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I rented a car from Turo this weekend and it might as well have exploded...

You may have heard of Turo. They’ve been in the news lately because both vehicles used in the New Year’s Day Attacks this year were rented from Turo. In a statement responding to the incidents, the company had this to say:

“We do not believe that either renter involved in the Las Vegas and New Orleans attacks had a criminal background that would have identified them as a security threat,” Turo said in a statement Wednesday. “We are actively partnering with law enforcement authorities as they investigate both incidents.”

This weekend, we needed to rent a car to pick up our son, Senna, from Boston who’d been staying with my Mother-in-law the last three weeks after the fires.

As mentioned before, we evacuated the day of the Palisades Fire, stayed in Palm Springs, then San Diego, then Escondido, at which point my Wife, Natashia, flew to Boston …