| ReasonOne |
Here is one of my worst incidents.
Years ago when I was in college I was driving a battered primer black '82 Toyota Celica hatchback that I paid $100 for. It was barely roadworthy, but I loved that car. My other car was a '71 Cutlass Supreme convertible but I drove it on good days and used the Toyota on bad ones.
One morning I leave the house to go to work. I park the Toyota on the street as always, because I really don't care what happens to it. I find the passenger side door ajar and presume someone has broken into my car. I open it to find that they have stolen the factory Toyota cassette player and all the speakers (the rear ones never worked). There's my jacket still lying in the back seat with $75 in it - looks like they weren't interested in money.
:dunno:
Next week the same guy must have come back again. This time the cheap aftermarket alarm system that came with the car is stolen (they even took the LED light) and the spare tire is gone. If you can steal the alarm system out of a car, why the hell would you want it?!?! :rolleyes:
The two back tires are also slashed. No problem, I take my other car and head down to the boneyard and get two tires with rims for $10 (this was a long time ago) and half an hour later I'm back on the road. I also find a really old Sony CD player with 0 watts (an amp was required to get any sound from it), a cheap and ancient Jensen amp and 2 speakers out of a Tercel for the grand sum of $15.
Two weeks later, the genius strikes again. My neighbor tells me he chased two guys away from my car at about 3:30 in the morning. He's called the police and filed a report. This time they've thrown a large stone in the hatch window and destroyed it. The Sony CD player and the two speakers were taken, but they left the amp behind (they wrecked it so it couldn't be used). The spoiler is also missing. :rolleyes:
The police tell me if this happens again to let them know. Two days later I head down once again to the boneyard and get another back hatch with good glass and a spoiler on it for $25 and replace the damaged one. At this point I'm really getting pissed off. :mad:
Two months later.....you guessed it..... numbnuts and company strike AGAIN. A police officer is on my doorstep at 5:00 AM informing me that they are in the process of tracking down a couple of kids who were breaking into my car. They ask for a history of prior break-ins and tell me if they get any more information to call him. He gives me his card and leaves. I go to check out my car and this time they've smashed the headlights, signal lights and tail lights on my car, they've taken my arial (not that I have a radio anymore) and they took my factory shifter knob.... At this point I can't help but think either someone is out to get me or the world just happens to be against me. :confused:
Once again, another trip to the boneyard and $30 later I have all lights to swap out. :blink:
Two weeks after the most recent incident, I'm driving my Celica from Cochrane to Calgary and halfway through, the engine catches fire. I pull over to a convenient spot and foolishly attempt to open the hood, burning my hand. I wait 2 or 3 minutes and the fire dies out. THEN the check engine light comes on.... :lol:
A 3 hour walk back to Calgary (this is at night time in November in below freezing weather, by the way) and when I get to the Crowfoot 7-11 l call a friend who has a tow truck to pick it up for me tonight if possible and drop it off at my house. No can do, he will have to do it tomorrow as his truck is at his fathers, but he can pick me up in his car and take me home. YAY!
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The next day after classes I drive home using my Cutlass and I see my friend just pulling out of my backyard with his truck. He tells me "I have some bad news for you. When I got there someone had taken the headlights, signal lights and tail lights. They also tried to start it as the ignition system is damaged."
:eek: I cannot believe my bad luck. I tell him the whole story of what has happened to my car and my friend tells me "If it's that much trouble you should probably just dump it and get something else."
I agree with him. I put the car in the paper, describe that the car is only good for parts as the motor is cooked and set the price at $100. Two guys call me and show up at my doorstep wanting to see the car. They both try to outbid each other and the high bidder buys it from me for $375 and tows it from my yard the same day :lol:
At least I made up for all the money I put into it. I used that money and bought myself a much nicer beater (depending on how you look at it). |
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| BlueTurboEGG |
Talk about a dark cloud hanging over you man :D
I had someone break into my old '82 Toyota Camry to steal a busted ass Alpine cassette pullout... and they didn't take the mounting bracket...:confused:
Nothing else in the car was touched... They took the broke-ass deck...
I installed a factory nissan deck in there without problems so I had some tunes to listen to, but seriously, wtf? |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
I was working security for Initial downtown at the Group Telecom switch centre, now it's Bell I think... on 103St.
My Truck was out back, I was doing partols every 30min, check my truck on the way to the generator door.
well this was Dec 30, technically now 31st of 1999.
I go to gheck the generator door, find my pass window smashed... well for the most part part of it was tinted, so the tinted part was sitting relatively intact on my seat.
I was a little pissed, but I had a brand new stereo system in there that I just paid $3000 for, never mind the custom box and such. Never touched it.
They took a bad with 12ft of 12ga cheap speaker wire, some burned CD's maybe 1 or 2 factory purchased cd's, my radar detector and my Skills Canada jacket. The speaker wire was in a bag, so I'm not sure why they took the jacket. Wasn't anythign super special, was just blue fleece with a skills canada logo on the left chest.
They left all my cassettes I hadden't taken out yet, and missed the stereo stuff. I thin it's cause I made a custom lower console, and the stereo was one of the Kenwoods that flip and hide, and it blended in with the new console, and where the factory stereo was, I took the stereo out, left themounting cage there, and the radar detector extra power cable was tucked in, so they probably thought I didn't have a stereo. |
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| CBiskit |
I Can't believe I read that whole thing.
Great story, I hope you have better luck with your future cars. heh. :D |
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| NATO |
This is from a couple weeks ago when my 1989 4Runner was stolen from in front of my house.
The thieves must have either been really stoned out of their tree, or just plain stupid.
First; There is a sub and amp that was in the back, but it had been moved out of place so I could fold down the rear seats (I had moved a couch earlier in the day and needed the cargo room) They moved the box with the sub and amp back into position and raised the rear seats back into position, but neglected to steal my 10" sub and Kenwood 300w amp. Fine by me!
Next, they pulled off the stock shift knob and replaced it with a polished aluminum B&M "T" style shifter. Fancy stuff, definitly more expensive than the stock knob. Also fine by me.
They hung some new air freshener trees from the rear-view mirror for me. Fine by me! It smelled awesome when the cops found it. I'm not sure if I should be offended that they thought my truck stunk.
Probably the wierdest: I had made a wooden cupholder out of a piece of 3/4" MDF with 2 3" holes cut in it and had screwed it to the center console. Definitely not fancy or attractive, but it served its purpose. I guess the thieves took a liking to it because they took the time to unscrew it from the console and kept it. Hmm. Little annoying.
In return for stealing my CD player, they left me a couple gifts:
- A garage door opener (still have it, sometimes I randomly hit it when driving around the neighborhood where the truck was found, just to see if anyone's garage opens)
- a set of car and (presumably) house keys on a nice ring. I actually just found these yesterday under my seat.
- half a pack of smokes. I don't smoke, so they got chucked.
Yeah, it was almost like a treasure hunt/mystery game when they found my truck. I couldn't believe they took certain items and left other (more expensive) items behind!
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| Godzilla |
| thats halarious, my 88 tercel has had about 5 sets of hubcaps stolen off of it, mirrors smashed twice, and the car completely graffitied with toothpaste, but the best was one morning i go out into my car and notice its really cold, as im shoulder checking i notice the tint in my left quarter window got lighter over night. suddenly i realize the window is in my back seat. I stopped the car and searched it to find 1 glove missing (not the pair) and a pair of head phones missing. My backpack was sitting on the side walk beside the car too. They didn't bother to grab the $500 case of CDs or the speakers all within arms reach of the missing window. I was a little confused but at least i still had my stereo. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
Not mine, but my dad's 96 ram was stolen from out back of his house in his drive way, minor damage tot he door handle, no ignition damage
It had about $10,000 worth of contruction tools in it, some like a diamond blade wet saw for cutting tile, brand new still in box....
2-3 weeks later it was found, not body damage, well no new damage, mechanical seemed the same as before, all the tools where still in it.
My dad's not sure whether to be grateful or insulted. |
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| Cobra_R |
ask shawley is all i have to say.
that poor guy had a beautiful S-10 and i hate chevys so take it from there. |
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| BlueTurboEGG |
quote:
Originally posted by NATO
Next, they pulled off the stock shift knob and replaced it with a polished aluminum B&M "T" style shifter. Fancy stuff, definitly more expensive than the stock knob. Also fine by me.
They hung some new air freshener trees from the rear-view mirror for me. Fine by me! It smelled awesome when the cops found it. I'm not sure if I should be offended that they thought my truck stunk.
Nate
They put stuff in you car? :D |
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| Inzane |
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Originally posted by BlueTurboEGG
They put stuff in you car? :D
Kinda like having a "Mod Fairy". :lol: |
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| B18B1 |
| I do not remember where i read this, but i think couple yrs ago, some dumb thieves stole a car from ontario or somewhere(a mits eclipse?if i recall correctly), and months later,cops found it in a public parkade in BC. the car has been modded, and some pretty expensive parts have been put into it. but the thieves did not bother to switch the original licence plate. |
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| midnite |
| i remember hearing about that too |
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| NATO |
quote:
Originally posted by NATO
In return for stealing my CD player, they left me a couple gifts:
- A garage door opener (still have it, sometimes I randomly hit it when driving around the neighborhood where the truck was found, just to see if anyone's garage opens)
- a set of car and (presumably) house keys on a nice ring. I actually just found these yesterday under my seat.
- half a pack of smokes. I don't smoke, so they got chucked.
Nate
I think the same thieves were back last night. I woke up this morning to find my car door half open and the glove box open. Nothing stolen because there was nothing in my truck, but they took off with the keys that I had found, and the visors were flipped down. I'm guessing they were looking for the garage door opener that was in there. Hm. This is really getting annoying. At least they didn't take off in my truck this time. I had The Club on, so that must have deterred them.
Nate |
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| Godzilla |
quote:
Originally posted by BlueTurboEGG
They put stuff in you car? :D
quote:
Originally claimed by X-Zibit You've officially been pimped!
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| cally |
| When i moved to canada i was car less for 6mos, so i decided to put $600 down on a 87 tercel, oil leaking everywhere and all i was happy...because moving straight from the tropics to the frigid zone and winter was on the horizon, and i didn't want to get stuck waiting for the bus. All was well till summer came round i decided buy an 89 isuzu imark turbo i still had the tercel so i parked it out front my building, i invested in a cd player 2 twelve inch subs and an amp, few weeks later they broke into the imark took it and parked it 2 blocks up the street striped out the speakers and amp i guess they didn't have time to rip out the cd player and still broke the rear glass oh and might i add they broke the back glass first to get into the car but little did they know the drivers door lock was broken so it couldn't lock(I thought i did a good job of hiding the subs and amp in the hatch but i guess they knew my car from around the area). It took me a while to get a glass because an isuzu imark is not somethign you see on the steets of edmonton on a regular, so back to the tercel for a few weeks then it stopped running didn't know what happend, i finally get my rear glass with hatch and all for my i- mark.Exactly 1 week later it rains and floods the street in front of me i get dressed to go to my buddy's house, i get out side, i don't se my 2 cars in front of my apt but floating down 118th av in the middle of the street too,talk about water damage.I guess that was my initial welcome to canada. |
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| GT34 |
I once had my 91 ford escort stolen. The next day my bro was driving to work (it used to be his car) and saw my car pull out from 44ave and onto 50st. Sure enough he started following it and he phoned the cops. Lucky there was a cop in the area and at about 92ave the cop was following my bro. Only prob was the cop was going to pull my bro over and not the guy in the stolen escort. The cop was on his tail ready to ram him so he pulled over and the guys got away with my car.
They ended up ditching it on 101 ave and 65ish st in a ligit parking spot. The cops found it and had it towed even further away from my house and I had to pay the $135 impound fee. I could have just went and picked it up and drove it home. Whatever, that was the most I ever spent on that car. |
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| DeathBy240 |
| In my old Subaru wagon, I decided to spray paint the roof, and the rear side windows flat black. All was good until some classmates of mine drew a big penis on the window with deodorant or something. That shit doesn't come off flat black paint. |
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| Can't_stop_ns |
| My mom had her 02 EL stolen earlier this year.. when to police recovered it it had been riced out.. stereo installed, interior neon, a boost and egt guage, a big chrome iron cross up front.. and a tip over the factory muffler.. It was retarded to say the least. |
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| dance_of_curse |
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Originally posted by Can't_stop_ns
My mom had her 02 EL stolen earlier this year.. when to police recovered it it had been riced out.. stereo installed, interior neon, a boost and egt guage, a big chrome iron cross up front.. and a tip over the factory muffler.. It was retarded to say the least.
i remember when you posted pics fuck was that ever funny |
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| 180sxforthewin |
I went to a party one night and parked my car over in the dark (wasnt thinking, I was only thinking about when I was leaving) and I came out to find that 3 of my tires were slashed. WTF???
Who the hell slashes 3 tires, slash them all if your gonna do that shit. I know who did it, 3 guys that live in Saskatewan, cant wait to take a trip over there. |
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| ReasonOne |
Another incident comes to mind.
Back in '02 I bought my first new car - a silver, fully loaded 5-speed '02 Civic Si-G coupe. I scored myself an awesome deal with the car because my father knew the owner of the dealership.
Two days after I bought it....TWO DAYS!!! :mad:
.....I step out of my house first thing on a Sunday morning and I find all my tires are slashed, my locking wheel nuts are all damaged and a HUGE dent in my driver's front fender.
It only had 75 km on it.....
:wtf:
I had it booked for a full stereo system install on Monday. So much for that. My dad's friend felt so bad for me he tossed in 2 tires and the locking wheel nuts for nothing.
After that incident, I decided to spend the bulk of my hard earned money on a decent house in a decent neighborhood rather than spend it on any more new cars. I also made the decision never to buy new again. |
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| night_font |
| didn’t happen to me, but to a friend. It might even be the first RHD from Japan to get broken into, lol. nissan 180sx and well they broke into through the driver side window, they bent the frame to the window and unlocked it, they weren’t going to steal the car cause it had a club on it, but as they were rummaging, they of course took the 1200 dollar DVD flip up player and as they worked there way through they broke off the boost gauge and the electronic boost controller (useless now). Took 2 t-shirts form the back, and as they popped the trunk they took the sub and amp that was in there about 1000$ worth and cut the power cable to the battery for the car (relocated in the trunk from Japan) i dont know why, dont ask haha. The super odd thing is that for some reason they pulled the e-brake all the way up to the max, so that my friend couldn’t get it down, so he had to take it apart and loosen it off. and that the moon roof (hand powered) was up when they left, also for some reason they decided to leave a 400$ radar detector on the dash in plain sight. STUPID ID SAY |
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| EEDZ |
my dad had a good prank pulled on him at work.
the day after his shift, we stopped for gas at a domo, and the guys like
"um, is there anything wrong with your vehicle?"
and my dad unknowingly said... "no"
so the guy says... "theres a dead fish in your gas tank"
no real damage done |
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| ReasonOne |
This one is my favorite...
For a very brief period in high school (I believed I had just turned 16) I had a white 1967 Buick Skylark convertible. It was slow as hell, had a crusty 330 V8 with a 2 barrel carb and had the worst transmission of the worst. A Buick two speed Jetaway. With over 200,000 miles on the clock, it was more than used - it was abused. The only thing that made it cool for all the kids far and wide was the fact that it was a ragtop with a V8 engine.
One night a friend had a party at his place and when it was over we were all walking back to our cars. To my surprise I found 2 kids sitting in my car fishing under the dash for something. I hear them mumbling about the possibility of a hidden stereo system (NO, all I had was a feeble factory AM radio). I told my friends to hang back while I approached them. I ask them if it's their car. One of them gives me a surprised look and tells me, yeah it's his car without batting an eye. Alright, my mistake I say and proceed to pretend walking away. They go back to their business of fiddling with the dash.
In the meantime, I've taken this time to come about the driver's side of my car. My friends (about 3 of them) were giggling in the distance and that ruined it for me. The two kids turn around and see the three guys in the distance and panic. They both try to bolt. I mention try, because only one of the two kids manage to get away.
The kid on the driver's side jumped out of the car and was about to turn to run. Impulsively, I kicked the car door shut, slamming and pinning it on his right hand. :eek: If you've ever had a car door slam on your hand, you know how much it hurts - but the door of my '67 Skylark had no weatherstripping protection on the side and weighed 3 times as much as a modern car door. I still remember the sound of metal crushing bone to this day. That sound was followed by the agonizing scream of the would-be wigger thief.
My three buddies had chased after the other guy so it was just me and him. He's screaming obscenities at me while I grab my cellphone and dial 911. I was on hold for about 5 minutes and in the meantime the homeowners on the block are coming out to find out what the commotion is all about (it was about 3:00 AM at the time). At this time I announce that this kid tried to break into my car and I'm holding him until the cops arrive. Only 4 people show up and two of them are applauding my efforts by clapping. One of them walks away and the other is telling me that I cannot use excess force to hold him. The kid screams at me that he's going to "cut my nuts off with his knife". Great! Now the possibility exists that he has a knife on him so I have every reason to keep him pinned. I even have witnesses!
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I ignore him and talk to the officer on the phone. I tell her that I have a crook for her to pick up and ask her if he wants to talk to him. The kid proceeds to say that he is going to kill "every fucking one of us for making him go through this including the pigs". Now I have witnesses that he is uttering death threats. I explain the situation and she informs me there will be a unit there within 1/2 an hour. In the meantime, he continues screaming for another 5-10 minutes than goes silent. I guess he passed out from the pain. The cops arrive, demand that I back away from my vehicle and come over to theirs. They move in and open up the car door. One looks him over while the other radios for an ambulance. Another few minutes later an ambulance appears and they throw him in the back.
I had to give a lengthy statement and spend a little time at the local police station answering a whole lot of questions. It was rough because for a while I was treated like a criminal until they questioned all the witnesses. My parents had to come down and they were NOT impressed at the time (my father still chuckles about the incident to this day). The cops let me go because 1) I was a minor and 2) the wigger thief really DID have a knife on him and I did what I had to in order to protect myself.
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