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mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2632
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 4:31 pm: |     |
http://www.mymaplewood.com/ |
sportsnut
Citizen
Username: Sportsnut
Post Number: 854
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 4:47 pm: | |
Mem - thanks for posting. Kinda gives me that warm cozy feeling. Quite a bit of stolen car activity. Nice.
Funny, one of the first experiences I had with this area (SOM) involved visiting my girlfriend's aunt and uncle who lived on S. Kingman in SO. During a visit in 1989 someone stole my RX-7, which was parked right in front of the house, during the middle of the day. I should've known. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2633
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 4:55 pm: | |
You can't be too careful. My old car was stolen in SO three times, then finally caught on fire driving on route 10 due to a cracked engine block from an accident the thieves got in when they stole it the first time. It was very scary. |
sportsnut
Citizen
Username: Sportsnut
Post Number: 855
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 5:14 pm: | |
Thankfully, I never got the chance to drive either of the cars that were stolen from me. The RX was found in ......drumroll please......Newark. The idiots who stole it blew the clutch and then the street urchins came along and ripped it apart. The insurance co. totalled it.
The other car was only eleven months old and just disappeared without a trace. Probably was a gift to some South American druglord's teenage child. |
Reflective
Citizen
Username: Reflective
Post Number: 258
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 5:29 pm: | |
Sportsnut:
Now I understand why your family car mileage is very low. |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2751
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 5:30 pm: | |
See, that's why you have to get a minivan. Very few teenage children of South American druglords are asking Daddy for a Winstar.
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sportsnut
Citizen
Username: Sportsnut
Post Number: 856
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 5:58 pm: | |
Having your car stolen is such a drag, even worse if you get it back. Most of the time insurance companies have at least 30 days to declare your car a loss. As a youngster fresh out of college it is difficult to purchase another car with a loan outstanding on another. Add to that most insurance companies give you about $15 a day to rent a car, and in this area that is near impossible.
Reflective - the funny part is that when I was younger I was living in upstate NY and my girlfriend was still going to school in Philly. The first year I had the RX I put about 35K miles on it driving back and forth and while in college I was a courier and had to use my own car - routinely put about 30K per year on my old beat up Nova.
After all these stolen car reports my car will be lucky to see the light of day any time soon (that and all this damn snow.)
Nohero, I think you'd be surprised. Living near the border of Corona Queens I used to see suped up minivans all the time. |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2752
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 6:22 pm: | |
Then I stand corrected.
Minivans rock!  |
Reflective
Citizen
Username: Reflective
Post Number: 265
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 8:05 pm: | |
sports:
Those were the days. I'd spend more time driving to and from the gal then I'd spend with the gal.
My first car was a 69 Chevy Nova, it was a workhorse. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 750
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 11:56 am: | |
This looks like a neat way to catch car thieves.
From the AP wire:
Ohio Cops Add Twist to Booby-Trapped Car
Officers in Columbus, Ohio, Rig 'Bait Car' to Play Theme From 'Cops' When They Disable Engine
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio Jan. 21 — Police have added a musical twist to the booby-trapped car they leave out to entice would-be thieves.
The city's so-called "bait car" is now rigged to play the theme from the television show "Cops" when officers remotely disable the engine and nab the crooks.
A videotape recently shot on the car's hidden cameras shows a man hopping in the driver's seat and muttering to himself, "I got me a good one."
He drives a short distance before an officer monitoring the situation from a remote location flips a switch that disables the engine and locks the door. Then, the car's tape player can be heard blaring the reggae-inflected tune from the television show's opening credits:
"Bad boys, bad boys/Whatcha gonna do/Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?"
The bait car in Columbus has caught 10 thieves in two days of use last week, Lt. Marie Ballou said.
"We only put it out there once a month or so and for about three days at a time, but it's been effective," Ballou said. |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1795
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 7:23 pm: | |
I doubt a bait car like that would deter the masses of thieves. It would do so only if they had a big communication medium among them.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 759
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 12:43 pm: | |
They could watch the news coverage on this on the TVs that they stole. |
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