Ok, I like a joke but this post is a serious one.

 

Someone at work had their car stolen over the weekend and they nicked it by the recent 'craze' the police were saying.

They open up your letterbox and look through to see what keys are within reach (with a stick or pole I suppose) then try every Ford, Nissan in the road until....bingo...they get into the matching car to the keys just stolen.

I know as soon as I get in my front door, I just throw my keys on the side.......(but not anymore!) so its just a little warning to anyone who does the same.

 

Cheers,

I guess with 300zx written on the key its not gonna take them to long to find :(

Like you i used to leave the keys on the side, then saw a documentry on the TV and had a friend who had there 5 day old Golf stolen using that tecnique, now i keep the keys in the bedroom

They use a fishing rod. Makes it very easy if you have a remote alarm too !

Hmmm a lot of fishing rods are carbon - wouldn't it be interesting if someone had left a bare wire plugged into the mains next to your keys........ SCUM!!!!

Originally posted by AndyP

They use a fishing rod. Makes it very easy if you have a remote alarm too !

 

 

and poles are about 14 metres long nowadays thats a bloody long reach

Man and where i come from they just hodl you up at the traffic light - hence saving looking for the car lol.

 

bastards, people will do anything and always get what they want when there is a demand for it.

Its been happening round here for a while. Also many houses have a side door to the kitchen where most people leave the keys. There have been occurances of people just opening the door and helping themselves.

 

I never hang my keys up. They are usually on me or somewhere in my room or else where in the house but never hanging with the other keys. Good thing about if some one does try it they will just grab a set of keys from the key rack. Bad thing is I am always losing my keys. ;)

 

Stuart

if yopu have a porch and don't leave your keys in therre, u r fine ;)

Keep your keys safely attached to a ring through your bell-end. Makes starting the car more fun too.

Originally posted by Nelson MainFella

if yopu have a porch and don't leave your keys in therre, u r fine ;)

 

 

What ya got then Nelson? A 911? 944?

 

Anyway, I would have thought that the weight of a key was excess baggage on your car. I'm surprised you haven't got rid of the key/locking mechanism to save MASS:D ;)

Pole, fishing rod...whatever...try sticking it through my letterbox and you'll get dragged through and then lunched by Stripe and his bitches! Me Rotties don't take kindly to people they don't know even walking past my gate! ROFL :D

 

Plus just getting the keys would only be the start of it, been skint see so **** all fuel in it, bald tyres on the rear and they wouldn't get far until they'd found the stearing wheel which is never left on the car overnight and is stashed well and truly away under the pillow that Stripe sleeps on. :D

With a 14 metre long pole they could probably get it out of your bedroom:D

Originally posted by Timmy_Turbo

Pole, fishing rod...whatever...try sticking it through my letterbox and you'll get dragged through and then lunched by Stripe and his bitches! Me Rotties don't take kindly to people they don't know even walking past my gate! ROFL :D

 

That would be superb, getting home and finding a Pikey well and truely stuck in your letter box after being mauled by Rotties! :D

 

I have heard stories of people putting their hands through open windows and letter boxes to open doors and windows, then discovering to their discomfort the house has a Pit bull :D:D

LMAO!

They deserve everything they get!

That they do indeed.....until you factor in £nglish "Justice". :rolleyes:

 

Then, unless you have signs every 6 inches saying "Keep out, you Muppet, I have Rottweilers" and meetings to discuss their progression up your drive, you can be prosecuted for protecting your own property.... :rolleyes:

This is an old trick - I have a 'mate' who had his Alfa GTV and his girlfreinds BMW M3 stolen on one visit - and the insurance wouldn't pay because there was no evidence of a break in!

 

ha ha ha!

 

There are thousands of scams available - there's even a squad who call at your door and find a reason for you to pop back into the house for a moment and while you're not looking they 'read' your alarm key and record the signal and come back later to frive your car away.

Originally posted by 51x

Keep your keys safely attached to a ring through your bell-end. Makes starting the car more fun too.

 

PML it conjures up a picture LMAO

flasher arrested in sainsburys carpark trying to unlock his boot:eek:

Chap in my street had his M3 nicked by the little shites, who broke into his house and emptied his key rack then helped themselves to his beemer.

 

Alot of that going on these days.

 

Silly theives, if they'd of only looked a bit further up the street they'd of found a REAL sports car!!!

 

Key hooks are a bit of a bad idea, i keep mine in my room.

I got a black jack on mine, so you not only need the remote you also need to enter the code when one of the door is opened else the eninge dies next time the brakes are activated. I also always park the car so you hae to reverse it off :D.

any more details on that 'black jack' mallarkey - sounds very good indeed???

 

vicky x x

P.S. I have "Beware of the Dog" sign on my gate, does that mean that technically I can still be done if the rozzers can prove that more than one of me Rotties chewed on a car thief? :D

Originally posted by silverzed

any more details on that 'black jack' mallarkey - sounds very good indeed???

 

vicky x x

There you go

http://www.clifford.com/products/cpa_bj.htm

Friend of mine was selling his car, someone came to view, asked to look at the service book (which has the key number written inside), and went away without buying it. The next night the car was nicked, theory is that he memorised the key number, got one cut and drove it away. Easy peasy ....

 

 

Originally posted by NigelBoyd

This is an old trick - I have a 'mate' who had his Alfa GTV and his girlfreinds BMW M3 stolen on one visit - and the insurance wouldn't pay because there was no evidence of a break in!

 

ha ha ha!

 

There are thousands of scams available - there's even a squad who call at your door and find a reason for you to pop back into the house for a moment and while you're not looking they 'read' your alarm key and record the signal and come back later to frive your car away.

Someone tried to steal his ball......once!!;) :D :D

Was it stolen by a smal child?

heh heh heh ;)

Yep...still attached!!:D ;)