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Environment & Energy

mitch96

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1. I watched a vid where a guy put an apple air tag in the gastank and engine via the oil fill cap. the car was due to be

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Wed Jun 19, 2024, 06:04 AM

Jun 2024

"recycled" at the junk yard. It got crunched and moved around Michigan and then went radio silent. About a month later the air tag and possibly the crunched car wound up in CHINA!!
very strange. I thought China stopped taking our junk.
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