How bad do things have to be to drive this?
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The State Patrol/Department of Public Safety has posted details of the seizure of this car in Koochiching County this week.
It's a Ford Pinto, which should have been enough justification to impound it and cite the driver for unsafe equipment.
But the spare tire and gas can rigged to the engine was a dead giveaway...
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Not to mention -- although I'm about to -- the rusted out floor...
We don't know the circumstances surrounding why the driver had to drive this car, but unless there was an unnatural love between a person and a Pinto, it can certainly be assumed that the answer is this is the car the person could afford.
On a day in which big charts and data are explaining a bad economy, this might be the best illustration of all.
