it wasnt the law that found it, saw it myself when i tried to find a parkingspot for my moms honda i had borrowed.. it seems like they tried to do a 3 point turn and since the shifter cable (thank god for crappy parts sometimes) had broken a few days back, i had bought another a new one but not installed it yet (i just turn the collar on the steering coloum to reverse and put in park till i found the time to take a good day in the shop and do some small snags, including the cable)
anyway.. they couldnt get it in reverse, so it just bumped softly into a tree and stayed there in idle. and propably stalled... and when they couldnt drive in it, they just left it.. thank god i parked it in that direction