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MEXICOWANDERER
May 13, 2014Explorer
Hi, now we're getting somewhere.
It is a TIMER.
The disabler allows the engine to start and the crooks drive away.
FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER the engine shuts down and the crooks haven't a clue as to why. By then they are long gone from you. Long long long gone. You are safe.
But the car can not run. Thieves do not call tow trucks, nor do they hook a chain to a disabled car. Cops and military look at towed cars. Brown faces, extraneous plates means el problemo for the crooks. They are not going to risk it.
The car stalls, they bail and run like hell. The issue is THE CAR DOES NOT DISAPPEAR. Continue on, call the cops. Hail a Mexican. Block the goddamned road. Someone will stop.
How hard is it to say. "ES DESCOMPUESTO EL CARRO" to the crooks? What are they going to do, shoot you?
Don't let your imagination run away with itself forming a scenario about how a carjacking will actually go down. But even the stupidest idiot in Mexico knows that harming a foreigner is like 10,000% more serious than harming other than a rich or influential Mexicano. The Army and the cops react. You know what, flows downhill.
The car stalls down the road. They run like hell. Even if they torch the goddamned car you are 100 times better off than if the car disappears. Half of the misery is the missing car, the other half is dealing with the Mexican government. If a melted hulk burned it's way through the asphalt you are better off. I have never heard of crooks taking the time to throw a temper tantrum. If the military or SSP stumbles across them, they get shot or worse.
It is a TIMER.
The disabler allows the engine to start and the crooks drive away.
FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER the engine shuts down and the crooks haven't a clue as to why. By then they are long gone from you. Long long long gone. You are safe.
But the car can not run. Thieves do not call tow trucks, nor do they hook a chain to a disabled car. Cops and military look at towed cars. Brown faces, extraneous plates means el problemo for the crooks. They are not going to risk it.
The car stalls, they bail and run like hell. The issue is THE CAR DOES NOT DISAPPEAR. Continue on, call the cops. Hail a Mexican. Block the goddamned road. Someone will stop.
How hard is it to say. "ES DESCOMPUESTO EL CARRO" to the crooks? What are they going to do, shoot you?
Don't let your imagination run away with itself forming a scenario about how a carjacking will actually go down. But even the stupidest idiot in Mexico knows that harming a foreigner is like 10,000% more serious than harming other than a rich or influential Mexicano. The Army and the cops react. You know what, flows downhill.
The car stalls down the road. They run like hell. Even if they torch the goddamned car you are 100 times better off than if the car disappears. Half of the misery is the missing car, the other half is dealing with the Mexican government. If a melted hulk burned it's way through the asphalt you are better off. I have never heard of crooks taking the time to throw a temper tantrum. If the military or SSP stumbles across them, they get shot or worse.
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