berkeley thieves right in the berkeleying face

Got in the Cherokee to go grocery shopping at about 6pm this evening.

Started it, and it was really REALLY loud.

Weird.

Maybe the exhaust fell off? But it was quiet yesterday...

Peep under car, big chunk of exhaust missing, neatly cut.

Shocker.

berkeleying meth heads.

I hope a very prolonged and painful death finds the offender soon.

Now SWMBO must find a ride to and from work tomorrow, and i'm going to have to figure out this clusterberkeley instead of towing the Escort where it needs to go. Thanks a lot you berkeleying piece of E36 M3 berkeleysticks.

Eww, that sucks man.....just have a section of pipe welded in.

berkeley the berkeleying berkeleyers!

If someone attempts to do that to my vehicles that are going to come up empty handed.

But yes, that does suck.

yamaha wrote: Eww, that sucks man.....just have a section of pipe welded in.

If you know of someone who can do it tomorrow afternoon/early evening for $50 or less, then it's a deal. Both Pat and Dave are out.

Otherwise, i'm just gonna stack a bunch of discount codes and replace the piece so it can get stolen again in a couple weeks.

I may strategically hang a bunch of razor wire under the truck, though.

I'm sorry, man. That blows a lot.

Ranger50 wrote: If someone attempts to do that to my vehicles that are going to come up empty handed. But yes, that does suck.

Go figure this and the damn MSM are the only cars i have with cats.

Really the worst part about it is that i don't really have the time or money to deal with it right now. Blargh.

Saw their goddamn hands off!

Tonite's solution:

Buy a bear trap, bury in snow, park over it with new cat installed, wait. Or weld some very hard materials to the new cat/pipe.

You'd think with skills like that they should be able to find some sort of employment. That's quick work.

Similar thing happened to my uncle. Got into his van, started it up and shifted into drive. Nothing. Checked reverse. Nothing. Checked every gear. Nothing. Check to see if there was something going on beneath the van. Bingo! No driveshaft. Called the cops, they said a handfull of vehicles were hit that night, all stolen driveshafts.

RossD wrote: Similar thing happened to my uncle. Got into his van, started it up and shifted into drive. Nothing. Checked reverse. Nothing. Checked every gear. Nothing. Check to see if there was something going on beneath the van. Bingo! No driveshaft. Called the cops, they said a handfull of vehicles were hit that night, all stolen driveshafts.

Aluminum shaft, maybe? Pretty good scrap value there.

after dealing with a break in at a family members house recently, Im with ya - thieves deserve intense, yet unhurried, public corporal punishment

vigilante justice is not something I frown upon. I hope they try to rob an NRA member next...

Shotgun?

Time for some "Air Ride" action. Set that bitch down flat on the blacktop when you park.

I'll second the bear trap idea since that would be totally berkeleying hilarious.

I feel your pain brother. That happened to our 1 ton diesel shop truck last year, about a month after the berkelying meth heads stole our outside a/c units and ripped the copper tubing off of the walls too. Then yesterday we discovered that some more berkelying meth heads kicked the back door in over the weekend and took every bit of copper, bronze, and aluminum we had in the back.

They stole your cat using a battery-powered sawsall? I thought that I had heard it all. Wow. I hope they inhale some toxic sawdust and die a slow painful death.

Kenny_McCormic wrote: Buy a bear trap, bury in snow, park over it with new cat installed, wait. Or weld some very hard materials to the new cat/pipe.

I think that there could be some legal issues with this one. Mainly involving children. don't get me wrong, I like where your head is at.

Traps are illegal in Texas but I know of "reliable intelligence" that a guy has made pepper spray traps for under his vehicle. No more catalytic converter thefts, but there have reportedly been pepper sprayed coons and cats seen in the neighborhood.

Me? I park my cars inside a garage surrounded by a fence.

Datsun1500 wrote: Motion sensor activated alarm with the horn mounted under the truck? It would get pretty loud under there....

This could be fun. I'm thinking train horn pointed right at their face for permanent hearing damage.

Anyways...

Turns out the smart thing to do would probably be to just weld a straight pipe in there so there's nothing for them to steal. My guess is that once i repair it and put another cat on it, it's going to get stolen again within a couple weeks.

But, i also don't have a welder, and i can get a full replacement bolt in direct fit cat for $87.

So that happened. I'll fix it after work today.

Swank Force One wrote:

Datsun1500 wrote: Motion sensor activated alarm with the horn mounted under the truck? It would get pretty loud under there....

This could be fun. I'm thinking train horn pointed right at their face for permanent hearing damage.

Tie this to my earlier "Air Ride" idea and it could be awesome.

EDIT: And cover the whole bottom in bear traps FTMFW!

Datsun1500 wrote: Motion sensor activated alarm with the horn mounted under the truck? It would get pretty loud under there....

..and not actually illegal.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

Swank Force One wrote:

Datsun1500 wrote: Motion sensor activated alarm with the horn mounted under the truck? It would get pretty loud under there....

This could be fun. I'm thinking train horn pointed right at their face for permanent hearing damage.

Tie this to my earlier "Air Ride" idea and it could be awesome. EDIT: And cover the whole bottom in bear traps FTMFW!

How about all those solutions, plus driving 4-5" nails through the bottom of the floor?