Walked outside to see a fucker trying to jiggle my door and ran off when I confronted him. Shits worth $300 and has different color doors. Who’s chopping this shit up? They gotta be selling it to developing countries where they’re worth more. I suppose that’s why beat up cars are more valuable than high end ones because it’s more affordable overseas
That’s also true. It’s funny when I complain to others and they tell me this is democrats’ fault for defunding the police and I’m just like :obama-socialism: we literally gave them billions. Even when the police was more popular decades ago, when we called them to follow up on a car theft report they completely forgot about it and said “yeah we can’t do anything about that”
Yeah like that scene in Big Lebowski where Dude asks the cop if they're going to find who stole his car and the cop just laughs in his face.
I love how chuds believe "defund the police" is actually a thing. Almost every police department in the country has gotten a funding increase.
Cops don't recover stolen cars. You might as well tell them someone stole your ebike. You'll get a police report so you can file an insurance claim. That's it.
Did he still have the title for a car he lost ten years ago? Seems to me like suddenly getting an old car back might turn out to be a huge hassle.
AFAIK:
Best case scenario: the VIN is still in the DMV's database and still matches the engine's and the DMV gives you a new title for a small fee.
Worst case scenario: the VIN is missing or doesn't match or isn't in the database and the car is illegal to drive and can't be registered until you pay for inspections that will likely cost more than the car is worth. At this point just sell it to a junkyard.
Sometimes they do. I know a guy whose car was stolen because dumbass left it running and unlocked in front of his apartment complex (to warm it up during the winter), and the people who stole the car apparently drove it to the nearby Walmart, went grocery shopping, then drove it to a nearby mall and abandoned it with groceries still in the trunk.
Duder got his car back about a day later, and he got to keep the chips and nacho cheese dip that they left in there.
Stealing cars from rich people means you have to deal with:
- cameras
- those insurance trackers, as they can disable the engine remotely when they realise the car is gone
- far more likely for the police to bother
Its just a lot harder to steal from rich people
Exactly this, people punch down when it comes to crime because then they have a better chance to hit. Nothing more to it I'm afraid. No point in having a moral duty to get at the spare parts of a rich guy when the thiefs main concern is not getting caught.
Poverty creates desperation. Desperation is eventually so normalized that it becomes part of the culture and people do things like theft even when it's unrelated to their actual level of desperation. The status quo encourages it because it's just another culture to commodify and sell back to them. It also serves the role of increasing justification for a police state. Crime is amplified by the media which scares other people and that creates political will towards increasing law enforcement. Having more law enforcement protects the property of the wealthy more than the poor. Because the poor have no property or the property they do have isn't worth as much. Hence why people steal your car and not the one out of a gated, guarded garage in a nice neighborhood. It's more accessible.
Chopping up a car means taking it apart and selling the parts. Doesn't matter if one door is off-color, it's a functional door that's worth money. And older cars' parts are still worth a decent amount. I read years ago that mid-90s Honda Accords were one of the most popular cars for thieves to steal because they were easy and straightforward for chop shops to make a profit on.
Now im wondering how many spare parts I’ve bought were actually stolen and chopped :cowboy-cri:
A friend had her car stolen about a decade ago and they found it a month later on the side of the road with some repairs and a new stereo
I had a decade plus year old Honda Accord with 180k miles on it stolen. Cops found it about two months later, missing the engine. Tried to send me a bill for the tow and impound.
Cops are so hilariously unhelpful to anyone who's not wealthy.
Got my catalytic converter stolen after several failed attempts and filing the report felt so gross.
i think its more likely they were going to steal stuff you had in the car, but if it was totally empty maybe they would steal it. Older car means no security system installed most likely, and their simplicity in other regards probably makes them easier to steal.
planned obsolescence makes the market for old parts do an inverted bell curve on a long enough timeline, it's pretty wild to see this in tech, but likely similar with cars nowadays
I never tell this story irl because I can’t give the pigs credit for shit because it quickly devolves into, “Well that’s why they need more live ammunition to shoot at protestors”
But they actually found my old ass stolen car that was taken for a joy ride one night. But the reality is they didn’t actually find it. The cop cars just have a camera that check for license plates and mine popped up and so they told me about it. Seems like we could literally have a whole department who doesn’t need to arrest people or enforce any laws to do a job like that.
Also luckily for me they took it from a shitty part of town to a nicer part.
My car got totalled - couldve been driven but the rear passenger door was fucked - the insurance company sent me a cheque and asked that I give em the keys. I told them I'd leave it with the mechanic and the cheque cleared and that was that.
A year later the police called me about abandoning the car on the side of the road, apparently someone had taken it for a joy ride at some point and I was the last registered number on the VIN. I had to send them all the insurance stuff and the note the mechanic signed saying I left it with him, it was good that I was a hoarder about that stuff and maintained it and kept it accessible that would've been a fucking pain in the ass because I bet the lazy pigs would've just charged me for it.
Sometimes people are just going for your change and electronics, anything they can walk off with. Once had a lady knock on my door at 3 in the morning to tell me she was robbing peoples cars on my block but saw the kids car seats in the back and felt bad, said I should lock it next time. Aww, gee thanks! No kindly fuck off cracky.
That reminds me of the guy I knew who got his bike lock stolen, but not the bike
the reason i used to was because if you had a car at all, you were richer than me :shrug-outta-hecks:
not a car but fuck the guy who stole my bike when I was in school. It was even locked up outside!! Just not with the almighty U lock that I now have.
I bought it just two weeks before :cri:
