Stolen Truck Recovered!!!!!!!!

"PrecisionMachinisT" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

I got a good story about a stupid thief. A buddy of my father buys a 69 Camaro new. Drives it for a dozen years and it's pretty tired. It's no rust bucket, just well worn. It gets stolen out of his driveway around

1. He calls the cops and they ask him if it was insured for theft. Nope. Well the cop says, you might as well forget about it. It's probably chopped up by now. Fast forward five years, the phone rings, it's the cops. "We've recovered you're car". He says "you got the wrong number, I'm not missing a car". The cop says "are you so and so"? He says yes. "Didn't you report a 69 Camaro stolen". He says "yeah about five years ago". Cop tells him they found it and he tells them he doesn't want it. The cop tells him you're going to want this car alright. Turns out the car was stolen by some numbnut that wrecked his Camaro. He steals this car and restores it from the ground up. Puts his blown small block from his wrecked car in it, and all of his go-fast goodies. He then swaps the VIN on the dash. The cops bust him drag racing, check the VIN on the dash against one elsewhere on the car and they don't match. So they do a little digging and figure it out. They give this guy back the Camaro, restored, repainted, and about 10 grand in motor and trans mods. Nice.

Dan

I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Gunner wrote back on Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:16:03 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

I lucked out: got the car back, most of the contents (99%), but they stole the duffle bags - just the bags - and they left a couple Payless shopping baskets and some speaker wire. Weird part - the car wasn't insured for theft, but the contents were covered under my renter's policy.

Of course, when you get your vehicle stolen, you get everybody's weird stories. Like the gal who had her little truck stolen, and a couple days before the insurance was going to pay off, it was recovered, with a front end alignment job done too.

And then there was Kelly. Car was stolen, then recovered with new seat covers. Stolen again, recovered with new stereo and tires... Kelly really is tight with the man upstairs. :-)

tschus pyotr

I was planning on driving down in a few weeks anyway to work on my sister's house. Now I just fly down, and drive back.

Yeah I was think of one of those. That is a good price.

My "I need to do this" is a Mico-Lock

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Chuckle! So crime pays. In reverse!

Great story, Dan.

Harold

Now Im taking care of her again.

Somebody kick me, please.....

Gunner

Rule #35 "That which does not kill you, has made a huge tactical error"

When the thief broke in, he was using a bright flashlight.....

Now *that's* justice.... Ken.

Man, those are some hard-working cops!

For the price of a steering wheel at the wrecking yard, those are defeated very easily. Something more of a deterrent would be one of those locks that prevents your brake pedal from being depressed. I've seen some cheesy ones, but there's a few that look pretty solid.

Then, there's the hidden ignition killswitch, and/or a fuel cutoff valve with hidden switch.

Jon

--Great news! :-)

Ernie, I seem to recall that you lost a hefty supply of hard-to-replace welding rod with the truck. Were you lucky enough to get that back?

I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Gunner wrote back on Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:38:36 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

You're doing a good job of it, yerself.

Now, what was it the Ghatma said about overcoming ones own desires? Think of it as working off bad Karma in this life. :-)

tschus pyotr

Nope. The only thing left in the truck was the bedliner.

When my Mom got the truck back to her house last night she did a quick inventory. She found a 2 drawer steel file cabinet in the bed, 2 pair of big heavy bolt cutters behind the seat, 3 car stereos on the passenger seat floor, and a pile of legal paperwork from the guy who was arrested driving the truck.

The in dash stereo was gone along with all the speakers.

There was a bunch of trash in the cab, and the sliding rear window is broken. All in all, I got off easy.

you are a welder. sit down, have a cold one, think for 5 minutes, impress the hell out of us with something totally unique and new.

laz

...and preferably with rotating knives.

don't bother with the wheel lock....either get a removable steering wheel or wire in a hidden ignition switch up under the dash somewhere. Just wire it to ground the ignition when closed.

Glad to hear you got the truck back!!

I always liked the idea of a smoke grenade under the seat. If you fail to disarm the system, it sets off the smoke. Given that they are designed to be used in big open spaces, in the cab of a truck, you won't be able to see the steering wheel much less remove a stereo or hotwire the thing. Better make it orange so the local fire department doesn't try to fill it with water though. People may ignore alarms and blinking lights, but it is hard to miss the truck billowing orange smoke from the broken rear window, even if it is being towed away at the time!

-- Joe

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