Gas prices got too high for your gas-guzzling SUV? Did you underestimate the responsibility of new car payments? Well, Southern Californians have the answer for you! Why not hire a professional arson to torch your car? Well, that is the new trend in the Golden State. Apparently, people that can no longer afford their SUVs have turned desperate in a search to rid themselves of debt. Many owners would contact their finance manager hoping to do some kind of trade-in. The manager would then proceed to put owners in contact with an arsonist. The owners are to leave their keys in the car and $300 in the glove box. I guess it makes sense; that is until car owners started to be charged with insurance fraud. (story here)
A former firefighter from nearby Lynwood, California, said, "We used to get called out on vehicle fires and when we got there we would find a brand-new car was burning. Some of them were stolen but we knew that most of them were people trying to get out from under their car note. It seemed like it happened just about every night."
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