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A few years ago I parked my car just for 5 minutes when I noticed that I left my camera on the backseat. So I took it and put it into the trunk. When I get back the left rear door’s window was broke in, The backseat was folded down and my camera was gone. Since there was no surveillance camera anywhere the police never find the thief. Just to be more annoying it wasn’t a cheap camera and I bought it for 3years of credit. I just paid the very last payment two weeks before they stole it. Probably he saw when I put it into the trunk. If I would just left it on the backseat……who knows….maybe nobody would notice it. Since that day if I ever left something on the backseat I put it into the trunk through the backseat so no one sees what I put in there.
Anyway…..What was with the end of the video? 😀I’ve been lucky on the car break in front, however the external has been a bit worse. I’ve had an attempted catalytic theft (with much collateral damage) stopped by our crack security team at work. Same week, someone stole one wheel cover off her VW (and I can see why while trying to find a replacement). Next car will have alloy wheels.
Eric, I think you were a victim of something called “car surfing” where kids just go around looking for unlocked vehicles and take anything of value. I live in a nice neighborhood also and it’s a problem here too.
I’ve never had anything stolen out of my car, but I have had parts stolen out of my backyard. My Mustang originally came with power steering but it was disconnected and falling apart when I got it. So pulled it out and put on manual steering components just to get it driveable in the meantime and I’d fix them later. Well one day I come home to find that they’re all gone and no one in the house had touch them. Close to $500 worth of parts gone.
Now my dad has had it a lot worse than me. When my parents were getting divorced he had his 2008 Dodge Ram stolen out of our driveway. Fortunately he was trying to sell it and nothing valuable was in it at the time, but that didn’t turn out to matter. My dad was a professional photographer and kept had several thousand dollars worth of cameras. While he had a rental after his truck had been stolen, it got broken into while he was at a restaurant and had those several thousand dollar cameras stolen.
The oddest incident of thievery of items in one of my vehicles, was when someone got into my reliable POS ’93 Gr Voyager and stole a few items….
Did they steal the GPS which I had on the floor between the seats? No, they stole my jumper cables, 1 case of oil and two oil filters.
I can’t really figure that one out !!!
Steve
Eric! i can unfortunately say that, not only has the Honda Civic I have pics of (and the thread about the engine) been stolen, but it was returned without the radio, 2 35-packs of bottled water, my camera, my briefcase with Target card info etc.. and many other things missing, (battery, distributor, etc) so now the defroster still doesn’t work!
I fear taking my Blazer to certain places.
I go to several pawn shops in town and noticed many of them have signs on the front door that say “we don’t buy car audio”…. when I asked the manager why I was simply told “it’s cause they are all stolen”.
I have had two car break Ins in my life… both times my stereo was gone… i was fit to be tied….
Ironically I had this discussion with a cop neighbor… he says he even keeps his car unlocked… he says, just don’t leave any change or anything valuable in it…. the thieves will get in anyway….
Karl
[quote=”ToyotaKarl” post=149768]I go to several pawn shops in town and noticed many of them have signs on the front door that say “we don’t buy car audio”…. when I asked the manager why I was simply told “it’s cause they are all stolen”.
I have had two car break Ins in my life… both times my stereo was gone… i was fit to be tied….
Ironically I had this discussion with a cop neighbor… he says he even keeps his car unlocked… he says, just don’t leave any change or anything valuable in it…. the thieves will get in anyway….
Karl[/quote]
This is so true.. Pop a window off the track, and you’re in. I got my Civic back, certain parts in tact.. Trunk lid missing.
Last I checked, hammers break windows pretty easy (even if they bounce off at the first wrong angle) but there’s your “in.” And then, if you have a noisemaker alarm, they rip out the speaker. Assuming anyone is even listening anyways.
I wonder if he is on to something. Though, professional thieves “just hit every single button” looking for that kill switch… This is how I have seen it done, including knowing some thieves that know how to defeat basically every antitheft device.
Best one I have seen is the brake pedal lock, though I have *heard of* one case of someone with mammoth strength using the leverage of it to bend pedal enough to snap it off.. though, thanks to how easy Honda is to steal, you can stop the car with the transmission, and e-brakes, and they may take it with that thing on it, and if you are lucky, get it recovered – yes, with that thing still on it, untouched. Thanks, Honda (Civic.)
[quote=”grounded-b” post=149660]The oddest incident of thievery of items in one of my vehicles, was when someone got into my reliable POS ’93 Gr Voyager and stole a few items….
Did they steal the GPS which I had on the floor between the seats? No, they stole my jumper cables, 1 case of oil and two oil filters.
I can’t really figure that one out !!!
Steve[/quote]
That is weird. Almost seems like they were in some kind of desperate situation since that’s not even stuff you’d would even get stolen in the first place. Let alone that you had that gps ripe for the taking.
The only time I didn’t lock my car cost me my Passport, and my very high end stero (Stero was 11 years old and I was going to get a newer one). My insurance plus $100 replaced it with much better one, with Bluetooth and High Defination reception (Music from HD stations is as good as a CD).
Lesson learned.the hard way. (Car is 2001 Prelude, Type SH, and was in carport.)
Police didn’t even respond and I filled out police report on the net!I live on a court with a short street which totals about 10 houses.
Three cops live on the court and often park their marked cruisers on the court at some point during the day.
It’s a low crime area.
[quote=”szavjani” post=149604]Anyway…..What was with the end of the video? :D[/quote]
Keeping in context of the video, maybe they were gonna “steal away” into the night. (Robbie Dupree song) In such a case, not a crime… 😉So yeah, Eight years ago someone busted out a small quarter glass in the back door to get in my car. My stereo, amps, subs, tool box, and a couple cases of pepsi were gone. Luckily I had full coverage. I did not replace the system, figured it would get ripped off again anyways.
About 20 years ago I had a car stolen. It was cold, I was letting it warm up and walked away to talk to someone just for a second… Well you know what happened. I eventually got the car back and get this – The stereo was not gone (it sucked anyways) and the $140 I had hidden under some tapes in the center console was still there. Only thing missing was some bazooka tube sub in the back seat (no real loss)
Today I do not keep anything in my car worth stealing. Yeah the stereo but I keep the face off. One can only do so much.
I have a jack, some rags, an old towel, ice scraper, tire inflater (seen better days) and an umbrella that, ironically enough, I “borrowed” from my room mate. Don’t tell her.Thing is, stealing crap is a desperate move. Like the person who had the camera stolen – how much could the thief really get out of the thing? The thief is probably someone that no one would do business with anyways so the camera is worth zero dollars to him.
Anyone want to buy an umbrella? 😆
One time I had car broken into, all kinds of stuff taken. There was a bottle of margarita mix in there half opened and they took that. All the things that could have gone in that bottle had I known it was was to be pilfered. One time I had a radiator stolen off a UPS truck because somebody thought it was a flatscreen TV. I would have payed money to see the dissapointment in their face when they opened it up and figured out it wasn’t something anybody but me would even want. IT came back to me with a hand scribbled address and UPS didn’t want it back al though I basically forced them to send it back to the vendor.
[quote=”andrewbutton442″ post=155195]There was a bottle of margarita mix in there half opened and they took that. All the things that could have gone in that bottle had I known it was was to be pilfered. One time I had a radiator stolen off a UPS truck because somebody thought it was a flatscreen TV. I would have payed money to see the dissapointment in their face when they opened it up and figured out it wasn’t something anybody but me would even want.[/quote]
One time I had to meet my brother at a gas station to pick up something. He had two bottles of his favorite booze in the passenger seat, they were seat-belted in. For some reason the song “smashing a perfectly good guitar” came to mind.
With the radiator being stolen, Imagine what a dumb-ass he felt like. Got it home to the wife and kids, “Honey look, I bought us a new TV!” And there is a stupid radiator in there.
He did not steal it from you, what he did was accept the radiator in exchange for you to have something to joke and laugh about for years to come. Fair trade i say 🙂
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