Well the first question is how much is the fine

Nobody could have known that all this time Sewerage and Water Board was working to make Elon Musk's dream a reality.  So far the results are... well.. there's work to do still, obviously.

At this point, it's no surprise when workers pull trash, debris or even literal tons of Mardi Gras beads out of New Orleans' clogged drainage pipes. Entire cars in the city's underground pipes, however, are still a bit of an unusual find.

Sewerage and Water Board crews on Tuesday came across what appear to be two vehicles crammed into a drainage culvert that runs under Jefferson Davis Parkway near the Lafitte Greenway. The cars, embedded in a pile of other debris, were clogging up one of the key pipelines that feeds water to the pump station that drains parts of Mid-City, an area that has been hard hit by flooding in recent years.

So many questions. And I don't just mean, how did they get there?  I'm guessing they washed in from an open canal.  We already know abandoned cars are regularly dumped into Bayou St. John.  It would be shocking if the same thing wasn't happening in the drainage canals that lead to these culverts. But beyond that, who do they belong to? How much do they owe in parking fines?  And isn't it tragic that the owners of these vehicles did this instead of just waiting for amnesty summer to happen? Anyway it's good to know this is an option next time we're trying to avoid an NOPD checkpoint. There'll probably be a few of those over the Labor Day weekend.