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Originally posted by mmm3587
Maybe I have just been lucky, but I think you also need to be careful what part of town you park your car in. At home: in garage. At work: in patrolled garage. The only time I worry about my car being stolen is when I am out shopping or for pleasure, but I just try to be careful.
I think that Chicago is pretty safe from actual car theft, but who knows.
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In other words, you have no social life and never leave the house. From what I've seen, this stuff usually happens when you're at a movie, a show, a game, wherever there happens to be a large parking lot or a lot of cars to choose from.
But whoever said they also steal the beaters is sooo right. I had 2 friends with nice cars and beaters as backup. Since the nice cars were fully insured the beaters just had collision insurance. Both cars stolen. Both were retrieved (one was spotted by a friend - they called police, people got pulled over and arrested) That car was found 3 months after it was stolen and oh boy was it trashed. They believe someone was living in it by the amount of trash and smell. Other car was stripped of it's cheap ass stereo (worth about $20) and left a few blocks away, but not before the culprit had ruined the clutch.
