i hate stealers

[dillon schuh]

So today i drove my notch to school. and after school i come to find that the driver window was half way down so i investigate further. i look in the dash and do not see my deck. some ass whole stole my deck during school. i am pissed it wasent super expensive but they still got into the car and stole it. thankfully there was no damage to the car.

[Agent_Smith]

yeah i had the same thing happen to me last year, but they broke my freakin window. they got my deck my sub and and they fried my amp. lol
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[dillon schuh]

it sucks man
and i cant do anything about it

[Pierre G]

Having things stolen always sucks. Maybe you should try to replace with one that has removable face, harder to reuse after stealing it...
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[dillon schuh]

good idea

[Adriel Rowley]

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[DONGKG]

That really sucks! About two weeks ago, While I was at the Supreme Court, I parked my Pajero (J.J. aka Japanese Junk) and upon returning to the car, I noticed that the door's key hole was damaged. Thinking that some street boys just inserted something, I did not mind it!

The following morning, when I left home, I looked for my Compaq laptop! Alas, I was stolen!! Damn! It was stolen the night before!

That was really hard to accept! Ten years of work practice of law had gone down to the drain! I did not have a back up of the files. The law book I was making was there. I failed to have a back up!
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[Pierre G]

Dong, you're crazy ?? A laptop in a car ?? A car stereo belongs to a car, but the laptop ? Take it with you. I never went to your country, but I wouldn't leave my laptop in my car in any country...especially with a lot of work in it. I'm like you, I rarely make my recovery DVDs like the computer asks for...But I always have an eye on my laptop : everything's in there, it's too precious. Sorry for your loss, especially for the law book you were making...


Pierre
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[fasty69]

i installed my deck in my glove box and had my speakers hidden, no one even knew it was there, i also left the stock one in its place, no one is going to bother with that, it also worked out good for car shows

-Lance
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[Aaron M265]

I had my 911 broken into last year- smashed a side window ($700 genuine replacement), bent the window frame ($2500 brand new replacement) and they stole a worklap top sitting under the front seat once they got in (you couldn't see it from outside).

My sisters 1500 bug after a nice resto and fresh paint managed to have some low life decide he would try to remove the dash mounted CD player. I put it in very well and he gave up after bending the dash, smashing the CD player and generaly screwing that low mileage car up.

And some clown broke into a Holden I used to own. I heard it (I sleep very lightly), so I crept up on him, naked, with my baseball bat and its a good thing he either saw the bat in my hand or the bat between my legs because he bolted quick smart and I was about to give him a good belting!!

My recommendation- hide everything if possible. I have restored the 911 now and mounted the CD player elsewhere. I have a nice hole in the dash where the radio should be just to show would be thieves that it aint there. Of course if they want your stuff, they wont hesitate to break in anyway so not much you can do.
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[raygreenwood]

Also a suggestion. Not poking at anyone. I have lived in Nothing but major cities for roughly two decades. Atlanta, Dallas, Philly, DC.

If you leave anything in your car visible...worth more than $5 in pawn sho money....you deserve to get broken into. Sorry. Thats just reality.

It sucks we have so many thieves. Its not right. But its life right now. DO NOT LEAVE THINGS IN YOUR CAR!

I frequent pawn shops. I look for specific camera equipment and measuring instruments....no to mention the odd tool or VW part

If you did not know this...you do now. In my travels to these pawn shops I got to see some business as usual. The vast majority of people in during working hours are people selling individual CD (not pawning...selling) CD playesr, I-pods, radar detectors etc. They sell them outright for greatly reduced $. That means no paperwork required because there is no chance to redeem and buy it back. They want cash.

These are CD's with music choices that have no reference to a man that obviosulty lives under a bridge. They get about $2.50 per CD. They get about $15-10 per I-pod....no questions asked. A digital camera...$20 no questions asked. No paperwork.
This is food money, gas money,money to get into teh shelter, bus money...crack money...whatever.

You got an onvious $5 in "silver" change showing in your ashtray? Your windows are toast and your change is gone in any major city. You should have known better and now you do.

You have a visor rack with 12 CD's in it? What are you stupid? Every street urchin in town now knows you have that in there when you flip it down on the way home. Got a CD hanging from your mirror? Thast stupid too. We all know you have a CD player in there....probably aftermarket. Any aftermarket CD player will bring about $15-20 at a pawn shop...with no paperwork. Direct sale.

If you have an old VW saphire or becker or Blaupunkt...am/fm...no cassette and no CD....no one ever screws with those.
If you have an aftermarket CD player and it does not have a removeable faceplate...what the hell were you thinking?
If you have an aftermarket CD player WITH a removeable faceplate....and you left it in the car....thats just plain stupid....sorry. It is.

Even with an aftermarket stereo with removeable faceplate...if its a very notable high value model, I can buy replacement faceplates on-line at several locations...for a cost....and thats if I want the stereo for myself. You still won't get over about $100 at a pawn shop for a car stereo.

Quit leaving stuff in your car where people can see it. Sorry it happened.
It happened to me a long time ago. I deserved it....and I learned what I'm telling you. Ray

[Project SB]

Damn Ray!

your post made my blood boiled and it's so freaking true! I've gotten my old car (95' Integra) broken into three times and then I had the WHOLE car stolen off my driveway at 6:30 in the morning!!! and i dont live in the ghetto's. I live in Huntington Beach which is suppose to be decent if not better than decent!

I was reading through the neighborhood watch postings the other day for my city and in the past 30 days alone, 20+ cars were broken into and had either their IPOD stolen or their GPS stolen and nothing else. So what you're saying is so true!


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[Mike Fisher]

I had to let Jack take my square to Lane Community College! It's got a Pioneer AM/FM/CD in the stock mount. I told him to lock it, but I should tell him to leave it unlocked? He said their was an abandoned stolen car slammed into a parked car the other day! Lots of Tokers in the Parking Lot.
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[localboy]

I believe you mean "thieves" and yes, I hate them too.



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[raygreenwood]

Until last april, I drove as my daily driver...a 90 model cabriolet....since mayb3 2001. I religiously left nothing in the car. It had a kenwood mid-90's model am/fm cassete with removable faceplate. I used to lock it.
One night I left a $10 small mag-light laying in the back seat. They slashed the roof and stole it. They also stole the kenwood...with no face and thrashed the dash, went through all three ashtrays.

Their take was probably about $2 in change and maybe $2 for the flashlight. I put a new top on and a blaupunkt in with removable face...and never left anything of any value in the car again. Never locked it again either. In the five years since..even working in some of the worst industrial areas...no one ever messed ....with it again.

As one person mentioned, they stole an unvisible lap top. What you have to realize is that once they decide to break into your car for what they can "see"....the risk is over. Its no greater risk time or jail wise to see what their grubby hands can find under your seats or in the glove box.

Don't give them a reason to break in. Also...the 2nd and only other time I have been broken into..I forgot about this....was two years later in that same cabriolet. They didn't break anything or touch anything. I got complacent...and started leaving my small tool bag of ready items I kept while I was driving around local......in my trunk...locked. I was figuring that if they can't see it....they will not dig for it.
Someone who knew cabriolets well....knew that you can lift the back lid behind the seats and get into the locked trunk. They took my toolbag and nothing else.

Don't leave tools in the trunk of your car....if you have an operating trunk latch in your glove box. Knowledgable theaves will someday liberate you. I have a special bag I gought...just for the light stuff I carry for emergency around town.
On long trips...I bring the whole kit. It goes into the hotel room with me at night with my luggage and briefcase.

Its sad...but being a repeat victim will not fix it....so its reality. Its part of daily life. Don't leave things in the car. Ray

[jimmynotch]

I regularly park my car unlocked. I dont keep anything in my car anymore. It is more of a pain in the ass to replace a window than anything they could steal out of the car. I am more worried about someone stealing parts and accy's or the whole car. For the whole car they would have to figure out the fuel shut off valve though.....
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[6d8fasty]

ya i hate theives also, they stole all of my cds outta my dads eurovan and they tried to take the deck also, but luckly enough i had the deck screwed into the back so it was imposible to take out with out taking out part of the dash apart. in my fastback, i'm gonna use the old radio outta the euro van and just use that. and for my music, just go oldschool and make mixtapes lol. nobody will ever steal that. and then amp and sub will go into the front trunk maybe, and nobody knows anything about cars at my school (except for putting on stickers and swapping out bumpers for those ugly body kits) so they wont know how to get in there, its all about out smarting the stupid and not having anything worth stealing to steal.