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nocones
nocones Reader
12/17/09 7:28 a.m.

I challenge you to read this chart without hearing it sung..

Wally
Wally SuperDork
12/17/09 7:34 a.m.

I'll have to get back to this

Gearheadotaku
Gearheadotaku HalfDork
12/17/09 7:40 a.m.
Tim Baxter wrote:

Now thats my kind of pie chart!

nocones
nocones Reader
12/17/09 8:06 a.m.

skruffy
skruffy Dork
12/17/09 10:38 a.m.

It amazes me that more would-be car thieves don't go to the library and get directions from google.

I'm also amazed that anyone who makes a living stealing cars doesn't carry a slide hammer with them. Start anything that doesn't use transponder keys in about 5 seconds...

dj06482
dj06482 Reader
12/17/09 11:13 a.m.

Some idiot broke into my '92 Mustang GT to steal a cassette deck and equalizer that were both 10 years old. And this was in 2004!

I can only imagine what his look must have been when he realized that both of the items he worked so hard to steal were worthless. I found them both in the bushes behind the car.

Wally
Wally SuperDork
12/17/09 11:35 a.m.

I had my Escort broken into in 2001. They ripped the lock cylinder out of the passenger side door and stole a turkey sandwich. The worst part was that if they had smashed the window with any of the large blocks of concrete nearby my glass coverage would have covered it but instead I was out $400 to fix the door skin. Not to mention the loss of a fresh turkey hero.

aircooled
aircooled SuperDork
12/17/09 12:11 p.m.

sachilles
sachilles HalfDork
12/17/09 12:18 p.m.

I have a somewhat related story based upon"don't ever steal a car while drunk" comment. I have a friend, who apparently was quite the idiot in college. He was rushing a frat, and they got everybody drunk, load up the drunk kids in cars and the seniors said they were taking them to a party. They drove north about 30 miles, and then made on the drunk pledges get out(and find their own ride home). It was late fall and quite cold. He and some of his other drunk pledges get the bright idea to break into a mechanics garage and steal a car from there(I told you he was an idiot). So they get into the garage, find keys to a car that was on the lift. They figure out how to lower the car, and take off in the car. There is a reason a car might be on the lift in a mechanic's garage....it's broken. Needless to say, they didn't get all that far down the road, before sparks started flying, car becomes disabled. Story finishes with them and the police showing up. He typically breaks out the story when someone is being a drunken idiot, as an example of what not to do.

porksboy
porksboy Dork
12/17/09 8:47 p.m.

A rocket scientist tried to steal my motorcycle once. busted the cylinder but apparently couldnt figgure out you must depress the clutch lever to start it. So to add insult to injury he dropped it on the pavement and ran off.

Or there was the story about the lady being carjacked in her own driveway. Thief kept stalling the car when he let out the clutch. Finally got out and ran away on foot. Here's a clue for you dumb ass, learn to drive a straigt shift BEFORE you try to steal one.

junkbuggie
junkbuggie New Reader
12/21/09 12:23 a.m.

I have a buddy that has a jeep cherokee that had a bad gas tank. He pulled one from a parts car, it was a few years off but looked right. To save time he just kept the sending unit in the tanks, well somewhere along the line jeep switched the polarity of the sender so when it was fixed it was full on E and empty on F. Someone stole the truck but you gessed it they ran it out of gas before they could do real damage. It was found in the middle of nowhere in wisconsin in febuary. god I love karma.

Opus
Opus Dork
12/21/09 1:47 a.m.
nocones wrote: I challenge you to read this chart without hearing it sung..

I HATE YOU

now where is that Rick Astley CD

Woody
Woody SuperDork
12/21/09 7:25 a.m.

I had a 67 Plymouth Belvedere II hardtop in high school. Somebody tried, unsuccessfully, to pry open the driver's door with a crowbar, damaging both the door and the quarter panel.

The prize inside that they were after? An Audiovox FM converter.

It would have been a lot better for me if they just smashed the window.

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