Right under my nose

I had my car sitting out for sale by the house and a busy road yesterday. Went out that evening to bring it back up and the cd player was stolen. No big deal really, it was old. Just crazy in broad daylight next to the house and the traffic. It's probably best I wasn't outside walking around or they may have been an altercation.

Sorry to hear that, but I've always wondered...just how much are they going to be able to pawn an old CD player for? It hardly seems worth the effort on their part.

In reply to stuart in mn:

Exactly. The possibility of adding to criminal record or starting one, for maybe $10. Some do it for the high I think. The odd thing is the disc changer was right there and they left it. Maybe they will be back for it. I took it out and actually left the doors unlocked. There is nothing in the car anymore. I didn't want the glass broken.

So I got this old CD player for sale if anyone is interested...

Tape a bunch of razors to the underside of the changer that way if they steal it they will have left something in trade.

I had something like that happen once. Brick through the window=CD's gone. Strangely, they had ALLLLL night with the car, didn't steal all the extra stuff in the back seats, the head unit, the subs out of the trunk, or anything. Even better when I got mah CD's back, cause the kids MOM turned him in after she caught him with them.

I don't car about the Cd player and I don't wish the person death or anything like that. What gets me is this....you have the nerve to come to my front yard in the afternoon, broad daylight, on a Sunday and do it. Kinda like a slap in the face. Oh well.

Years ago someone smashed my window to cut my cd player out of my Honda. In Nebraska, no less. Cops said street value was $20. Insurance paid about $875 for damages.

So some a$$hat does $875 damage to score maybe $20? That sort of willful, wanton destruction would cause a heckuva altercation if I found him, even if it wasn't my radio.

David

Several years ago,some asshat broke out passenger window of my truck to steal a radar detector. Must've been in a hurry because the 2 guns in the truck were left. I've quit leaving guns in my vehicles overnite. Couple of years ago as I was rolling the garbage can to the curb one nite, I discovered 2 guys in my 2002. They took off running & managed to drop both a/c control knobs in the yard. That was all they managed to get.

I had my crown broken into three times in one month. The first time, they took the CD player that the PO installed. It was busted anyway. The second time was just after I had installed a 250 dollar head unit. The third time, they managed to snag some junkyard unit that I threw in there, as well as a couple rolls of quarters.

ALL THREE TIMES, THEY BROKE THE WINDOWS. Each time, a different window was broken. the last time it was the passenger rear section of the window that didn't roll down...

M2Pilot wrote: Several years ago,some asshat broke out passenger window of my truck to steal a radar detector. Must've been in a hurry because the 2 guns in the truck were left. I've quit leaving guns in my vehicles overnite. Couple of years ago as I was rolling the garbage can to the curb one nite, I discovered 2 guys in my 2002. They took off running & managed to drop both a/c control knobs in the yard. That was all they managed to get.

now did they need those for their 2002? if so, there is a very special level of hell reserved for those douchnozzles.

Put the "Security by Smith and Wesson" sticker on it and put it back out there.

Or my other toy is a GLOCK sticker on it. And leave a note requesting the CD player be returned on the dash.

Criminals can not help them selfs they will come back.

In reply to Platinum90:

the last time it was the passenger rear section of the window that didn't roll down...

They did this to my wife's car back in January. Took nothing - the CDs, the stereo, the loose change - all still there. Replacing that fixed window on the coldest day of the year (~14F with wind chills near zero), including going to the junkyard and pulling one... that was enough to make me want to exact some revenge. I'd make the fool stick his tongue to a pole and watch him squirm!

A few months back a guy had a 5-series BMW for sale. His driveway exits to a county parkway, which has busy traffic during the day and steady flow until the wee hours of the morning. Pulled it in at night, but it was at the head of the long driveway during daylight hours. I passed by on the way to work one morning. Came home around sunset. Car still there, on cinderblocks, wheels gone.

In the spot where the car was parked, there is no time at any time during the day where it would not have been visible to either a passing car or cars sitting at the light 200 feet away.

brazen...