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Nailed to the trunks of pine trees are portraits of the executed.

Elephants around Lake Manyara in Tanzania were killing acacia trees by ripping off bark and leaving “pale ghostly white trunks.”

On a daily basis, the park is flanked by street vendors cooking meals on propane grills or selling goods from the trunks of their cars.

But perhaps more important is that having junk in the trunk is no longer seen as a dreaded marker of middle age.

But all of it came to an abrupt halt last month with the discovery of a severely decomposed body in the front trunk of his Tesla.