bad day

[Steele]

so today I got up got redy to go to work walked to my car and it is not their what a crappy way to start the week. Has this happend to eny one here ?I want to hear about it so my streek of bad luck dose not seem so bad. so plez tell me your soob stories.

[lizardmom]

dude where's your car. man that sucks, hope you get it back atleast in one piece , was it a nice car?
lizardmom

[daver676]

Well, not my bad story, but my roomate's.

When I was still living in Mississauga a few years back, my roomate went to leave for work, and found his brand new Honda Civic SiR (Old coupe style) up on milk cartons with the wheels missing. We all had a good laugh, except him, of course. At least the car wasn't stolen.

[Steele]

they must have wanted a parts car. my system was stolen 4 months ago whil I was in the hospatel after falling 30 feet of a roof at work. So I think I have a black cloud folowing me.

[daver676]

What kind of car do (or did :() you drive?

[Sean Day]

I wish someone would steal mine (LOL)

[Steele]

It was a 88 s 15 jimmy it was going to be cool one day

[C.m.pyrrhus]

Sh!tty. I had my truck warming after work one evening. Customer came to buy a samich, yet we just closed 10 minutes before and were getting ready to leave. So, since we had no samich, he jumped in and took my warm truck. I just filled up on gas as well. So he drove it like he stole it, er, wait he did. It was gone just over a week. Finally got it back in one piece...so I hope the same fer you.

[Steele]

I get gas on monday mornings so I hope it ran out

[daver676]

An '88 Jimmy? Must have been a nice one.

[Linds]

Ouch. That's a rough way to wake up for sure :(

Originally posted by Sean Day
I wish someone would steal mine (LOL)

LOL my ex-boyfriend from high school used to drive to Toronto, park in the dingiest spot downtown he could find, roll down the windows and leave it unlocked and just pray it would be gone by the time we got back :p

[daver676]

Originally posted by Sean Day
I wish someone would steal mine (LOL)

I hear that!

[ChaosCat]

There's been a rash of car thefts all over the US lately. I used to see it happening to other people, but now I'm seeing it happen to my friends.. and eventually it will happen to me if I am not careful.

These thieves are getting sneakier and sneakier. Even stealing cars with alarms-IE: they know how to bypass most alarms now!

They are also getting more gutsy. The mall on the other side of town has been having random cars stolen MID-DAY. Usually while people are at work, or after the car owner gets back from lunch. NONE of the cars have been found yet except one, and there is an interesting story behind that one..

Basically the car was stolen from the mall's parking lot. Thieves drove it to some remote location and parked it, pulling parts off it. Neighbor noticed weird activity, walked up with a gun, a cellphone, and a dog. Held the thieves at bay (all vietnamese) called cops on cellphone.

Police arrive, say they cannot arrest the thieves as they have no proof they stole the car. :eek: Uh, yeah. Nice.

Same thing happens everytime someone is caught driving a stolen car here. They do not get charged because no one can prove they stole the car. We found this out when a roommate of ours stole TWO of our cars in succession-one before we knew she was a freak, and one the day we told her to get out.

Its going to keep happening as long as the US has laws that protect criminals. I wonder what ever happened to "In possession of stolen property constitues you stole it!"

*shakes head*

Not to sound racist or anything, but our police dept. recently did a racial survey on crimes committed-most have been committed by vietnamese or illegal mexican immigrants. Really sad. :(

-cat

[Steele]

so it turns out that the stores that it was parked next to got robbed stole the smokes and robbed the barber so my car is now a part of a robbery

[daver676]

Originally posted by Steele
so it turns out that the stores that it was parked next to got robbed stole the smokes and robbed the barber so my car is now a part of a robbery

Might actually make the car easier to find. More people will be looking for it.

[Pirranha]

i had a night off from a fishing boat i was working on,and decided to take my girlfriend at the time out for dinner,i went to the same area my truck had been parked for a week,in a small town(one of the one street,one block wide ones)to try out this place id seen when running down the dock at 4 am to jump on the boat.I was there for less than 2 hrs and when i came back someone had broken into my truck and stolen my new deck,and taken the time to take the change in my ashtray too.Luckily they didnt do much damage though.

[C.m.pyrrhus]

On a good note, this is how I met my current girlfriend. Going on 6 years soon ( aint gettin hitched!!). Her car was stolen by her friends boyfriend while she was at work. He and his buddies made a few robberies and then burned the car out in the woods. She was in the process of moving, so all of her personal items were in the car...pffft. What luck eh? Only thing she got out of the deal was me...I feel bad for her worse now than before. To this day nobody has been "caught" or proven guilty, and she did get many "death threats" from the incident. These fellas did a bit of identity theft and other lucrative illegal acts that they were caught for in the end, as well as the robberies.

Because of all this she moved to AZ where she met me....:D

[Lisa]

when imoved to bc some one broke the window on my truck and stole an empty gym bag (leaving the pullout radio alone). crappy thing was i was only away from it for 5 minutes

[Brock]

I wish I had a car in the first place.

-Brock who needs a job.

[jwsporty]

I had a Jeep TJ Soft Top that got broken into 6 times for assorted cigarettes, sunglasses and loose change. Then it got stolen for a Joy ride and came back damged, 5 G's later!! it was all fixed up and then two years ago, once again it got stolen, this time to be found stripped and torched in a farmers field east of Ottawa. I gave up, now I drive a P.O.S Pontiac Sunfire. A$$holes will be A$$holes.


Jim

[Dom]

Tx Jim ..

You made me feel better.. I drive a jeep in Ottawa.. ****.. now you'll make me paranoid lol

Heres what I did .. I have a good sound system in it so I decided that I am not getting it stolen .. theres is over 100 large bolts holding the speaker boxes to the frame.. after wich there is over 200 screws (many different types as well) holding wire meshing and wire gard over the speakers so that it makes it hard to steal.. Pop off face plate for the cs player and on top of that I have a car alarm wich is In my mind useless as all u need to do to steal a car is pop the hood and cut one wire.. 3 seconds of alarm .. that aint gonna stop anybody.. I also use the steering lock thing .. again .. they can remove it but its just such a pain in the *** that I think the robbers will simply go to the next one ..

Anyway .. my idea is that if it would take me over 3 hours to remove all the equipment out of the car .. it would take the the same and there better to go to the nect car to steal..

It had worked so far...



BUT I never ever ever lock my doors... Heres why - one alarm will go off if opened - but if someones wants to get in your truck they will - Id rather them open the door then break a window or scratch the paint .. door locks are a jk to get through as well..

Simply don't keep glasses or money in your car..

[Steele]

I met a guy who would steel the "club" just fore fun it takes like 2 seconds to cut a stiring wheel Ps car is still gone

[lordkovacs]

I was gonna make a new thread, but this IS a sob story...

I think I win hands down. My cousin was hit by a car saturday, is in the ICU in Hamilton in critical condition. Broken legs, arms, coloar bone, 2 punctured lungs, kidney damage, broken skull bone, lacerated shin with infection, is on artificial respiration. Sorry to be such a downer, but I'm just very down about all this... he's only 19 years old!
take care,
MIKE

[Steele]

that sucks man sorry to hear that

[jwsporty]

The Problem, Dom, isn't if they will take your Stereo..The problem is that they WILL simply take the Jeep and then remove the stereo at their own leisure. Chrysler ignitions are the easiest to override.. it just takes seconds and the pro will be driving away with your baby. Put a second switch on your ignition under the hood off the battery terminals and put hood locks on. That in my mind is the best way to keep a Jeep. Now they will have to flatbed tow the Jeep if they really want it.

Jim

[Dozer]

Car thefts are hapenin' everywhere these days... if you own somethin' like a Neon, Sebring, or Intrepid ( notice the CHrysler trend ;) ) NEVER EVER leave stuff in your car... a screwdriver is like a key... With older Neons you can just pull the window back and slip your arm in, a good alarm system is the best way to go, and park somewhere where ya think your car might not get stolen ( I know, thats almost no where, but it makes people feel comfortable )

Mike

[sleddergirl]

We had a theory for years................have a kick-a$$ stereo system, but drive a crappy car. Theory being that the punks wouldn't suspect a nice system in such a sh!tbox. It worked for years..............worked so well that we got a false sense of security from the whole thing and didn't worry about taking the faceplate off at night. Well low and behold, someone decided to check out the crappy Neon one night..............the whole system was gone in the morning, amp everything. They were polite enough to only take the money out of my hubby wallet that was in the car, they left his ID and credit cards (maxxed out anyway....lol)
So now we are still driving the crappiest car known to man, with a replacement system and a new alarm system..............point to my story???????????? I have a crappy car.............(heehee)

[MartinW]

When I was a kid someone stole my parents' van. It broke down a block down the road so they had to ditch it in the middle of the road and steal another one.

Martin