another great tip, turn your music off a mile from where you live...or farther. turn it off before you get into your neighbor hood.

 

I have actually done that, there has been RARE occasions I had the system turned up that loud wherever I'll be parking. Also, it can be at a low level, my friends across the street me they can still here me coming and mistaken me for one of their siblings since they have systems too.


This happend at my friends' apartment, not my place. We all decided to go in and sit. 20 minutes later, I come out, key in hand, about to stick the key into the door and notice the trunk slightly open. Then I figure there was no way I could've opened the trunk, I haven't for days and no reasons for. Opened it, tools all thrown about, they took the bag the tool was in, and just saw a big empty space. Walked out and look inside, WTF!

 

If I knew how to I'd install some kind of device that would cause the outside of the car to become electrostatic so that when someone other than myself touches to the car it would shock them. Not enough to kill them but enough to make them think twice. And put a window sticker saying something along the lines of, "Do not touch, fair warning!" I don't think it would work to well since I don't think it exists and they could still open the door cause the handle itsself is plastic and they wouldn't have to touch the car.

 

I know somebody who did something like this (in Jamaica) to keep stray dogs from peeing on his aluminum wheels. ............. long extension cord, how exactly, I don't know.
It work for the dogs, but I think a thief would figure it out.
Here I think it is illegal. If somebody was to die, you would be charged with pre-meditated murder. (Boobytrap)

Anyway, that sucks man. I feel it for you.

It's bad enough that they take your stuff, but they leave everything else all busted up.

 

I am sorry man. That sucks. At least they left your bottle of Tylenol.

 

yah that really sucks, my car got broken into a while back, it really f**king sucks. Within 20 mins man, someone has been watching you. if you replace the stuff you better get that alarm working. even better if you have a garage you can park it in. Wish you better luck in the future man

 

The problem is leaving your stuff out in the open where any punkass can see it, hide your gps or put it lower where it can't be seen... tinted windows usually help too.

 

GPS was in the glove box, they dug in there and threw the stuff on the floor. And the windows are tinted, 35%. Anything lower is illegal for MD. bastards.

Besides the broken stuff they left, a screw driver was left that I believe was used to pry the dash apart. I knew it wasn't mine, I have nothing that's clear with green stripe handles. Hopefully the cops can pull prints off of it. There were also prints on the trunk, however, mother nature decided to moisturize the night with condensation. Bitch.

I'm planning on reinstalling an alarm with an air horn and stuff. If no one wakes up to it, then it looks like they're likely going to burn in a fire. Also, I'm making new sub enclosure mock-ups so I can use the most minimal space and install custom metal bars in the trunk so it can't be removed but enough room to access the spare. I think that'll help with stiffening up the chassis or whatever also in the rear.

 

It is usually some one you know. I am sorry to say. 20 min, must be someone in the apartment. Put in a cellphone hidden recording and bait them again. Take the vid to the cops and throw the punks in jail. Or just wait and beat thier ass.

 

Wait and beat their ass is the likely choice. And then call the cops and just say he tried to mug me. I believe in torture and no death. Death is easy and is not always painful.

 

When I had my sentra broken into the took the radio which was bought the day before. They didn't tear stuff apart, just kindly took it apart. Even the connections in the back of the radio was gently pulled out of the electrical tape wrapping. And my corolla suffered the same thing the same night. The took the subs and amp out of the trunk but left the 6 by 9 speakers in the rear window for some reason and when they detached my faceplate and saw my radio was a tapedeck they decided against it and left it. They destroy anything just left it nice and clean. Lucky for me I got everything but the subs back. Serial numbers are amazing

 

I need to get the serial number for the GPS that was taken. That's the only thing I find valuable, because it has my address programmed into it. I got the box it came in. Hopefully, the GPS can navi itself home. I can sleep easier, just a bit, if that happens.

 

blame having liberals in office,, if there were good politicians who were tough on crime, this woul dnot happen as much..

don't vote in liberal nutjobs..

I am guilty of having no alarm on my pos... but I don't have any expensive equipment in there, but the $100 sereo, is very nice..

 

I hate liberals.

 

damn u live in landover! thats hell! i live 2-3 mins away from there. what goes around, come around, whu ever did it well get worst, thats for sure. hopefully it all gets fixed up, i got broken into one tyme, not good, stolen everything, even my wipers lol

 

I FEEL YOUR PAIN, My car was broken into this summer (haven't been driving it since around may or june). They broke the windshield more, snapped the ring that holds the turn signal arm and also bent the turn signal arm. Stole the faceplate and remote for my radio (why I will NEVER know as they left the head unit so fail on their part).

Would be much cooler if we could somehow come up with a device around the edge of the window frames that when the window was broken it would basically close up around their arm (preferably using barb wire like stuff lol) so they would be trapped at which case you could go outside, beat them up. Then call the cops .

 

Or atleast a second window to roll up being way tougher than simple glass windows so they couldn't hurt it and would keep their arm caught and then you call the cops and tell the cop, "I have no idea what he was doing. I left my window rolled down. He must have hit the window roll up button instead of the unlock button."

 

I like my barb wire idea, will hurt them enough they won't fight. With the window up all they have to do is pull harder to get their arm out. barb wire will snag them and keep them there, not many people will have the guts to keep pulling, and even if they do they will need to go to the hospital which will be a dead give away it was them!

 

I'm hoping so, eish. I just gave the police the serial number for that GPS. Of all things taken, I want the GPS back since it holds my home location.

 

it's not about what it is worth to sell. It's the fact these old corolla's are easy to fix and will last you a long time if you maintain them! Like considering how I beat the crap out of my car and it's so old... the fact it only needs minor engine work is impressive.

 

My car was jacked at a friends place no more than 10 minutes from my home. I doubt the jackasses has any intelligence anyways to use the gps or whatever; but in a case they do, I am planning on reinstalling everything plus more to safeguard everything including the car, I don't need them to redo what they did, or try to, at my home place.

 

I will never understand why people can't respect other people's things. Then again seems like a lot of the little bastards running around at night have no respect for anyone or anything. The ones who broke in my car were most definitely teenagers adults around here don't break into a car and check every empty cigarette pack and only steal the faceplate and remote but leave the actual head unit... Then again without a tool kit you won't get it out of my dash, I didn't exactly use small screws (this was why I didn't).

I really don't think these people think of what will happen if we were to catch them. For instance I will catch at least 1 of them since I can run very fast. Also enraged I will begin to beat the crap out of who ever I catch. They seem to fail to realize our cars tend to mean a lot to us. It's funny when I reported my case to the cops though, and when I told the cop it's probably good I didn't catch them doing it because I would have beat the crap out of them, the cop responded "I would have helped" lol. A lot of the break ins now aren't so they can steal things of value, more so just to vandalize someone else property.

 

I will never understand why people can't respect other people's things. Then again seems like a lot of the little bastards running around at night have no respect for anyone or anything. The ones who broke in my car were most definitely teenagers adults around here don't break into a car and check every empty cigarette pack and only steal the faceplate and remote but leave the actual head unit... Then again without a tool kit you won't get it out of my dash, I didn't exactly use small screws (this was why I didn't).

I really don't think these people think of what will happen if we were to catch them. For instance I will catch at least 1 of them since I can run very fast. Also enraged I will begin to beat the crap out of who ever I catch. They seem to fail to realize our cars tend to mean a lot to us. It's funny when I reported my case to the cops though, and when I told the cop it's probably good I didn't catch them doing it because I would have beat the crap out of them, the cop responded "I would have helped" lol. A lot of the break ins now aren't so they can steal things of value, more so just to vandalize someone else property.

Yes, I know another variation, like the students who take out all the books out of the libary that is within their competitor's research just so that they could keep everyone else's grade lower in university. Unfortunately, this is not illegal since they legitimately withdraw the book out of the library using their library cards. The hard part of this is, even if they openly admit to what they are doing, there are no consequences, other than karma.

 

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All visible fingerprints were outside my car. Mother nature didn't cooperate, moisture condensed on the car and ruined it all. So, the only thing that may have any luck is the screwdriver that was left in my car. The officer took that in.

Like I said, this didn't happen at my home. It happend at my friends apartment. For that, I may have to bait the car and pretend like I'm actually parking the car and going away while someone who's already there keeps an eye on my car.

 

Chances are the same people won't break in to the car again. So baiting it isn't a great idea lol.

 

sorry to see this... but i'm sure you will be able to get those back

 

Yeah, I doubt baiting will work. Most criminals know not to go back to the last area vandilized.

 

If you have the serial number of the gps, you can report it to the manufacturer. Garmin specifies this in the owner's manual. From what I remember reading, the device CAN be tracked when reported stolen. Nothing to lose.

 

been awhile now though, chances are the people who stole it don't have it anymore. Although it can lead to getting the device back (if it's not smashed to bits) it most likely won't lead to catching the people who did it.

 

this is why i got rid of my stereo....... my bros car got broken into and they tried but couldnt get into my tercel..... after that i ripped it all out and sold it hahah

sorry to hear abot your stuff getting jacked man, i know the feeling, it sucks mad balz