You are welcome

[audtatious]

To the person who is walking around with my Escort 8500 radar detector and other small items, you are welcome. I THANK YOU for not damaging the car when going through it and taking what you wanted. I hope it brings you cheer or a much needed high this time of year. With joy I get to purchase new motion sensing lights and probably a camera surveillance system so I can get a glimpse of my secret little elf. I hope the outside light that illuminated the car did not disturb you in your quest for Christmas goodies....More lights can only help further.

May you choke and die this holiday season. Slow and painful.

[sx moneypit]

Tis the season.

[hitbychance]

i hate theives

[RicerX]

UGGGGHHHHHH I hate hearing these stories. Everyone on the other side of my townhome complex that had a car outside got broken into last week.

Be safe everyone. People are nuts.

[frapjap]

Bummer. How'd they get in and past the alarm?

[AZhitman]

Aw, suck.

No punishment bad enough for thieves. None.

[Encryptshun]

Despicable. And here I just made a post about how we should love our fellow man this holiday season.

Matt, I hope you get your stuff back. You planning to check the local pawn shops and see if they remember someone trying to hawk the items?

[audtatious]

Seems they went through all the cars in the neighborhood. I don't believe they actually "broke into" anything. As in my case it seems they only went through cars that were unlocked. I've been here for 13 years and there is never any crime, thus, forgetting to lock the car is common. I was the one to leave the car door unlocked....luckily I had the doors to my coupe locked and they didn't try and grab my new detector.

The only concern is finding the wife's remote garage door opener which may be missing as well. I've disabled the door so it can't be opened until we figure out whether they took her remote or not.

[audtatious]

Despicable. And here I just made a post about how we should love our fellow man this holiday season.

Matt, I hope you get your stuff back. You planning to check the local pawn shops and see if they remember someone trying to hawk the items?

Thanks broseph......I doubt I'll get it back but you never know. Police took a report and the officer who came out stated he had never been called to our neighborhood before and, as others have said, "it's that time of the year". I need to get online to see if I had it registered with Escort as I can't find anything with the serial number in my records.

[Encryptshun]

Good call on the garage door opener. Don't most of them have a panel of dip-switches so you can change the frequency? -- it'd at least allow you to use that side again (if you programmed another remote, anyway).

[audtatious]

I can change the frequency but gotta find the second remote (or order a new one) first. I simply unplugged it.

[Encryptshun]

Right.

And, while I may stop short of holding the weapon, if you find the douchenozzle I'll help you bury the body.

[maxhopper]

Damn Matt, sorry to hear about this. I hate thieves!

[300ZXttZMAN]

Wow proabably some little jack boys

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Right.

And, while I may stop short of holding the weapon, if you find the douchenozzle I'll help you bury the body.

+1
I at least call dibs on kicking him square in the balls before you put him in a shallow grave.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

Yeah...couple months back some dude was given the master key to go around to all the barracks rooms and change out the student manuals.
The next day 28 cell phones, 8 laptops, and an Xbox mysteriously disappeared. What he couldn't sell off he tossed into the woods around the base. It rained that week. People were not pleased.

[King Ranzo]

Damn son ;_;

Why do people do these things? Like seriously? But then again, you do have quite nice cars. That's what they go for. That's why I have a B14 with a black front, dirty as hell B13 SE-R wheels, and a massive dent in my QP. And I have a security warning light, but yet no fob just yet. They'll probably think the car will asplode because of a system malfunction. Nobody is gonna steal my sound system. EVAR.

[audtatious]

Well, seems my lighting at least kept the theft to my stuff at a minimum. Seems down the street they busted in a couple windows and took things. In one case it was a credit card and they took it to the local WalMart and maxed it out. I hope they get caught BIG TIME!!!!

[frapjap]

What a bunch of idiots. Hopefully they get caught. Sad thing is, they probably won't because the police have better things to do.

Go to figure after you posted this, my corolla got broken into last night. They stole a $15 cheap-o tool kit, wrap around ear muffs, and an athletic strap. Seriously? Those things barely have value to anyone! Stupid. just stupid. f***. stupid.

[Encryptshun]

Why the hell would someone steal your jock strap, Ray?

Maybe you have a stalker....

[Bubba1]

Why the hell would someone steal your jock strap, Ray?

Maybe you have a stalker....

Be on the lookout for a woman wearing a funny looking fabric gas mask....

[Encryptshun]

LOL

[frapjap]

I'm glad that you think my stalker is a woman. (crosses fingers)

[PapaSmurf2k3]

What a bunch of idiots. Hopefully they get caught. Sad thing is, they probably won't because the police have better things to do.

True. Traffic patrol is a #1 priority these days.

Our resources are allocated in all the wrong ways.

[Encryptshun]

Traffic patrol results in revenue for the state. Theft investigations only result in costs.



True story: when I was in my first year of grad school, working at a Wal-Mart, my car got broken in to in the parking lot while I was at work. It was the day after Christmas and I had just come back from my hometown and hadn't even had a chance to stop at my apartment and drop off my stuff. Luckily, it was all in the trunk. However, my discman, cassette adapter, and a case full of CDs was in my passenger floorboard.

Someone bashed the window and made off with the CDs and electronics. The total amount of the items stolen from my vehicle was over $500, making the theft a felony. I called the cops, they investigated, and a report was filed. A week later, a theft ring was busted across the border in Iowa and I saw some of my stuff on a table in the news clip they aired about the bust. I went down to the police station and reported this. Their response was "If you want to drive over there and find out for us if it was your stuff and then let us know, we can go ahead and call this case closed." I ended up finding about half my CDs for sale at the used record store in town. Even though I had put my initials in the liner notes with a Sharpie, when I told the cops the CDs were at the store, they wouldn't even question the owner about where they came from. Now THAT'S public service, right there.

Here's hoping your cops are better.

[MinisterofDOOM]

A friend of mine has had the exact opposite experience multiple times in the last year, Matt. His Metro of all cars, which he never locks, has had the window smashed out twice. First time, they took his CASSETTE PLAYER. Second time they took nothing except the window's nonbrokenness. Then someone CUT the easily unzipped cloth top on his unlocked jeep to steal nothing yet again.

Thieves are scum.

[IBCoupe]

Well, seems my lighting at least kept the theft to my stuff at a minimum. Seems down the street they busted in a couple windows and took things. In one case it was a credit card and they took it to the local WalMart and maxed it out. I hope they get caught BIG TIME!!!!

Wal-Mart has cameras, right? That seems idiotically risky.

Were you robbed by these guys?

[dasoupdude]

Ever since my alarm broke this is what I leave out on my dash in sketchy places, so far I've been able to keep my car on with the doors unlocked while i go inside a fuel station to piss.

[BusyBadger]

Ever since my alarm broke this is what I leave out on my dash in sketchy places, so far I've been able to keep my car on with the doors unlocked while i go inside a fuel station to piss.

I fabbed up a field notebook with the CPD logo on it and left it sitting on the passenger seat with a pair of cuffs when I lived up in Chicago.

[alms24sebring]

Sorry to hear that. You should invest in a new car alarm.

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