Locked or Unlocked

tempforce wrote:
seldom is anything stolen in the middle east. the punishment for a first offense, is the removal of the right hand..

Car owner back home caught a teenage thief and slammed the car door on his hand. Is that the kind of "Justice" we want? Not me.

seldom is anything stolen in the middle east. the punishment for a first offense, is the removal of the right hand..

time2roll wrote:
I am amazed how many people park a $50,000+ vehicle outside so they can retain $500 of junk in the garage.

Ain't it the truth? :S

My wife and I promised each other when we bought our first home that the garage was for our cars. If anything else fit after the cars, then okay, but the cars came first. We have lived up to that commitment for almost 24 years now. When we bought the new F-150 to pull our trailer, we drove it home on the test drive to see that it fit in the garage.

We live in a tiny town of 400 souls out in the middle of nowhere, but I still lock up when I park away from home, and keep the garage door closed (and no garage access except the main door and the door from inside the house) when the truck is in there. I lived in the Denver Metro area for 40 years.... just got in the habit of locking up.

wa8yxm wrote:

colliehauler wrote:
When they hung horse thieves it sure served as a deterrent.

First when it comes to car theft, that is becoming more and more dangerous. True story follows.

But.. back when they hung you for horse theiving.. Well if you were way out in the middle of no place (Desert) that horse was what kept you alive, if someone took it, you died.. So stealing a horse was not a whole lot different from shooting them in the head.. So hanging was the proper (at that time) punishment.. Today.. Well if your car gets swiped odds are you can still get transportation, file an insurance claim and have a new car by the end of the week, YOu are not dead.


The story
Got a teletype (I was a police dispatcher) Stolen car, Cadillac Esclade.. Read it looking for some key words, NOT THERE.. Ask my SGT for permission to service a message back to the entering agency.

15 mintues later we knew where that car was parked,, Sure enough Troopers found it right were it was "Cooling off" and the owner got it back in less than an hour.

Any good chevy dealer can tell you how we did it.. So can ford, and several other auto dealers.. Just ask.

Many new cars come with that feature and if yours does not, Verizon, and T-moble (And I suspect AT&T and Sprint) offer an after market plug in.. Not as good cause some day the car theives will figure it out but hey it works.

Guessing you are talking about GPS technology.
On my end you have to wait until you have time to go to the police precinct and file a report to get the ball rolling. They don't come to you unless well yer spayshul:Z

Took 2 weeks for NYPD to respond to a call that someone was shooting BB guns into apartments in my bldg. Massive sigh.

one friend of mine leaves an EMPTY sidearm holster visible on the dash.

Others have been broken into near him, but he never has.

Very little crime around here.

That being said while at the park at night I usually lock the truck and I never leave anything in it.

colliehauler wrote:
When they hung horse thieves it sure served as a deterrent.

First when it comes to car theft, that is becoming more and more dangerous. True story follows.

But.. back when they hung you for horse theiving.. Well if you were way out in the middle of no place (Desert) that horse was what kept you alive, if someone took it, you died.. So stealing a horse was not a whole lot different from shooting them in the head.. So hanging was the proper (at that time) punishment.. Today.. Well if your car gets swiped odds are you can still get transportation, file an insurance claim and have a new car by the end of the week, YOu are not dead.


The story
Got a teletype (I was a police dispatcher) Stolen car, Cadillac Esclade.. Read it looking for some key words, NOT THERE.. Ask my SGT for permission to service a message back to the entering agency.

15 mintues later we knew where that car was parked,, Sure enough Troopers found it right were it was "Cooling off" and the owner got it back in less than an hour.

Any good chevy dealer can tell you how we did it.. So can ford, and several other auto dealers.. Just ask.

Many new cars come with that feature and if yours does not, Verizon, and T-moble (And I suspect AT&T and Sprint) offer an after market plug in.. Not as good cause some day the car theives will figure it out but hey it works.

Enablers feed them, give them shelter, light sentences, and let them go back to PA.

Thieves are everywhere and I didn't need to put in the location. Some of our worst vandalism when I ran a construction company came in some high dollar subdivisions we constructed.

TomG2 wrote:
The break ins are not happening at the RV Park, but at business parking lots.
There are so many false alarms and honking horns these days that people walk right on by. The crooks may move on, or rip out some wiring to stop the alarm.

Night, day or does it matter? I guess the felons are there for the warmer weather too.