fordholes

Maybe it’s just the contiguous US? Fun fact!

Made 100s of millions of dollars (net).

I agree that all sides in every argument tend to twist language, statistics, the truth to their own ends. Nevertheless is there not a meaningful distinction between crime that involved physical violence to a person and crime that did not? And could we not endeavor to identify that distinction and use it to improve policy?

Not sure re: genetics but I’ll say: I love smoking a cigarette, but I’ve never had problems not smoking for any length of time at all.

The same is not true for me with respect to alcohol, so it’s not like I’m especially immune to addiction. I just think specifically with smokes it’s not as simple as “everyone addicted always”. Which I’ve heard claimed.

If someone hijacks your account they can unfreeze your credit. It’s easy to hijack accounts.

Same exact thing happened to me. I only dealt with the various credit agencies and Ford. And I had to make a police report to my local PD despite the crime occurring at a dealership across the country — the officer was very kind, and made clear that they would do literally nothing other than produce the case number I needed for the credit agencies.

I wonder if Ford in particular is more susceptible?

In any event, I’ve no idea whether a law enforcement eventually looked into it. But the sense I got was no one was going to do a damn thing.

(Oh and Progressive, because they got insurance for the vehicle in my name and also didn’t pay that. But it was 1000x less dollars, literally, so when I told the debt collector “lol not mine” they just went away).