So this morning my co-workers GPS was stolen out of his car and I saw it happening. They chased him but never caught him. The end story do not leave your GPS units out in the open.
At least in Northern VA here the newest thing is the landscaping company are hiring illegals and the illegals are scoping out the GPS units and coming the next day to steal them.
At least in Northern VA here the newest thing is the landscaping company are hiring illegals and the illegals are scoping out the GPS units and coming the next day to steal them.
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Thu, April 17, 2008 - 10:42 AMBeen happening in the Buffalo area too. they take everything thouhg. laptops, Ipods, GPS, Golf clubs. They "strip" the car of the electronics that are worth something and are easily grabbed. It's not just illegals though. -
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Thu, April 17, 2008 - 11:01 AMgood lord, I shudder to think the haul they'd net out here. In Redmond (Microsoft central......that's where the "death star" AKA main campus is) most cars are a rolling "Sharper Image" catalog display of high end electronics ( GPS, Curb Detectors, Flat screen monitors and DVD players, bluetooth jacks, radar blockers, MP3 players, CD players, Cel-phone chargers, iPod doc's w./speakers, Blackberry docking stations mounted to dash boards, Satelite radio reciever/players, high end speakers) you'd do better to just boost the whole damned car than try to rip out all thats valuable and run! -
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Thu, April 17, 2008 - 11:42 AMI think i just changed professions and am moving to Redmond. -
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Thu, April 17, 2008 - 11:50 AMI'll send you my wish list.
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Thu, April 17, 2008 - 1:17 PMNot fair to make someone snork Dr Pepper out their nose! :-D
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 2:44 AMHave these techs in Redmond not heard of mod-ing. You can install all that stuff so it is hidden. My carputer/DVD/MP3 player/GPS/car systems monitor, all fits in the center console and the monitor slides in the dash board under the stock radio. The USB and auxillary ports are hidden by a fold down cover. The car looks stock and like there is nothing special in it. Those Redmond geeks are stupid. No wonder the Windows OS is crap. :-) -
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 2:45 AMforgot the heated cup holder. you don't want cold coffee bu the time you get to work. ;-P
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 7:26 AMYup. Similarly, my Sirius radio is a portable removable unit that plugs into the removable faceplate of my AM/FM/CD/MP3 stereo. Both can come out and go into my pocket or briefcase or purse when I get out of the car, or be hidden in the glove compartment or the center console. If I had a GPS unit I'd do the same thing. If I have my laptop with me, either it comes out of the car with me too, or gets hidden in the trunk, out of view. (Usually if I have it with me, it needs to come out and go where I'm going anyway.)
Once I'm out of the car and have taken my stuff with me, all you see is a stock interior with a faceless stereo. (It probably helps that I drive an older, less-fancy car, too...)
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Thu, April 17, 2008 - 4:50 PMSo this morning my co-workers GPS was stolen out of his car and I saw it happening. They chased him but never caught him. The end story do not leave your GPS units out in the open.
At least in Northern VA here the newest thing is the landscaping company are hiring illegals and the illegals are scoping out the GPS units and coming the next day to steal them.
This sucks
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 12:25 AMIt's been fairly common around these parts, West. Mass., for GPS units to vanish from cars parked at the malls and at the area hospitals. I know of one case where they had 24 hr. security and "Security cameras" recording everything going on in the parking garage and the security people insisted that they never saw anything. When a court order was served against the "security" company for the tapes, that day was "missing". -
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 2:35 AMCan't trust any security force. That includes the police and Feds and private forces. The ones that are there to protect you are likely the ones doing the most harm. -
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Thu, May 15, 2008 - 10:03 PM"Can't trust any security force. That includes the police and Feds and private forces. The ones that are there to protect you are likely the ones doing the most harm."
Ondraedan, I am sorry you feel this way, being a retired Lawman I cannot agree with this statement.
I took an oath to uphold the laws of the state and the United States, to defend the weak from the strong, the oppressed from the oppressor. I have almost died to uphold that oath, an oath that I took very serious then and still do. It is unfair to type all as bad because of a bad experience you may have had with some. -
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Fri, May 16, 2008 - 4:35 AM"It is unfair to type all as bad because of a bad experience you may have had with some"
You've not been following the headlines in Buffalo NY then? They fired a cop for trying to stop another cop for trying to choke someone. Hmmm? Uphold the laws?
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 6:25 AMoh it gets better. You should ask your co-worker if they had any saved addresses in their gps. Like 'Home'. The big thing is to carjack the car and then drive to the persons home and walk right in the house with the keys.
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 9:16 AMAnother warning... we had this happen at a meeting a month ago.
Women, take your purse with you when you get out of the car. We had a couple attending a meeting at a hotel and she decided to leave her purse in the car. The car not only had tinted windows (quite dark) but she had also hid the purse underneath a blanket.
The cop on the sceen told us that crooks are scoping people getting out of their cars in parking lots and watching for women without purses.
Oh, and by the time we found the break in not 2 hours later, they had already used her credit card 3 times.
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 9:33 AMI have heard of the same thing happening around here. A client of mine has a GPS stolen from his truck while he was at a construction site. I don't leave anything of value in my car for any longer than I have to. I fortunately have tinted windows in the back so people can not see what I have in the back seat or the hatch but I have heard of people breaking into a car just to find out. -
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 12:08 PMWouldn't it be pretty easy to trace a stolen GPS?
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 12:17 PMyes and no Dulcy. If they registered it then yes, If they didn't then no. Can get a signal, but w/out the identity key could be anyone's
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 12:18 PMHa ha ha! You'd think...
The problem is that most GPS units receive satellite signals but they don't broadcast a signal of any kind. -
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 12:50 PMactually most of the newer ones do Fearg. Is part of new 911/emergency protocols similar to onstar.
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 12:20 PMI've heard that they actually look for the "ring" left on the inside of the window when you take your GPS unit down. They break in and look in the glove box or under the seat, which is where I used to shove it. Now I wipe the window, and take the unit with me.
The best alternate solution I can think of is to leave a smal lock-box and an empty holster laying on the back seat. Break into a car like that, and you'd have to be a little extra jumpy about the possibility that the concealed-carry owner might return too soon... -
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 4:07 PMI dig Grim's method... Sounds plausible to me. ;o)
And no one would risk the time for stealing my maps.... -
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Sat, April 19, 2008 - 12:03 PMMy ride is rigged to explode whenever someone opens the door. Now if I can just remember how to turn it off...
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Sat, April 19, 2008 - 12:49 PMor post a sticker in the window that states "I have a concealed carry permitt" and mount what looks like a camera inside with a little "red light" to make 'em think everything is being recorded -
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Sat, April 19, 2008 - 3:21 PMI kinda' like the idea of snakes....
Big-assed rattlesnakes or cobras, for example.
Hmmm, anyone know where I can get a supply of anti-venom?
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Sat, April 19, 2008 - 5:14 PMOK, I know this sounds gross.........
But a friend of mine said she used to put a used menstrual pad on her front seat, easily seen from either front window. -
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Sat, April 19, 2008 - 7:05 PMA friend of mine who works in the city carries her valuables in a Fanny Pack. And over her shoulder she carries an old pocket book. In the pocketbook she has several old pads, some nails, razor blades, etc.
Twice now she has had to get a new one as purse snatchers got the old ones. -
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Sat, April 19, 2008 - 7:12 PMmy gps is very a good... but its more of a dps
...it can show me where i am any time, night or day...
actually, it's just a blank piece of paper with an X drawn on it ...
...under that are words saying: 'you are here'...
its usually right!
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Sat, April 19, 2008 - 7:28 PMhmmm...i guess its maybe more of a 'gpysah' :
..." gia places your sorry ass here! "...
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Sun, April 20, 2008 - 4:55 AMThe only thing of worth in my car is actually the car itself. I'm still hoping somebody lifts the stereo unit because the thing skips like a bitch!
One of my favorite pastimes to do in traffic when somebody is staring at you is to start licking the window and drooling. The looks are priceless! -
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 7:08 AMi'd give them a good tongue lashing ! -
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 2:52 PMGee thanks, coffee exhaled thru the nose doesn't feel so good.
D'ner, I hate to ask...but why are you giving their window a good tongue lashing?
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 2:57 PMwhat happened rychard? ya seem to have dropped off for a bit
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