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Tweeter400 Enthusiast

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I park my truck about 15 ft from the front door of my work and I forgot to lock it yesterday.

Some kid stole some cd's and some change from it. I work until 5 p.m. and there was only 3 of us still there when it happened. Unfortunatly no one saw it happen. The funny part about the whole thing is I had some Kenny Chesney CD's sitting on the seat that they didn't take, obviously not a country fan!. What the moron didn't know at the time, is the rest of the cd's he took where country also! HEHE!! Only about $100 in stuff stole, could have been alot worse. I learned my lesson though, LOCK THE TRUCK NO MATTER WHAT!!

 

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rico750sxi Enthusiast

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Left my wife's truck unlocked about a year ago by mistake in our driveway, same thing happened and we're in a small neighborhood. The funny thing is that our neighbor left her truck unlocked with her brand new laptop in it, she was much worse off than us. Then she was suprised when we said we called the police, she never even thought of doing that.

Bob G. Enthusiast

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I know people here in Vermont that still leave their cars unlocked and the keys in the ignition! Until I got a truck with keyless entry, I never locked my truck at work or home.

 

Bob G.

tmf6902 Senior Enthusiast

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I recently got some stuff on my truck stolen.....I replaced it and setup a camera to catch the little bastards....it was a lot of fun, and I felt much better afterwards. Perhaps you should do the same????

Ben Enthusiast

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Re bummer. Hate how the lower portion of any society dictates how the rest of society must react.

 

Violation of personal space....in old days allowed to maim/kill, but we are civilized now... :cheers:

 

My alarm has self locking, but always lock it manually anyway. Those 20 seconds it takes for it to lock can have someone pop open the door to stop the self timer. Just make sure you always keep the keys in your hands when outside, as I've locked myself out too many times to remember...plus sweetie always reminds me of the time she had to drive through commute traffic to bring the spare keys... :sleep:

 

Those "kids" that stole have great potential to become theives of higher value stuff. My "kids" always get on my case whenever make this type of comment, as it "could" have been an older person...

firecadet613 Enthusiast

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Hey, you better not start Kenny bashing now :cheers: . Sorry to hear about it man, before I moved I'd keep my truck in the garage or even in the driveway unlocked with my keys in the ignition. LoL even had the sea doo hooked up to it, all the windows down, keys in it, for a few hours a few times. But all of us were like family on my street, only 6 houses. God I miss that :sleep:

 

Joe

Brock Enthusiast

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or you could have been like me and locked your door. then the next morning you go out to your car and find that someone smashed in the window and stole your CD player. yeah, that happened yesterday...

Tweeter400 Enthusiast

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OK, well I do have some Nickelback and 3 doors down, but they weren't in the truck.

I am glad it was minor stuff, but it's just the point. I could have called the cops, but if they caught them, they would just put them in jail and give them a cd player to listen to my cd's with:)

 

PS: I am critisizing the system, not the cops. You guys do a hell of a job with what you have to work with! :cheers:

Shaners Senior Enthusiast

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Sorry about your loss...

 

I leave my truck unlocked and the keys laying on the center console everyday at work... Our plant is fenced and gaurded, but there is a school for troubled youths (convicts) right next door, and they have been known to take a vehicle from where I work before.

 

My wife leaves the keys in her van in the unlocked garage 24/7...

 

(of course I live in a small conservative town, but I think I'm asking for trouble)

pacodiablo Senior Enthusiast

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The Ranger is ALWAYS locked. It is in Durham 7 hours a day, no way in hell is it going to be unlocked!

 

My cousin had a Ranger work truck stolen a couple years back. It was found two days later on the side of the road with a broken window and all of the tools in it stolen.

OUMike Senior Enthusiast

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sorry about the loss. I've got a 94' C/K and I wished I would have left mine unlocked. Little basatrds went under my door handle with a screwdriver a year or so ago. Door is still scrwed up as I havn't had the $600 to fix it. :cheers:

 

I live in Houston, my truck is ALWAYS locked. Sometimes it doesn't matter though. Guess I needa get some of those plates that go behind the handle.

sdtahoe Enthusiast

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Mine is always locked after I got my vehicle broken into twice in one week when I was back in college. my door all lock instantly when I set my alarm.

 

Also about 2 1/2 yrs ago when we bought our house someone went throught the neighborhood and took the keys out of all the vehicles that were unlocked and had the keys in them and threw them in the public swimming pool 2 blocks down. :sleep:

My neighbor had the keys taken out of both of their vehicle but left the cash on the consle and the cd's on the pass seat. :cheers:

99silveradoz71 Senior Enthusiast

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We deal with it all the time at work. I tell people I'd lock my vehicle in any city around us just to be safe. We also had 5 stolen running/unattended vehicles last year.

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