New Russian SUV Accessory

[Mulboyne]

[Charles]

Don't think of it as a dead body, think of it as an optional accessory that will enable you to use the carpool lane.

[Mulboyne]

There was almost a second edition:

Pravda: Russian murdered at company exporting secondhand vehicles in Japan
A Russian man stabbed a compatriot to death early Friday in the office of a secondhand vehicle export company in northwestern Japan, police said. Sergey Radionov, 22, was stabbed in the abdomen in Niigata, 255 kilometers (160 miles) northwest of Tokyo, local police spokesman Takao Iguchi said. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, Iguchi said. Three employees at the Russian-run export company, including Radionov, became involved in a brawl Thursday night with two other Russians twin brothers while drinking at a nearby restaurant, Iguchi said. The three colleagues left the restaurant and returned to their office. The twins _ identified as Vitaly and Stanislav Petukhov later followed them back to the office where Vitaly Petukhov stabbed Radionov early Friday, police said. The twins fled the scene on bicycles, but police found them hiding on a farm about 15 kilometers (8 miles) away, and arrested them on suspicion of murder, Iguchi said...more...

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Novosti: Two Russians detained in Japan for mass car theft

Two Russian tourists, suspected of stealing and smuggling more than 100 cars in Japan, have been detained by police in the city of Yokohama, local authorities said Friday. The suspects were arrested in the course of an investigation in Tokyo in April. The Russians ran a used-car export business, but police discovered that at least a hundred vehicles they sold had been actually stolen. Investigators said the suspects replaced Vehicle Identification Numbers on the stolen cars with numbers taken from crashed cars, which they bought cheaply at special auctions. They later shipped stolen cars abroad, mainly to Russia.