If I can have one little bit of commiseration, out of my car’s break in, its that the idiot who did it was just that, an idiot. Not enough that he chose a car with “IMMOBILISER” written on the window (and the only car on the street with a baby seat in the back the b*stard) to hotwire, he also thought that he’d help himself to a receipt with my name on it from the glove box. So when he was caught for three other car break-ins that night, the police searched him and found my receipt, crime no. 4!
A small small ray of sunshine though, the damage he did to my car may have been enough to make it an insurance write off. Tried (and failed) to break in by punching the car lock, smashed the passenger window, wrecked the underneath of the steering wheel in the hopes that a bicycle repair tool would suffice against the immobiliser :rolleyes: so there’s several hundreds of pounds worth of damage on a car worth only about a thousand. No amount of pleas that its a wonderfully well looked after car, a combination of mum’s care and our brilliant mechanic who works on rally cars part time. The insurer will take one little look in his book and give me a woeful sum for it no doubt. I was less than a thousand miles off the magic 100K mark and the car was ticking away happily to itself. I was hoping to sell the car on soon enough and I suppose this will save me the hassle of advertising and haggling, but there were a few things it would have been useful for in the next two or so months, so it’ll be bussing and car sharing from now on. I’d even gotten emotionally attached to it, nick naming it the “Mighty Green Slug” after seeing it glistening in a wet car park at night.
So I bid thee fare well, oh Mighty Slug, you died many thousands of miles before your time 
