car breakin - photos

[darb]

so much for "defence pack" tinting. They got my GPS (which was in a leather case inside the console.) ... stupidly left inside my car, out front of my gf's parents place.

I was under a false illusion that dead locking doors and "defence pack" tinting would stop these little bastards.

Little crackheads.









this is 3 months after my friggin house got burgled (again through deadlocked windows, they crowbarred their way in.)

[Glen]

Condolences Darb, the tinting sort of held it all together, but obviously not enough

[birddog114]

GPS devices and DVD console are now most likely items for the thieves.
Used to be mobile phones in the last couple years.
This photo is not the ones I've seen! Sorry to see your lost!

[Geoff]

Darb,
Sorry to see those pictures, are you insured? The little bastards..it's an awful feeling but I guess you could look on the brighter side of things and be thankful you weren't harmed or injured (carjacked)?!? Hope today is a better one.

Geoff.

[dooda]

makes you so mad that you want to find the kid and spank him till his butcheeks are raw in front of all their friends.

I heard that thieves aren't stealing VCR's anymore, so if we really don't want something stolen, we can get one of those (quality's crap though).

I've never seen a car like that before. I don't think we have those in Canada. Looks like A honda married to an El Camino.

Really sorry to see this. If there was a band that got together to publicly humiliate thieves and vandals(and rude sales people of course!), I'd be first in line to join. I can't stand that crap.

[darb]

yah its insured ... but im not sure on the GPS yet. My fault for leaving it in the car. Either way, they must have seen the dash mounting for the GPS and assumed that i left it in the car.

If i had of not left the GPS in the car, they still would've tried.

oh well, i guess at least if theyre junkies, then they DID get the gps, that will save someone else's car for a day or two until they run out of crack and need another !

[darb]

dooda : its an australian car, built by holden, commodore (the standard domestic battler car basically in australia.) .. holden is owned by GM.

Some of the variants of the commodore are exported to the US as the "pontiac GTO" or into europe as a "vauxhall Monaro".

Mine is the "ute" version, or "pickup truck' version, if you will.

All the characteristics and setup of a normal sedan car, but with the tray. (i love it ... for camping, surfing trips, wakeboarding, moving stuff around, whatever ... i never miss not having back seats, and infact its the perfect excuse not to have to be the designated driver on those boozy weekends!)

Traditionally a lot of farmers / rural people use utes, but despite living in the city, i find a LOT of use for mine, .. theyre very big down here. Farmers would usually have a tougher one than "car-type"

A more lively photo ... http://photos.darb.net/photos/stuff/ute ... C_2568.JPG (in non suburban areas of course.)

[wile_E]

bummer dude



hope insurance covers it

ps: nice ute - what is it? a maloo?

[darb]

nah, "storm"

http://photos.darb.net/photos/stuff/ute ... C_2568.JPG

[gstark]

I've never seen a car like that before. I don't think we have those in Canada. Looks like A honda married to an El Camino.

The El Camino is close.

WHile pick-up trucks are quite big in the US and Canada, here we have what are called "utes" - Utilities.

Originally trademans' vehicles (plumbers, carpenters, etc) some are, these days, quite up market. Likewise many pickups, too, of course.

[darb]

yeh if it was for trade use youd probably get a more banged up, less shiny "ute" ... but for me, as a lifestyle car, it does ok. (and its tied in with the business.)

its a holden, so its not exactly "superb engineering" but neither is the pricetag ... and theyre getting better.

I'll let you know when i get my M5, ahhhh

[gstark]

I'll let you know when i get my M5, ahhhh

I'm still perfectly happy with my 32 year old GTV.

[xerubus]

sorry to hear about this...

[Onyx]

Darb, you seem to have quite a bit of bad luck recently. Didn't you used to have a 300D that was stolen in another burgulary just a few months back?

Bad things come in threes...

Truly sorry for your loss.

[darb]

tell me about it.

thankfully, the 3 has happened.

in the past 3 months ;

1) house break in, $11k stuff stolen. (have since moved house.)
2) local anti-graffiti council team decided to fix up graffiti on our building, and in the process sprayed 3 of our cars with white spraypaint. (heard of downwind, einstein?!)
3) Car broken into.

im touching wood that its the last for a while.

[MattC]

Life in the big smoke. Sigh.... Seriously though, us rural and remote folk have similar problems. Thieving little mongrels. Sometimes I just want to throttle them.

You do not happen to have an EPIRB in the car as well. You know, just in case you get lost!! I suppose you have the GPS there for some specialised purpose. Out here in Central Australia I tend to navigate by finding a road (mostly tracks) that go in the right direction and just finding my way. Most of it has not been mapped. It is seat of the pants type navigation or pilotage. Never got lost yet.

Anyway, I feel for you on this one.

Cheers

Matt

[Miliux]

Ouch! What can I say...

Is ya GPS system insured?

[atencati]

If there was a band that got together to publicly humiliate thieves and vandals(and rude sales people of course!), I'd be first in line to join. I can't stand that crap. - Dooda

I am founder and CEO of this club here in Cali. I can not beleive what passes for customer service nowdays and have absolutly no problem embarrasing everyone (mysef included) to get what I feel is a fair reslution. What, excuse me??? You AREN'T going to honor my warranty. Really, I'm just going to let the next 100 or so customers that walk in here know how you feel..... It blows me away that You have to act like a jerk to get whats owed you.

As for the little punks that ripped you off, sorry man, I got mine a few months back as well. Look on the bright side, you had your 200-400 vr, sb-800, and D2x with all the receipts in the bag sitting in your car right ...what, ths D2X isn't out yet. I had a demo from Nikon, really officer!

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