An Open Letter to Car Thieves

MaFt · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:58 am Post subject: An Open Letter to Car Thieves

Dear Scum

Thanks for smashing my back quarterlight then rifling through my glovebox. I hope you enjoyed viewing my small selection of inexpensive power leads cos you took knack all - so why bother?! Do you think I'm stupid enough to leave a SatNav in there?!

There was, however, the keys to remove the stereo - or can't you sell that in the pub as easily? Or the key for the alloy wheels? No?

I now have a window to sort out today before Green Day tonight... Anyone know any Rover breakers?!!

MaFt

253 · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:05 pm Post subject:

Hi MaFt,
very sorry to hear of your misfortune, has happened to me in the past, and no doubt yet to come.

On a different note, I'm glad I read your post before I submitted mine.
I see you drive a Rover, and I was about to make comment on Rover 75 drivers.
In light of this I am going to hang fire.

Wish you luck,

Cheers Bob
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pcaouolte · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:56 pm Post subject:

A similar thing happened to me two weeks ago. The scum broke the rear winding-down window and pulled forward the rear seat (it's a hatchback).

They nicked the wifes handbag with £15 and her cards in it but they missed the satnav that I had pushed down the side of a box of bits and pieces in the boot. They probably watched her put her bag in the boot before we went for a walk.

Fortunately the scum missed the fact that the handbag contained the spare keys for the car!

The good news is that one of the scum have been arrested (a female) and another will be arrested once located.

The bad news is that the arrested scum has remained silent and may get off due to 'lack of evidence'. If it actually comes to a prosecution I expect that they will get community service or a similar pathetic let off.

Our loss: £60 for window, £23 for key, £15 cash, £15 vouchers £20 purse £30 handbag, 6 hours inconvenience get things sorted out and fixed. Scum's gain £15.
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MaFt · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:58 pm Post subject:

fire away, you're safe to do so - it's a rover 25!! Laughing Out Loud

253 · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject:

Mullet · Frequent Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 1051

I know the feeling, my sons head unit got ripped out by some smack head during a hospital visit. The scary thing is these dead heads are walking the streets with screwdrivers in their pockets and probably wouldn't think twice about sticking it in someone if challenged.

I don’t want to make light of it but it may raise a little smile to read a slightly different broken glass story.

My “bit of a kip” on the sofa got interrupted by a distressed call from my wife stating she had locked the only set of keys to her car in the boot.

On reaching the Tesco car park I asked if there was any possibility the keys were in her bag. I am not stupid was the reply (remember this bit).

By careful measurement I deduced that the cheapest option was to pop the rear quarter light so I would be able to reach the door catch. Great plan, except now with lights and horn ablaze and security on the scene, the door would not unlock now the alarm is activated.

So the wheel brace goes through the next cheapest window in the back door, I climb through remove the parcel shelf and pass out a full weeks shopping, only to find... key deficiency.

Three security guys are on scene by this point. I made the fatal error of reaching to check out my wife’s bag. This can only be compared to trying to take food from a hungry alligator. Both actions could result in loss of limb.

Two of the security guys then helped me check the car park by torch light and make enquiries at the store check out.

No luck, so I was making my way back to the car wondering who to phone the get us out of this mess when other security guard walked past me and said with a grim “err I’ll leave you with it mate”.

With the horn and lights now silenced I walked up to a sheepish wife head bowed, stood in a pool of broken glass in a dark empty car park.

So where were the keys? Couldn’t simply be in the handbag, by admission only a stupid person would mislay them there.

They had inadvertently fell into half a packet of biscuits she had in her handbag. I her handbag? Who keeps... nah, forget it.

Hope you get sorted soon. Col.

M8TJT · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:02 am Post subject:

Col. Lovely, but expensive, story mate. Were there any red faces around?

MaFt · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:23 am Post subject:

... and to top off an already rubbish day, my iphone got knicked while i was in sheffield last night and it's currently in liverpool...

JockTamsonsBairn · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:40 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:15 pm Post subject:

if you subscribe to mobile me you get a service called 'find my iphone' which will locate it for you while it is turned on. i did this, along with locking the phone, before contacting o2 to get the IMEI and SIM blocked as after that you can't trace it!

seeing as it is now an insurance claim it needed blocking in order to claim for it!

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MaFt · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:16 am Post subject:

Mullet · Frequent Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 1051

Thanks for the tip I will take note of this.

Is it a recent thing? after all the security didn't mention this last January.

richard345 · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:02 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:43 pm Post subject:

When my front passenger window was done, they nicked my case of CDs - artificial leather, free with £20 of Esso fuel one day I think. I always wondered how much they'd get for albums of Black Dyke Mills brass band, Chopin and Shostakovich.

I shall probably be considering AA myself soon. I have cover at the moment with them for the first two years of my new Renault van, which has sufficed for the last 8 years/4 vans. But with the recession, I'm not sure of getting a new van when this one ends its first two years so I'll need some cover when it expires. I know the RAC want extra to cover any van now - my Kangoo is exactly the same size and shape as the Kangoo car for which they don't want extra. Same ripoff as the Severn Bridge toll - £5.40 for Kangoo car, £10.80 for Kangoo van (£5.40 for a steaming great Landrover which towers over my head). Evil or Very Mad

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