A shifter outta my '56 Chev wagon. Set of BBC header's for a 5-7 chev outta the back of my '56 sedan delivery. Then, later the same delvery was hooked up (cahin's) to steal when I scared off a couple south-of-the-border gent's. A lowered '85 Silverado was ripped Twice (wheel's, tar's, radio/tape player, tailgate, ect.) in Tulsa OK. Set of house speaker's rigged up in the back of the '56 was snagged one night in T-town as well.
This is kinda of a feel good story that happened to a co-worker. He went to Universal Studios for the day. When he returned to the parking lot, some scrum bucket was trying to remove the wheels from his car. He ran at the guy, full speed, knocked him on his butt and jammed the guys head between the wheel and fender. Then he wailed on the guy until the cops showed. Hopefully, he'll think twice before ripping anyone else off.
I have had expensive stuff stolen ( an entire parking lot wothe of radiators once...dammit.) but the most expensive break in I have ever had was at the hands of a really amature thief. I drive a 67 Cutlass as my daily- Hartop. here's what I pictured that happened. first, The genius tried to "do me a favor" by instead of breaking the glass in the wing window, he just pried the metal surround out of it's pocket- in doing so, destroying the ENTIRE damn a pillar /wing window assembley. once he figured out that he couldn't reach the door lock (all the way at the other end of the door), he took a swing at the drivers window, and somehow managed to catch where the drivers door glass and drivers quarter glass come together. What did this automotive genius steal? the faceplate off my stereo. JUST THE FACEPLATE. Irony. you can literally unlock these cars with a plastic butterknife. you just slip it between the door and quarter glass and lift the lock button up with it. Here's where it got interesting. the side glass is a real motherfucker to find, and I used up all my options (at my price level, at the time, the only glass I could get would have cost me about a grand.) and went to see a buddy who had a 67 Cutlass for sale on his lot. this is the same buddy I bought my car from a few years prior to. I ended up buying an entire 67 cutlass in better shape than the one I was driving for 800 bucks. I have since stockpiled doubles of every peice of glass, regulators, and wing window/pillar assemblies for this reason. The bitch of the bunch is they killed my dash. still haven't found a replacement.
<HR> Quote: <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=alt2 style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: 1px inset; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px inset">Originally Posted by dmac620 A good friend of mine had his carb and air cleaner stolen from his car while parked at a car show. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> Damn that takes the cake. I've never seen anything bothered at rod trots around this area but I haven't been to many in the last five years so things may have changed. The worse thing we have had stolen was my wifes dog and I am positive that one of the workers who was working on the ditch in front of the house took him. Got home and my dog was pissed and wouldn't let the ditch rider out of the truck the next time he drove up.
jackass ripped the ext cab window off my old 99 chevy, went through all the wallets (there was 5 of us out at a quarry swimmin) inside the center console stole all the cash, then put the wallets back in the same spots they found them. I know who did it just cant prove it my father had a brand new 4x4 yamaha 4 wheeler stolen out of the garage.
A co-worker had his 96 Mustang Cobra with 50K miles stolen. He bought it new. His son had his 52 Ford off line so borrowed dads car to go to work (night shift). They dragged it up on a car hauler. It was found a few weeks later along side the road in the strawberry fields on fire. Everything that could be taken off was gone. Another co-worker had his restored 57 chev 2dr ht stored in a rented garage - it also turned up missing. This all happened in Santa Maria Ca.
Some guy stole my girlfriend once. But a few months later I got her back, then after a few weeks I was done with her so I dumped her. Gary
I have lost a few things, but nothing of any real value. In the 70's, I worked as a mechanic at a VW dealer. This is when the dune buggy craze was at its' peak. Every Monday morning, there would be 1 or 2 new VW's in the back storage lot missing the engines. Once one of the secretaries had to catch a ride in because her VW wouldn't start. A couple of us guys went to her house to get the car running. We cranked it over and it seemed to have no compression. We deceided to run a quick valve adjustment on it. Crawling under the car I found the valve covers were off and the rocker arms and pushrods had been stolen. Another time, I had to replace the windshield in a bug. Seems someone stole it during the night.
The two strangest things I had stolen were the door handles off a Dodge Omni and the power window switch out of our shop van.
lost a touch screen nav unit out of my Excursion last year...they pried the passenger door open at the top and reached in and unlocked the power locks.....I work nights and we park at one of the guys house. I got back from riding carpool one morning and the 77 suburban wouldn't start. I call my buddy to come give me a jump before I realized the starter was gone!!!!!
My wife left a cloth bag with stuff in it visible in the car. The contents were an old bathing suit, a towel and a foam kickboard (about the same size as a laptop computer). The scumbag broke the side window and grabbed the bag. Bet he was disappointed when he looked in the bag. He then broke into another car in the same lot and took a bag of stuff. Too bad it only contained old clothes destined for charity donation. So, the jerk breaks two windows and gets nothing. Maybe he'll go straight (yeah, right).
Had a new Chevette in 1982; only a few weeks old when I parked it on a street in downtown Seattle. Had a racoon tail hanging from the interior rear view mirrow. Someone tossed a brick through the drivers side window in order to steal the racoon tail. They had to pry the brick from a building wall in order to get something to break the window!Now I don't leave anything in a car and leave the glovebox door open whenever I park.
You could leave a bag of Sh-t in your car and someone would steal it ! The have not dope heads are everywhere !!!
Why stuff never gets recovered.... When I was in high school there were a couple kids who'd steal radar detectors from unlocked cars at the mall. I won't even get into how the one I was friends with rationalized that, it sounded good then but I know now it was still stupid. So anyhow the one kid, Dave, screwed over the other one somehow, owed him money or something, so this one that I talked to went out during lunch and stole Dave's latest haul out of Dave's <i>unlocked</i> car in the parking lot, put it in the trunk of his own car, comes back and has lunch. Eventually the Dave finds them missing, what does this genuis do, call the police to report his stolen radar detectors, stolen. He has no idea who stole them - the guy who took them was smart enough to keep his mouth shut about it for a long time after. And I sure never said anything when he told me. Dave was a dipshit anyways. Now do you think those cops ever even bothered to ask this kid why he had three different radar detectors in the back of his car, without any packaging or reciepts or anything? Either they never asked, or they accepted whatever BS reason Dave came up with. Which couldn't have been too good, we've already determined he's not very smart. They didn't care, they just took the report and that was that.
i live in a rural community to pop 100, some one stole just in the last 2 months a flowmaster h pipe frome my 83 mustang, taillights out of my 47 ply, and 12 gallon of acohol out of my mud trucks fuel cell, thats ok its got deisel in it now and the dog now resides in the garage at nite.
they took the coins in my ash try, AND THE ASH TRY! I guess they needed something to carry the coins in.
A breather then a week later the air cleaner off my bug (no hood) . Dumb asses just took what wasn't bolted on.
when they're found and its recovered...i suggest drawing and quartering... PS.. interesting sig line Wayne, what the hell are you up to now?
nothing to major. dice liscense plate bolts,antenna topper., valve stem caps, and a cd player from my 53 delivery. managed to get the cd player back through some not so gentle persuasion.
Cop calls me and wants to know where my truck is going with a large load on in the middle of the night. Told him I had no trucks out. He says there is a colored dude in my truck with a d-8 on headed south. Said you better go get him, its stolen. Had my Kenworth and d-8 on another companies trailer Headed for Louisiana. Turned out the guy would get a job, steal the equipment to do it then sell the equipment. He is still here in the slam at Sioux falls. from twenty years ago.
Just last week, rat ba#tards stole my daily driver, while I was at WORK !! What a bad day. 88 Honda Civic, 5 speed. Rusty, primer, no radio or heater but it was paid for and got 35 mpg. Saw it on security video, took them about 15 seconds to get in, 15 seconds to get it running and drive away. Took 6 hours to get through the police report aggravations.
i got hosed on this one, i was inside my house when i heard the window shatter i sneak out side and see some dude trying to pry the radio outta my 88 chevy pickup. i had been drinking a little and so i run over to the truck and grab the dude by his left arm pull it out and slam the door on it, at this point my roommate runs out and i tell him to call the cops so he goes back in side and calls them, well i proceed to beat this guy till he stops moving and then some well im still punching the dude when the cops show up and they pull guns on my cause im a big dude with alot of tattoos and wearing a tank top covered in blood they lock me up and put me in the car, my roommate comes out yellin you got the wrong guy. well they call an ambulance for the other guy he goes to the hospital and i go to jail. i got charged with assult and it turns out the guy stealing my radio is a cops kid. so i spent 3 months in jail and he got to spend two months in the hospital, im now a felon , but fuck him, his left arm still dont work right and his jaw was wired shut for 6 months and his face still dont look right. so just remember just cause they are taking your shit doesnt mean you get to beat them till they stop moving. oh yea im about 6'4" 300 pounds this guy was about 5'2" 110 hahaha sucker.
new orleans cops , pretty much nuff said , eventually they will stop the dude somewhere and arrest him as its much easier than goin to a meth/crackheads house and chancing them having an uzi behind the door...
Worked in construction with a pickup full of shovels, picks,sledge hammers and such. I could park it anywhere for days. No one ever stole any of THAT stuff ???????
I used to live in a small city in So Utah, and never locked my cars, I walked out to go to work and found my truck door open, looked around and the only thing I found missing was my dentist bill and a few bucks in change, the least the asses could do is if they steal the dentist bill they could pay it !!!!!
As I said earlier growing up on a used car lot lots of stuff was stolen, but one day my dad goes to open the lot to find every set of wheels gone off every car on the front line(about 20 cars). And this was in the late 70's. Also we had an RV's large window busted, an I guess he cut himself open good trying to get in cause there was blood everywhere, and they didn't get anything. I'm just pissed he didn't die on the spot so I could spit on him.
In 1980 my 65 Malibu,37K mi. A/C, new Appliance wires&tires was ripped off from work at the Caddy Dealer In Houston. I got a lift home and called it in Stolen. Cop immediately says ,We got it. I asked where and hows it look? He says mtr. trans. bat. & wheels gone, and $125. bucks for tow & storage if I get tomorrow. I went 1rst thing in the morning with wrecker $50.bucks. Got there and paid $125.and asked where is it? I came back 5 min. later and told dude, I'll give you the title if you give me my $125. back. It Looked like they played Junkyard Football with what was left of my car. Glass was all broke, bashed in all around and rolled over. I Puked a little. I suspect It was ordered done by some Asshole I pissed on at work. He could see my car any time while working. I couldn't
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