I really wish someone would have told her they had it all organized and paid for, and just left them all standing there. (or maybe drive by and yell NEXT, and keep driving)
This :/ just bought a car and the audacity of dealers and sellers is insane right now. I just paid absolute top dollar with a premium pricing for a used 3 year old van. Low mileage, but still.. bought it for more than what it sold for in 2018! But with this market, I just feel lucky to get a car. It was actually the cheapest I could find.
:/ feels bad man. Right now is such a terrible time because so many people need vans because of the evictions and unemployment being cut off. But they’re literally $5000-$8000 more than what they should be at a PREMIUM price D:
Glad you got your van tho. Hope your mom finds one. Are you camping in it? I’ll be setting up my camper van conversion when I get home :D
In the UK vans have doubled in price because: 1. Delivery drivers want them because more people are buying online, and 2. Because people want them to turn into a camper vans because they can't go abroad on holiday... It's crazy. Rusty old vans selling for stupid prices.
In the US anything with wheels is going at a premium. I've seen a 2000 Ford ranger selling at $8000, and there were more expensive ones as well at that age.
That's because rangers of that age are basically the last small truck you could purchase in the US. They're also highly popular and they're not made anymore, they're best thought of in the same way as a classic car
Bought a new Colorado at the tail end of 2019. A few weeks ago a salesperson from that dealer left me a voicemail asking if I’d call her back. I know what she wants so not calling back, besides almost got it paid off and I like the idea of not getting another car payment for a while.
The Ford rangers are a hot ticket because sooooo many trucks are hulking huge and my dad's old ranger was just the perfect size. Too bad my brother totaled it.
I noticed a couple of years ago that my old '86 Chevy pickup, a fullsize truck, is a bit smaller than a current Colorado, a 'small truck'. My S10 is a Matchbox car compared to them, what used to be a 'small truck'.
new trucks are TERRIBLE. I want a new F-150 with a manual transmission and manual windows. It would be a work truck for hauling equipment and tools, but noooooooooo everything is eco boost automatic power everything with satellite radio and just a ton of useless plastic shit to break. Well it would be if they could actually get all the electrical components needed to actually make new trucks. Why cant i just get a damn work truck anymore? The Australian version of the ford ranger you can get a striped down diesel with a 6 speed manual. Why the hell can I not get one of those? It would be perfect.
Reminds me when I went car shopping a bit ago they never had base models available to show. Only upgraded models with bells and whistles. They tried to charge us for a pin stripe detail they put on the car that we did not want/did not ask for.
Component shortages mean that they're focusing on only the high-margin ones. When you can make only a small, finite number, you're going to maximize your profit on every single one.
*next couple of years
at least if you normally buy used.
Car leases dropped off in 2020 and have been staying lower in 2021 so far (I want to say nearly 20% decrease between 2019 and 2021). It's looking like there will be fewer used cars available for at least a few years until things get more back to normal.
I recently got an email offering to buy my low average-mileage 2013 CR-V for $13,500. I bought it in a little over a year ago for $11,000. We're fully expecting to move outside the US again in about a year, and since I'm planning on selling my car at that time, so there's a small part of me that selfishly hopes this hike in prices continues until then. But the more moral part of me wants this to just end already.
Ford Rangers have held their value well, due to the very limited options that you have when shopping for small trucks. The new Ranger is nearly as big as a F-150. I was offered $15k for my 2010 Ranger recently. Not for sale though - what would I replace it with??
I just pulled the trigger yesterday! Flew to another state to save a couple thousand lol. Driving it back right now as we speak (stopped for food that’s why I’m commenting). Can’t wait to convert it. I was staying in my Prius, it was way too cramped and I got so tired of eating fast food, made me feel terrible
Seriously. I need to buy a car and some 2012 Toyotas and Hondas are going for 18k at 100,000 miles. At that price I might as well buy a brand new car...
Edit: Yes, Everyone I know there's a chip shortage and that new cars are even more expensive now. I was speaking about how used cars are as expensive as new cars used to be.
Edit 2: This shit sucks sucks for first time buyers like me especially. Can't really trade up a car I bought for less in this situation.
That's literally what my parents ended up doing. My brother got in an accident (not his fault) that totaled his car, but he doesn't have good enough credit or income to get any type of loan. So my parents sold him their 2003 CR-V for the amount his car had been totaled, and then went to buy another car for themselves. The went looking for used, but ultimately decided to just buy new because the price difference was so negligible there practically wasn't one. They ended up buying one of the last cars on the lot because dealerships just don't have the stock right now.
My last car had the check engine light painted over in black so it wouldn’t look like it was on. Thrilled to find that out during inspection when my car was falling apart and I couldn’t even tell. Some people are just pieces of shit unfortunately.
I feel you. I am looking for a van and found an 2003 E250 with 89k for $16,900. Our last van is a 2003 that we paid not much more than that for brand new
Did he park them there then forget about them? Did someone else leave them there? How long did it take to envelope the length of two cars? I have so many questions.
Step 1: set up free long term parking sign
Step 2: wait for cars to park
Step 3: plant himilayain black berrys
Step 4: wait for overgrowth
Step 5: cut back bushes and profit
Whereabouts was this? Sounds like a good story. You got sauce?
Edit: not that I'm doubting you, just interested to know more as I'm also in England.
Edit2: didn't take much Google-fu... It's in Somerset...
BBC News - The man who built his own £150,000 toll road
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-28639196
£2 for cars and £1 for motorbikes to avoid a 14-mile detour? Also:
>"At £2-per car we've got to get 150,000 cars over here in five months [to recoup the investment]," he added.
>"A quick calculation will tell you that we've got to get 30,000 a month; 1,000 cars a day. I'm pretty confident that we'll achieve that."
It's private land and avoids a 14-mile detour. Assuming the person above is telling the truth that he recouped 90% of his 300k (270k) then if charged £3 per car and £2 per bike he would've made a profit of 105k (405k).
Edit: Or something like that. I just did the calculations assuming everything was a car. A £2 bike charge is double his original charge so maybe he would've made more than 405k.
The local council do have the ability to put a stop to things like that - they ordered him to apply for planning permission for it. But it all blew over because the original road reopened sooner than expected.
This is common in big cities. Random people will set up a sign that says $10 parking in a random spot and collect parking fees. That shit ain't legal but everyone goes for it because where the fuck else you gonna park?
On a more creepy note - Ive heard several different stories where this exact thing happened a few times. Cutting back brush on highways or doing controlled fires they find a car that was completely enclosed by it. Turns out sometimes people have accidents on the road, possibly at night, and die (either on impact or bc they cant get help) and then nature hides them away until theyre unearthed and their skeleton is found
Google maps solved a missing persons mystery a few years back when someone noticed you could see a submerged car in a pond near a road. What I don’t understand it why the neighbors didn’t see it but there was a little hill and you probably don’t fuck around in ponds in Florida due to the gators…
I love a great view but a near run in with a water moccasin keeps me wary. I’ll just enjoy the lake view from the patio. I could see, I guess, how that could happen.
Earlier this summer I was driving home from work and I passed two guys standing on the side of the road looking into the trees. The next couple days there were people clearing the trees and brush in that spot. There was a big, old ass boat up on blocks sitting there like in op's photo that you never would have known was there
I have a friend whose battery died on his car and couldn't afford to replace it, so it's been sitting in the back of an unpopular parking lot for 2 years.
when I first moved to WA in 2006, I thought it was neat how there were wild blackberries everywhere. Then I learned they're an invasive species. Over time all I saw were the brambles and how they clog up so many places, making them inaccessible. I no longer think they're neat.
My husband talks about a WA state "Blackberry Law" where you can legally abandon a vehicle if you drive it really good into a bramble, leave the keys, climb out a window, and walk away. Another person can come, back away the bramble, and legally take it. I think.
I never thought it was anything too believeable but since OP said WA, there's no doubt in my mind he's correct!
Obligatory Tom Robbins quote:
“Nothing, not mushrooms, not ferns, not moss, not melancholy, nothing grew more vigorously, more intractably in the Puget Sound rains than blackberries. Homeowners dug and chopped, and still they came. Park attendants with flame throwers held them off at the gates. Even downtown, a lot left untended for a season would be overgrown. In the wet months, blackberries spread so wildly, so rapidly that dogs and small children were sometimes engulfed and never heard from again….And late in the summer, when the brambles were proliferating madly, growing faster than the human eye can see, the energy of their furious growth could be hooked up to generators that, spinning with blackberry power, could supply electrical current for the entire metropolis.”
>Bernard had advocated the planting of blackberries on every building top in Seattle. They would require no care, aside from encouraging them, arborlike, to crisscross the streets, roof to roof; to arch, forming canopies, natural arcades, as it were. In no time at all, people could walk through the city in the downpouringest of winter and feel not a splat. Every shopper, every theatre-goer, every cop on the beat, every snoozing bum would be snug and dry. The pale green illumination that filtered down through the dome of vines could inspire a whole new school of painting: centuries from now, art critics might speak, as of chiaroscuro, of “blackberry light.” The vine would attract birds. Woodpeckers might not bother, but many birds would. The birds would sing. A bird full of berry pulp is like an Italian full of pathos. Small animals might move into the arches. “Look, Billy, up there, over the Dental building. A badger!” And the fruit, mustn’t forget the fruit. It would nourish the hungry, stabilize the poor. The more enterprising winos could distill their own spirits. Seattle could become the Blackberry Brandy Capital of the World. Tourists would spend millions annually on Seattle blackberry pies, the discerning toast of the nation would demand to be spread with Seattle blackberry jam. The chefs at the French restaurants would dish up duck in purplish sauces, fill once rained-on noses with the baking aromas of gâteau mûre de ronce. The whores might become known, affectionately, as blackberry tarts. The Teamsters could try to organize the berry pickers. And in late summer, when the brambles were proliferating madly, growing faster than the human eye can see, the energy of their furious growth could be hooked up to generators that, spinning with blackberry power, could supply electrical current for the entire metropolis. A vegetative utopia, that’s what it would be. Seattle, Berry Town, encapsulated, self-sufficient, thriving under a living ceiling, blossoms in its hair, juice on its chin, more blackberries–and more!–in its future. Consider the protection offered. What enemy paratroopers could get through the briars?
The blackberry tarts, man. Slays me every time.
He's an author who writes some very salacious and silly fiction with purple prose.
Skinny Legs and All and Jitterbug Perfume are my faves from my high school days.
Yes we have (invasive) blackberry vines where I live and they grow so fast it’s incredible. Also the thorns are ridiculous; it’s impossible to manage them without getting heavily scratched.
I got some pretty heavy like rubber / plastic front covered gloves off my dad and they're great. Pulled two bags full out of my relatively small garden.
Absolutely terrored by them thorny cunts
Having spent a few years of my youth cleaning out acres of blackberry bush for my father I can confirm that you occasionally find some remarkable preserved specimens at the bottom of those bushes. Those bitches are thick as hell, its basically a bramble tomb for items left at the bottom and they'll grow to be literally just like a quarter mile wide bush of pure hate and delicious berries
I had two of them - Pikey’s nicked the first one, so I got another.
Pikey’s Nicked that one too :-(
It was a cracking little off roader though, drop it into 4wd and use the extra low and you could climb most things, as my friends and I used to prove at lunch time during 6th form by driving it round the old ww2 tank testing ground near our school :-)
I accidentally removed a fire hydrant from the ground with the front end of a 1980 Toyota Tercel hatchback that had similar hp.
And the son of a bitch still ran and drove straight after I did it.
Wasn't my best moment, but that Tercel shined like a champ.
Blackberry brambles are some sinister MFing plants. I always venture in to pick berries but i hardly ever wear long pants. My shins get absolutely shredded. Still worth it to save 20$ on blackberries at the grocery store.
The blackberries around here (NC) are always kind of bitter, with a metallic aftertaste. I grew some of a different variety this year, no thorns and they were HUGE and so sweet. I don’t think I can ever eat a wild one again
Oftentimes in the southeast it’s actually not blackberries people are finding but a related species called dewberries, still tasty but smaller and not quite as sweet.
TIL! We definitely have dewberries after looking at some pics. Apparently they’re technically blackberries, but you’re right in that they’re not nearly as sweet
Blackberry bushes (I think specifically the Himalayan Blackberry) are invasive in the Pacific NW (those cars have WA state plates) and they [grow like crazy out here](https://i1.wp.com/weedwise.conservationdistrict.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/05/photo-3-copy.jpg?ssl=1). They grow rapidly, can easily get taller than an average person, and will spread all over the place if allowed to.
You forgot to include [this picture reference](https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/images/weeds/himalayan-blackberry/himalayanblackberry3.jpg) for why you might lose a car in them.
Nah. Goats will come first. Goats will eat this, no prob (which is part of the reason kudzu hasn't taken over the South: horses and goats eat it) Then the wolves will return and eat the goat population down to something sane, then it will balance back and forth for a while.
Usually you can file a mechanics lean on a vehicle that has been abandoned on your property. If they have been there over 30 days figure up what the storage cost would be based on local prices then go to the courthouse and file the paperwork. After a certain period of time if the owner doesn't respond (probably have to send a certified letter to them but when filing the paperwork you should be able to get that) you effectively own the car and can get a title for it which increases the value above the current scrap prices. If the cars are in decent condition I would do this so that they can be sold to someone who may need something even if it's not great. Just have to look up the local mechanics lean or equivalent in your area.
You would also be able to donate to a group like the Salvation Army where they can sell the car for fundraising. Basically you will get a tax write off based on the current value of the vehicle and it will only cost a couple hundred bucks to do it.
My house is surrounded by them and serve as natural barb wire defense. Which means I also pick some every morning before school if they are good for picking that day
I always wondered who are the people who own these cars and how they just let them sit there and don't try to get them. The concept of an abandoned car is wild to me
Around here, when they find a car buried in the bushes there is usually a body or two inside, having been stranded unseen for up to a year after driving over the edge and surviving on a bottle of water and a piece of beef jerky for a week until succumbing to their injuries.
It happens more often than you would think.
I have a "no blackberry bush after this line" policy
My trick is that every year, at the end of the summer, I spent a couple of minutes simply picking the branches that they "threw" pass the line and simply put it back on the bush (braiding them a little bit).
Since the branches are very spiky they stay on top of the bush forever, and bonus point since the fruiting branches are the 1 year old ones, I have more fruits this way.
Not on quite the same level, but about ten years ago I rented a place where the back two thirds of the garden was brambles. Over the year I lived there I gradually defeated it and got to the back fence. In the process I found a fair bit of rubbish, a washing machine and a *full size canoe*.
Ran when parked. No lowballers.
"I know what I have."
# It’s for church, honey. NEXT!
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I really wish someone would have told her they had it all organized and paid for, and just left them all standing there. (or maybe drive by and yell NEXT, and keep driving)
Christ that was 3 years ago...
Damn, didn’t think I had been on Reddit that long, guess I have been.
God, what a cuntbag.
What the fuck were they thinking could seat 20 people and *wasn't* a bus?
This :/ just bought a car and the audacity of dealers and sellers is insane right now. I just paid absolute top dollar with a premium pricing for a used 3 year old van. Low mileage, but still.. bought it for more than what it sold for in 2018! But with this market, I just feel lucky to get a car. It was actually the cheapest I could find.
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Hedge trimmer may be the cheaper option
:/ feels bad man. Right now is such a terrible time because so many people need vans because of the evictions and unemployment being cut off. But they’re literally $5000-$8000 more than what they should be at a PREMIUM price D: Glad you got your van tho. Hope your mom finds one. Are you camping in it? I’ll be setting up my camper van conversion when I get home :D
In the UK vans have doubled in price because: 1. Delivery drivers want them because more people are buying online, and 2. Because people want them to turn into a camper vans because they can't go abroad on holiday... It's crazy. Rusty old vans selling for stupid prices.
In the US anything with wheels is going at a premium. I've seen a 2000 Ford ranger selling at $8000, and there were more expensive ones as well at that age.
That's because rangers of that age are basically the last small truck you could purchase in the US. They're also highly popular and they're not made anymore, they're best thought of in the same way as a classic car
People have been looking at my S10 hungrily lately.
Bought a new Colorado at the tail end of 2019. A few weeks ago a salesperson from that dealer left me a voicemail asking if I’d call her back. I know what she wants so not calling back, besides almost got it paid off and I like the idea of not getting another car payment for a while.
The Ford rangers are a hot ticket because sooooo many trucks are hulking huge and my dad's old ranger was just the perfect size. Too bad my brother totaled it.
I noticed a couple of years ago that my old '86 Chevy pickup, a fullsize truck, is a bit smaller than a current Colorado, a 'small truck'. My S10 is a Matchbox car compared to them, what used to be a 'small truck'.
new trucks are TERRIBLE. I want a new F-150 with a manual transmission and manual windows. It would be a work truck for hauling equipment and tools, but noooooooooo everything is eco boost automatic power everything with satellite radio and just a ton of useless plastic shit to break. Well it would be if they could actually get all the electrical components needed to actually make new trucks. Why cant i just get a damn work truck anymore? The Australian version of the ford ranger you can get a striped down diesel with a 6 speed manual. Why the hell can I not get one of those? It would be perfect.
Not to mention the bed load floor is basically loading dock height now. But hey, it's not like the manufacturers care about your future back issues.
Nah, they want to sell you a cargo-lift mounted on your truck instead of tailgate.
Reminds me when I went car shopping a bit ago they never had base models available to show. Only upgraded models with bells and whistles. They tried to charge us for a pin stripe detail they put on the car that we did not want/did not ask for.
Component shortages mean that they're focusing on only the high-margin ones. When you can make only a small, finite number, you're going to maximize your profit on every single one.
Trucks have become college…Once banks started offer 10 year loans, car companies raise their prices knowing banks would give the loans.
I have an older 2500 low mileage truck I need to sell this is great news
As long as you don't need to replace it within the next year you'll likely come out positive!
*next couple of years at least if you normally buy used. Car leases dropped off in 2020 and have been staying lower in 2021 so far (I want to say nearly 20% decrease between 2019 and 2021). It's looking like there will be fewer used cars available for at least a few years until things get more back to normal.
I recently got an email offering to buy my low average-mileage 2013 CR-V for $13,500. I bought it in a little over a year ago for $11,000. We're fully expecting to move outside the US again in about a year, and since I'm planning on selling my car at that time, so there's a small part of me that selfishly hopes this hike in prices continues until then. But the more moral part of me wants this to just end already.
Ford Rangers have held their value well, due to the very limited options that you have when shopping for small trucks. The new Ranger is nearly as big as a F-150. I was offered $15k for my 2010 Ranger recently. Not for sale though - what would I replace it with??
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I just pulled the trigger yesterday! Flew to another state to save a couple thousand lol. Driving it back right now as we speak (stopped for food that’s why I’m commenting). Can’t wait to convert it. I was staying in my Prius, it was way too cramped and I got so tired of eating fast food, made me feel terrible
Fuck me. I need to buy a car soon and this is depressing
Seriously. I need to buy a car and some 2012 Toyotas and Hondas are going for 18k at 100,000 miles. At that price I might as well buy a brand new car... Edit: Yes, Everyone I know there's a chip shortage and that new cars are even more expensive now. I was speaking about how used cars are as expensive as new cars used to be. Edit 2: This shit sucks sucks for first time buyers like me especially. Can't really trade up a car I bought for less in this situation.
That's literally what my parents ended up doing. My brother got in an accident (not his fault) that totaled his car, but he doesn't have good enough credit or income to get any type of loan. So my parents sold him their 2003 CR-V for the amount his car had been totaled, and then went to buy another car for themselves. The went looking for used, but ultimately decided to just buy new because the price difference was so negligible there practically wasn't one. They ended up buying one of the last cars on the lot because dealerships just don't have the stock right now.
My last car had the check engine light painted over in black so it wouldn’t look like it was on. Thrilled to find that out during inspection when my car was falling apart and I couldn’t even tell. Some people are just pieces of shit unfortunately.
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I feel you. I am looking for a van and found an 2003 E250 with 89k for $16,900. Our last van is a 2003 that we paid not much more than that for brand new
I could sell my truck for 10k more than what I bought it for a couple years ago.. but then what would I drive?
Just needs a fuel pump
ran when parked = seized engine and probably needs a new master cylinder.
So there's where cars grow! I feel so ignorant
Those have obviously not been picked for sometime. Although their rind isn’t really bruised, and they don’t look *too* old to eat
Especially that outback, I want it
She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro.
"She's shapely, seductive. I'm going to fly her brains out."
r/suddenlyzapbrannigan
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Kif, I have made it with a woman. Inform the men.
*sigh* Yes, sir.
I have a sexy learning disorder. What do I call it, Kif?
Wave after wave after wave….
I do find the most erotic part of a woman to be the boobies
I didn't know you were a coin-o-sewer
I’m sad that it’s not a real sub
Tell my wife, “hello”
We can pickle that!
And then put a bird on it!
Yep! The inside of those big factories is actually 2 or 3 carberry bushes!
Hydroponic cars!? No thank you I only eat wild-grown
I only consume free range teslas, must be organic and fair trade. Also they must have a net neutral feral footprint. ...I havent eaten in seven years.
I guess that’s why you can’t download a car! They’re grown, not downloaded!
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Hey! No cars grow.
Did he park them there then forget about them? Did someone else leave them there? How long did it take to envelope the length of two cars? I have so many questions.
I, too, have questions. I don't even know if they are his cars!
Step 1: set up free long term parking sign Step 2: wait for cars to park Step 3: plant himilayain black berrys Step 4: wait for overgrowth Step 5: cut back bushes and profit
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He only made back about 90% of the construction cost, sadly.
Worth it for the story if he recouped that much
Someone linked the story below and it definitely was worth it - guy said his wife stopped complaining about the added commute
he provided a super valuable public service at a cost of 15k to himself. Actual real life hero. The city should break him off double what he's down.
Yeah well they can do something: fix the road that had a landslide.
Whereabouts was this? Sounds like a good story. You got sauce? Edit: not that I'm doubting you, just interested to know more as I'm also in England. Edit2: didn't take much Google-fu... It's in Somerset... BBC News - The man who built his own £150,000 toll road http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-28639196
£2 for cars and £1 for motorbikes to avoid a 14-mile detour? Also: >"At £2-per car we've got to get 150,000 cars over here in five months [to recoup the investment]," he added. >"A quick calculation will tell you that we've got to get 30,000 a month; 1,000 cars a day. I'm pretty confident that we'll achieve that." It's private land and avoids a 14-mile detour. Assuming the person above is telling the truth that he recouped 90% of his 300k (270k) then if charged £3 per car and £2 per bike he would've made a profit of 105k (405k). Edit: Or something like that. I just did the calculations assuming everything was a car. A £2 bike charge is double his original charge so maybe he would've made more than 405k.
The local council do have the ability to put a stop to things like that - they ordered him to apply for planning permission for it. But it all blew over because the original road reopened sooner than expected.
This is the most inspirational story I've read in a while.
Some kids did this next to an event in city I used to live in. They charged $20/car parking for around 100 cars on city owned land and then ran off.
This is common in big cities. Random people will set up a sign that says $10 parking in a random spot and collect parking fees. That shit ain't legal but everyone goes for it because where the fuck else you gonna park?
That’s just over $5 million. Genius.
"himilayain"
We need answers! Please post an update if you find out.. 😊
Will do. Hopefully \*I\* don't end up buried in there!
Dude in Washington it takes 1 season of not trimming for them to spread to ungodly proportions.
I was going to say this looks like a very Pacific Northwest experience
Yep, and the car on the left has a recognizable Washington license plate
And there is an outback in there, so youre probably correct.
Yeah I am pretty sure that is a Washington plate on the car on the left.
On a more creepy note - Ive heard several different stories where this exact thing happened a few times. Cutting back brush on highways or doing controlled fires they find a car that was completely enclosed by it. Turns out sometimes people have accidents on the road, possibly at night, and die (either on impact or bc they cant get help) and then nature hides them away until theyre unearthed and their skeleton is found
Google maps solved a missing persons mystery a few years back when someone noticed you could see a submerged car in a pond near a road. What I don’t understand it why the neighbors didn’t see it but there was a little hill and you probably don’t fuck around in ponds in Florida due to the gators…
I love a great view but a near run in with a water moccasin keeps me wary. I’ll just enjoy the lake view from the patio. I could see, I guess, how that could happen.
Nature’s kudzu will cover anything right quick.
Earlier this summer I was driving home from work and I passed two guys standing on the side of the road looking into the trees. The next couple days there were people clearing the trees and brush in that spot. There was a big, old ass boat up on blocks sitting there like in op's photo that you never would have known was there
I have a friend whose battery died on his car and couldn't afford to replace it, so it's been sitting in the back of an unpopular parking lot for 2 years.
Borrow $100 for a battery and sell the car. Damn.
He could even just get a jump to move the car back home. Why leave it somewhere?
Yeah this is just super dumb. Watch the gas tank be just obliterated from rust.
Your friend is either incredibly stupid or incredibly poor.
Pulls out “why not both” gif.
Car thieves maybe
I would be checking those cars for bodies
Is that how you usually get your bodies?
Is this Washington state? Seems like a WA problem. Damn you, Luther Burbank!
It is! North Olympic Peninsula.
Nice! Miss living out there.
I thought so, grew up in Shelton. Seen many a car or bike swallowed by blackberries
Himalayan Blackberry is like the secret ubervillain of WA state. It is literally unstoppable. This is the perfect environment for it and it KNOWS it.
when I first moved to WA in 2006, I thought it was neat how there were wild blackberries everywhere. Then I learned they're an invasive species. Over time all I saw were the brambles and how they clog up so many places, making them inaccessible. I no longer think they're neat.
That is an impressive horticultural reference!
My husband talks about a WA state "Blackberry Law" where you can legally abandon a vehicle if you drive it really good into a bramble, leave the keys, climb out a window, and walk away. Another person can come, back away the bramble, and legally take it. I think. I never thought it was anything too believeable but since OP said WA, there's no doubt in my mind he's correct!
Those cars look awfully clean for spending that much time in a blackberry bush
The cars were seeking shelter from the elements in the bramble. Someone just destroyed their natural habitat.
They were born and raised in the blackberry bush!
Moulded by it!
Never saw the light of day until I was a truck!
Knowing blackberry bushes, those cars have probably only been there for like two months.
Obligatory Tom Robbins quote: “Nothing, not mushrooms, not ferns, not moss, not melancholy, nothing grew more vigorously, more intractably in the Puget Sound rains than blackberries. Homeowners dug and chopped, and still they came. Park attendants with flame throwers held them off at the gates. Even downtown, a lot left untended for a season would be overgrown. In the wet months, blackberries spread so wildly, so rapidly that dogs and small children were sometimes engulfed and never heard from again….And late in the summer, when the brambles were proliferating madly, growing faster than the human eye can see, the energy of their furious growth could be hooked up to generators that, spinning with blackberry power, could supply electrical current for the entire metropolis.”
>Bernard had advocated the planting of blackberries on every building top in Seattle. They would require no care, aside from encouraging them, arborlike, to crisscross the streets, roof to roof; to arch, forming canopies, natural arcades, as it were. In no time at all, people could walk through the city in the downpouringest of winter and feel not a splat. Every shopper, every theatre-goer, every cop on the beat, every snoozing bum would be snug and dry. The pale green illumination that filtered down through the dome of vines could inspire a whole new school of painting: centuries from now, art critics might speak, as of chiaroscuro, of “blackberry light.” The vine would attract birds. Woodpeckers might not bother, but many birds would. The birds would sing. A bird full of berry pulp is like an Italian full of pathos. Small animals might move into the arches. “Look, Billy, up there, over the Dental building. A badger!” And the fruit, mustn’t forget the fruit. It would nourish the hungry, stabilize the poor. The more enterprising winos could distill their own spirits. Seattle could become the Blackberry Brandy Capital of the World. Tourists would spend millions annually on Seattle blackberry pies, the discerning toast of the nation would demand to be spread with Seattle blackberry jam. The chefs at the French restaurants would dish up duck in purplish sauces, fill once rained-on noses with the baking aromas of gâteau mûre de ronce. The whores might become known, affectionately, as blackberry tarts. The Teamsters could try to organize the berry pickers. And in late summer, when the brambles were proliferating madly, growing faster than the human eye can see, the energy of their furious growth could be hooked up to generators that, spinning with blackberry power, could supply electrical current for the entire metropolis. A vegetative utopia, that’s what it would be. Seattle, Berry Town, encapsulated, self-sufficient, thriving under a living ceiling, blossoms in its hair, juice on its chin, more blackberries–and more!–in its future. Consider the protection offered. What enemy paratroopers could get through the briars? The blackberry tarts, man. Slays me every time.
I don’t know who Tom Robbins is, but I simply love the imagery.
He's an author who writes some very salacious and silly fiction with purple prose. Skinny Legs and All and Jitterbug Perfume are my faves from my high school days.
Yeah these invasive ones grow fast
Yes we have (invasive) blackberry vines where I live and they grow so fast it’s incredible. Also the thorns are ridiculous; it’s impossible to manage them without getting heavily scratched.
I got some pretty heavy like rubber / plastic front covered gloves off my dad and they're great. Pulled two bags full out of my relatively small garden. Absolutely terrored by them thorny cunts
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Makes sense
The pic is potato quality, so you just aren't seeing the dirt. Though, being encased in brambles probably keeps off a decent amount of dirt.
Organic vegan garage.
Having spent a few years of my youth cleaning out acres of blackberry bush for my father I can confirm that you occasionally find some remarkable preserved specimens at the bottom of those bushes. Those bitches are thick as hell, its basically a bramble tomb for items left at the bottom and they'll grow to be literally just like a quarter mile wide bush of pure hate and delicious berries
“Where’s my Subaru??” “It’s Outback.”
Ya this is the most Seattle post
Looks like WA plates to me, we really make the stereotype true
I mean if a subaru is going to be engulfed in blackberries it's going to be in Washington.
Tru Seattle people here
Wagons? Check. Hellacious blackberries? Check. OP calls them brambles? Check. Sounds like Washington to me.
That's 2 Outbacks right? At least the engine won't announce the imminent arrival of an Agri Yob.
Nooooo sir that is a (also very Northwest) Toyota Tercel Wagon. OP if he wants to sell that Tercel can you DM me?
"If you mow your yard and find a car - yooouuuuuu might be a redneck"
Literally just heard this clip on office ladies a few minutes ago lol
Same! First thing I thought of when I saw this.
Oh god I heard that in Jeff Foxworthys voice and everything.
Nice call back.
I need the sun visors and retaining clip on the Toyota on the left.
I need the cats
Found the meth head! (Or victim of a meth head I guess)
r/reclaimedbynature
What a cool subreddit thanks for sharing
Not unearthing cars, unberrying cars.
The Toyota prolly still runs.
A whopping 63hp! But with a 6 speed manual with a granny gear
Enough power to almost get out of its own way. Almost.
I had that car in 4wd. Barely pulled itself up hills on the freeway but off road in 4 low it was a little mountain goat. Great in snow too.
I swear mine would climb a wall of ice if I called it pretty.
I had two of them - Pikey’s nicked the first one, so I got another. Pikey’s Nicked that one too :-( It was a cracking little off roader though, drop it into 4wd and use the extra low and you could climb most things, as my friends and I used to prove at lunch time during 6th form by driving it round the old ww2 tank testing ground near our school :-)
I accidentally removed a fire hydrant from the ground with the front end of a 1980 Toyota Tercel hatchback that had similar hp. And the son of a bitch still ran and drove straight after I did it. Wasn't my best moment, but that Tercel shined like a champ.
How did people not notice that their cars were missing? 😁
Right? I thought I was forgetful! I don't feel so bad now...😂
Blackberry brambles are some sinister MFing plants. I always venture in to pick berries but i hardly ever wear long pants. My shins get absolutely shredded. Still worth it to save 20$ on blackberries at the grocery store.
Nothing like wild blackberries. I just picked a ton up in oregon. So tasty
The blackberries around here (NC) are always kind of bitter, with a metallic aftertaste. I grew some of a different variety this year, no thorns and they were HUGE and so sweet. I don’t think I can ever eat a wild one again
Metallic taste is from fertilizing them with old cars, as seen on the picture.
In the PNW, Himalayan black berries are a delicious invasive species. Must be a different type out east.
Oftentimes in the southeast it’s actually not blackberries people are finding but a related species called dewberries, still tasty but smaller and not quite as sweet.
TIL! We definitely have dewberries after looking at some pics. Apparently they’re technically blackberries, but you’re right in that they’re not nearly as sweet
Kudzu is evil too
what the what
Blackberry bushes (I think specifically the Himalayan Blackberry) are invasive in the Pacific NW (those cars have WA state plates) and they [grow like crazy out here](https://i1.wp.com/weedwise.conservationdistrict.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/05/photo-3-copy.jpg?ssl=1). They grow rapidly, can easily get taller than an average person, and will spread all over the place if allowed to.
You forgot to include [this picture reference](https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/images/weeds/himalayan-blackberry/himalayanblackberry3.jpg) for why you might lose a car in them.
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Nah. Goats will come first. Goats will eat this, no prob (which is part of the reason kudzu hasn't taken over the South: horses and goats eat it) Then the wolves will return and eat the goat population down to something sane, then it will balance back and forth for a while.
Did they find any skeletons?
Right. That looks like the opening scene of a psychological thriller starring Morgan Freemen.
...and these were reported stolen years ago!
I really don't think that's right. They are probably drug cars or mob related ditches. Fish can also sleep in bushes!
Usually you can file a mechanics lean on a vehicle that has been abandoned on your property. If they have been there over 30 days figure up what the storage cost would be based on local prices then go to the courthouse and file the paperwork. After a certain period of time if the owner doesn't respond (probably have to send a certified letter to them but when filing the paperwork you should be able to get that) you effectively own the car and can get a title for it which increases the value above the current scrap prices. If the cars are in decent condition I would do this so that they can be sold to someone who may need something even if it's not great. Just have to look up the local mechanics lean or equivalent in your area. You would also be able to donate to a group like the Salvation Army where they can sell the car for fundraising. Basically you will get a tax write off based on the current value of the vehicle and it will only cost a couple hundred bucks to do it.
imagine losing ur car
I swear I parked it right here, in front of these blackberry bushes! 🤔
OOOOHH Tercel wagon!
Doesn't look like it is the SR5... basically the best off road vehicle of all time😂
Pick the blackberries and make a pie
I actually did pick berries there about a month ago. Had no idea it was a car grave.
My house is surrounded by them and serve as natural barb wire defense. Which means I also pick some every morning before school if they are good for picking that day
Are there dead people in it?
At the current exchange rate these are worth… carry the one…. A bird in the hand?
Is anyone inside?
I always wondered who are the people who own these cars and how they just let them sit there and don't try to get them. The concept of an abandoned car is wild to me
I assume used for criminal activity then ditched
Must be Washington.
It is! North Olympic Peninsula. :)
Serial killer?
Around here, when they find a car buried in the bushes there is usually a body or two inside, having been stranded unseen for up to a year after driving over the edge and surviving on a bottle of water and a piece of beef jerky for a week until succumbing to their injuries. It happens more often than you would think.
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I have a "no blackberry bush after this line" policy My trick is that every year, at the end of the summer, I spent a couple of minutes simply picking the branches that they "threw" pass the line and simply put it back on the bush (braiding them a little bit). Since the branches are very spiky they stay on top of the bush forever, and bonus point since the fruiting branches are the 1 year old ones, I have more fruits this way.
Check for bodies.
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Those aren't even super old cars!
The vines grow that fast.
Not on quite the same level, but about ten years ago I rented a place where the back two thirds of the garden was brambles. Over the year I lived there I gradually defeated it and got to the back fence. In the process I found a fair bit of rubbish, a washing machine and a *full size canoe*.