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I responded once to a car fire by elcortez01

Drunk guy put his new Audi SUV into a creek and it caught fire. After the cops hauled away the driver (who lived only a few blocks away) one of the cops told me the offender should have been smarter. Said he should have walked home, cracked a few beers and thrown them in the trash. That way, when the cops eventually showed up he could have plausibly told them he wrecked his car earlier and was so distraught he came home and pounded a few beers to ease his nerves. I got the sense the cop had seen this "strategy" successfully used in the past.