Stolen Jeeps?
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The simple solution: don’t live in a metropolitan hellhole where the powers that be are soft on crime and hard on law-abiding citizens.
A kid I went to high school with got himself in some shit for that very reason. Long story short, he tried to steal a neighbors' car, but it was a manual, and he didn't get very far before the cops found him. The icing on that cake is his drunk trailer trash mom was with him and couldn't drive stick either.
He should have brought his wife, aka sister with him.
You can use a pedal lock box for a manual transmission if your neigborhood really sucks.
I'm glad I live here. I was giving away a rusty old walmart bike from my in laws junk in their garage, had a "for free" sign on it, and a guy rang the doorbell to make sure it was free before taking it.
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We had a kids bike we put out for free with a sign. It sat out there all day.
Finally we put it up by the house.
Later on we saw it was gone. Reviewed the camera footage and some lady walked up our driveway and took it.
I was of the opinion she should have rang the bell and asked since she had no idea why we moved it. Someone may have been coming back for it or we may have changed our mind.
She took the house? wow! I don't want to mess with that old lady.
Van = home on wheels for some turd. Funny but not funny as I have my van stolen decades age when I lived in LA. Stripped but the worst part was when they towed it to the impound. You could tell the tow driver drug it along a block wall and then realized it and backed up and tried again. Thieves suck. Sure there are always idiots who need ajoy ride but I think there is more money in jap scrap ricers and stripping them out. I used to laugh when we'd go to mexico and see a 16 year old driving a then fully tricked Blazer or Bronco, of course he worked to bought it legitimately.
It was a Chevy Astro van, the one with windows all the way around - not the panel van style so it is tough to hide activity when you can see through it.
Fortunately for me car thefts aren’t too common except as crimes of opportunity. (Especially the KIA theft trend.) So the idea is to simply not be the easiest target.
Biggest thing that happens a lot around here is people breaking into cars (and homes) to steal firearms and whatever else they can find.
I'm in S. California and still hear about Jeeps being stolen occasionally. Though usually it's newer Jeeps now, not many TJ's. I assume they're taking them South over the border which is about 2.5 hours away.
I have a friend that I used to wheel with. She bought a JLU Rubicon 392 and stopped wheeling. About a year ago, she left it in the driveway (usually in the garage). Someone stole it around 2AM or so. She reviewed the camera footage and found it took them around 40 min sitting in it with a laptop to get it started. Luckily, it was almost out of gas. So they went to a gas station and abandoned it there. The theory is they couldn't get it started again after getting gas. So she got it back with some minor damage from them breaking into it.
I'm pretty paranoid about keeping my LJ in the garage. I won't leave it outside for long. Though I have another TJ (mostly stock) with a hard top and full doors that is always parked on the curb. No break in attempts have been made.
Meanwhile, one of my neighbors 3 houses away has a modestly built LJ with a soft top that is always parked outside. So hopefully, they would steal that before going after my TJ. Also seems to be plenty of JKU, JLU, and JT's in my neighborhood. So hopefully they would go for the newer Jeeps and not the good ones...
I have a friend that I used to wheel with. She bought a JLU Rubicon 392 and stopped wheeling. About a year ago, she left it in the driveway (usually in the garage). Someone stole it around 2AM or so. She reviewed the camera footage and found it took them around 40 min sitting in it with a laptop to get it started. Luckily, it was almost out of gas. So they went to a gas station and abandoned it there. The theory is they couldn't get it started again after getting gas. So she got it back with some minor damage from them breaking into it.
I'm pretty paranoid about keeping my LJ in the garage. I won't leave it outside for long. Though I have another TJ (mostly stock) with a hard top and full doors that is always parked on the curb. No break in attempts have been made.
Meanwhile, one of my neighbors 3 houses away has a modestly built LJ with a soft top that is always parked outside. So hopefully, they would steal that before going after my TJ. Also seems to be plenty of JKU, JLU, and JT's in my neighborhood. So hopefully they would go for the newer Jeeps and not the good ones...
In the north, maybe. Here in the SW, the Mexicans know how to drive manual.
I've heard, but dont really know, but I've heard that the old Jeeps are popular to steal around here, by the mexicans, because they're great for taking through the nowhere land trails where they won't be spotted by the cops, while on the way to mexico. How they get them across the border I have no idea?
They also like Superduty crew cab 4x4s. For some reason when one is recovered the back seat is often missing.
The Club still exists? No way! lol
Literally 5 seconds to cut through. Waste of time, money and effort.
When I'm leaving a hot-wireable car for a long time, I pull a bunch of fuses (fuel pump, etc) relays, and coil wire. Then the choice for the thieves becomes either a trip to the auto parts store the next day, have a tow truck, or just find something else to steal.
In my old home town, when I was in high school, I used to leave my convertible running, in the parking lot, when going into a store. Lots of people did. Population at the time was 100% descendants of Germans, Swedes, French, and a few Italians and Irish. About half blue collar, mostly lower middle/working class. Car theft was unthinkable, we literally could not imagine such a thing happening. Not only were all houses unlocked, but most didn't even know where keys were to try to lock a house. There had never been a murder, in hundreds of years.
Of course that town is no longer like that. Low income housing was suddenly required by law, forced by a Judge. So that world is gone.
It took me a LONG time, and several bad incidents (was almost killed by... uh... a "mob") to finally rewire my incredibly naive brain to realize the world had changed.
In my old home town, when I was in high school, I used to leave my convertible running, in the parking lot, when going into a store. Lots of people did. Population at the time was 100% descendants of Germans, Swedes, French, and a few Italians and Irish. About half blue collar, mostly lower middle/working class. Car theft was unthinkable, we literally could not imagine such a thing happening. Not only were all houses unlocked, but most didn't even know where keys were to try to lock a house. There had never been a murder, in hundreds of years.
Of course that town is no longer like that. Low income housing was suddenly required by law, forced by a Judge. So that world is gone.
It took me a LONG time, and several bad incidents (was almost killed by... uh... a "mob") to finally rewire my incredibly naive brain to realize the world had changed.