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Old 01-19-2006, 05:11 PM
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Man buries BMW to collect Insurance $$

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Man buries BMW to collect insurance money

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<!-- begin body-content --> RAVENNA, Ohio - A man facing a big bill because he had blown the engine in his 1997 BMW decided to bury his car instead and collect $20,000 from his insurance company by claiming it was stolen.

Matthew Mueller rented a backhoe in October 2002 and buried the car on property owned by his father in rural northeast Ohio.

Police received tips last year and excavated the vehicle.

Mueller, 35, of Akron, was sentenced to a year in prison for insurance fraud, tampering with evidence, falsification and receiving stolen property.

He apologized in Portage County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday and paid restitution to Progressive Insurance along with $15,500 to state officials for their costs digging up the vehicle.

"It was stupidity and completely out of character," he said. "I broke the law and I tried to conceal it."
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I'd do that if I had a BMW in need of repair too
Old 01-19-2006, 05:29 PM
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can't afford to fix it, don't own it

sadly, no one even considers that these days.
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Originally Posted by The Sarlacc
can't afford to fix it, don't own it

sadly, no one even considers that these days.
Old 01-19-2006, 06:08 PM
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can't afford to fix it, don't own it

sadly, no one even considers that these days.
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this was on my local news last night. pretty funny. anyone got the pics??
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LOL,......hectic story. Should have driven it off a cliff or something.
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bad idea, bad execution
Old 01-19-2006, 06:25 PM
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buried? it's a car, not a bone. :shakehead whatever happened to torching it, like normal people?
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he didn't conceal it well enough.... see picture
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Originally Posted by The Sarlacc
sadly, no one even considers that these days.
Some of us (oldtimers) still do... :killer:

I didn't own a new car till I was 36... Bought a house before I bought a new car.
Old 01-19-2006, 07:18 PM
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there are a ton of strip mines around here with cars in em
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he obviously doesn't know the right people if he can't get his own car to dissappear



i wonder what kind of bmw it was
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That was here! AAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA what a dumbass. This place is full of snaggle toothed retards and mongoloids ... I want to move back to VA but funny shit like this happens all the time here
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haha thats great...
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shoulda drove it into a lake
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hahah good plan- bad execution
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Haha this definitely goes against the stereotype that BMW owners are rich or something
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Sounds like something some bumpkin around here would do...however, I tend to agree - good plan, bad execution.
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Originally Posted by ludachrisvt
That was here! AAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA what a dumbass. This place is full of snaggle toothed retards and mongoloids ... I want to move back to VA but funny shit like this happens all the time here
Oh, that sounds like Ravenna.

But it could be Streetsboro.
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$15,500 to state officials for their costs digging up the vehicle



What the hell did they use to dig it up? Gold plated shovels?
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$15,500 to state officials for their costs digging up the vehicle



What the hell did they use to dig it up? Gold plated shovels?
gotta cover beer money!!
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shoulda parked it in a ghetto

LOL
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Originally Posted by 95gt
What the hell did they use to dig it up? Gold plated shovels?
It's widely known that Ohio state bureaucracies are corrupt and inefficient as all hell.
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i once buried my sister at the beach, but sadly she was found and I was punished.



that guy is a retard, a lake would have been a great choice or leave it running near a ghetto convenience store and walk away.
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Originally Posted by SSMTL01
gotta cover beer money!!
Don't forget the hookers....
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Originally Posted by sbuswell
i once buried my sister at the beach, but sadly she was found and I was punished.



that guy is a retard, a lake would have been a great choice or leave it running near a ghetto convenience store and walk away.
Females are about as expensive as an old BMW
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Females are about as expensive as an old BMW
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