Speaking of tierods, that reminds me of an interesting night I had last weekend. I'm hanging with some car buddies down on the street where car people hang out. We hear a snap and squealing tires of a car breaking a tie rod. A mexican family gets out, cops show up, car gets towed, family walks off. The cops leave and the family crosses the street into our parking lot. The guy walks up to a big ass truck, opens the door, the alarm goes off, alarm gets shut off, the truck starts up and they leave. We were all like WTF?
Later in the night, a guys exhaust full off in the same intersection. He spent three hours on the side of the road trying to figure out what to do. He finally did something, then fumbled with his keys as three black guys were walking towards his car. He slowly drove off at about 10 mph with his hazards.