150 Cadillacs "missing"? Oh, suuuuuure......

[BiggJawn]

Heard on the radio this AM that a GM dealer in NOLA is claiming that he had 150 Cadillacs "stolen" right before Katrina hit.

Yeah, they were driven off the lot, I'll bet.

To a "Secure, undisclosed location" until the insurance pays for them...

Dealer's probably a GOP donor, too.

[underpants]

1. Have some compassion Jawn, how are welfare mothers supposed...

to get their checks? I mean COME ON!

[meganmonkey]

2. Oooh - maybe terrorists shipped them to Iraq for car bombs?

:shrug:

[lastknowngood]

3. Actually they suspect the police of involvement.

n/t

[Bigmack]

6. I heard somewhere....

that it only takes one person to play cops and robbers in NOLA.

(Just humor, folks... not serious. I grew up in Detroit, and that's what we used to say about Detroit cops.)

[leveymg]

4. They're being wired for improvised explosives as we speak.

[pitohui]

5. it's true, it's sewell cadillac, nopd took the vehicles

nola.com, the web site of the new orleans newspaper, carried a story on this

i'm working from memory here but around 40 NOPD deserted in fear for their lives from katrina and took many of the vehicles to baton rouge

it sounds like a supervisor actually authoritzed the vehicles, believing they had authority to take them to get to higher ground, however, he's going to be disciplined & maybe arrested, the reality is these ppl deserted their post in time of disaster

sewell cadillac is a very large multi million dollar operation for selling luxury cars

200 cadillacs sounds abt right to me

try a search or someone who has paper copies of times-picayune, please scan the story, it was reported on, hmmm, wednesday or maybe tuesday?

[TrueAmerican]

9. I heard there is a plus 70 year old NO police officer

who refuse to go with his family. He said he wanted to do his duty. The NOPD set up at a NO walmart parking lot and they got him a Limo to live out of when he was off duty.

[pitohui]

10. of course, most officers did not desert

we don't hear so much abt the good officers but of course the majority were on the job during a v. horrendous time

i think nagin's order did give the right to commandeer vehicles & bldgs as needed, this would fall in that category, i'm sure

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Shucks. Does that mean I have to give it back?

I was just beginning to like that ride, too!

[dogday]

8. If they are new ones, they should have a tracker

on them and they should find them pretty quickly.

[waywest]

11. Who needs a Cadillac anyway?

excuse me.

[BrotherBuzz]

12. I guess this beats Joe Gores' '32 Cadillacs' record, another scam...

Joe Gores' novel '32 Cadillacs' is drawn straight from his real-life repo man experience and proves that truth really is stranger than fiction, because the whole wild caper can not, in good conscience, be called believable....

A group of gypsies rips off all the Cadillac dealers in the Bay Area, driving away in 31 brand-new cars and one flamingo-pink vintage convertible. The boys and girls at DKA, led by their intrepid chief Dan Kearny himself, drop everything and go after those Cadillacs, which often involves foiling the many and varied con games carried off with gusto by the Gypsies. The various operatives chase Cadillacs to all the corners of the United States. Gores proves himself possessed of limitless inventiveness in thinking up the various scams and counterscams used by Gypsies and repo-men.

A good, fun read, and interestingly enough, the book shares a chapter with Donald Westlakes book 'Drowned Hopes'. That is, the characters of Gores and those of Westlake (the Dortmunder's gang) meet by accident and the situation is described from the two different points of view. The result is hilarious in both the books. Apparently, the idea of this sort of crossover came when the the two authors bumbed into each other on a train in Spain.

OK, end of book review :)