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Someone broke into my garage and stole my car and I didn’t know since I haven’t been driving.
They found it at the side of the highway with a brick through the window, a meth pipe in the storage console, and a leaf blower in the trunk. Not really clear how they started the car, I thought I lost my 2nd key. Maybe it was under a floor mat...
I have bad credential hygiene :(
I have bad credential hygiene :(
Police are saying they will keep the meth pipe. They believed me when I said it wasn’t mine. There was a high school football ring for the class of ‘87 in the door ashtray so that might have helped.
The car has been cleared out of my junk, taken to a car wash, leather cleaned, new registration sticker applied, new license plates.
I guess that meth stuff really works.
I guess that meth stuff really works.
What they didn’t realize is I glued a @tileapp tracker to the car a few months ago. And it pinged off someone’s phone a few days ago. And the police have the address it was parked at.
Also they put a new bumper sticker on the car.
Also they put a new bumper sticker on the car.
Car thieves know how to disable the location tracker electronics in cars. They can use GPS jammers.
But a Bluetooth tag... that sends out pings for two years to a collective hive of phones... you can’t defeat that. You can’t even find it without an electronic signal sweep...
But a Bluetooth tag... that sends out pings for two years to a collective hive of phones... you can’t defeat that. You can’t even find it without an electronic signal sweep...
Anyway, defense in depth is good
Police took the leaf blower
I know I write fiction and joke threads, I wish it was a joke...
Somebody stole the car and made it their new daily driver.
Then it was abandoned on highway.
Somebody else later threw a brick into the passenger side window but failed, so they broke the windshield instead.
Somebody stole the car and made it their new daily driver.
Then it was abandoned on highway.
Somebody else later threw a brick into the passenger side window but failed, so they broke the windshield instead.
Real collection of winning humans. Like, I don’t even really mind that much they borrowed the car even though it’s a pain. I got it back. Somebody else decided to destroy it for fun. 
Tactics:
- They covered VIN on dash with a kohl’s tag
- License plate replaced with an unreported stolen one, another grey Honda in same generation
- Added registration sticker (mine was expired)
- New bumper sticker on rear
- Everything in the car tossed
- Threw away my CDs
- They covered VIN on dash with a kohl’s tag
- License plate replaced with an unreported stolen one, another grey Honda in same generation
- Added registration sticker (mine was expired)
- New bumper sticker on rear
- Everything in the car tossed
- Threw away my CDs
Update: I realized they put air in my tires, because the dash light is off now.
They were definitely planning on keeping it
They were definitely planning on keeping it
