kwon0569

First off, I get extremely agrevated everytime I read one of your theft stories. I find it really fucked up. But everyone on this board probably unconciously buys stolen parts. I know for me I used to buy a lot of OEM parts from yonkers and such that were all most likely stolen, but if you dont buy the products, the theives would get less business and would most likely steal less. I dont know. This is just my opinion. Now I just buy clean parts that I know arent stolen. As a whole I'm sure it would help the import community

Quad-Damag

or we can kill car thives so they can't reproduce.

GRHatchMan

Or you could move to a place where Hondas are looked at as jap junk and nobody cares about stealing anything from them. Try the midwest where Ford and Chevy are still king ****.

Marauder

Nawwww.....need to do like some other countries do! If you are caught stealing....cut off a hand! Think you'll want to steal again? Hard enough to only have one hand, imagine if you didn't have any!

I think harsh punishment is needed, but the facts are, most cops don't care about stollen cars, unless the driver was assulted in the process.

Apex i ITR

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i don't buy stolen stuff. I deal with reputable business's or people.

VXpride

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You're definitely on the right track.... but i'm gonna go a little further and say if they do produce to just eat their children.

But seriously, even if someone gets caught stealing the cops basically give them a big hug and a kiss and send them on their way. I say CRACK DOWN ON THOSE WORTHLESS MOTHER *******. I mean, if you're really that broke to go around and steal **** off cars, sell drugs, you'd make more anyway... or.... how about get a real job.

phantom_sol

what was it. hamurabi's code? eye for an eye.
well, car theft is never a new thing...its been around forever and thre is no way to tell if someone is selling something legit. if you wanted to part out your car (for real) and evryone doesnt buy it. how the hell will you get anyhting out of your car. most the crap off ebay is probably stolen. except for those who wholesale it and post 500 sales for "blue 'hid look a like' lazer hyper white platinum bulbs"
also some people dont have as much cash to buy brand spankin 'legit' stuff. the only way to get rid of theves is to get rid of greed and the desire to profit off of someone elses misfortune. being that we are only human. it wont work. idealy communism is the best form of govenrment but everyone is just too damn greedy to make it work. thus it becomes corrupt.

there may be many things in ones life to lead them to the 'dark road' of stealing. but jacking someones hid's and selling them off isnt always the right answer. they wont know any better and this world will never be perfect.

then again we have to have corrupt and dipshit peoples to appreciate those who do things legitimately.
i dunno.

thats just my three cents

Marauder

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Hence, why there is a bigger difference between the wealthy and the poor in those countries!

jolt-tsp

Okay, skip my post if you don't want to hear a rant. It might have some useful info, but it's mostly a rant:

A few months back I was watch Lord of the Rings at Cinemark Tinseltown USA, Plano, TX. While I was being amazed by Golem, some theives decided my car was worth their while in stealing, mostly thanks to my 5zigen copse wheels, but also in part to my Pioneer 7400. When I got out of the movieis obviously when I noticed my car was not where I had left it (right next to my friends car, which was still there thanks to his nasty bent and scraped borbet 7 spoke wheels). I ran to a cop that was at the theatre, and told him what was up, he was off duty, so he called another guy. The theatre was now closed, it was like 45 degrees out and my jacket was, of course, in my car. I waited 20-30 minutes for the other cop to show up, since all the officers were otherwise occupied, this one that was settling a domestic disturbance had to come by. I found it a bit disturbing that Plano doesn't have the police force it needs to handle things like this in a timely manner, but I wasn't about to say that. I gave my story to the cop, and gave him my license plate number. At that point he gave me a hard time because my registration was expired. While I appreciate his concern about my registration, I think he lost focus of the main concern that my car was no longer my car. Anyway, he told me they probably won't find it unless it turns up somewhere. At this point I went home with my friend. My wife realized that her wallet was in the car, so we call and tell the cop, and he couldn't care less. We cancel the credit cards, and report the time of theft so we don't get any charges. I checked my tolltag and found the last exit they took, I also checked the cancelled charges, and found they used two of her cards at two different gas stations. I called the cop and told him, and he seemed preoccupied and again, couldn't really care less. My brother and I decided to go down there whereabout the card was used last. And we found garage after garage not being used as service shops, but rather simply to hold cars out of sight. In this area, if you have any car valuable enough to want to hide, the first thing you should do is move out of that area. We called the cop and told him, and since it was Dallas instead of Plano he couldn't really help(??). I called the Dallas police, and they didn't ahve the details on the case since it happened in Plano and not Dallas. I told them there weren't really any details since the Plano police didn't bother to get any of them. A couple days later the Dallas police had found my car abandoned on the freeway no more than a mile from where I told them I thought it was.

Here's what really gets me though. My wife was at court a couple days ago to dispute a red light running that she was very sure she made it through, and was also convinced that trying to stop would have been dangerous at that time. She also saw the cop at the intersection when the light turned yellow, so obviously she would have stopped had she felt it was the right thing to do. Anyway, I always heard that cops never usually show up, so I was pretty confident with the case. We show up to court and the 3 cases before us, ours and two after us the cops ALL show up. I asked the cop on duty in the hall if it was normal for the cops to show up to the cases. He said in Dallas its really unusual sonce they have so much to do and are pretty understaffed, but for the past couple years Plano has been fully staffed and had nothing at all to do, so they spend most their time with traffic offenses, and he said they ALWAYS show to court.

My biggest rant is that it is very obvious to me now that Plano had the resources to try to locate my car but did NOTHING to help. That parking lot still very rarely has police in it, and the theatre never installed camera's in the parking lot (I wrote them a letter and called them asking that they do).

So anyway, what I learned is that the only person that can do anything about your car getting stolen is yourself, no one is really there to help you. Security measoures only do so much. If you can get into your car, someone else can find a way. From now of, I'm going to spend a saturday night here and there parking my car at the theatre and just watching it from my friends car. As soon as someone goes to steal it, I call the police and tell them that if they don't get here in time to stop it, I'm going to follow them until the police get there and stop these people. I figure theres no other way to do it except to make these theives realize that they might actually get caught.

If anyone's still reading, sorry for the length of the post.

clemsonhatch

This is a fucked up world we live in. You pay for the cops to help you, but when it comes down to it they would rather write you a ticket and see you in court than help a victim in need.

SpyderZEX

I have a great idea. If you want to keep people from stealing your car. Go out and buy yourself one of the new two-way remote car alarms. You know, the ones with the pager to let you know when some ************ is trying to break into your car. Then, get online and find out where you can purchase a boa constrictor. Last stop, to the sporting goods store. Throw down some even more money and tell the person out the counter that you are looking for a Desert Eagle.

Now, after you get the alarm installed, put the snake in the back seat and throw him a mouse every couple of weeks. If some ******* tries to break into your car. Your pager will go off. You grab that eagle and run outside and shoot the f*ck out of the motherf*cker. If you miss (almost impossible) the snake won't.

That's what I would like to do, but the alarm will usually do the trick.

Spade

<FONT SIZE="3">Dammit people</FONT>
It's simple! Get the Autolock, and a removable steering wheel.

Of course you should already have an alarm and your power locks disabled.

jolt-tsp

Well the pager alarms don't have very good range.. I've seen a couple up to a mile, but don't want to lay down the money for that. Besides, if you have an alarm they'll just move to the next poor guy's car. I just want to start catching these guys.

soncho803

you can disable manual locks to and if your worried about someone throwing a brick through the window invest in some ballistics tint...

ReVeNgEd-SoN

Doesn't something called FlashPro have features that disable everything in your car and require a code to unlock it all? I know there's **** like that for GTI's and there really nice.

Buddy Club has something like that : Buddy Club Secu Timer

Del Namco Solo

I just buy from online retailers, I wont buy off craigs list. Sure its cheap, but you have no clue whats wrong with said item. Friend wanted me to buy a Toyota supra, built engine, turbo, all the works, thing was like 3k. I'm sitten there thinking "its its only 3k there IS something majorly wrong with it" and hes like "buy it buy it". I didn't, but he did, and then he regretted it!

I get all my cars from dealers and all my parts from true company's!

Jdm John

question. soncho803, how did you find a thread that's 7 years old.

ReVeNgEd-SoN

WOW I didn't even notice that LOL!

Georgy

LOL that is goooooood stuff.

but yea about stealing and other crimes, drunk driving that kind of stuff harsh punishments are the best solution. it keeps people from doing it very effectively. heard some country does like 1 year for first dui