Sometimes the “News” just isn’t news to anybody who has been paying attention.
Last night, Channel 2, the local NBC affiliate, had a story that trumpeted that “Over a hundred cars were submerged in Houston area bayous.”
Well, that shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody. People dump all kinds of crap in bayous, creeks and rivers – they shouldn’t, but they do. And, of course, people do occasionally run off bridges, etc. and accidentally end up in the water.
I even had a story HERE a couple of years ago about pulling abandoned vehicles out of the drink.
The Channel 2 story turned out to be about a long-standing argument between Houston Equusearch and the Houston Police. The group’s founder, Tim Miller, says that in late 2011, while his Texas Equusearch teams were searching Brays, Sims and Buffalo bayous in Houston with a sonar-equipped boat, they made the surprising and accidental discovery of 127 cars, trucks and even what is believed to be an intact big rig. When they reported their findings to the police, they were told the HPD didn’t want to hear it - that there was no money in the budget to do anything about it, anyway.
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