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Click and Clact with Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from

the Fugitives from Justice Division here at Car Talk Plaza. Now apparently, this is just a rumor, but I think we...

It seems true though. We do have some verification. Our steam producer, Dougie Berman, has fled the country in an effort to avoid prosecution. Now in case you missed it a few months ago, I don't

remember exactly how long ago, Dougie was in Washington DC and he was drinking coffee in the subway

in the metro. Which is not allowed not allowed

meaning I think he was drinking coffee and had a bagel in his other hand anyway he was

accosted by the by the subway police and taking advantage of a diversion he managed to

allude the police by jumping onto a passing subway train unfortunately the

doors are already closed he got got hurt. He got hurt bad. Anyway he was able to

limp away and somehow has remained on the lam up here in our fair city ever

since and I guess he must have gotten word that the dragnet was closing in on him.

Oh, Interpol was after him. I think so. I mean, someone came to my house and discussed it.

Well, he has fled south of the border to Sunny Mexico.

I should have known something was up when he tried to sell me his pickup truck for 50 bucks.

Come back, Dougie. All is forgiven. We're your friends. We'll help you.

The reward money means nothing. We would never accept the reward money.

Hey, I got a good piece of mail here.

Something that a lot of people don't understand is in this letter from

Bonnie Nixon from Bath, Ohio. As an art major I worked my way through college.

It isn't art. I said art. Art. No you did it. I didn't. As an art major. Yes, very good. As an art major. I worked my way through college. Which means that car ownership was an unthinkable luxury at the time.

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