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You know those decals that make your car look like it’s been hit by gunfire?
My family’s car has something like that, only more authentic: a bullet hole in the tailgate.
It’s a souvenir of the car’s week-long absence, that and the smashed window, the traumatized bumpers, the demolished ignition switch, the rifled personal belongings.
The car was stolen.
Classic story, according to the clucks of sympathy from the cops who found it a week later. They found the car stashed on a Sunday afternoon in underbrush behind a charred vacant house near Locust St. and Fond du Lac Ave. in Milwaukee.
“How did it get there?” asked the tow-truck dispatcher. Answer: We parked it on a Saturday afternoon along a busy downtown street near Bastille Days. Yes, it’s a Kia.
“That happens,” she said.
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