have been hell later on if he would have stayed with her.

@KlodFather

4 жыл бұрын

Or God forbid, marry her. Engagement Ring. Wedding Ring. SuffeRing

You can always find another girlfriend.

Wow... the strength of this man to choose being single over being in jail for agrivated assault or murder!! Hats off to you, sir!

Remember new KZreadrs, always hide your mic by matching it with your shirt ;-) Thanks for another great story with several leaning moments mixed in.

@zombiecat7799

8 ай бұрын

Thank you, I wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

As a woman raised with men who restored vehicles for both enterprise and escapism, I can appreciate how important the project car process is to a significant other. She did too and knowing this, next I''d check the mantle for my mother's urn to see that its contents weren't re-homed to the cat box.

Man gives away girlfriend while car's gone.

@josepherhardt164

4 жыл бұрын

Hah! Now _there's_ a story!

Poor guy, thought he may have had a keeper. New business, 'Lease a Chick'. After 30 days you turn it in to get a new model and you have no maintenance, no upkeep and on and on.👍

Glad you picked this story up! It was quite a discussion on the Sloppy Mechanics FB chat. He DID get his car back though, which is awesome!

I know a motorcycle mechanic that worked out of his home. His live in girlfriend had a daughter hooked on drugs that went into the garage, removed valuable motorcycle parts to sell, so she could buy more drugs. He was out many thousands of dollars. He died shortly after that after a young lady texting while driving hit him head on.. The whole thing was a cluster.

Ex girlfriend with a criminal record. Good!

I remember hearing a story a long time ago. A man answered an ad for a late model Porsche for $100. He asked the woman if there was a problem with it and, no, it was perfect. The woman said that her husband had run off with his secretary. He told his wife to sell the Porsche and send him the money. She mailed him a check for $100.

@AcousticGString

2 жыл бұрын

My dad said a woman was selling a new Mercedes for 5.00, he saw it in the paper. He assumed it was a misprint but it was the exact situation, he cheated and told her to sell it for what you can get...she asked for 5.00.

Mid '70s in SW Michigan was a junkyard with some cars of interest to me and some of my friends as we repaired our own beater cars. This place was in the middle of nowhere within a rural county. In addition to the old cars, there were many late model cars which were missing their front ends. Clean cuts at the A-pillar and across the floor just forward of where the front seats would have been. Occasionally we would catch a glimpse through an open door of their warehouse which had racks of doors, steering columns, fenders, hoods, engines, etc. Several years later we learned that this junkyard was busted as part of a major auto theft ring operating out of Chicago.

Buddy of mine was out of town when he got a huge ticket for abandoning his crashed car in the parking lot even though he was paying monthly. Asked me to scrap it for him so he doesn't get his car impounded. So I put his registration on the passenger seat and called up the junkyard, they just came and picked up the car no questions asked neither in the parking lot nor the scrapyard when I was getting paid. Surprised more car thieves don't do that.

That entitled “Karen” should be exposed for who and what she is!

Surprised the junk yard doesn't send him a bill for storage.

@GeneralChangFromDanang

4 жыл бұрын

That's next week's story.

Hi Steve have a great night

I should have been a lawyer. Your storehouse of knowledge and experience is so much more interesting than mine!

I had a live-in girl friend like that, once. It took a Personal Protection Order and a visit from the police to remove her from my home.

I had same happen with my 1968 t-bird

Scrap yard should be sue and have to pay ALL expenses. They knew exactly what they were doing. She as well.

@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou

4 жыл бұрын

Sure, why not‽ The parts and project seem to be well enough documented to prove that this car was definitely not a junker. Considering at least one of the employees has been charged, it will be extraordinarily difficult to defend the case, and a quick settlement may happen. The company may not have deep pockets, but it is likely that these are deeper than the ex-girlfriend's. The scrap yard should have enough assets to make a modest judgement worthwhile and collectable, if they are dumb enough or contractually obligated to fight it. It is a reasonably decent case to consult an atttorney on to see what might be problematic or hinder a favourable outcome. Depending on the costs and likely payout, it might only be worth it as a revenge suit just to tie the business up in litigation and bad press, but this can be just as satisfying for some people. An unpaid judgement can be lots of fun and expensive for the defendant. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iKJtpMeHaLGokaQ.html

In Tennessee if the car is over a certain age no title required

We had some local crackheads stealing Bronze Urns from the Cemetery and selling them for scrap... they were eventually caught. Now you have to have a license to sell scrap metal to recyclers, including an ID. Killed the crackhead scrap business. They were stealing A/C compressors from homes and operating businesses at night. My divorce lawyer jokingly told me, "You can't trust anything that bleeds for 10 days and doesn't die..." very true in this case.

In TX a scrapyard can apply for a title as an abandoned vehicle. It will be a salvage title, but often these can be 'washed' by selling the vehicle out of state, usually without ever moving the vehicle.

Wow, just wow...did she really not think that he was going to kick her out over that?!? I wonder how many times she had done that, considering it went to a place where they knew they accepted an illegally obtained vehicle.

Steve inadvertently recounting the beginning of _Nightcrawler_

That is a major violation of trust. She has to go. Time to call law enforcement.

@ericlivingston8027

4 жыл бұрын

He did. She is being charged with larceny.

@josepherhardt164

4 жыл бұрын

@@ericlivingston8027 And it should be grand theft auto. Or maybe grand theft idiot.

Love the show.

I once met a guy who was an over-the-road truck driver. He met a girl who he married or lived with. I don’t remember. While he was out of town, she sold his mobile home and was in a homeless shelter. I don’t know the legal ramification of reclaiming his property but it was probably going to take some time anyway.

We had a triple-decker house in Central MA years ago. We had a fire and had to board up the property. A day later, a bunch of scrappers broke in and took all the copper pipes in the house! They further trashed a trashed house. Beyond sad.

I worked for a railroad for a while. We had tons of stuff stolen from the tracks and from the trains themselves. Some of it is dangerous, like the wiring that runs the signals. While it thankfully causes the crossings to fail (turn on with no train there) or the track signal lights to go out so the trains slow down, repeated failures leads to people doing stupid things like going around the gates when a train is actually there and get hit. Most of the scrap yards around get rail service, so they were well aware of the theft problems and required a bill of sale from the railroad for anything from us. We caught some guys in a really nice Escalade one day trying to load stuff into the vehicle. Come to find out, they ran a construction company, but still felt they could just pick up the signal equipment that was in a marked rail yard with "No Tresspassing" signs and take it. Only thing that aggrivated me was that the bosses refused to press charges on the guys because they "put back" the stuff. We were pretty sure they'd taken other stuff prior to getting caught but we couldn't prove it, so they got off. Goes to show it can be anyone that decides stealing is okay.

One winter a few years ago, the manhole cover in front of my house disappeared. I almost drove into the hole, a neighbor down the street wasn't so lucky and suffered significant damage and quite a fright. The town replaced the cover and all was fine. Then a few weeks later the snow banks began to melt, revealing the original cover, 30 feet from the manhole, pushed aside by a snow plow. That summer the town work crew spent several days lowering the top of the manhole so it didn't protrude from the road surface.

My town is replacing ALL their metal manholes, sewer & water covers with heavy plastic ones due to theft

A number of years ago, thieves in Oregon were stealing guard rails off remote bridges. They are also stealing, or attempting to steal, "live" electrical conductor. I worked for a power company, we were sued because a guy illegally entered our property, climbed a chainlink fence, and was killed or severely injured trying to steal conductor. As we lost the case.

@knghtbrd

2 жыл бұрын

*sigh* Of course you did. I really hate this state sometimes.

Need to know what happened to the girl court wise.

@kstricl

4 жыл бұрын

The story is only 4 days old, it'll be a while.

@ericlivingston8027

4 жыл бұрын

She will likely be charged with larceny. How much time she serves is likely to be very little though if she is convicted at all. My sister got her license full of points in high school and after she cried they just said go to driving school and they would take them all off. Generally woman receive a much lesser sentence and studies have even been on this.

@johnpublic6582

4 жыл бұрын

@@ericlivingston8027 A man would get felony grand theft auto for this. She'll get misdemeanor criminal mischief with 6 months probation.

Military guys give Power of Attorney to Women while being deployed, when they come back, everthing is gone and debt run up.

I have a 67 C10 I’m restoring and the vin number is stamped on the left side drain rail near engine compartment

@Roadglide911

4 жыл бұрын

Can I sue iPhone for their autocorrect feature? Frame RAIL!

I just realized this was a Supernatural car. Those are going way up in value so even though he only had 11K in it, it was probably worth much more.

She was a princess without a crown. What an ordeal for the poor dear.

Tell Her to get on Her Broom and GO!!!

At Monster Joe's Truck & Tow, there are some body parts without VIN #'s, just ask "The Wolf"...

@donroisum41

4 жыл бұрын

Steve Whittier...but ask him politely

In Indiana you can sell a scrap car without a title as long as there is no engine in it. Wait a week and sell the engine as scrap as well. I know this because there was something like 20 cars/trucks from several decades abandoned on a farm my father bought. No titles though. None of these vehicles would ever run again since they were left out in the weather for decades and were all missing window/windshields, tires, paint, and such. The local scrap yard told us to rip the engines out and wait a while after selling the bodies to bring the engines in.

Actually, man hole covers DO wear out! If they do not sit properly the rim can wear, if they have been in service on a very busy street for a good amount of time the wear thin, the top surface going smooth from traffic.

I'd like to get her side of the story. I bet it's hilarious how she tries to justify stealing his car.

@billp4

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure she will say it was his fault for not communicating.

WTH. It’s his house, his hobby. Even if it’s a bad painting or a broken plant, it’s still his. You can’t just trash it!

In the UK you have to be paid for scap into a bank account to make tracing a bit easier. It's pissed my plumber mate as the scrap copper was his tax free perk.

If knew a landlord who had three cars of his scrapped by his tenants while he was in the hospital. One was a '66 Cadillac!

Woman: It's an inanimate object! Man: You're an inanimate object!

I had an ex wife sell a 1911 .38 short colt secret service service revolver no 8 out of 12 issued, for $10 at a yard sale. I can relate to this story.

@josepherhardt164

4 жыл бұрын

Did she survive?

@matthewk6731

4 жыл бұрын

How could she legally sell a gun that was not registered in her name?

@krtacct

4 жыл бұрын

There is no gun registration.

You, Sir, go to the wrong junkyard!

It varies from state to state. In TN if the vehicle is 10 years old or less the title is needed. No title needed on vehicles older than 10 to scrap.

Scrap yards here are required to submit reports to the police department daily. There are still a few fly by night scrap dealers but the PD is constantly visiting them.

I myself was storing my older boat and trailer at my ex wife's house, one day my daughter had told me her mom gave my boat away for free, it was some guy who hauls away old boats for free, I was upset and it was gone several months before, so when I was down at the DMV, I explained that to the auditor, they said I should have called the police

I think I would be suing the junkyard for treble damages! And the ex as well. Also, that woman is lucky. I think there are some judges and prosecutors out there that would accept "justifiable homicide" as a valid defense for this sort of thing.

In spokane have issue with people stealing coils from AC units and wires from street lights then scrap yards buying these materials.

Mr. Lehto: you must have missed your p/c class. Manhole covers are now referred to as "personal access cover" Off to the re-education camp for you....

Where I am in NY Lower NY (NYC and Long Island) A junk yard does not need a title to take a car in. All they need is a copy of your license and fill out a form. I Disposed one car in NYC and 3 in Suffolk county personally

There is a threshold of what is legally considered a car. You can scrap a chasis, "shell", or car parts without paperwork. I removed doors, trunk, cut off roof, etc, to meet that threshold for many years as a professional scrapper. There is a difference between "scrapping" for scrap metal and a wrecking yard "dismantler". Now California wants a junk slip which requires all back fees to be paid before you can "scrap" it, otherwise you have to send it to a dismantler.

It's a rarity that a guy will be given the benefit of the doubt on AITA if he is in some sort of conflict with a woman. Usually, the people there take her side.

I'm just glad he broke up her.

I’m glad the guy has a spine, kicked the gf out and went after her and the other parties involved. I thought we were gonna hear that he was a doormat and kept the girlfriend.

My son had his 85 Suburban stolen from his yard by two guys who were on a meth binge. They had access to a tow truck and stole 6 vehicles and towed them to a scrap yard where luckily the scrap yard had called the police on them. The police were waiting for them when they brought in the 6th vehicle.

My first car was a 10 year old 67 Chevy Impala. A truly great car! The envy of all my friends. Oh what I'd pay to have it back!

I know of two 1100 lb aluminum transformer vault hatch covers that vanished from along side a canal. Interesting part was the fence, gate and locks were all intact, and no sign they were dropped over the fence. I always figured it was an “inside” job.

30 dollars a ton for scrap cars. I work at a scrap yard.

@poker345611

4 жыл бұрын

Got $300 for a Ford Explorer that weighed a little under 4000 pounds.

should have seen warning signs-----just sayin' Glad he gave her the boot though, now he can start off fresh. sorry about the car, that really sucks. did really good getting all the documentation and work for getting your car back

@mexicanspec

4 жыл бұрын

Car guys should not be with a woman who doesn't understand him. That is a deal breaker.

@samdavis5079

4 жыл бұрын

@@mexicanspec I've been married for 25 years and STILL Don't UNDERSTAND WOMEN. And not many men do.

@damiandelapp5490

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking exactly the same thing what warning signs were written all over the place? because that is some serious shit she pulled

The girlfriend should have realized that he would have been upset. She got what she deserved.

Steve, I'm a new watcher and I just saw one video where you said you were trying to turn off mid video ads AND I believe another video where you say you still get notifications about new comments on old videos so here is a comment to let you know this video still does mid video ads.

At one point here in North Carolina you didn't need a title if the vehicle was 10 yrs old or older at a scrap yard . My friend owns a tow service and people give him junk cars just to get them off the property .

This sort of thing happens more often than you'd believe. Ask any number of vets who have returned from deployment. Stuff happens.

You say there are some sketchy scrap yards out there, but what about scrappy sketch yards. 🤣

Catalytic converters are a big thing here, friends recently lost the one off their RV right in their driveway

I often read stories about some guy's wife or girlfriend selling or disposing of his property. Why is there always doubt that she has committed theft? Isn't it exactly the same as if some stranger came along and took the car?

@genli5603

4 жыл бұрын

If a wife, it's common property. Same as if a husband sold something. It's more common for controlling men to make their wives hand over their paycheck every week and give them a tiny allowance so that they can barely eat and clothe themselves.

My church had its copper downspouts stolen in the middle of the night so theft of metal is a real thing. We put painted tin (or thin steel) ones back up

In NY if under a certain value like $1200 it can be considered abandon and no title needed. This resulted in a lot of older Ford vans being stolen. NY's goal was to make it easier to get abandoned vehicles off the streets. Made me nervous having a decent 84 Ford crown Victoria wagon. Easy to act as if it's not worth much. I painted 'title required for disposal' on the radiator support.

In many states, after the vehicle reaches a certain age, no title is necessary for sales, salvage, etc.

LOL. Steve said "hard on."

Watching and munching on red pills

@nickjw88

3 жыл бұрын

Why is MGTOW a thing?

Years ago I was at a evening car auction. I had a crappy truck and a crappy car trailer parked outside in a row of other trucks and trailers that were significantly nicer than mine. As we are all coming out of the auction, it was noticed that all of the loading ramps for the trailers were stolen, presumably by a scrapper. That’s is.... all the ramps but mine. It turned out to be a joke amongst us that the scrapper thiefs had pity on me because I had rough equipment.

It sounds like he did the right thing and went after everybody he could. And I'm very happy to hear you got at least most of his car back. The girlfriend is clearly an idiot. The guys at the scrap yard or nothing less than thieves because they clearly knew that they should not take possession of the car

At our local scrap yard, you enter & they weigh your vehicle. You then go & dump the non aluminum, copper stuff. Then weigh out & get paid. If you dumped manhole covers, they wouldn't see until later. Wouldn't know who left it.

There was a Safeway Distribution center that got a call one Monday from a scrap yard, asking if they sold all their truck entry ramps Friday night ... they hadn't. The scrap yard had given the seller a check form the amount. they went to the bank the scrap yard used and found a man cashing a check from the scrap yard. Safeway got their equipment back, and the would be thief, who had cash in hand, got to stay with the state for a while.

Woman: Where do I park my car in the garage filled with your junk project car? Man : Someone else's house. :D

Scrapyards are some of the most unscrupulous businesses around. Years ago in my area someone actually stole historic wrought iron gates from a cemetery. An investigator went around to scrapyards where they were eventually located. The owner at first denied ever having seen them, but as they were in plain sight his memory suddenly improved. These scrapyard operators knowingly buy stolen metal and are worse than the people who steal it. Just as bad are dishonest dealers in antiques.

In Mississippi a car that old will not have a title. When you transfer the car then you will give the person a bill of sale.

I spent a number of years in auto salvage here In Texas and we wouldn't touch a car without a title. Now you could sell a car without a title to an actual scrap yard but they won't take it unless the car is cut up into peices

I get free towing when scrapping a car but no money and I'm happy with that. Good Luck, Rick

We have the same problem with scrapyards in the UK. Many cities now do not have iron manhole covers because so many have been stolen.

Happen in the military. Young member fall in love with a stripper. Give her power of attorney before deployment. Only to return home and finds he broke

@catslove3884

2 жыл бұрын

Just plain stupid. There are a lot of women willing to have sex with you just to take you for every cent you have. If she will strip for you, she will continue stripping for any guy. Woman here.

In a number of countries it is prohibited by law to use cash when dealing with scrap metal. All transactions must be possible to trace.