Hi!
An interesting theorem. Now (stifling some laughter) if I pay you to do it, does that make you a professional? (Sorry, don't take it personal, just havin some fun...)
Depends on. You happen to have neighbors who seem to be running a used car lot with much of the merchandise up on blocks or missing parts? There ya go! Until they move some of their wares, they won't be any the wiser.
Lotsa vehicles (especially older trucks) end up laid to rest in some cornfield somewhere. Before the rust takes hold or the vermin move too far in, get what you want. Nobody will ever know by the time the law comes around to make the former owner remove the old vehicle.
There also many vehicles left resting in the "off season"...
I have yet to see the junkyard that really does. The one I frequent you could probably drive a whole car out of there and not get caught. Actually, come to think of it someone did do that. They seemingly found *something* that would run and made it all the way across town to a gas station before getting caught. Had they not stopped for gas, who knows???
If I thought for even half a second that the truck I wanted over there could be persuaded to run, it'd be gone! ;-)
Now, if I would have seen that, I would have probably hurt something laughing... "Oh, it doesn't have a brake pedal." "No problem!" "Wait...the radio is out!" "Back it goes!"
I guess that's why whenever a vehicle lands in the junkyard they turn the key to on and they leave it there...so the battery will run down and it can't be started without some assistance.
That is true, but I would reckon especially if you were in your vehicle when they lifted it up and away, they could get in pretty big trouble, especially if nobody ever saw you again...although I suppose even that happens more often than you might think.
I'd have to admit that with a proper set of mechanical skills and bodywork experience, a small junkyard might be a real ball. I can just imagine a few V8 fired K-Cars or maybe a few siamese vehicles...or maybe a really, really, really, longbed pickup! World's longest schoolbus, anyone?
Can you tell I have just a little time on my hands?
William The Guesser -- guessing at what fun owning a junkyard would really be, especially with some skills!