Topic: Car was stole!

[dhall57]

My son informed me today that the car that I had given and titled over to him several years ago to help him out with some transportation needs had been stolen from a friends supposedly secure storage facility where it had been parked for a while because of mechanical issues. He hadn't check on the car in a while but today when he did car was not on the property. He checked the security video and it caught someone loading the car on a trailer. The video did get a lic.# of the trailer he said. He reported it stolen and the cops are investigating. This happened last week by the date on the video and the car had no insurance on it because he was not currently driving it. My gut feeling is this car is long gone and will never see it again. More then likely it was sold as is or was parted out. This world is full of sorry a$$, low life @%^* people

[dave500]

the trailer licence should be traceable?what car was it?

[dhall57]

Dodge Daytona

[dave500]

like a 69/70?

[dhall57]

No, not hardly. Believe it was a 1993.

[dave500]

i just googled it,i hate thieves but they seem to be glutons for punishment(couldnt find any lawn mowers to steal?)maybe they are like the tooth fairy and itll be returned all rebuilt?its a piss off though,dicks who cant leave others stuff alone?

[dhall57]

Got my doubts we'll ever see it again, but I'm sure it won't come back rebuilt if we do. Haha

[dave500]

are they really worth trailering away?looks like our mitsubishi cordia or something we got over here?still its your sons car and no matter what it is it should be left alone!

[dhall57]

Been a while since I've seen it, but I know the paint was shot and had some damage to the right fender and door and some oil leaks. I guess some SOB thought it was worth something to go to all that trouble.

[70CB750]

Been a while since I've seen it, but I know the paint was shot and had some damage to the right fender and door and some oil leaks. I guess some SOB thought it was worth something to go to all that trouble.

Maybe they took it to sell to scrap metal? 

Sorry about your loss, I think it is already chopped up by now.

[ekpent]

Don't be surprised if the trailer or the plate that was on it was stolen also. Around here you need a title to scrap out a whole car otherwise it needs to be cut into many pieces.

[Duke McDukiedook]

I am still trying to figure out how you could make a stole into a car. 
I thought they went around rich dame's necks?

[754]

 Well if someone had a collision......then they need a parts car.. Title would hardly matter..

[Stev-o]

like a 69/70?

Found it! Looks rebuilt already...

[heffay]

I managed two storage facilities in CO.  I spent my days watching 20 security cameras when I wasn't busy checking people in and out.  I knew what cars belonged to which people and I knew what units they were supposed to be in.  They won't take any responsibility for it, I'm sure, but it went out right under their nose.  They do have responsibility in this, morally at least.  If there was no sign of forced entry into the facility, then a storage tenant stole your car.  They first need to find out who accessed the property on that date and get statements.  Did they have to break a window to get in the car?

I had a Pontiac Firebird in the late 90s that was sitting at a transmission shop waiting for a tranny.  It got broken into overnight and they stole the stereo and upon doing so ripped the whole bottom portion of the very hard to find dash out of the car.  I didn't have coverage for theft, and after discussing with the shop, they agreed to give me a bit of compensation... not full, but it was at least something.  It was pretty disappointing to get their call the morning after it happened.  It wasn't a perfect car but it was a helluva lotta fun!  I never was able to find the proper dash to put back in. 

[dave500]

like a 69/70?

Found it! Looks rebuilt already...

at the stroke of midnight it turns back into a pumpkin?

[Xnavylfr]

parting out a vehicle will bring 10x the amount of money over scrap cash.  Sorry it happened,but it's getting so bad here in NC, people are stealing the sewer covers right off the street and scrapping them. One scrap yard got caught being in Lexington,NC.



Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

[dave500]

steel scrap here runs about 110 bucks per metric ton,a thousand kilos.

[simon#42]

nearly double that over here . they hit a new low for thieving when they started taking all the plaques from the war memorials .

[Stev-o]

They love stealing the copper from ac condensers here. 

[jamesb]

We've had over 30,000 in ac condensors ripped off.

[ekpent]

They were peeling off the aluminum siding on houses over around Detroit and of course no copper pipes or wire was safe in them either if they got inside. This what it looked like or did yours have hide away headlights ?

[dhall57]

Same color, wheels etc. Mine was no longer this nice though

[seanbarney41]

stolen car!?...I have not had the keys out of the ignition of my van in years...(they won't come out).  Please, someone, steal it!

[70CB750]

parting out a vehicle will bring 10x the amount of money over scrap cash.  Sorry it happened,but it's getting so bad here in NC, people are stealing the sewer covers right off the street and scrapping them. One scrap yard got caught being in Lexington,NC.
Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

Certain group of people in Czech (ok, gypsies) will steal communication cable from railroad and burn it to get the copper out to sell for scrap.  With a bit of luck they will cause millions in damage for $100 or so in cash.   Mind boggling.

[ekpent]

parting out a vehicle will bring 10x the amount of money over scrap cash.  Sorry it happened,but it's getting so bad here in NC, people are stealing the sewer covers right off the street and scrapping them. One scrap yard got caught being in Lexington,NC.
Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

Certain group of people in Czech (ok, gypsies) will steal communication cable from railroad and burn it to get the copper out to sell for scrap.  With a bit of luck they will cause millions in damage for $100 or so in cash.   Mind boggling.

Same around here. Farmers were getting hit hard at one time on their irrigation systems. Around here a lot of it is because of one word "Meth". If they weren't stealing the copper wires and metal they would be stealing the liquid fertilizer whatever its called. 

[faux fiddy]

parting out a vehicle will bring 10x the amount of money over scrap cash.  Sorry it happened,but it's getting so bad here in NC, people are stealing the sewer covers right off the street and scrapping them. One scrap yard got caught being in Lexington,NC.
Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

Certain group of people in Czech (ok, gypsies) will steal communication cable from railroad and burn it to get the copper out to sell for scrap.  With a bit of luck they will cause millions in damage for $100 or so in cash.   Mind boggling.

Idiots smash and grabbed a dash mounted radar detector from my brother in vegas. Dad always concealed it but bro left it on the dash. Maybe $10 from pawn, the window fix was hundreds. I'm just glad the idiots didn't rifle through a bit more and get my laptop.

[simon#42]

parting out a vehicle will bring 10x the amount of money over scrap cash.  Sorry it happened,but it's getting so bad here in NC, people are stealing the sewer covers right off the street and scrapping them. One scrap yard got caught being in Lexington,NC.
Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

Certain group of people in Czech (ok, gypsies) will steal communication cable from railroad and burn it to get the copper out to sell for scrap.  With a bit of luck they will cause millions in damage for $100 or so in cash.   Mind boggling.

these are the people stealing the scrap here as well , strange as i have been to the czech republic many times to watch the gp but have never met any czech people anything like this .

[Duke McDukiedook]

parting out a vehicle will bring 10x the amount of money over scrap cash.  Sorry it happened,but it's getting so bad here in NC, people are stealing the sewer covers right off the street and scrapping them. One scrap yard got caught being in Lexington,NC.
Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

Certain group of people in Czech (ok, gypsies) will steal communication cable from railroad and burn it to get the copper out to sell for scrap.  With a bit of luck they will cause millions in damage for $100 or so in cash.   Mind boggling.

No, the best here is people stealing cable for the camera and information systems for the KCScout system for the highways.
The system is all fiber optic so they cost thousands of dollars to replace the fiber optic cable that is worthless to them for copper salvage. Idiots.
 

[heffay]

they stole the wiring off my trailer, which cost me $4 to replace at harbor freight with the plugs included and wire connections and everything.

[70CB750]

parting out a vehicle will bring 10x the amount of money over scrap cash.  Sorry it happened,but it's getting so bad here in NC, people are stealing the sewer covers right off the street and scrapping them. One scrap yard got caught being in Lexington,NC.
Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

Certain group of people in Czech (ok, gypsies) will steal communication cable from railroad and burn it to get the copper out to sell for scrap.  With a bit of luck they will cause millions in damage for $100 or so in cash.   Mind boggling.

these are the people stealing the scrap here as well , strange as i have been to the czech republic many times to watch the gp but have never met any czech people anything like this .

You gotta know where to find them but the problem is real enough.

[MikeKato]

Always fun to hear when they try to steal the copper out of a live transformer and get fried.

[Don R]

My ex BIL's house burned with a tenant living there. Later someone tried to cut out the panel box, apparently forgot to check to see if it was off. It wasn't. Big arc mark on  bolt cutters left behind.

[flybox1]

Lived in this subdivision...40-50 nice homes spread out in a wooded rural area.  50+ wooded acres between us and the next house.   Tweaker kid (meth) lived there.  My super cool next door neighbor, Lou, is a Seattle PD bike cop.    Sean, another bike rider (dirt mostly) is a Deputy with the County Sheriff.  Also has 2 HUGE German Shepards.    I felt really safe on this street     We had suspected this tweaker kid was committing these car prowls in the upper arms of the neighborhood.  One every 2-3 months.  Easily hidden in the adjoining woods until the coast was clear.

One day, after all the moms and kids busses left for school, this punka$$ decides to go down our street  Just so happend to be Sean's day off.  As Sean tells it, the guy starts ufking with his wifes car in the drive (cruiser was in the garage) and his Shepards ears clued him in something was going on (He's trained them bark only on command). So he got them harnessed, and ready to sprint out the door, locked and loaded. 

Caught this fkr in the act, held him at gunpoint, dogs barking.  This kid pissed himself waiting for his car ride to jail   

[sangyo soichiro]

I had some bastard sneaking around my house stealing stuff over the past year.  They kept coming back, and they didn't even try to hide the fact that they were snooping around and taking stuff (leaving doors open, leaving stuff in the driveway, etc.).  Took an old dead battery out of a car I had, and an old rim that had been in an accident, stuff like that.  It was just junk they were taking, but it pissed me off that someone kept coming back over and over and didn't even try to be sneaky about it.  Bastards.

Oh, and like someone else said above, where I live you have to have a clean title to sell a car to a scrapyard (that's what I did with the junk car they took the battery from).  My guess is that your boy's car will turn up somewhere, stripped of its catalytic converter and other stuff that's easy to remove.  What sucks is if it gets parked somewhere, they'll trace your son as the owner and I wouldn't be surprised if they try to make him pay for towing charges and crap if it has to be towed as a nuisance vehicle (like if it's left in some public place or something and it has to be towed).  I would hope that once you explain that it was stolen you wouldn't have to be responsible for any towing charges or fines, but I wouldn't be surprised if at first they expect you to pay them - seems to always work that way.