Need a sticker - Catalyst marked to prevent theft

wanderingbob wrote:
If marking them works maybe we should put a sticker on everything , lawnmowers , hammers , lunch boxes even money , maybe no body would rob banks if they had a sticker and maybe a serial number on them !

We tried stickers, or more appropriately, signs.
"Smile, you're on camera." - Security system
"Private property, trespassers will be prosecuted to....."

Guess what?
When you live in a place where virtually nothing but capital crimes appear to be prosecuted, state sponsored safe injection sites are more important than police protection and those officers who are left aren't allowed to pursue stolen vehicles, your catalytic converter doesn't stand a chance!!

Heck, west side here, cops don't even radar traffic for speeders anymore.
I don't like to drive slow and use a radar detector most of the time I'm driving. I haven't seen a speed trap in Western WA for quite some time now and even the heavily patrolled, known speed trap areas of I-90 in Eastern WA now rarely have speed traps setup. I'll pass officers parked in the median, regularly, who now aren't even running radar. Just a short year or so ago, it would have been multiple radar hits in that same stretch, consistently.
And it's not just heresy on the non pursuit thing. Friend had a company van stolen out of their parking lot, broad daylight. He hopped in his rig and followed the stolen van, called 911, reported location, what he was driving and description of the stolen van.
State patrol pulled him over, told him to stop following the van, and that since the van was not committing any traffic violations, he had no cause to pull him over and couldn't pursue the van even if a violation occurred. Just last night, it was on the news as well. Basically a public announcement that there will be virtually no enforcement of traffic regulations, nor pursuits, save for cases that fit a very limited criteria.

I call manure - the police refused to go after a stolen vehicle because there was "no cause"?????


Per the Seattle Times, Seattle police will no longer enforce minor violations (infractions) like not wearing a bicycle helmet and not having current tags. That is a far cry from "they won't go after a stolen car".

I found no such announcement in regards to the Washington State Police.

bucky wrote:

Lwiddis wrote:
Similar to the “baby on board” stickers to which no one pays attention?

He speaks the truth. The other one is on horse trailers.Both parties need to be careful with their charges, I drive the same regardless.

Are you sure the horse sticker isn’t warning you about something analogous to the ones on the back of dump trucks (stuff could fall off onto your vehicle).

The problems with the Baby on Board stickers are:

1) their purpose was to simply inform rescue personnel that a baby was in the vehicle at the time of an accident in case the baby was thrown from the vehicle.

But somehow it got distorted into people thinking it meant everyone was supposed to drive extra carefully around the vehicle and/or give that vehicle the right of way;

And 2) people never removed it from their vehicle when the baby wasn't in the vehicle, thereby doing away with any benefit it was meant to provide.

toedtoes wrote:
I call manure - the police refused to go after a stolen vehicle because there was "no cause"?????


Per the Seattle Times, Seattle police will no longer enforce minor violations (infractions) like not wearing a bicycle helmet and not having current tags. That is a far cry from "they won't go after a stolen car".

I found no such announcement in regards to the Washington State Police.

Well, you didn't look very hard then... and I wish it was "manure", as you so eloquently put it. It's already happened and it's about to get even worse if the newest Bill passes.
There's a reason car thefts have over doubled in the last year.
Your old Dodge van wouldn't make it a weekend sitting around up here. That thing is a meth-heads wet dream. And now it doesn't even need to be fast because as soon as the perp doesn't want to pull over, he gone....forever.

And yes, they won't really enforce any minor violations to speak of anymore, according to the news. Hard to tell, if a cop just hasn't seen me running around with expired tags or if they just looked the other way...
Also my neighbor is a senior detective for one of the umm less than desirable local municipalities and did undercover work for quite a while.
He used to always drive a nice expensive "private" vehicle for work. They were cars that were seized during drug busts and stuff. And he had full use of them working undercover.
I asked him recently why he's back in an unmarked Tahoe and he said with the loss of so many officers due to how WA is treating it's LEOs and the de-criminalization of so many things, they don't do alot of undercover work anymore. What's that tell you about the state of things here?
Seattle got so bad during the riots last year, the police chief resigned (female, person of color, democrat). And the mayor didn't re-run for office. Both of them were at least good enough people to not back the atrocities taking place here.
Maybe these types of things were already happening in other ultra liberal areas like Cali and some people are just conditioned to it now?
Got another one. Friends kid was attending a football camp in a different bad suburb. Perps ran over to sidelines where kids had their duffel bags and swiped a couple backpacks (because they all have the kids' phones, wallets and car keys in them while they're on the field). Kid was parked front row next to the field and notices his lights/horn blink a few times. Thinks it's weird, backpack is gone. Few of the players run over and stand by his Jeep. Jeep door locks go again and then it remote starts. They start screaming and hollering. Someone calls 911. Cops are there in literally a couple minutes.
Best advice the cops had was "Better stay by your vehicle until your parents bring the spare key or the vehicle will be gone. Anything else we can help you with? We don't go after stolen backpacks, even if it may be attached to someone in the vicinity. Don't care if the stolen backpack is actually a car theft in progress. Have a nice day..."

Show me actual proof and not simply personal antecdotes.

toedtoes wrote:
Show me actual proof and not simply personal antecdotes.

We can believe him or not. Personal choice.

Move along.

Signs and stickers won’t do anything; half of those meth heads don’t speak English. I know, I’ve arrested some. Here’s what I have wired under my wife’s car. Two key fobs but it alarms for any motion under her car. Alarm

dedmiston wrote:

toedtoes wrote:
Show me actual proof and not simply personal antecdotes.

We can believe him or not. Personal choice.

Move along.

Hallelujah,Perhaps the best advice seen on any forum in a long time.

Personal choice? What the hell is that? how dare they LOL.

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