Near Theft of my S3
Discussion
stuart_83 said:
Tamworth's not too bad thankfully, lived here most of my life (I'm 35) and the recent spree is easily the worst I've known. It's been relatively quiet before now, apart from the odd Fiesta ST going missing.
It's just scrotes from Bham unfortunately coming further afield for their 4wd German cars as there's easy links to Birmingham (M42, A38) directly from where they nick the cars from ... Usually Ventura Park.
I just wish if they ever caught the scumbags the punishment would fit the crime, ie you've been found guilty of stealing three cars, for which the respective insurance companies have paid out £120,000, so you now owe £120,000.
Totally agree mate, I sold a car last year to an ex traffic cop from west mids, he said Tamworth would be an easy place to get away from with all the motorway links, ironically it's the motorway links that made my decision easier to move up this way, I was working all over the UK at the time and it's far easier than the west mids to commute from.It's just scrotes from Bham unfortunately coming further afield for their 4wd German cars as there's easy links to Birmingham (M42, A38) directly from where they nick the cars from ... Usually Ventura Park.
I just wish if they ever caught the scumbags the punishment would fit the crime, ie you've been found guilty of stealing three cars, for which the respective insurance companies have paid out £120,000, so you now owe £120,000.
jak kez 187 said:
Well looks like I’m the latest victim with an S3. Broke in through the back door by snapping the locks and got the keys whilst I slept, was on my own and didn’t hear a thing. Neighbours cctv shows them arriving at 2:53am and the car being driven off at 2:59am. 6 minutes to take something that I saved up for 4 years to get.
Only had the car 3 months as well and I loved it. Safe to say once the shock wore off I was absolutely gutted.
No idea where to go from here really. Don’t want to be another target but also don’t want to have some lowlife pricks dictate what I drive.
If you haven't already, it's definitely worth posting to the stolen card Midlands group. Only had the car 3 months as well and I loved it. Safe to say once the shock wore off I was absolutely gutted.
No idea where to go from here really. Don’t want to be another target but also don’t want to have some lowlife pricks dictate what I drive.
httpss://m.facebook.com/stolencarsmidlands/
gutbobs said:
If you haven't already, it's definitely worth posting to the stolen card Midlands group.
httpss://m.facebook.com/stolencarsmidlands/
Cheers mate, already put it on there. Scrolling through that page is really angers me though, the amount of cars being nicked is ridiculous. Worrying thing is it’s not just performance cars getting stolen, it’s quite literally anything with wheels! httpss://m.facebook.com/stolencarsmidlands/
Evanivitch said:
Just seen a video of police getting into a house in a drugs raid. Front door was a composite door, went through in seconds with an adapted chainsaw parallel to the locking side and then I just swung open.
In the age of cordless power tools I don't suppose they'd need much more than a circular saw to get through a wood-core composite door (Solidor and the sort).
Might start looking at metal skinned doors instead.
I'd recommend these.. had one fitted 5 years ago and it provides great peace of mind. I'm in a flat on the 3rd floor in London so it would be the only way inIn the age of cordless power tools I don't suppose they'd need much more than a circular saw to get through a wood-core composite door (Solidor and the sort).
Might start looking at metal skinned doors instead.
https://steelsecuritydoors.co.uk
slk 32 said:
I'd recommend these.. had one fitted 5 years ago and it provides great peace of mind. I'm in a flat on the 3rd floor in London so it would be the only way in
https://steelsecuritydoors.co.uk
Cheers. I'm a detached house, so OTT on the front door probably isn't necessary.https://steelsecuritydoors.co.uk
Just hope you haven't got plasterboard walls between you and the neighbours!
stuart_83 said:
Tamworth's not too bad thankfully, lived here most of my life (I'm 35) and the recent spree is easily the worst I've known. It's been relatively quiet before now, apart from the odd Fiesta ST going missing.
It's just scrotes from Bham unfortunately coming further afield for their 4wd German cars as there's easy links to Birmingham (M42, A38) directly from where they nick the cars from ... Usually Ventura Park.
I just wish if they ever caught the scumbags the punishment would fit the crime, ie you've been found guilty of stealing three cars, for which the respective insurance companies have paid out £120,000, so you now owe £120,000.
Right and how do you think they will look to find the £120k they owe?It's just scrotes from Bham unfortunately coming further afield for their 4wd German cars as there's easy links to Birmingham (M42, A38) directly from where they nick the cars from ... Usually Ventura Park.
I just wish if they ever caught the scumbags the punishment would fit the crime, ie you've been found guilty of stealing three cars, for which the respective insurance companies have paid out £120,000, so you now owe £120,000.
euphoricmess said:
Right and how do you think they will look to find the £120k they owe?
With legally accounted for funds, similar to mortgage deposit. Or out of their benefits (most likely).Let's face it, something's got to be done to deter them - 'punishments' handed out by the justice system at the moment are laughable. There's next to no risk for them, hence the increasingly brazen attacks ... And the Police's attitude of "it's insured, here's a crime number" doesn't exactly help matters.
Society has got to stop treating these scumbags like the victim if / when they're caught and make them fully accountable for their crime.
stuart_83 said:
With legally accounted for funds, similar to mortgage deposit. Or out of their benefits (most likely).
Let's face it, something's got to be done to deter them - 'punishments' handed out by the justice system at the moment are laughable. There's next to no risk for them, hence the increasingly brazen attacks ... And the Police's attitude of "it's insured, here's a crime number" doesn't exactly help matters.
Society has got to stop treating these scumbags like the victim if / when they're caught and make them fully accountable for their crime.
Something has to be done but by putting a fine they can certainly not afford when they likley only make money from crimeLet's face it, something's got to be done to deter them - 'punishments' handed out by the justice system at the moment are laughable. There's next to no risk for them, hence the increasingly brazen attacks ... And the Police's attitude of "it's insured, here's a crime number" doesn't exactly help matters.
Society has got to stop treating these scumbags like the victim if / when they're caught and make them fully accountable for their crime.
I mean how many of these thieves do we reckon have assets worth greater than £60k?
rovermorris999 said:
As the perps are nearly always male may I suggest one testicle removed for the first offence, the other for a second offence and the knob for a third. 
I still think there is value in bringing back the public stocks. Make them do a few weekends full time in them outside Primark. Make it clear to all what they have done
i have a fast audi. I got it stolen at 2pm in nov 2016 in my office car park in Birmingham.
it was under a cctv camera, so got the whole thing on camera. police found it a week later in solihull albeit with £8k worth of damage. I got the car returned to me. since then I have had 2 attempted car jackings and 2 weeks ago an attempted break in
I have the car obd port disabled, steering lock, I bought a dog and I have internal metal bars behind the doors, so even if the door is unlocked nobody can come in
it was under a cctv camera, so got the whole thing on camera. police found it a week later in solihull albeit with £8k worth of damage. I got the car returned to me. since then I have had 2 attempted car jackings and 2 weeks ago an attempted break in
I have the car obd port disabled, steering lock, I bought a dog and I have internal metal bars behind the doors, so even if the door is unlocked nobody can come in
3 large ridgebacks, (one of whom, the smallest b
h by the way is a proper nasty piece of work when it comes to strangers around the property including the neighbours properties, to the point where the window cleaner stopped coming. Though nice as pie outside the house), generally works.
Then of course there's 2 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel downstairs, and 3 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel by the bed. Enter my home try and take my car if the dogs don't end you, you're leaving without a limb, then I'll sue you for the cost of cleaning or replacing the carpet you've ruined.
h by the way is a proper nasty piece of work when it comes to strangers around the property including the neighbours properties, to the point where the window cleaner stopped coming. Though nice as pie outside the house), generally works.Then of course there's 2 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel downstairs, and 3 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel by the bed. Enter my home try and take my car if the dogs don't end you, you're leaving without a limb, then I'll sue you for the cost of cleaning or replacing the carpet you've ruined.
K321 said:
i have a fast audi. I got it stolen at 2pm in nov 2016 in my office car park in Birmingham.
it was under a cctv camera, so got the whole thing on camera. police found it a week later in solihull albeit with £8k worth of damage. I got the car returned to me. since then I have had 2 attempted car jackings and 2 weeks ago an attempted break in
I have the car obd port disabled, steering lock, I bought a dog and I have internal metal bars behind the doors, so even if the door is unlocked nobody can come in
Putting it bluntly, fit was under a cctv camera, so got the whole thing on camera. police found it a week later in solihull albeit with £8k worth of damage. I got the car returned to me. since then I have had 2 attempted car jackings and 2 weeks ago an attempted break in
I have the car obd port disabled, steering lock, I bought a dog and I have internal metal bars behind the doors, so even if the door is unlocked nobody can come in
k that - you have purchased a dog and have prison bars installed in your house to try and stop people taking something as realistically as unimportant as a car from you?!Priorities, living in fear of break ins and car-jackings so you can spend an hour a day in traffic in a 'fast audi'? b
ks to that.If you are single and its only your arse in the firing line then fair enough, your choice - if you have a family and you are subjecting them to this kind of lifestyle so you can drive something as realistically mundane as a fast hatchback then you need to have long hard think about things.
Sweepy said:
3 large ridgebacks, (one of whom, the smallest bh by the way is a proper nasty piece of work when it comes to strangers around the property including the neighbours properties, to the point where the window cleaner stopped coming. Though nice as pie outside the house), generally works.
Then of course there's 2 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel downstairs, and 3 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel by the bed. Enter my home try and take my car if the dogs don't end you, you're leaving without a limb, then I'll sue you for the cost of cleaning or replacing the carpet you've ruined.
That off road prepped 1992 Bobtail Discovery is very, very safe.h by the way is a proper nasty piece of work when it comes to strangers around the property including the neighbours properties, to the point where the window cleaner stopped coming. Though nice as pie outside the house), generally works.Then of course there's 2 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel downstairs, and 3 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel by the bed. Enter my home try and take my car if the dogs don't end you, you're leaving without a limb, then I'll sue you for the cost of cleaning or replacing the carpet you've ruined.
Sweepy said:
3 large ridgebacks, (one of whom, the smallest bh by the way is a proper nasty piece of work when it comes to strangers around the property including the neighbours properties, to the point where the window cleaner stopped coming. Though nice as pie outside the house), generally works.
Then of course there's 2 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel downstairs, and 3 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel by the bed. Enter my home try and take my car if the dogs don't end you, you're leaving without a limb, then I'll sue you for the cost of cleaning or replacing the carpet you've ruined.
This has to be some kind of bizarre, invented, internet persona, surely?h by the way is a proper nasty piece of work when it comes to strangers around the property including the neighbours properties, to the point where the window cleaner stopped coming. Though nice as pie outside the house), generally works.Then of course there's 2 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel downstairs, and 3 feet of tamahagane Japanese steel by the bed. Enter my home try and take my car if the dogs don't end you, you're leaving without a limb, then I'll sue you for the cost of cleaning or replacing the carpet you've ruined.
So if your delightful puppies don't savage an intruder then you will chop them up and sue them for the trouble? Did you know how mental you sound?
Rick1.8t said:
Putting it bluntly, fk that - you have purchased a dog and have prison bars installed in your house to try and stop people taking something as realistically as unimportant as a car from you?!
Priorities, living in fear of break ins and car-jackings so you can spend an hour a day in traffic in a 'fast audi'? bks to that.
If you are single and its only your arse in the firing line then fair enough, your choice - if you have a family and you are subjecting them to this kind of lifestyle so you can drive something as realistically mundane as a fast hatchback then you need to have long hard think about things.
This is the thing that gets me. We are taking £40k cars give or take. Fast Audi's. Most special, nice to drive or course and quick. k that - you have purchased a dog and have prison bars installed in your house to try and stop people taking something as realistically as unimportant as a car from you?!Priorities, living in fear of break ins and car-jackings so you can spend an hour a day in traffic in a 'fast audi'? b
ks to that.If you are single and its only your arse in the firing line then fair enough, your choice - if you have a family and you are subjecting them to this kind of lifestyle so you can drive something as realistically mundane as a fast hatchback then you need to have long hard think about things.
I've said a number of times is agreed a deal on S5 them had a bit of a worry, not helped by stories on here and in press after a Google that I was making my family home a target and for what.
My A4 is nice inside than 90% odd s cars (I'd imagine) and I can't remember the last time I drove it at the limit
It annoys me massively I don't feel I can do it as is something I'd like and can afford but I can't put my family through it.
Even a silent break in to the car via some relay thing would cause upset
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