914/6 broken into, Stereo stolen again Options

[Lawrence]

Well, I guess the little SOBs finally found my car. I didn't see the passenger door slightly open this morning, but I wasn't on that side of the car.

I live on a dead-end street in a clean, quiet neighborhood, and keep the car tucked back in the back of the parking lot. The car stays covered.

They look like they cut wires under the dash, but I'm staying out of the car until the police arrive. Window wasn't broken, but I know I locked the doors.


(Edited to remove copious profanity.)

This post has been edited by Lawrence: May 9 2003, 01:55 PM

[Pnambic]

Years ago while at school, I had to park my little beater in the stadium parking lot. Obviously not a very secure situation. I made a little fake face-plate out of foam core that I put in place of the real face plate when I wasn't there. I made it look like an old AM/FM two knob set up and painted it black. I had friends that lost more than one stereo in one semester, but mine was never bothered.

Wish I had pictures.

One of the guys that lived down the hall had his truck broken into and they took his stereo and speakers even. He superglued a couple generic razor blades on the back side of the stereo he bought to replace it. A month later, some guys broke into 8 cars in a row to get the stereos. His was the last one, and from the trail of blood I think I know what made them change their mind. If not for those razor blades, they probably would have hit a dozen other cars that night. His (slightly blood smeared) stereo was left on the floor of the truck, undamaged except for the damage to the dash.

The cops, while chuckling once they found the reason for the blood, told him he shouldn't do that again, or face charges. (for what, I don't know (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) ) Not to mention the blood stains in the car.

As far as I know, there were no more stereo thefts that semester.

And the blood did provide a bit of vindictive satisfaction (though we never found any missing fingers or anything (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) ).