Poor Theives

[DirtDaddy]

I can't beleive I'm laughing at this and not pissed off. On friday, i had my jeep, which I ALWAYS park in the garage, parked in the driveway for 1 1/2 hrs. In that time they stole my nice pioneer stereo right in broad daylight out of it. They left both of my amps alone, my sub was sitting in the garage so they couldnt get that. Problem for them is, as nice as the stereo was, it didnt work. I run my system off of an IPOD. That was in the house as well. Now while i am pissed that i was violated and stolen from, the funniness that they went through all that trouble and think they scored has overcome any feelings of anger. My wife thinks i'm crazy, but i cant help but laugh. i wish i was there when they try to hook it up. Needless to say, I won't be parking in the driveway anymore, even for just a few minutes. We live in a gated community that is very quiet and peaceful, but there is a group of kids up the street that are wanna be thugs. Obviously i dont know for sure, but i have a feeling it was them. You shoulda seen their faces when i drove right by them immediatley after this happened listening to my tunes. Silly Theives

[Stu Olson]

I can see your point of view.....and let's hope they don't get any other parts of your Jeep. :)

[SavageSun4x4]

One rainy night:
* It looked like it just might rain so I rolled up my windows within about 3" of the top.
* Doors locked, LOL its my Jeep with a soft top, why lock the doors.
* It did rain and rain hard, one of the dogs ran over to a large puddle and got soaking wet on the way back from a dog walk.
* I had a large trail towel, more rag than towel, in the Jeep and we used it to dry off the dog and take another trail towel and wrap around it, I toss them in the Jeep on top of my fenderwell.
* Its get late, its pouring rain again and I hear a scream outside.
* I turn on the outside lights to see a guy running off with something in his hand.
* I go out side to check out the scene and find the noise came from a guy using his knife to stab and cut open the window on my soft top.
* Not having a decent knife his knife folds while he is stabbing my window and cuts the sheet out of his hand by the blood that is all over the place.
* He steals from me...you guessed it, the two trail towels/rags used to dry the dog.
* He was to dumb to put his hand in the window and open the door.
* He was to dumb to try and open the unlocked door.
* He has a badly cut hand.
* All he can show for this eve is a cut hand and a stinking wet trail towel used to dry off dogs.

[AZG23]

Thats called street justice!! :D

[mingoglia]

One rainy night:
* It looked like it just might rain so I rolled up my windows within about 3" of the top.
* Doors locked, LOL its my Jeep with a soft top, why lock the doors.
* It did rain and rain hard, one of the dogs ran over to a large puddle and got soaking wet on the way back from a dog walk.
* I had a large trail towel, more rag than towel, in the Jeep and we used it to dry off the dog and take another trail towel and wrap around it, I toss them in the Jeep on top of my fenderwell.
* Its get late, its pouring rain again and I hear a scream outside.
* I turn on the outside lights to see a guy running off with something in his hand.
* I go out side to check out the scene and find the noise came from a guy using his knife to stab and cut open the window on my soft top.
* Not having a decent knife his knife folds while he is stabbing my window and cuts the sheet out of his hand by the blood that is all over the place.
* He steals from me...you guessed it, the two trail towels/rags used to dry the dog.
* He was to dumb to put his hand in the window and open the door.
* He was to dumb to try and open the unlocked door.
* He has a badly cut hand.
* All he can show for this eve is a cut hand and a stinking wet trail towel used to dry off dogs.


So did you tell him you'd run inside and get the first aid kit? Then, before coming outside again with a bandage sprinkle salt all over it?

[SHNIPE]

Don thats a funny story!.. DirtDaddy i feel you on that story. when i lived at that complex on the north west corner of shea and FLW someone stole my stereo out of my jeep that all but the station buttons worked. couldnt even change the track when playing a cd! Best part is that they took the top rail out... unscrewed all the screws (even the one behind the ashtray) and laid it all out on my seat and driver side floor for me... stupid kids. Hope they liked my $35 POS stereo.. oh but thats also the same complex taht my motorcycle was stolen.. not so nice of those guys :(

[Renob]

Thats called street justice!! :DI think Don's story falls into the Karma category.
Street justice would be if you caught the dude in the act, chased him down the street, kicked the sheit out of him and when the cops showed up they gave you a doughnut and said "good job sir."
One can dream, can't he?

[AZG23]

Thats MY kinda street justice...!!!:eek:


however..the BG getting screwed somehow is still street justice..! :D

I think Don's story falls into the Karma category.
Street justice would be if you caught the dude in the act, chased him down the street, kicked the sheit out of him and when the cops showed up they gave you a doughnut and said "good job sir."
One can dream, can't he?

[Renob]

the BG getting screwed somehow is still street justice..! :DKARMA :D

[1tuffxj]

I agree.... I seen on cops on time were a guy was tring to steal gas from a r/v and accidentally syphoed the septic tank... bad karma:(

[Hackle]

About three months ago someone broke the wing window on my tow rig and stole my stereo it was a decent Kenwood but about 3 years old. They must not have had much experience as when they pulled it out of the dash (no dash damage) they pulled all the wires right out of the back of the radio instead of taking apart the plugs. I lost a stereo but at least they got nothing they could use:)
Jim F.

[DirtDaddy]

that was another thing, since i had an after market stereo, i had the wiring harness adapter. they cut the wires to the adapter just like it comes in the package, insead of unplugging it so when i decide to replace it, no big deal, the adapter is still there and no dash damage.

[UNSTUCK]

I can't beleive I'm laughing at this and not pissed off. On friday, i had my jeep, which I ALWAYS park in the garage, parked in the driveway for 1 1/2 hrs. In that time they stole my nice pioneer stereo right in broad daylight out of it. They left both of my amps alone, my sub was sitting in the garage so they couldnt get that. Problem for them is, as nice as the stereo was, it didnt work. I run my system off of an IPOD. That was in the house as well. Now while i am pissed that i was violated and stolen from, the funniness that they went through all that trouble and think they scored has overcome any feelings of anger. My wife thinks i'm crazy, but i cant help but laugh. i wish i was there when they try to hook it up. Needless to say, I won't be parking in the driveway anymore, even for just a few minutes. We live in a gated community that is very quiet and peaceful, but there is a group of kids up the street that are wanna be thugs. Obviously i dont know for sure, but i have a feeling it was them. You shoulda seen their faces when i drove right by them immediatley after this happened listening to my tunes. Silly Theives


I'm glad you could see the humor in it all. One time my bestfriend in high school got all the windows broken out of his car, except for the windshield. It was winter time in Alaska. We grabbed a bunch of cardboard to use in place of the windows. On the back window we wrote in big black letters: "And they didn't even steel the radio!" We got a lot of laughs.

At the same time it hurts. I lost about $6500 in tools that got stolen from my service truck compartments. That was around 2 years ago, and I have not yet recovered from it. It's one thing to take a radio, but to take someone's livelyhood...My company was great about it and helped out, but I went from very nice Snap-on to Craftsman. Not a big deal, but you know what I mean.

[Oc1paddler]

A couple of years ago I was up in Durango with some friends doing some whitewater rafting. We met some girls at the bar who invited us back to their resturant for breakfast. One of my friends looked out the window and saw a guy trying to steal my kayak off the roof of the jeep. Funny part about it was that I had a cable on it that he didn't see. Anyway I came out the door and grabbed him before he knew I was even there. To make a long story short the guy didn't get my kayak, got a pretty bad beating, and then got halled off to jail. The cops told him that if he didn't behave they would turn me loose on him again! Felt pretty good to come out ahead of the scumbag crooks for a change.
Pierre
72 big block commando

[John in AZ]

And you gys would have to see Pierre to understand how much of a threat that was. I remember him picking my boss (270+) up over his head & running across the parking lot with him after a bad joke.
John

[Symon623]

Had an old Sony pull out stolen out of my old Toyota, Funny thing was one timewhen I was carrying it to prevent it from getting stolen? Well I dropped it the CD player quit workin in it. so I never pulled it out anymore. It actually took a while but it was stolen and all they got was a fancy radio with no CD player?

Also have a storty about a friend on another state that booby trapped his stereo but it'd take me an hout to type it all out. Let's just say it was almost a case of the "politically correct" system working for the the thief and against the victim a good lawyer saved the day. And the thief can't even wipe his own *** with his right hand anymore....:D :D

[Oc1paddler]

John,
You had to bring that up! If I remember correctly I ended up setting him down nicely as opposed to throwing him?
Pierre

[Scrat]

Someone tried stealing my whole truck... I always parked my truck on the street in front of my house... had not had any probs what so ever, it's an '05 Dodge 2500 cummins, got it in March '05 and they tried stealing it in Nov '05. well I went out with a friend for a few hours and I came back to find that someone had used a screwdriver to pry underneath my driver side door handle and somehow got my door to open... they busted off the plastic bottom piece to my steering collum to only find out that Dodge truck's have their steering collums and all their wires but the plug-in for diagnostics are encased in steel :D So no truckie for him. but the funniest part was that I had my iPod in my clutter tray, I have a Pioneer 8600 in and left the faceplate on and my G4 laptop in it's bag in the backseat and he did not take them. he took nothing but the busted piece of plastic from the bottom part of the collum. The police said that they were trying to jack the whole truck to take it to Mexico.. So they were transfixed on doing that and not looking around at anything else in the truck. Also she said that they probably did not know what an iPod looks like in the padded hip case I keep it in, and he probably did not know that there was a laptop in there... Or someone was comming and scared him off. So now I got a Crime Stopper pager/remote start system for my truck and I park it in my driveway which is gated and I never leave home without my truck... ever

I wish I could hook up my house current to my truck so when someone touches it *BAM* fried criminal.

Cheers,
Lee