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I don't get rental cars.

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 12:20 AM

Why not just steal one?

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 12:21 AM

Renting generally entales not getting in trouble with the law.

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 12:23 AM

Exactly. Plus, its not worth the trouble to steal a car if you only need it for a day or two in a city across the country.

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 12:26 AM

I tend to borrow them from friends. Rather, my parents do.

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 12:31 AM

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Renting generally entales not getting in trouble with the law.



It does, however, entail paying.

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 12:34 AM

How unfortunate.

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 12:42 AM

It also Entails jail time for Grand Theft Auto.

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 08:33 PM

That it does, that it does

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 09:27 PM

You know, there was this strange, nebulous concept which I once understand for why you don't do this kind of stuff. It was something to do with... was it left? Left and amiss? Something like that.

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 09:51 PM

Let's go blow some **** up! GTA- God's Game with cars.

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 09:58 PM

I didn't know God played GTA. How did you find out, inteviewing him?

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Posted 28 October 2003 - 10:33 PM

They typically don't give out a rental car to someone who dosen't have a valid drivers license and credit card, leave some sort of collateral for the rental car (such as leaving their Infiniti at the shop while they are given a loaner Infiniti), or are younger than 21 (25 in some places). These precautions eliminate most of the stealing rental cars.

Back in the 1960s, however, these practices were not really in effect, that is until in the early 70s Hertz (or was it Budget? It was one of the two) decided to rent out a fleet of Shelby Mustangs for weekend joy rides. Well, as you can well imagine, the Mustangs would come back every Monday with shredded rear tires and a lot of clutch wear. For a while Hertz was OK with this as they were making a load of money off of the promotion, that was until someone figured out that in one weekend he and his buddies could remove the Shelby powertrain and swap it with the powertrain from their stock Mustang. Of course they could still drive it back to the rental place, just that they would have screwed the company out of a 428 Cobrajet for an old 302 which wouldn't be noticed until the next poor sap rented the car. They had to shut the promotion down shortly after this started happening, and they began the above process for renting cars. The rest of the industry followed shortly.

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 12:05 AM

You bunch of pansies.

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 12:21 AM

I object to the flowery stereotype you're imposing upon me.

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 12:22 AM

Too bad, fignuts.

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 12:29 AM

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It's Avatara! ^

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 12:32 AM

What IS that?

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 12:34 AM

Um, Avatara?

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 12:39 AM

I have my doubts.

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 12:40 AM

No it's not. It's you.

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 12:47 AM

Who?
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Posted 31 October 2003 - 12:48 AM

It's a wilting flower. Isn't that lovely?

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 12:49 AM

No....it's not.

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 01:00 AM

It looks like a skull to me.

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Posted 31 October 2003 - 01:02 AM

OR, a dog.

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