The owner evidently did not want an answer.

LAPD can recover fingerprints from cigarette butts.



BTW I think someone(former employee?) at the Honda dealership lifted the car and used the master key they have back in the repair shop.

I doubt the LAPD is going to waste time running fingerprints on something as mundane as a car theft, especially when the butts were found outside the car.

I'm guessing the car ran away and got really trashed after realizing it's owner called it "Honky".

HenryFnord - an Illuminated one

"around" is this usage implies "strewn around the inside" of the car.

I suppose that is what they get for calling it theft-proof. The fastest way to get someone to do something is to tell them that it can't be done.

I bet they have to pay the parking tickets.

My car radio was stolen two nights ago. I wouldn't have cared except they ripped out the dash light dimmer knob, effectively killing the illumination for all the instruments on my dash.

Only somewhat related, but I needed to vent a bit.

*awaits 30 comments on the useage of the Irony tag*

*Grammar-Nazi Seal of Approval*

*Grammar Politburo Approved.*

At least the owner got a Pantera CD for his troubles. I wonder if it was "Reinventing the Steel." Or should I say... reinventing the STEAL!

/absolutely nothing

They should have used an [OBVIOUS] tag. That would really be [IRONIC].

Shenanigans! This use of the "Ironic" tag was absolutely appropriate.

Whoever stole his car got a key from the dealership. That is why there the manual and registration for an Acura was in the glove compartment, bc he was going to use those as proof of ownership at the dealership to get a copy of the key for the acura and steal it next.

Encyclopedia Brown says: "case closed"

tow truck?

In a stinging referendum on my wifes red leather jacket, the thieves left it sitting untouched in the back seat.

funny guy.

Those farking Pantera listenin' ,non leather jacket stealing, wrong ownership in the glove box,too cheap to put gas in it car theives.Should be obvious not ironic!


~ i'm here till Thursday,try the veal....

I think it would only be truly ironic if the reason the car got stolen was BECAUSE some sort of anti-theft devices actually made it easier.

One variable is the owner himself - maybe he pretended it was stolen, for some reason, or he had someone steal it for him but it fell through, and he's covering his ass. Why write an article about it, you ask? Kicks, baby! Kicks!

Pffft, it's obviously Jimmy that shady kid who sweeps up on weekends. He's gotten into the key drawer somehow.

I think it was a smoker who likes to listen to Pantera. He might live by the beach. Hopefully, he renamed the car.

Unless the person who stole the vehicle is an expert hacker and keymaker...I think he simply went to the dealership and reported that he had lost "his key" and recieved a new one. The only reason he had probably not kept the car is because he ran out of gas, and asking someone for help might have complicated his (the thiefs) situation. He simply left the car where it was, walked or hitchhiked somewhere else, and made plans to steal a new car. Mother Fudgers...

Funsucker:

I don't know, I think "Honky" is a pretty appropriate name for a civic hybrid in San Francisco.

How to prevent thieves from lifting cars onto flatbeds :

make some sort of device that detects if the wheels are more than 4 feet off the ground and if so, automatically self destructs the vehicle.

There's one in every thread, and in this thread I am that one.

Who said that?

Who the hell names their car Honky? Must live in Alabam-er.

With a name like "Honky", I bet George Jefferson took it. Although that wouldn't explain the Pantera CD.

I said it in 1912 and I'll say it again... Bad Karama...

if America were really interested in its cars it would do like South Africa does and install flame throwers above the car doors.

2004-02-16 10:12:05 PM Dogface

Shenanigans! This use of the "Ironic" tag was absolutely appropriate.
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"I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL PISTOL WHIP THE NEXT PERSON WHO SAYS 'SHENANIGANS'."

Want the most proven anti-theft tactic used by dealers?

Pull the ignition fuse.

Takes a few seconds to put in, less complicated than a club, and a pain in the ass to diagnose if you are a car thief.

Enough said

I stole my friend's mustang last week. He couldn't believe it. He thought nobody could ever do something like that because he has a killswitch installed. He's usually a smart person, but somehow failed to realize that If I see him start the car, I know exactly where the killswitch is.

I called him a moron over the phone and brought the car back.

ToAd Use a GPS receiver to detect whether the vehicle is moved while the 'system' is armed. Use that to trigger tasers embedded in the seat cushions (or, if you want to be nastier, embedded photoflash capacitors).

Not that I'd advocate doing something like that.

so they stole a theftproof car and this guy wants to install an unbreakable lock? is he trying to tempt them?
those wacky kids.....

I saw this ruse on '60 Minutes.' You just go to the car dealer and tell them that you lost your car key. 2 out of three times, they hand you a new key.

I bet about 10 million new car thieves saw that show, too.

>>I doubt the LAPD is going to waste time running fingerprints on something as mundane as a car theft, especially when the butts were found outside the car.<<


Isn't that the problem in this country? Criminals can basically break any law they want, short of shooting somebody in the head, and authorities don't give a fark. And if they do get caught through some fluke of bad luck, the punishment is rarely enough to be a deterrent.

Shenanigans.

There. I said it.

You know, if you really want action from the police on getting a car back just say you saw a child abducted and they stole you car. I bet you get your car back pretty fast when they put its description on the Amber alerts.

That pantera CD must of been PIRATED, since it was no good lousy kids who stole the car

this car, in white

Ha! Naming a white car "Honky". I suppose it's all in jest.

slimshaydee

That pantera CD must of been PIRATED, since it was no good lousy kids who stole the car


You know that would work too. Just tell the RIAA that the car has pirated CDs in and I bet they find it in no time.

in other news, the pic in the article actually loaded for me on my fourth try

/ignore me

That's why I installed the Magnavolt in my car.

/obscure reference?

I once heard about an antitheft device that actually allows a thief to steal the car, then shuts the engine down five minutes after the car starts moving. The idea is that the thief won't have time to bypass the shutoff when the car is stuck in the middle of an intersection.

Now there's a good idea.

2004-02-16 10:29:38 PM KazamaSmokers
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2004-02-16 10:12:05 PM Dogface

Shenanigans! This use of the "Ironic" tag was absolutely appropriate.
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"I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL PISTOL WHIP THE NEXT PERSON WHO SAYS 'SHENANIGANS'."
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"Hey Farve, whats the name of the place you like to eat at with all the crazy shat on the wall?"
"You mean Shenanigans?"

His wife's boyfriend took it.

trbo30: Good idea, but it would only take 30secs to drive it into the back of a truck. Still it would get a lot of them though.