475 people taken into ICE custody at Hyundai plant in Georgia

USA and their car dependency... Here in Europe our Nazis were using trains!

My wife and I let a friend stay with us for awhile as he was moving states and needed to get on his feet. For a window of a few years, all 3 of us had Hyundais. A 2014 Veloster, a 2021 Palisade, and a 2019 Sedan (I didn't look too closely at the roommate's car).

My car was stolen out of a bus station parking lot and when the FBI agent called me to ask about my stolen car, he informed me my car was used to steal 3 other cars, 1 of them involved a gun, before ditching my car in a parking lot. It was a long few weeks between the theft and the getting the car back but we did recover the vehicle.

My roommate... it's wild. First he accidentally left a back window down in his car and when somebody tried to steal it they set off the alarm. So the thief disconnected the battery to stop the alarm and then they walked away. Easy fix and we still had the vehicle.

But the second time... The second time the car was straight gone. All of these events, his car and mine, happened at the same bus station. We picked him up. Helped file the police report. Life was trying to move on when a week later he comes running downstairs saying over and over again "my car is outside" and sure enough there it was parked on the curb across the street. There were some clothes, some makeup, soft drinks, the car was a bit of a mess, not destroyed but partied in. Because my car had already been lost and recovered at this point, I had a club to put in the steering wheel to hopefully prevent it from happening again. We put the club on his car and go back inside thanking our lucky stars that the car just fell out of the sky back into our lap. But then...

A few hours later my roommate is back downstairs saying "the thief is back, he tried to pull off the club but he's walking down the street." So we hop in my car and catch up to this kid holding a bag full of quarters my roommate kept in his car for toll roads. We pull up on him and my roommate tries to ask him "why were you interested in that car back there?" The kid said "what car?" then immediately broke out running, didn't even pretend to wait for us to respond. We tried to chase just to see where he goes. I'm not a violent person. I didn't have a plan if we caught him. The thief hops a fence but not before we got a good look at his face and he was wearing his Freddy's work uniform.

Skipping ahead a little, it turns out the kid was 16, stole the car on his way home from work through the bus station, but couldn't bring it home to his parents' house so he was randomly parking it around his neighborhood and walking the rest of the way home. The kid stole the car from a bus station parking lot so he had no clue that he accidentally delivered it back to the owner.

We pressed charges and the kid was found guilty. Don't buy a Hyundai.