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Old 10-04-2009, 06:53 AM   #1
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Would you buy and drive a car that someone died in or was killed in?

Why do I ask such a question? Earlier this year on May 22nd, my girlfriends cousin Chad was shot and killed during an attempted car jacking. ( http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories...t_519372.shtml )

About a month later they arrested the 2 prezidents listed in this article > http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories...t_700943.shtml

So time goes by and evidence is recorded and property is released back to the family. Then last night im checking out craigslist looking for another project vehicle and I come across this > http://augusta.craigslist.org/cto/1403503668.html . So I called my girlfriend and told her about it and she says she wants to go see it. So we did. Turns out his family got it back and are selling it to recover funeral expenses and give Chad a headstone.

I walk around it and check it out and look under the hood and look inside but I didn't want to touch the interior. (it was clean, but i still didn't touch it) I wanted to see if its really worth the money their asking, turns out its really not.
Its got shiny wheels and had nice paint but theres dents down one side of it now from where it was ran into the woods. As Chad tried to drive away he passed out, drove it into the woods and hit a dead tree which fell alongside the car.
The part that creeped me out was the steering wheel was really loose on the column (some sort of aftermarket woodgrain wheel). I could see it wasn't sitting right on the column. After Chad passed out he slumped over that steering wheel and died. That drivers seat was the last seat he ever sat in.

At his funeral everybody talked about how much he obsessed about his car. Just like we do about our trucks. We pour time and money into them to make them unique and to fit our style. Chad was proud of that car. He spent his money to put a new engine in it, have it painted, put rims on it, from what im told it had a pretty badass system in it. Then two dumb motherf*ckers kill him because they wanted to steal his car from him. WTF!

Okay, I had to vent my thoughts and experiences of yesterday somewhere. Back to the original subject. If you knew someone was killed in or died in a car, even if it was an awesome deal, would you drive it?
My girlfriend asked me if I was going to drive the car when we went to look at it. I was like, NO! It doesn't feel right to drive a vehicle with that sort of history attached to it. I couldn't drive a car where someone was murdered because of it. Much less sit in the same seat someone died in. Even if I had the money to drop on that car without a second thought, I would part it out. It wouldn't feel right to put it back on the road.
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Yes, I would.
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i would, but not that ugly piece of shit. . .
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I would drive it. Just get new seats and then might give it to my brother he likes that kind of stuff. The whole Donk thing.
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Hmm I wanna say no I couldn't do it....
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here in florida i dont believe that you can register a vehicle if someone was murdered in it.you could sell for parts but thats it.Forget about it if there is a smell it will not come out even if gutted
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well here in chicago that happens all the time, there is a a company my buddy worked for, that cleaned them up, seriously he had to pick up brains and shit, clean the car with rediculous claners and fix the broken parts
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Quote: Originally Posted by 97 sonoma
here in florida i dont believe that you can register a vehicle if someone was murdered in it.you could sell for parts but thats it.Forget about it if there is a smell it will not come out even if gutted
you sure about that?. . .having to sell a vehicle for parts because a murder occurred in it, would be like having to dismantle a house and sell the lumber, appliances, and materials for scrap if someone was murdered in it. . .and i'm more certain that i'm correct that doesn't happen than you probably are about what you said about vehicles. . .
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Was Chad a "prezident"?
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quick question for anyone that says no, they couldn't drive a man's car who got murdered in it. . .do you have a problem with where u live?. . .i mean, europeans came here almost brought extinction to an entire species of animals and forcibly removed the original occupants of the land you now live on (either by outright killing them or relocating them, where a large percentage never survived the trip). . .it's a personal decision, and i'm not faulting anyone that wouldn't own or drive the car, but it seems far more significant to me that possibly an entire village of native folks were "removed" so that my home could eventually be built on their land than the fact that someone was killed in the car i now own. . .
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honestly, i wouldnt have the balls to do it, plus the thing could be haunted...
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Quote: Originally Posted by 97s104x4
honestly, i wouldnt have the balls to do it, plus the thing could be haunted...

well then youll never ride alone
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Quote: Originally Posted by 97s104x4
honestly, i wouldnt have the balls to do it, plus the thing could be haunted...

just adds to the character of the vehicle. . .
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Quote: Originally Posted by 97s104x4
honestly, i wouldnt have the balls to do it, plus the thing could be haunted...
perfect time of the year for that
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what if your shits been through that and you dont know it?
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I could .....
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only way I could do it... is if the car was like a mazeratti (sp) and it was a screaming good deal!! other than that no sir.
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nevermind the fact that someone was killed in the car... but 18 grand for an old caprice lifted on ugly "shinny" wheels? damn.
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Re: Dead Man's Car

Quote: Originally Posted by 97 sonoma
here in florida i dont believe that you can register a vehicle if someone was murdered in it.you could sell for parts but thats it.Forget about it if there is a smell it will not come out even if gutted
More than likely a consumer group got a law passed so that you can't resell a vehicle which had contained biohazardous waste ( blood, body tissue)

I was asking a cop about the local counties confiscated property auction. She told me the GBI takes the worst vehicles with lots of gruesome aftermath and crushes them.
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Quote: Originally Posted by 96blazer
Was Chad a "prezident"?
No he wasn't. He had just moved into a neighborhood with more rednecks than anybody else. Im not a fan of the style he gave his car, but that was his cup of tea.
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Quote: Originally Posted by 98layinframe
nevermind the fact that someone was killed in the car... but 18 grand for an old caprice lifted on ugly "shinny" wheels? damn.
That's what I was thinking. Maybe for a reasonable price but damn just cause they spent 18 doesn't mean I'm going to pay 18.
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Damn right I would, as long as they didn't stink up the car real bad.
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I think I could if I didn't know someone had died in it. If I knew, nah, don't think I could. Especially if it was someone I knew like in your situation.
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Yeah, I would.

On a similar note - when we were looking at houses, we found a really nice one that we wanter to put an offer in on. Afterwards, my dad pulled me aside and let me know that one of the former owners had died in the house, and would that bother me? We didn't know which room either. It wouldn't bother me, but my wife was kinda iffy on it. What if we pulled up the floor and there were spots on the concrete or something? Ended up not getting it, so didn't have to worry about it.
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hell yea i would, and i actually did. i bought a 94 skylark off my buddy or 300, which he got from a friend of the family because the grandfather actually died of a heart attack when he was about to leave for the store. it was mint when i got it, 70k on it no dents dings, then i took it off roading and destroyed it
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Not if I knew the person. I wouldn't drive that car period though.
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Well I guess it depends on you. I personally would not mind buying something like that and repairing it and kind of use it as a reminder that he loved it and would have liked to see it "rollin".
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Quote: Originally Posted by lee-mill
hell yea i would, and i actually did. i bought a 94 skylark off my buddy or 300, which he got from a friend of the family because the grandfather actually died of a heart attack when he was about to leave for the store. it was mint when i got it, 70k on it no dents dings, then i took it off roading and destroyed it

you are a peice of shit
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Quote: Originally Posted by 97s104x4
honestly, i wouldnt have the balls to do it, plus the thing could be haunted...

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I bet about 5% of us already are and we don't even know it.
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Quote: Originally Posted by dandyandy
you are a peice of shit
dude, i'd **** your cousin in laws bloody corpse. . .quit your crying. . .shit, xjuice's mom was going all bat shit until i told her that her son was still shagging corpsese. .. now she's fine. . .well, not exactl fine, but she'll go well and above the place of mediocre at a time like this

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i could unless i knew the person
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my step dad has a 65 c10 that someone was killed in back in the 70's(wreck). it was rebuilt and it was the first truck he ever bought. still sitting behind our barn awaiting a restoration.


of course, like someone stated before if i knew the person i probably wouldn't buy it.
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I use to have a 89 cadi hearse. Didnt bother me that dead people were transported in it. The wife made me sell it when she found out about it 6 months after I bought it. So I guess to the original question, yea I could drive it.
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easily.i drove my grandmothers car for about a year after she had died in it...and quite a few people have died in the house i live in now.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ka_jd7and1
Yeah, I would.

On a similar note - when we were looking at houses, we found a really nice one that we wanter to put an offer in on. Afterwards, my dad pulled me aside and let me know that one of the former owners had died in the house, and would that bother me? We didn't know which room either. It wouldn't bother me, but my wife was kinda iffy on it. What if we pulled up the floor and there were spots on the concrete or something? Ended up not getting it, so didn't have to worry about it.
Depending on the conditions, that wouldn't bother me. Like if they were old and passed away in their sleep and were found a few hours later. Plus when you move in, all their personal effects wouldn't be there anymore. People live in their houses, and sometimes die there too.

Now if they died and nobody found them for a few weeks, ew, i'd pass on that house too.
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Don't think I could, I would feel a need to honor the person who died trying to keep their property, and I know it would never leave my mind.

I would do it if it was my friend's car and I knew the way he'd want it to be done.
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Quote: Originally Posted by rmoore911
dude, i'd **** your cousin in laws bloody corpse. . .quit your crying. . .shit, xjuice's mom was going all bat shit until i told her that her son was still shagging corpsese. .. now she's fine. . .well, not exactl fine, but she'll go well and above the place of mediocre at a time like this
wow... really? if you were going for laughs you missed terribly
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Quote: Originally Posted by dandyandy
you are a peice of shit
um why is that? pretty sure i bought the car, so i can do what ever the hell i want with it. so go fcuk yourself
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Quote: Originally Posted by rmoore911
i would, but not that ugly piece of shit. . .
yup
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Quote: Originally Posted by rmoore911
dude, i'd **** your cousin in laws bloody corpse. . .quit your crying. . .shit, xjuice's mom was going all bat shit until i told her that her son was still shagging corpsese. .. now she's fine. . .well, not exactl fine, but she'll go well and above the place of mediocre at a time like this

bad jaigerbombs. . .bad. . .it's like drunken mad libs. . .this is what happens when grown ass adults play stupid childish drinking games while watching football. . .never match shots with Peyton Manning 10 yard completions playing a shitty defense. . .
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Yeah like three family members have died in my house. I could totally rock a hearse, but the blood and guts kind of smell I couldnt deal with, that blood and guts death smell never goes away.
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I most likely could drive it..

but I wouldnt even give $2k for that car
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i say F*uck it. why not id buy it and murder it out. lol
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i drove my best friends 86 s10 extended cab with a 305 in it for 3 years and he overdosed in the truck and like it was quoted above you never ride out alone it felt like he was with me every time i drove it




was a little creepy thow in winter fall and early spring the passenger windows and that side of the windsheild fogged up ALOT and that seat was ALLWAYS COLD
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Quote: Originally Posted by icedragon
in winter fall and early spring the passenger windows and that side of the windsheild fogged up ALOT and that seat was ALLWAYS COLD
no shit, really. . .
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lol it was just that side thow the drivers side never fogged up and it would do it with noone in or near the truck and the passengers seat.... idk that bastard was allways freezing cold!
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Quote: Originally Posted by nti06
Depending on the conditions, that wouldn't bother me. Like if they were old and passed away in their sleep and were found a few hours later. Plus when you move in, all their personal effects wouldn't be there anymore. People live in their houses, and sometimes die there too.

Now if they died and nobody found them for a few weeks, ew, i'd pass on that house too.
I should have phrased part of that differently.

Didn't die in the house, committed suicide in the house. Don't know where, don't know how.

I realize that, if messy, there are cleanup companies, but I would be weirded out if we pulled up flooring and there was a stain on the concrete or something (chemical or otherwise).
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