yeah, i know, working a job is so hard,it is much easier to steal something. yes, I know, you had a shitty childhood, but when you decided to break into the car (to steal a $120 radio), why did you HAVE to crowbar the dash? Of course, you don’t care-it is nothing to you that you did over $800 worth of damage…besides breaking the window.
Relax, even if you got caught, the judge would’nt do a thing to you…you are deprived, so stealing something that isn’t yours is no big deal.
So, sell that radio-maybe you will get $25 for it (which you can put to good use, it will pay for a few rocks of crack).
My only hope, the next time you decide to break in to someones car, the owner happens by-and happens to have gun.:dubious:
Sorry to hear that. Something similar happened to a friend a few years ago. The only thing they took was a present. For me. They beat the shit out of the car for it.
My wife had her car’s back window smashed out and trunk lid damaged in a failed attempt to pry it open. The thief’s spoils? One (partial) roll of brown packing tape. Window replacement cost: $500+.
Been there as well, my sympathies. When Joe Horn killed two burglarsrobbing his neighbor’s house last year there’s a reason that he had 100 x more supporters than detractors- people who’ve experienced a robbery just don’t have sympathy for thieves getting shot.
A friend of mine manages a bakery. Once someone broke her window and stole … a bag of dirty aprons that she was taking to the laundry. She was pissed about the smashed window, but we both had a good laugh over the thief getting home with his spoils and saying “WTF, aprons!!!”
I had my car broken into a little over a month or so ago. The bastard only stole my XM radio and my iPhone charger. Apparently he didn’t know that the XM radio was from several years ago and can be had for less than $50 on ebay. Also I just called them and reported it stolen. Kinda made me feel better a little. The broken glass was kinda lame though. The really fun part was the fact that he didn’t know that my backpack full of Magic cards was in the back seat. That would have easily been worth more than the crappy radio and charger he stole and easier to sell without raising any suspicions.
The guy didn’t steel much in the grand scheme of things but I can only hope he dies a slow and extremely painful death for ruining my day and stealing my shit. Or like ralph124c said, he ends up at the business end of a gun.
My reading comprehension sucks.
I was wondering why being a Mormon was an important trait of a car thief.
So did I!
I think it’s because I’m not used to seeing Moron capitalized.
IIRC, they make car radios that will lock up/not work or even fall apart if stolen don’t they? I can’t imagine that it stops theft but it least gives a nice little “fuck you”, like the radio I had stolen that hadn’t worked in months and in fact had a cassette tape jammed in it that I couldn’t get out. (And this was from a banged up Yugo too- how much fucking crack do you have to smoke before you think you can get something worth selling out of a banged up Yugo?)
Once, in the mid 1980’s, had my car broken into; all 4 tires slashed, and 2 windows broken. They stole my school bag, a 12-pack of pop (with 3 cans remaining), and nothing else.
The morons left a CB radio sitting loose on the seat, a $250 boom-box in the back window, and the $600 HUGE back window unbroken.
Their haul was $140 worth of used college textbooks & 3 cans of pop.
Burglers are morons.
Eli
A month ago three teenagers tried to steal my friend’s car, a Neon.
Apparently, they were so incompetent that, after smashing the rear driver’s side window to get in, they made so much noise that they woke some neighbours, who promptly called the cops. The cops showed up and caught the three idiots in the car, trying to start it with a screwdriver (I mean, they couldn’t Google “How to hotwire a car”?)
Due to the fact that this was in the middle of the night, and, I’d like to think, for evidence gathering purposes, the cops had the car towed to an impound (and then moved it to another place the next day, while telling my friend that the car was at the first place… long story). Anyways, it cost my friend nearly 300$ to get her car back from the police, and she had to get the window replaced, but I don’t know the cost.
Two of the idiots were 17, but one was 18. If the cops caught him red-handed, is this guy likely to get a damn good punishment?
What the hell? If the cops tried that on me, I’d end up joining the three stooges in jail.
Unless you’ve omitted something important, like the police discovering several kilos of black tar heroin in the trunk…
Nope, nothing important omitted. Just severe incompetence on the part of the police/impound lot.
To give a few more details, as I understand them, the car was towed because it was the middle of the night and the window was broken, so it was basically to prevent it from actually being stolen. Relatively reasonable.
Because my friend had just moved to the city less than 3 weeks before, her insurance was still at her old address, her parent’s house. The cops called there the next morning, and my friend’s mom decided to contact friend’s sister, for reasons that are still unexplained. In the end, my friend only got notified of the theft late in the day, 2 or 3 pm, while at work (she uses transit to get to work).
Cops give her address X, telling her that’s where her car is. It’s at the other end of the city, but whatever. Friend leaves work, gets in a cab (no transit goes all the way within business hours), and get to the address only to find that her car isn’t there because the impound lot actually moved to the OTHER other end of the city at address Y. Oh, and even had she gone to address Y, her car wasn’t there, because that was just a 24hour impound, and they moved her car to a longer-term one. So she’s out 60$ of taxi, because by then it’s past business hours and she still doesn’t have her car.
She calls me that night and begs me to drive her the next morning to address Z, which is where her car now is. Not a problem, so we go. Her car is in fact at address Z, but the impound people are total idiots. First they tell her that her car isn’t there (because they had no record of a Dodge Neon… her’s is a Plymouth Neon). Then they tell her that her car doesn’t have any plates on it (which isn’t true, because she had a bitch of a time getting her car’s plates, and the cops never said anything about them being stolen. Turns out she does, in fact, have her plate on the car). Then they send one of the four douchebags who had been sitting in back laughing at customers to get her car… 15 minutes later he comes back and says “Uh, we don’t have any keys, I can’t move it”. Meanwhile my friend, who had been standing there all along with her keys in her hands is fuming. Of course you don’t have a fucking key, you idiot, the car was stolen! Anyways, after much discussion amongst the douchebags, they let her come into the garage and get her own car out, but at least one of the morons was nice enough to help her put plastic on her window first.
She then had to pay for all this. She was told it was 20$/night, but actually it was 30$, because it was stored indoors because of the broken window. Because the asshole cops/impound people had it moved twice, she had to pay two towing fees (which is insane, because the only reason it was towed was because she was the victim of a fucking crime!) The car was filled with broken glass, and all the stuff she keeps in it was thrown around, but none of it was very interesting and nothing got stolen.
Her mom, being the amazingly efficient person she is, had found a used window and garage to fix it that same day, though in a different town, so it took about a week before getting it fixed.
I have no idea what recourse she has in getting any refund back other than small claims court, which would likely be a waste of time for two 17 year olds and an 18 year old who probably don’t have any money anyways. I haven’t asked her if the police have any system for refunding the victims of crimes for their idiocy. Probably not.
She’s storing her car at her parent’s for the winter. Oh, and the next morning, when I drove her to the impound lot, another car on the street had a busted window. It’s a decent neighbourhood, but I guess there’s a group of teens who think they can do whatever they want.
I’ve experienced multiple robberies, and I’ve also been brutally assaulted. I don’t think the criminals who hurt me should be shot. I would be sympathetic if they were shot by someone who just wanted to shoot a thief, as with Horn, rather than to stop them doing more harm. I would also rather a human being live and steal from me than cause them to die to protect my property. I also don’t think any of that is very difficult to feel, and most people like yourself are just letting yourselves get away with spoiled, petty childishness in celebrating murderers.
While the thief should obviously face punishment I wouldn’t be particularly sympathetic to someone who, in the cold light of day, wanted to kill another human on the basis of stealing a car radio (or any other reason save self defence). State mediated legal systems exist to enact just punishment rather than unjust retribution in the heat of the moment. To want to murder someone because they broke into your car makes you a bit of an arsehole in my opinion.
I meant sympathetic to the one who got shot.
Yes sorry. I was in agreement with you, but could’ve expressed it more clearly.
How often does that state mediated legal system work the way it is supposed to? Besides, the OP didn’t say to murder the thief, just to shoot him. I can think of all kinds of interesting places to shoot someone who feel he has the right to smash up my car that will not kill him…
My brother’s car was stolen a couple years ago. A month later it was found in a vacant lot upside down and burned to a shell. The cops had it hauled to a wrecking yard at the cost of $350. As the registered owner, my bro got the bill. You read that right.
Normally a towing job like that would cost around $100. But since the call was from the police, which meant that the hapless customer is over a barrel and has no choice, the towing company automatically triples the bill plus tax. This is not only legal, but enshrined in the form of a contract between the cops and their buddies down at the towing company.
Car theft is among the lowest priorities for the cops. That’s mostly because the courts are a revolving door so it’s a waste of their time. In this area you have to get convicted of car theft at least five times before you do any jail time. Considering that few car thefts are ever solved, that adds up to a pile of hardworking citizens who get fucked by the traveling circus.
That’s the kind of protection I can expect from the government. Thanks, but I’ll do the job myself.
Morons indeed.
A few months ago one of them broke the passenger side window on my brother’s old, beat-up little Geo to steal a handful of coins from the dash as that’s all that was in his car besides litter. A few weeks later an even bigger moron ripped off the garbage bag that was covering the space where the window used to be to steal, well, nothing obviously. What kind of idiot thinks there’ll be anything of any value in a car missing a window?
Close to the same thing happened to me a few years back, dwyr. Smashed the window, stole enough change for two, maybe two and a half tacos. Dude, it’s an '81 Cressida station wagon. Fucking open the door. The lock was broken, but it wouldn’t have been locked anyway.