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Originally posted by purse junkie
If you pass an ordinance allowing people to sledgehammer those fucking cars to pieces if their bastard owners don't turn up to stop the alarm or stop honking the horn when we're all stuck helplessly in the exact same impenetrable traffic jam, I will vote for you for Beloved Ruler (or whatever life-term despots get to name themselves).
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I don't know about anyone else, but I don't know a single person who has known of an auto alarm stopping an auto theft (and by marriage I know a lot of cops). The problem is that they are in every fucking car and they go off so often that people ignore them. Think about it, you sit in your office and hear a car alarm and it isn't like you go rushing out to see if it is yours -- or do you? And unless there is a cop lurking nearby, a thief who is spotted/heard can simply cast onlookers that bewildered look that says "I don't know why my car alarm is going off." When I was younger, I had some friends who were in the business of selling car stereos that, um, weren't technically their property to sell. They used to "take delivery" of their new merchandise with the car alarm going off some times and were never once caught. Stick with the factory stereo or one with a removable face plate and do not leave anything of value in your car and it won't be broken into.
Cars are stolen for one of three reasons:
1. Joyride -- This normally only happens to idiots who leave their cars unlocked and/or the keys inside. It should, by law, happen to every asshole who leaves his convertible top down in a parking lot -- not cool.
2. Parts -- The more common your car, the more likely it will be stolen for parts. Also, air bags are still a big business and you can net up to $500 or more per bag but you have to know what you are doing.
3. Eastern Europe Bound -- Mainly SUVs. Your Escalade is out of the lot, onto a flatbed and in a cargo container on a ship to Ivan the Terrible before you can blink. Oh yeah, OnStar can be disconnected like that <snap> and don't let them tell you otherwise.
Your best bet? LoJack. LoJack has its own backup power supply and is mounted in different places on different cars and all of them are hard to find. LoJack pays if your car is not recovered.
Oh yeah, just remember that if your car isn't located within an hour or so you don't want it back anyway.
