I detest criminals - UPDATE - Great pics of dash replacement

[UglyAmerican]

Someone smashed the window of my Honda Civic 2 nights ago and pried the radio out of the dashboard.

 

The money obviously bothers me a lot, since it's going to run $200 for a new window, and no doubt other money for various damage. And I'm fairly well broke.

 

But it's the discourteous way this theft was committed that really pisses me the fuck off. There's glass all over the inside of the car. They pried the radio out with a screwdriver and really screwed up all the plastic on the dashboard pretty good. And of course, they just cut the wires running to the stereo.

 

Had they just rung the doorbell of the house and said "I'm going to steal your radio in a destructive way, or you can just give it to me when you're ready." I'd have been furious (and possibly would have shot them in the leg), but would have appreciated it.

 

This was my "nice" car and with 48,000 miles it's basically new. Now I have to decide how much I'm going to restore it back to good condition.

 

The joke is on the criminals at least, since the Pioneer head unit was impossible to use. It'll be even more impossible because they forgot to steal the fucking remote. Best of luck entering your stations, dicks.

 

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[trigger]

What a shitter, The same thing happened to me years ago.I had a L reg Fiesta Ghia at the time, I was with my mate on a Sunday afternoon and decided to pop into a bar for a beer, Park my car in a multi-storey car park, Went into the bar which was crap and left 15 mins later.Upon seeing my car the door was wide open and there was glass everywhere. In that 15 minutes some little bag head had smashed my window and done away with my £200 6 month old Kenwood stereo and my Cold Feet album, I was well pissed off.I reported it to the police who dusted my car for finger prints but never i heard anything, It turned out that it was a common thing in that car park as there was a gang that targeted it, Wish i knew before.

[garethj]

I feel your pain - my ancient Polo was broken into just before Christmas by the mongs method of smashing a window. Glass everywhere, they saw my £10 stereo and didn't bother taking it, had a look in the glovebox and saw 3 cassettes probably older than they were then got very pissed off and snapped the wiper arms and aerial off.The window cost £50 of my insurance, £6 at the garage to clean up all the broken glass, untold arse-ache and a week to find wiper arms and I still haven’t put a new aerial on so can’t listen to the radio.And what’s worse, is there’s nothing to stop them doing it again.The police were worse than hopeless, I’d have got more use by phoning the parish mothers union.I think judges should only pass sentence on the morning after they’ve had a break-in and their property vandalised. That should put them in the correct frame of mind for the appropriate punishment.

[meggersdog]

The local housing association saw fit to house a family of pikeys over the road from me.Because I am into cars the pikey man was forever at my gaff.I eventually fell out with him over it.First he smashes the windscreen,drivers side windows and rear 'screen of my Discovery.Because it was dark the police wouldn't do anything so the housing put him on an injunction.Just after leaving court Mrs pikey comes across to my house does the same to my Xantia then moves on to the downstairs windows of the house...She had done the same thing to a family down the road a year earlier and got away with that too.After having a camera fitted the next time Mrs pikey did my windows she was charged.8 weeks suspended for two years.Then ofcourse Mr pikey gets his brother to smash the windows on my Discovery again.Police have the footage but he hasn't even been caught,let alone charged.Upshot of it all :they have been given 42 days to get out...35 to go..Not a very nice year for me last year.

[AXrescuer]

Sorry about the damage to your car mate, I hope you get it sorted.Shitty pikeys are rife in your area meggersdog. My brother lives in Elm and he has no end of bother with the dirty fuckers.

[meggersdog]

I live in what was a nice quiet little village 6 miles north.What gets me is he says he's a traveller but likes living in a house...His family live in the bungalows opposite the Oxney road site so they aren't really travellers either

[j-j]

Absolute cuntsticks We've all had something - last june happened to look out the front top window to see a group of neds (chavs) aimlessly passing at that 'suspicious' pace and indeed one of the talented little chaps saw me looking out - he looked shifty but they always do. Had a feeling and went out to the CX and noted the front suspension sitting low (not totally unknown with the hydraulics but not usual) I had a bad feeling about it though so went around to the other side to find a flat tyre Same with my sister's C4 (I was at her house visiting) and indeed several cars along the street. I decided to pursue. You could follow their route simply by following the slashed tyres!It led up to a primary school (nighttime) and a pretty dark area and TBH I didn't want stabbed by a 10 strong group so I returned to the CX to initiate a plan.I grabbed the can of spray undersealant from the boot and decided to cruise for the little shites - I was gonna casually wander up and ask for drugs and then say "No, in fact can't afford it - need to buy new tyres - know anything of it"? and then spray all their trakkies with the inky black grot for them to explain to their single parents. BUT never did find the little fuks and on the way back I found the Police attending an incident at a house party - was about to ask a copper about it and report it until I remembered the can of spray in my pocket and thought better of it (how would I explain that?!) so walked home in a BAD FOKKIN MOODHowever, the underseal plan remains a first point of call if I have any other incidents - it's not actually harmful (unless sprayed in the eyes!) so it really takes material revenge on any thugs' gear - and if they kick off, then it goes in their face.sorry[/rant]

[warren t claim]

Cancer is too good for the likes of these scumbags.

[Pete-M]

Death is too good for the likes of these scumbags.

[Slaighty]

I feel everyones pain. When my son was a baby we went for a walk along a canal. When we returned to my Mk4 Esky we discovered the passenger door window smashed. The scum had nicked my sons travel bag which we had foolishly left in the footwell. I hope they enjoyed his feeding bottles, wet wipes, but especially the shitty nappy in the nappy bag.

[warren t claim]

Death is too good for the likes of these scumbags.

My apologies!!! Sorry to cause offence.

[254575]

i had someone break into my mondeo . the damage was catastrophic.i would have been grateful if they had just broken the windows to start off with. but they tried to be all 'gone in 60 seconds about it.''they tried to jimmy the locks by inserting something between the window and the doorframe on 3 doors! and bent it all out of shape, after they decided that they were not in hollywood, they smashed the window to get in.and they stole my stereo plus a macc ladds and a roxy music minidisc!also left me with 4 years of the most damp car on planet earth complete with its own mould colonies

[loserone]

May as well make my first post at some point, so here goes! I haven't (yet) had the misfortune to have one of my own cars broken into, but my father had a bad year a couple of years ago.First time was pretty special I thought. Car was in the garage complete with krooklock etc overnight. He came down in the morning to find the garage door ajar slightly. After a little investigation by the police, it seems the thief carried a few keys which would open ~80% of the garage doors on the estate. Once in the garage, he used a tool to completely remove the passenger door lock on my father's unsuspecting N15 almera. Unfortunately this didn't work, so they removed their shoes and clambered across the bonnet to borrow the tools hanging on the wall rack.After retrieving a hammer and a punch, they moved to the back quarter window, carefully tapping it out without damaging the paintwork. They then unlocked the back door from the inside, onto the front door, and into the car.The stereo was carefully prised out of the dash, complete with the steering column remote, a couple of tapes (this was just a 1.4GX and came with a sony tape unit) and a maglite. Once finished, they appeared to have wiped the car for prints, leaving only a sock print on the bonnet.Overall, a very professional job for a £15 stereo! Of course the insurance claim was nearly a grand (touching up the tiny scratch in the dash, a little scratch on the bonnet and a new rear window). Needless to say we had an alarm fitted after that!Of course, 6 months later, someone did the same job in 45 seconds, 10 miles from home. Dash disconnected, TWO windows smashed, and the remote left on the steering column. He replaced the stereo with a chequebook cover after that escapade!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Welcome, loserone. My dad's Escort had its stereo pinched from the car park of Stretford Arndale a few months after we moved into the area - pretty exciting for young me because a policeman came to the house. Thing is, despite it being quite close, we never used that shopping centre again, not in the next 18 years. The lesson is, if you own a shopping centre, invest in secure parking. It pays off.

[VWPowered]

hello loserone welcome to AS. i used to live between farnborough and cove on 2 high streets and on weekends something would happen to the car, one week a mirror, another the windscreen, poor car had been puked on, kicked, bullied part of the reason i left the uk, least here have lots of parking, left keys in car and all sorts (tools outside ) never anything touched here

[gallondrunk]

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[Station]

I had a load of tools and engine crane stolen from my garage. I was pissed off, but have since got over it now. I put a length of wire across the bottom of the entrance behind the door and put various sharp items like manifolds and a 1600 Pinto just short of it. When I came back a few days later I found the doors wide open and a comical amount of blood on the concrete floor. They 'smashed up' the garage, but I'd got out everything of any value since then, and they had basically moved around a load of heavy scrap metal.I still smile about that when I think back.

[UglyAmerican]

I had a load of tools and engine crane stolen from my garage. I was pissed off, but have since got over it now. I put a length of wire across the bottom of the entrance behind the door and put various sharp items like manifolds and a 1600 Pinto just short of it. When I came back a few days later I found the doors wide open and a comical amount of blood on the concrete floor. They 'smashed up' the garage, but I'd got out everything of any value since then, and they had basically moved around a load of heavy scrap metal.I still smile about that when I think back.

I'm just imagining Michael Palin shouting "REVENGE!"

[AXrescuer]

Cancer is too good for the likes of these scumbags.

I'll bet the fuckers never get cancer or the like. They suffer no stress themselves but inflict it on anyone they come in contact with.

[UglyAmerican]

Cancer is too good for the likes of these scumbags.

I'll bet the fuckers never get cancer or the like. They suffer no stress themselves but inflict it on anyone they come in contact with.

They'll get plenty of stress. Loads of folks do get caught for stealing cars and car parts, and then they wind up on the wrong end of a man sandwich in the clink.

[Alexg]

Went down to my rented garage today for the forst time in 3 weeks. Lock broken, tools gone. Metro still there but now has no security till I sort the lock :roll:I would have loved to have caught them doing it, a police caution means sod all to these little punks, but they would think twice after receiving a broken nose.

[VWPowered]

sadly probably not

[AnthonyG]

Cancer is too good for the likes of these scumbags.

I'll bet the fuckers never get cancer or the like. They suffer no stress themselves but inflict it on anyone they come in contact with.

They'll get plenty of stress. Loads of folks do get caught for stealing cars and car parts, and then they wind up on the wrong end of a man sandwich in the clink.

(Daily Mail Mode ON)

 

Not in the UK they don't - we have pathetic judges/sentencing rules.

 

(Daily Mail Mode OFF)

[Station]

Well, when my OTHER garage got broken into, they stole a small box of tools (one I take to scrapyards), a socket set and my Nikon camera.They then travelled at 10.30pm on a train to Birkenhead North (the arsehole of Birkenhead, Birkenhead being the arsehole of England), and were noticed by Transport Police carrying loads of tools and a camera (the silly pricks).They were arrested and told the police where they had stole them from.The police got my address from a car's reg plate that was in there. The three lads that did it were charged (obviously) and had to pay 'money' (I didn't receive any), of which their mothers had to pay (obviously). One plead guilty, the other two claimed innocence. I received a letter of apology from one (by order of court) that was so unreadable they may as well have just sent a blank piece of paper.I was told these three were constant offenders, 'horrible little shits', said the policeman who was interviewing me for a statement.The council have a thing where they monitor the progress of the criminal, basically keeping their eye on them, and helping them get a job. It's meant to prevent them committing any more crimes, and I received updates on their community service, etc. I received a letter two weeks later saying they had all reoffended again and then they went to prison.Moral of story: Put dregs of society in a hole and fill it up.

[FredTransit]

When we first moved in (and when we still had a front garden) I had to park up the road one night. The van got broke into, and the radio stolen. I hope they tried to sell it to somebody really dangerous, cos it didn't work. This happened one thursday, and the van was already booked in for the following saturday for a new pioneer.

[meggersdog]

I did a 'phone survey lastnight about all the criminal damage inflicted on my cars and property.The woman on the 'phone said depending on my answers the Home Office may contact me.When asked if I felt the sentance was appropriate I said no.Considering this pikey woman had just been released from prison after serving ten weeks of a seven month sentance for assault then three weeks later she smashes my house up.8 weeks suspended for two years is a joke.She really should have gone straight back to prison but because assault and criminal damage are seperate crimes her record was not brought up in trial.British justice is a joke...Because the woman has children by depriving them of their mother the courts see the children as victims....Go figure.

[Minimad5]

I actually live in fear because of the British justice system,One big issue i have is if a burglar so happens to accidently end up in your house, your not allowed to knock the shit out of him or her,Apparently your allowed to use "Reasonable Force"But to me it is reasonable to knock seven shades of shizz out of the thief as protecting yourself and loved ones is a very high priority Material items can easily be brought again (With abit of saving)I guess no one knows were they stand in this day and age.

[meggersdog]

I asked one of the attending coppers once what "reasonable force" meant.He said you are allowed to attack an outer limb but he also said "just kick him in the knackers as hard as you can,then when questioned say you were aiming for a shin but missed"

[Minimad5]

I asked one of the attending coppers once what "reasonable force" meant.He said you are allowed to attack an outer limb but he also said "just kick him in the knackers as hard as you can,then when questioned say you were aiming for a shin but missed"

hahaSeems like a nice cop.But there are alot of grey areas with the whole justice system which need to be ironed out before innocent people do somethin within the law and get ass raped for it, because in the judges view it was not "reasonable" or what ever

[meggersdog]

Talking to a traffic cop yesterday whilst walking the dog and he gave me a tip which could be useful to everybody on here.When reporting a crime if you say it has made you very upset then because of this new policing code (came out in June '08 I think) the police will attend within the hour.