RANT FILE#568 Breaking into my car

[SkyWolfe]

Ode to the Car thief,

Why did you break into my car three times? Something about the baby seat must have screamed "wealthy"...

Why did you first steal the tanning lotion? It gave me a bad rash, I hope it gave one to you too.

Why did you break in again, only to roll down my window so the rain came in? And then wreck my vinyl roof?

Why did you DESTROY my door last night to steal a stereo worth NOTHING on the street? And please, next time, clean up the mess you left.

And lastly, it will be $1600 to fix my door, more for the roof, and 400 for the damaged deck area.

The good news is, you have inspired me to get a new, safer, vehicle. My poor blue convertible mustang, has been traded for a red Charger. GO F*CK YOURSELF.

PISSED WOLFIE

[petite]

Ode to the Car thief,

Why did you first steal the tanning lotion? It gave me a bad rash, I hope it gave one to you too.

This is my favourite line. I hope they get a nasty rash too!

[BibleMonkey]

That would piss anyone off. I hear you. Your story reminds me about the car-vandal New York story I heard......after a big increase in car-smash-ins, drivers in New York took to putting a sign in the car window "No Radio In Car "

Guy comes back to his parked car, windows all smashed out, sign is reversed, written on the back:

'Get One".

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[TG]

I had a friend working in towing business.
One time he took my car and put it a corner away without telling me.
So after everybody had a good laugh at me, he showed how he would open locked doors with his 'special' tools.
The ones he would use to help clients retrieving their car keys locked inside.

It took him 15 seconds in average without doing any damages!
And another 45 or less to pin a car and go away...

SkyWolfe, your Car thief were pure amateurs

[Wilbur]

Owning rag tops for many years, I long ago gave up on locking my car doors and having anything inside I wasn't willing to see gone. Since leaving my car unlocked, including window rolled down if sheltered, I've not had my roof slashed once. Prior to that when I first had my first rag top, ICBC was buying me a new top every few months. I did manage to catch one guy in the act of stealing my wheels one night. His right tibia was introduced to Mr. Louisville Slugger as he started to stand up and turn toward me with his tire iron in hand. Cops agreed it was entirely self defence on my part and charged him for assault with a weapon (tire iron) and theft. He spent 3 days in hospital, 3 months in a cast, and 2 years on probation after pleading guilty to the theft attempt.

[SkyWolfe]

If I could only manage that (smashing his tibia). I am tired of my rag top. New one is just a coupe.

[Just another canuck]

I long ago gave up on locking my car doors and having anything inside I wasn't willing to see gone.

BINGO!! I've watched a group of kids open all four doors of the Jeep Grand Cherokee I used to own from my front window on a couple occasions. They rummaged for a bit, then moved on... nothing broken and nothing stolen cause there was nothing worth stealing.

[SkyWolfe]

There wasn't in here either. The stereo was a POS, it doesn't even work properly. I can't wait for them to find that out.

[xsbank]

Just some druggie needing a fix - probably got a couple of bucks towards his next buy.

Maybe we should apply the tenets of SMS to this event? Was the poor guy tired from being up all night looking for something to steal so that he just didn't have his wits about him to do a good job? Was his welfare inadequate, so that he was improperly nourished and therefore unable to do a good job? Were the pressures of his (low) life causing him to behave in a way different from his training? Did his captain allow him sufficient opportunity to do the task himself, or was this his first solo? Was the night particularly dark or was it raining? Were his tools adequate or due to budget cuts, was he 'making do?'

I don't think its fair to blame this person as the system and peer-pressure were working against the certainty that there might be a way to break the incident-chain.

Sorry for your loss, Wolfie, but a Charger coupe? With a baby? PM me for the name of a good physiotherapist in Vancouver (I'll ask my ex-wife for the number of her shrink, too).

[iflyforpie]

I drive an ancient Volvo that actually has a pretty good stereo system in it (somebody else had put it in, worth more than the car ). I never had anyone break into it or try and steal the stereo when I was in the Lower Mainland. Good luck I guess...

A long time ago when we were living in Richmond, we had a Jeep Cherokee. One day, we noticed the door open and a board missing out of our back fence. Thought it was strange until we saw another Jeep Cherokee pulled over on Steveston right behind out house, completely covered in mud, with two youths standing beside it with sour looks on their faces. The only thing we figured is either they got spooked, or they couldn't drive standard.

The Charger has four doors IIRC.

[niss]

Sorry to hear that wolfie! I was so pissed when I had my generator stolen, I can't imagine how bad this would suck.

May the gentlemen who robbed you and I come down with the worst case of nut cancer.

[SkyWolfe]

The Charger has four doors IIRC.

Pretty much why I got it.

Xs: I almost peed myself on that. Poor man... He must have just been so fatigued.

[Pavese]

That would piss anyone off. I hear you. Your story reminds me about the car-vandal New York story I heard......after a big increase in car-smash-ins, drivers in New York took to putting a sign in the car window "No Radio In Car "

Guy comes back to his parked car, windows all smashed out, sign is reversed, written on the back:

'Get One".

LOL!

Sky, sorry to hear about the Mustang, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest their......

OK, and here's another story I heard when I lived in Italy. At the time the big thing was pull out stereos, you'd see young couples walking in the park, she with purse in hand, he with stereo, they even had convenient carry handles....

Anyhow, young couple with an economy car stay at a hotel for the night, carefully park under a streetlight and leave a note on the dash that says, "no stereo". They come out in the morning, and the car is gone but there's a note under a rock where it was parked, it said don't worry about the stereo we'll put one in ourselves.

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[SkyWolfe]

Thanks for the chuckle!

[BoostedNihilist]

Got a good one for you Wolfie.

I was living in Burnaby, working for a mobile car alarm installation service. I had just purchased the miata so I had not had a chance to install an alarm system in it.

One night I left my car parked in my condo's underground lot. Not thinking that anyone would steal from in there I left my hard top off and left my tool box on the passenger seat. In this toolbox was a complete set of tools purposefully chosen for the installation and removal of car electronics. All told, there was probably about 1k worth of stuff in the box... and a cd player in the dash

I get up to go to work and I notice that my top had been slashed.. I knew instantaneously that my car had been looted, and I was already pulling my phone out of my pocket to call in tool-less but when I got to the car I could plainly see that my toolbox (including many #2 phillips screwdrivers) had been left on my drivers seat... but my radio had been stolen.. well, not totally, it was still in the dash but the dash had been absolutely brutalized and my deck had been pried out and left. It seems that someone had forgotten their #2 screwdriver. Anyways, I was truly surprised to find that a. my toolbox was still there and b. that the thief did not at least look inside it to see if the requisite stereo removal tools were immediately available.

Anyways, for the next week or so my expensive stereo would make a cd transport noise, which I would shut up by pounding my fist on top of the half in half out stereo. Inevitably by the end of the second week the stereo ceased to make any noise whatsoever, my assumption it was dead.

So the day of the ICBC appointment arrives. I am stoked to finally be going to see an adjuster... I really wanted some money for a new soft top and stereo. I wake up, have my coffee and stride down to the car. At this point I should mention that I no longer kept my tools in the car.. I put them in the trunk. Anyways I open the door and immediately realize that thief had returned to finish the job, and now, my broken stereo is now completely gone.. I chuckled to myself. Apparently brainy went and got a phillips screwdriver to finish the job. I laugh to myself, and as I am laughing I look down and what do I see? Why mr. thief had left his yellow handled feller #2 phillips on my passenger seat...

It turns out that I had my car insured in the wrong 'zone' so ICBC promptly decided they would not insure the damages so I got nothing but a nice fresh feller screwdriver out of the deal. I still have that screwdriver and irony of ironies it spend half a decade installing car stereos and car alarm systems. That is one reformed screwdriver. I retired it when I got a nice set of JET screwdrivers but unlike the other tools (which I bequeathed to my brother) that phillips has an honorary place in the second wide drawer from the top

[Phlyer]

Got a good one for you Wolfie.

I was living in Burnaby, working for a mobile car alarm installation service. I had just purchased the miata so I had not had a chance to install an alarm system in it.

One night I left my car parked in my condo's underground lot. Not thinking that anyone would steal from in there I left my hard top off and left my tool box on the passenger seat. In this toolbox was a complete set of tools purposefully chosen for the installation and removal of car electronics. All told, there was probably about 1k worth of stuff in the box... and a cd player in the dash

I get up to go to work and I notice that my top had been slashed.. I knew instantaneously that my car had been looted, and I was already pulling my phone out of my pocket to call in tool-less but when I got to the car I could plainly see that my toolbox (including many #2 phillips screwdrivers) had been left on my drivers seat... but my radio had been stolen.. well, not totally, it was still in the dash but the dash had been absolutely brutalized and my deck had been pried out and left. It seems that someone had forgotten their #2 screwdriver. Anyways, I was truly surprised to find that a. my toolbox was still there and b. that the thief did not at least look inside it to see if the requisite stereo removal tools were immediately available.

Anyways, for the next week or so my expensive stereo would make a cd transport noise, which I would shut up by pounding my fist on top of the half in half out stereo. Inevitably by the end of the second week the stereo ceased to make any noise whatsoever, my assumption it was dead.

So the day of the ICBC appointment arrives. I am stoked to finally be going to see an adjuster... I really wanted some money for a new soft top and stereo. I wake up, have my coffee and stride down to the car. At this point I should mention that I no longer kept my tools in the car.. I put them in the trunk. Anyways I open the door and immediately realize that thief had returned to finish the job, and now, my broken stereo is now completely gone.. I chuckled to myself. Apparently brainy went and got a phillips screwdriver to finish the job. I laugh to myself, and as I am laughing I look down and what do I see? Why mr. thief had left his yellow handled feller #2 phillips on my passenger seat...

It turns out that I had my car insured in the wrong 'zone' so ICBC promptly decided they would not insure the damages so I got nothing but a nice fresh feller screwdriver out of the deal. I still have that screwdriver and irony of ironies it spend half a decade installing car stereos and car alarm systems. That is one reformed screwdriver. I retired it when I got a nice set of JET screwdrivers but unlike the other tools (which I bequeathed to my brother) that phillips has an honorary place in the second wide drawer from the top

Good story. Extreme irony is that the insurance underwriters are the biggest thieves; and they figured out how to steal legally!

[xsbank]

Ok, good story about the Miata.

Fotoflyer, I am very curious to why you quoted the whole story in your reply. Did you think we might need to read it all again to get the full benefit of your response? Is your own reading retention such that you needed to have it on your desktop while you composed your reply? As it is obvious that you are using up bandwidth or whatever its called to repeat it, what is it that I'm missing? Should I be quoting everything that I reply to?

Just wanna know, that's all.

[Phlyer]

Ok, good story about the Miata.

Fotoflyer, I am very curious to why you quoted the whole story in your reply. Did you think we might need to read it all again to get the full benefit of your response? Is your own reading retention such that you needed to have it on your desktop while you composed your reply? As it is obvious that you are using up bandwidth or whatever its called to repeat it, what is it that I'm missing? Should I be quoting everything that I reply to?

Just wanna know, that's all.

No, I'm just stupid because my daughter was born yesterday.

[xsbank]

Wow! Congratulations! What a fantastic day for you (and exhausting). I'm going to be a grandfather in a month (or so). All the fun with no responsibility!

See, I just wanted to know......

[Phlyer]

Clarification is a good thing.

[SkyWolfe]

Bahahahahahhaha Boosted!

Xs: I think we can apply SMS to Foto's post, can't we?

Foto: Congrats!!!! My little guy is already 8 months old! They grow sooo fast!!!

Cheers,

Wolfie

[Phlyer]

Holy Weird Thread Tangent Batman!

[iflyforpie]

Foto: Congrats!!!! My little guy is already 8 months old! They grow sooo fast!!!

My first is starting Kindergarten tomorrow!!


(Just keeping with the thread tangent)

[Lurch]

My first is still floating around in an ovary somewhere, not sure where, but I'll let you all know as soon as I find it.

[Rowdy]

I had a 91' shadow ES (one of the turbo'd ones) in high school. Lots of fun and I was young and dumb and immediatly scrounged all my cash and dumped a fancy at the time panasonic stereo into it, leaving me mostly broke and running with the needle on E all the time... however I still always had my doors locked and some jackass had the gall to steal it from the high school parking lot MID DAY while the principal happened to be walking through.. much yelling and screaming and a quick call to the police but they (obviously) dont care to respond quickly to these sorts of things, so the thief got away.

Car was found two days later in town.. returned to me via the tow company sans stereo but with a full tank of gas!! He probably didnt get very far. Also nothing else in the car had been disturbed at all.. including my flight bag AND tool box.. full of many expensive snap on goodies.

Makes you wonder!