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The car is the modern day horse, and for folks outside the US - it is hard to understand why horse-thieving was a capital offense in many states in the 1800's
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Its not hard to understand , other countries hung people for stealing horses in the 1800s, they also hung people for stealing rabbits, stealing firewood, chopping down trees, stealing bread, pickpocketing and damaging roads.
They have moved beyond that sillyness now.
But if you want to go all 1800s on it, stealing cotton was a capital offence in South Carolina wasn't it, but only if the thief was black.
