Road Kill

The road kill I am referring to here have the pink sticker of death on their windshields and can be found littering the sides of the roads from less traveled byways to the interstates. It must be tough to just walk away from a dead or dying friend that you've had a love/hate relationship with for who knows how long. Do you give the tires one last kick as you abandon or regret the kicks you may have given in the past?  After all what kind of friend leaves you stranded, and how do you get home when you are far from any exit (and civilization) anyway? Maybe thumbs are better used on cell phones rather than for hitching a ride. Maybe your cellphone bill takes up so much of your income that you feel forced to choose abandonment over paying for a tow and repair.

Either way, if you see the pink sticker on the windshield, it means that state or local law enforcement have paid their respects and unless the owner of the vehicle finds a way to resurrect it within a certain time period it will be towed unceremoniously to an impound lot. Information from the tag and registration will be used to notify the next of kin (owner or last owner according to the current registration) and they can pay the towing and impound fees and retrieve the car. If they do not claim their vehicle within a certain time period the car goes to a public auction, where if sold it gets retitled to a new owner. If the abandoned vehicle remains unsold or doesn't go to a smaller aggressive used car dealership, its fate may be to move on to a salvage yard, a potters’ field, the true end of the road for this sort of road kill.