Stolen to order
06-17-2005, 07:36 AM
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Also if someone steals my s2000 I don't want it back as I'll have to drive it knowing they probably utterly abused it and it'll be registered as stolen and recovered and therefore devalued or at least much more difficult to sell. Sad as it would be I'd rather it's never found or burnt out, etc.
06-21-2005, 11:35 PM
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Originally Posted by SlicksAgain,Jun 17 2005, 10:25 AM
I'll have to come down to the next MK meet - as long as people don't mind an old Audi 80 turning up to an S meet 
06-21-2005, 11:50 PM
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We have quite a lot of stealing to order going on around here. I know 2 people who lost 3 cars in the last 6 months, therefore there must be a stupid amount in reality.
1st person had the widow in their front door glass cut in middle of night and thieves then sneaked in, found the car keys (jeep and z4) rolled the cars off the driveway and then were off - never seen since.
2nd person much worse, she was upstairs and her young daughter called to say there was a man in the kitchen! She ran down the stairs and the man started asking her for directions. Considering the kitchen is at back he had gone down all the back paths to get into the house.. it was around 3pm and the women was very concerned but couldnt do anything more than tell the bloke the directions and managed to get him out of the kitchen. Couple of hours later she looked out and realised the Mini Cooper wasnt in the driveway - yup she had left her keys in her bag on the worktop in the kitchen and he had pinched them.. Cops told her 7 cars had been stolen with keys in past 24 hours around the village she lives in (just by penshurst kent).
1st person had the widow in their front door glass cut in middle of night and thieves then sneaked in, found the car keys (jeep and z4) rolled the cars off the driveway and then were off - never seen since.
2nd person much worse, she was upstairs and her young daughter called to say there was a man in the kitchen! She ran down the stairs and the man started asking her for directions. Considering the kitchen is at back he had gone down all the back paths to get into the house.. it was around 3pm and the women was very concerned but couldnt do anything more than tell the bloke the directions and managed to get him out of the kitchen. Couple of hours later she looked out and realised the Mini Cooper wasnt in the driveway - yup she had left her keys in her bag on the worktop in the kitchen and he had pinched them.. Cops told her 7 cars had been stolen with keys in past 24 hours around the village she lives in (just by penshurst kent).
06-22-2005, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by dreamer,Jun 16 2005, 12:09 PM
Those incidents are all in different places; Windsor, Hazlemere, Wycombe and Richmond.
What is happening to the world!!!
What is happening to the world!!!
06-22-2005, 07:35 AM
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my brother in law up until recently used to work as a mechanic for honda. Garages are notorious for having people come round trying to sell them stolen goods. He said that they would regularaly get offered parts stripped from stolen CTR's and S2000's. Apparantly red interior S2000's were the favourate for nicking and stripping.
06-22-2005, 10:06 AM
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Would be funny if someone came and tried to take the keys for the S2000 tonight...
We have no downstairs floor
But plenty of wood to hit people over the head lying around
We have no downstairs floor
But plenty of wood to hit people over the head lying around
06-22-2005, 01:17 PM
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I understand a lot of the stolen to orders are shipped out of the country overnight, think I read something in the paper. S/East, well.. anywhere near the coast is a target I suppose. by the time people wake up to find their car missin it is somewhere in mainland Europe already.
Forget where I read it but Im sure there was talk of cars going as far as Saudi and places like that via organised crime! Not sure if that was BS though I guess it would have to be RHD drive countries which are the prime candidates.
Forget where I read it but Im sure there was talk of cars going as far as Saudi and places like that via organised crime! Not sure if that was BS though I guess it would have to be RHD drive countries which are the prime candidates.