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Pro Tip: Don’t Try To Hide A Stolen Land Rover In A Canal

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Car crime is not really our main beat and it’s weird to have two in one day, but every now and then you see something on Twitter it’s difficult not to share. Case-in-point, someone allegedly stole a Land Rover and thought they’d dump it in the nearest body of water without possibly realizing how shallow that body of water actually was.

The Tweet comes courtesy of the nice folks at the Canal & River Trust West Midlands, who are responsible for maintaining the network of canals that weave through this part of England. As they explain on their website:

Across the West Midlands 520 miles of canals weave their way through richly vibrant and culturally diverse communities. Around 1.75 million people live within 1km of the waterways and just over half of Birmingham’s population are within walking distance of their local canal.

Wow! Depending on how you measure it, Birmingham alone has more canals than Venice. If you’d have asked me how deep these were I’d have guessed about six-to-eight feet and I’d have been wrong by about half. According to this website they’re about four feet deep, which is confirmed by this Land Rover Discovery (L319) on its side.

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This wasn’t some strange driving accident but, instead, the BBC reports that vehicle is “thought to be stolen” and the thief (or thieves) drove up to the side of the canal and pushed it in, causing the canal system to have to shut at that point. The Discovery 4 has a wading depth of about 28 inches, but it probably wasn’t rated on its side.

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The people who run the canal system, understandably, aren’t happy about it:

The Canal & River Trust said a crane would be used to lift the Land Rover out on Monday afternoon at a cost of about £5,000.

It said the situation was “really frustrating”, but so far there was no sign the water had been polluted.

It is frustrating.

Don’t dump cars in canals!

Update: The Land Rover has been removed. I repeat, the Land Rover has been removed.

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Photo via Canal & River Trust West Midlands

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mic
mic
2 years ago

My first thought was that the stop oil crowd was trying to block canals now!

Proracer211
Proracer211
2 years ago

The fact that they are more worried about pollution in an enclosed body of water than the fact that there is a car in it…
you can literally just close the lock and clean the water people, and yes I have worked on a canal before

This Guy
This Guy
2 years ago
Reply to  Proracer211

So I am thinking that the oil slick on the surface of the water did not constitute “pollution?”

Messages
Messages
2 years ago

There are no signs of pollution, those oils slicks are naturally there on the water’s surface…

SquareTaillight2002
SquareTaillight2002
2 years ago
Reply to  Messages

Considering that diesel narrowboats go through the locks many times per day, the oil slicks probably are normal.

Ron888
Ron888
2 years ago

Like most i was fooled by the lead image.Well done ????

Ron888
Ron888
2 years ago
Reply to  Ron888

Question marks? I thought the emoji might not work but why a bunch of question marks?
The Autopian has weird coding

Ron888
Ron888
2 years ago

Five grand for the crane?? That’s ridiculous

DallaraF300
DallaraF300
2 years ago

Great to see news local to me (well, within 10 miles) coming to me via a US based account! Excellent, thank you!

andyindividual
andyindividual
2 years ago

So mall spec will do. No need for a snorkel to signal what an adventurer you are. I wonder if the child seats are still good.

blake
blake
2 years ago

“the Discovery Channel!”

Mark Tucker
2 years ago
Reply to  blake

G’night, folks!

zerosignal
zerosignal
2 years ago

“Pro Tip: Don’t Try To Hide A Stolen Land Rover In A Canal”

Ruined my weekend plans

paule67
paule67
2 years ago
Reply to  zerosignal

The thieves’ work looks very much like an amateurish tip to me.

Gated_Grifter
Gated_Grifter
2 years ago

So they ditched it at the narrowest part of the canal, with the driver’s side on the bottom?

Mr.Asa
Mr.Asa
2 years ago

I looked at that picture for like 5 minutes trying to figure out what I was looking at, then I clicked on the article.

outofstep
outofstep
2 years ago
Reply to  Mr.Asa

Same here. I saw it in the RSS feed and was very confused until I clicked on the article.

jb996
jb996
2 years ago
Reply to  Mr.Asa

I definitely wish the picture was posted oriented correctly. Putting it sideways was really strange and confusing. Even after reading the article, it took me a minute to orient my brain as to what I was looking at.

Dave Horchak
Dave Horchak
2 years ago

Yeah i am thinking insurance fraud here. But they think its stolen? What did the owner say when contacted? Why have the canal system pay contact the owner to remove it at his or insurance expense. Ticket them $200 a day until they move it.

JRW
JRW
2 years ago
Reply to  Dave Horchak

At any one time, there are an ASTONISHING number of drunk teens in England doing drunk teen things.

Man With A Reliable Jeep
Man With A Reliable Jeep
2 years ago

Land Rover Discovery (L319) For Sale

Recently washed and detailed interior
Undercarriage washed and cleaned
All systems flushed out
Land Rover Wading Capable
Current MOT
Clean Title

Please, absolutely no low ballers, I’m well aware of what I have, dear chap

mber
mber
2 years ago

“Ran when docked”

SNL_LOL Jr
SNL_LOL Jr
2 years ago

“Undercarriage washed and cleaned”

Well, only about 2/3 of it.

In Ingurland that’d be deceptive marketing.

This Guy
This Guy
2 years ago

Ran when parked?

4AGE_ForFood
4AGE_ForFood
2 years ago

Looks like the vehicle is “Locked”, as it is actually …in the lock.

automotiveflux
automotiveflux
2 years ago

The perspective on the leading image is quite confusing, took me a second to realize that it isn’t trapped in a large fish tank with glass walls

RadBarchetta
RadBarchetta
2 years ago
Reply to  automotiveflux

Me too. You might even say it seems wrong somehow.

mic
mic
2 years ago
Reply to  automotiveflux

I thought the cover picture was brilliant! I looked at it for a while and still thought the car was cemented into the side of a building.

8th--Note
8th--Note
2 years ago

from what I understand, all that vibrant cultural diversity is the main factor in the majority of the crime in the UK these days.

Adrian Clarke
2 years ago
Reply to  8th--Note

Then what you understand is complete bollocks I’m afraid.

Try cuts in social support, draconian benefit reductions, lower numbers of police (and a corresponding lower quality of candidates because decent people don’t want to do the job so they’ve ended up recruiting trash – the several high profile scandals in various forces show this), rampant wealth inequality (that’s getting worse), a lack of opportunities for the underprivileged, a cost of living crisis, oh and let’s not forget the utter shambles that is mental health support in this country.

Our long and proud history of diversity has nothing to do with it.

Chris with bad opinions
Chris with bad opinions
2 years ago
Reply to  Matt Hardigree

This is the same guy who staunchly supports Russia and their attack on Ukraine. I think it’s time they go.

andyindividual
andyindividual
2 years ago

There is possibly a compromise here. Reduce the diversity by deporting the multi-generational lazy white butt lager louts. That should cut right down on stupid crime.

But where to? Hmmm…wasn’t there a penal colony somewhere in the southern hemisphere?

SK2807
SK2807
2 years ago
Reply to  andyindividual

Way to perpetuate a stereotype of a country for something that hasn’t happened since 1868….not much better than the OP really

JRW
JRW
2 years ago
Reply to  Matt Hardigree

Matt, you’re late to this guy. This wasn’t enough for you?

“8th–Note says:
November 7, 2022 at 2:17 pm
we need more White kids in this country
+1

Reply
“zeppelopodzeppelopod says:
November 8, 2022 at 2:47 am
you dropped the /s
+7

Reply
“8th–Note8th–Note says:
November 8, 2022 at 9:46 am
no /s involved. its the only way to save this country.”
————————————————
“8th–Note says:
October 27, 2022 at 10:58 am
but the great thing about a lack of diversity is that there are very low crime rates.”
—————————————-

Probably not this one, it’s just a symptom of how badly a guy who probably really is from Appalachia is eager to let himself be lied to:

“8th–Note says:
October 26, 2022 at 12:28 pm
Russia had good reason to liberate its citizens in Donetsk and Luhansk from the despotic and illegitimate Ukrainian govt that was installed by a US led violent overthrow of an elected leader.”
———————————————
His information sources are truly top notch:

“8th–Note says:
October 26, 2022 at 10:38 am
now we just have entire boer families being slaughtered with impunity on their farms.”
—————————————

JRW
JRW
2 years ago
Reply to  JRW

Actually, I’ll just tell you where I am. If I see this guy again I’m gone.

zeppelopod
zeppelopod
2 years ago
Reply to  JRW

yeah, I responded to that guy largely out of shock that someone would just come in here and start spouting “great replacement” bullshit off the cuff.

Good to see you’re keeping the receipts; you have to stamp out this proto-fash nonsense quickly. Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance, and all that.

MATTinMKE
MATTinMKE
2 years ago
Reply to  Matt Hardigree

Might want to take a look at the people who gave a thumbs up to his comment as well.

JRW
JRW
2 years ago

I saw it. I disagree with it viscerally, but it’s unfortunately a very legal choice.

jb996
jb996
2 years ago
Reply to  JRW

Not sure if this relates to what you were saying, but it’s worth being said. I think.
Legal or not, free-speech does not mean consequence-free speech, or that one won’t be judged according to it. Communities are free to police the type of members that they want to have, and to build their community on basic agreed-upon principles.
A tendency to allow hate-speech, racism, fear mongering, and alternative-facts, all under the guise of “free-speech”, has and will lead any society to a very dark place.

BigThingsComin
BigThingsComin
2 years ago
Reply to  Matt Hardigree

Just dump this piece of shit.

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