Hi Fi

I took this picture of a stereo I found near a burned out car recently. It appears as if the car was stolen, stripped and then torched. The burned out shell of a car sits on a vacant lot a few miles from my house.

I'm working on another photography project, and stumbled upon the car when taking other pictures. I took a few other photos of the car, but nothing jumped out at me like the stereo did, with its fried wires, and casing that looks like it's a thousand years old.

The torched shell of a stereo made me wonder how that part of the car didn't get removed along with everything else (seats, steering wheel, etc.). It looks like someone made the effort to pull the deck out from the dashboard, but didn't think it was worth taking home with them.

It was just a standard AM/FM receiver, lacking a CD player or even a tape player. Perhaps such a stereo isn't even worth swiping, since all you can access is what can be found on the radio dial. If the votes of thieves count in the pop cultural electoral college, than one can conclude that DJs like Rabid Ron, and non DJ formats like JACK FM ain't as cool as they think they are.