Authorities began using "bait cars" about six years ago in the Bronx to combat a chronic problem with car thefts and break-ins in working-class neighborhoods.

WSJ: Take the bait? NYPD anti-theft tactics criticized

Combat units report finding several weapons and explosives caches, along with car bombs and other homemade explosives.

CNN: Troops find hostage 'slaughterhouses' in Falluja

Or the rumors promised reward: every paratrooper (or combat infantry, or artilleryman, or medic, or whatever) was going to get a free car from Henry Ford when the war was won.

CNN: Private Ryan was a hero, but there were bums, too