Roadside Attractions

I wish I had taken a photo of this car a couple of days earlier.
When we arrived up the coast, this car wasn't there. A day or so later, it appeared about halfway between Cooranbong and Lake Munmorah. It was apparently abandoned, was shiny red and didn't have a scratch or dent on it. A day, two at most, later it had been completely stripped. The day after that, it looked like this.

I am given to understand that this is common, done by the the owner or by arrangement with local hoodlums for the insurance money. You can see the police have been here, with the tape clearly visible in the photo. looking at the surrounding trees, it's lucky a major bush fire didn't result. It has been very dry, and in fact a bush fire did break out only a mile or so away a few days later.