I was wondering if anyone here had some tips to prevent your car from being broken into since this is the 2nd time in 6 months that it's happened. The first time they didn't break anything, they took the cd player but that was it. This time they smashe the window but for some reason they left the CD player, and took my subs and a few CD's. These are 2 seperate incidents since the last tiem it happened my car was on the other side of Phoenix. I have an alarm and it has that flashing red light and stuff I just don't know what elese to do.
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My car was broken into... again!
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radioheadrule83
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Good answer ^^
Alternatively pack it full of expensive shit, buy a gun and wait...
Alternatively pack it full of expensive shit, buy a gun and wait...
I've had my car broken into 4 seperate times. Twice to steal a CD player (The second time the faceplate was hidden in the glove compartment - they broke in and took it anyway), once to steal a set of speakers on my back set, and once to steal a laptop. Know what I found the best way to keep thieves out?
Don't keep expensive shit in your car.
Seriously, there's no other way. I had a friend who had a $1000 alarm system in his car to complement his $2000 stereo system. The first things the thieves did was pry open his trunk (doing body damage to his car) and cut the line from the battery to the alarm. The car alarm people claimed the alarm did it's job - the people weren't able to steal his car. But it didn't stop them from getting inside the car to steal everything in the first place.
Don't keep expensive shit in your car.
Seriously, there's no other way. I had a friend who had a $1000 alarm system in his car to complement his $2000 stereo system. The first things the thieves did was pry open his trunk (doing body damage to his car) and cut the line from the battery to the alarm. The car alarm people claimed the alarm did it's job - the people weren't able to steal his car. But it didn't stop them from getting inside the car to steal everything in the first place.
Sure, I had a few CD's (4) in the car but they were in the glove compartment, the CD face was in my room and there were a few reciepts scattered around, no bank reciepts, maybe a receipt from using my debit card but that was it. I just don't get why they chose my car over others, twice, and was wondering if there was something more I could do.
Nerevar said:
they did, I was just letting people know that it wasn't because I have 100 dollar bills lying around with stacks of CD's for everyone to see in my car. the silver lining is that my subwolfers were taking up too much space anyway, I'll have to wait and pay off my window first, that's what pisses me off. Sure, I'm not happy that some of my stuff was stolen, but to be such a shitty ass criminal that you have to break my window to do it, that pisses me off.
radioheadrule83
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Theives give up their human rights the second they enter your property.
Capture them at gunpoint, pull their toenails off and push pins into the soft tissue beneath really slowly. Do the same with the hands, then put some pins in the eyes. Make them bite a few razor blades til the jaw meets the head.
After a good old torturing, sprinkle some petrol on for a little garnish,
Kill, then serve as a puppet. Here's one I made earlier:
Capture them at gunpoint, pull their toenails off and push pins into the soft tissue beneath really slowly. Do the same with the hands, then put some pins in the eyes. Make them bite a few razor blades til the jaw meets the head.
After a good old torturing, sprinkle some petrol on for a little garnish,
Kill, then serve as a puppet. Here's one I made earlier:
max_cool said:
It's not like it's a great ride, no offense intended. Demi brings up some great point's, also buy one of those alarm stickers, where it says this car is protected by alarm XXXX system and try to bluff the crooks into thinking there is an alarm on the car. Good luck
Fresh Prince
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Where was this?
Cauliflower of Love
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You should probably stop pissing people of throughout the day.
Escape Goat
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My friend lives in downtown Indianapolis and the parking lot for his complex is right under Interstate 65 that runs through the city. He doesn't lock his car. Theres alot of homeless and lowlifes that come out to seek refuge under the overpass so he just leaves his car unlocked. His reasoning is he'd rather someone look in his car and find theres nothing to steal than to break a window and find theres nothing to steal.
I keep telling him his car is going to start smelling like urine from when homeless fall asleep in his car.
I keep telling him his car is going to start smelling like urine from when homeless fall asleep in his car.
Burger
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Get an engineer to strap down speakers & subs with metal brackets, bolted to the chasis. Put the cd player under the passengers chair or something (stacker), and again, bolt the headunit down.
If a theif cannot get something in the first couple of minutes, he will give up most of the time. If you make stuff so frikken hard to steal, they just wont bother.
If a theif cannot get something in the first couple of minutes, he will give up most of the time. If you make stuff so frikken hard to steal, they just wont bother.
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