My anti hijack device was installed today
Cost me $500 installed. It activates when I start the ignition or if the door is opened with the truck running. If i do not press a hidden button, the truck will start to shut down after 3 minutes. It...
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The law has not changed since I first went, and that's been a half-century ago. In 1964 get involved in an injury accident and to the can everyone went.
I have had a handgun stuck in my ribs twice. Both occurred in the USA. California. Once in El Cajon, the second in San Pablo. Yes the cops came, yes they took reports, yes both times I was left afoot (car keys taken). Both times I had several hundred in cash stolen at gunpoint. License, ID everything. When the cops came the second time did my left shoulder unseparate? No. Did I get my cash back? No. Nothing. Replacing wallet contents and wallet cost 100 dollars plus. When the cops showed up at Doctor's Hospital in San Pablo did my head get un-concussioned? No. The goddamned hospital charged medi-care even though the robbery took place in the outside stairs leading to hypobaric and apnea treatment floor.
I am going to try my best and not be sarcastic here. What was, is, and going to be "The Big Difference" between getting preyed upon in Mexico versus the USA? If your car disappears in the USA, how much time is going to elapse before an insurance check can be grasped by your eager little fingers? A USA insurance company will fight you tooth and nail over them "allowing low blue book" versus what you think your vehicle is worth.
STOP THE CAR in Mexico. Make it so it does not move any further. That resolves 99.99% of potential difficulties down the road.
How much more time is spent on these forums discussing the "issues" involved with car theft
Versus...
How to avoid, and how to deal with an injury accident.
An injury accident is extraordinarily more of a threat to your safety and well-being than a car theft. Even a car theft at gunpoint. I would rather face 10 car thefts with me getting or the cops getting the stalled car back than a single serious side swipe or city intersection "T Bone" accident with injury.
And yet forums fixate on car theft. And expensive devices that do not work. Neither Canadian Rainbirds nor Ron Y Vicky were within cellphone range of the nearest tower. I know this because I have been in both places too many times to count and Tzintzuntzan has cell range 3 km outside city limits and North of the northern gasolinera in Caleta there are no bars on cellular.
The NEAREST PFP oficina to Caleta is 3km north of Lazaro Cardenas. There is a PFP sub office in Patzcuaro.
If you insist on spending money. Get a shutdown system. A dash cam a good one, that can really how a person's face is a good investment. Robberies occur on the side of the road. A SECOND high definition camera pointed to the area outside a motorhome door or to the driver door side of a pickup towing a trailer would work excellent. Images of the perp and accomplices are worth a million dollars to the cops. With images they stand an excellent chance of gumshoe work to find names and addresses to go with the images. But the images cannot be fuzzy or blurred. I do not know dash camera technology. The ins and outs. The quality of images. Someone else has to chime in. But think about where a robber is going to confront you. The space. That's where a dash cam will do the most good. BTW a side looking camera positively stops a cop from writing a hundred dollar ticket for falsely running a stop sign. He may write the ticket but his boss is going to give him the ass-chewing of his life if he sees the ticket was fraudulently issued.
Concentrate on the stuff that works. Ignore things that don't.
How fast can someone riding shotgun retrieve images from dash cams in a pickup? If it's too slow mount the dash cam looking down from the front window of a 5th wheel trailer. Toward the front of course. This will give a really nice album for the transitos or preventivos to work from.
I have had a handgun stuck in my ribs twice. Both occurred in the USA. California. Once in El Cajon, the second in San Pablo. Yes the cops came, yes they took reports, yes both times I was left afoot (car keys taken). Both times I had several hundred in cash stolen at gunpoint. License, ID everything. When the cops came the second time did my left shoulder unseparate? No. Did I get my cash back? No. Nothing. Replacing wallet contents and wallet cost 100 dollars plus. When the cops showed up at Doctor's Hospital in San Pablo did my head get un-concussioned? No. The goddamned hospital charged medi-care even though the robbery took place in the outside stairs leading to hypobaric and apnea treatment floor.
I am going to try my best and not be sarcastic here. What was, is, and going to be "The Big Difference" between getting preyed upon in Mexico versus the USA? If your car disappears in the USA, how much time is going to elapse before an insurance check can be grasped by your eager little fingers? A USA insurance company will fight you tooth and nail over them "allowing low blue book" versus what you think your vehicle is worth.
STOP THE CAR in Mexico. Make it so it does not move any further. That resolves 99.99% of potential difficulties down the road.
How much more time is spent on these forums discussing the "issues" involved with car theft
Versus...
How to avoid, and how to deal with an injury accident.
An injury accident is extraordinarily more of a threat to your safety and well-being than a car theft. Even a car theft at gunpoint. I would rather face 10 car thefts with me getting or the cops getting the stalled car back than a single serious side swipe or city intersection "T Bone" accident with injury.
And yet forums fixate on car theft. And expensive devices that do not work. Neither Canadian Rainbirds nor Ron Y Vicky were within cellphone range of the nearest tower. I know this because I have been in both places too many times to count and Tzintzuntzan has cell range 3 km outside city limits and North of the northern gasolinera in Caleta there are no bars on cellular.
The NEAREST PFP oficina to Caleta is 3km north of Lazaro Cardenas. There is a PFP sub office in Patzcuaro.
If you insist on spending money. Get a shutdown system. A dash cam a good one, that can really how a person's face is a good investment. Robberies occur on the side of the road. A SECOND high definition camera pointed to the area outside a motorhome door or to the driver door side of a pickup towing a trailer would work excellent. Images of the perp and accomplices are worth a million dollars to the cops. With images they stand an excellent chance of gumshoe work to find names and addresses to go with the images. But the images cannot be fuzzy or blurred. I do not know dash camera technology. The ins and outs. The quality of images. Someone else has to chime in. But think about where a robber is going to confront you. The space. That's where a dash cam will do the most good. BTW a side looking camera positively stops a cop from writing a hundred dollar ticket for falsely running a stop sign. He may write the ticket but his boss is going to give him the ass-chewing of his life if he sees the ticket was fraudulently issued.
Concentrate on the stuff that works. Ignore things that don't.
How fast can someone riding shotgun retrieve images from dash cams in a pickup? If it's too slow mount the dash cam looking down from the front window of a 5th wheel trailer. Toward the front of course. This will give a really nice album for the transitos or preventivos to work from.
