I pondered on the possibility of a wheel arch lower end (say) being punched
in in an accident and digging into the tyre, being carried forward against
wing bending force until it popped out, spring back and repeat, pawl and
ratchet style. But that would leave a rather obvious cause remaining.
Getting desperate but posit something picked up on wheel, carried into
wheel well, does its dirty deeds and drops off. (Something like an ice
bullet :-).)

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Somewhere about 10 years ago maybe (how time flies).
Travelling into town on motorway.
100 kph
Mk1 MR2 - lowish.
Summat on roadway pops out from under car in front of me - time to line up
square to straddle it and certainly not time to change lanes. About 1.5m+
long, curved, thin ... bang -  wallop ... gone ... left lying in lane
behind me. I do not leave such things for the next guys.
Pull over , walk back, foray forth and retrieve.
Commercial water blaster lance / tube / nozzle. Rubber handle one end, long
curved tube. Once worth hundreds of $. Now not worth scrap. Find a suitable
overgrown area beyond the barriers as I walk back to car and throw it there
out of harms way.

Drive to town to favourite electronics junk/new/other shop. Surplus
components and new and sound gear and ... Easy to spend a happy hour+ there=
..
Return to MR2 after happy hour +.
Telltale long run of liquid from under car. Look ma no oil. WB lance has
holed sump as it went on through.
Do whatever it takes to get sump sealed and re-oiled & drive home. Next day
return to scene of crime and retrieve WB lance. Maybe it will tell me who
owned it. No such luck - it's mute under pressure. Somewhere in the
'carport' .... .
It and much more should vanish before summer.

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Then there was the kitchen sink. Plus bench attached. Really. Crunch ...
gone (the sink has been hammered flat by the guys who hit it before me, and
left it there for others. As I walk back for it I see a police car going
the other way in frantic mode. Retrieve bench. Walking along roadside
looking for somewhere to safely cast it in bushes beyond barrier.
Cops arrive.
"Is that yours?"
'If it was, do you think I'd be here holding it by the time you got here?
:-)'
They seem to think that's an OK answer ... .

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Then there was the still complete and unscathed cane sofa .... !  :-).



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