It's only one photo so far but trust me, if you look around for it, you'll start seeing that a lot of cars have these weird dents/scratches in their sides due to the fact that drivers here are turning too sharply and running into things at corners. An unusual phenomenon that is very prevalent in Los Angeles according to my own observations. It reminds me of the number of cracked windshields I saw in Seattle (which, of course, is another odd anomaly from a different city). …

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