[Xenephex]

I wasn't directly involved in this, but I knew the people who were, and it's worth telling.

This was during the 60's, in a small town in Upper Michigan. The local (city, county) cops were, well, local cops. They didn't have a lot on their plate (other than donuts) except keeping the local youth in line, so they weren't popular.

This happened in the dead of winter during deer season. It was a Saturday after a heavy snowfall and they got a call that there had been a big fight and some gunfire at somebody's hunting camp.

With the fresh snow, they couldn't drive to the camp, which was a mile or so off the road; a long walk trudging through the snow. They parked their car on the road, walked back to the camp and of course discovered that no one was there.

When they got back to the road, there was their car, completely undamaged except...

the engine was sitting in the road in front of it.