Friend's car was stolen...

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:51 pm

Well my best friend was taking his contacts out round 3am to goto bed and he heard his car turn on. He immediately ran to the window to see the tail lights of his car down the road as it drove away.

There was literally nothing he could do... he called the police and filed a report. (This happened yesterday btw)

They're actually looking for it though because he got a call from a cop to come down to sonic and check this car out he was holding. It was a black on black 240 similar to his...but it was a hatch.

Good thing they're actually looking for it though.... even though we had someone tell us they saw it in Slidell Louisiana....

He'll probably never get it back...it really sucks. His 240 is the one that made me want to get one.... we both have put a lot of work into it....and now it's gone.

He had liability insurance by the way....

I have upgraded my insurance plan and installing some kill switches... even though if they want it bad enough they will take it...those fkers are gonna have to flat bed it.

Hope you're found in one piece.... even though it's not likely

SOKADAO954 · Post by **SOKADAO954** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:04 pm

sorry to hear that bro.
Sucks to see that happen.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:28 am

Car doesn't even look like it has wheels.
How can someone just drive off in someones car. Someone missing a security device?

rOniN · Post by **rOniN** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:30 am

Man that sucks...my friend had his car stolen and they took it straight to Gary, Indiana and stripped in. Cops found it in a parking lot on blocks. He got it back but it's like it got raped and left for dead and now it's just not the same.

I hope they find it before it gets torn apart.

v95 · Post by **v95** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:28 am

dam this has not been a good week for cars my friends 96 ex got stolen on monday in paterson and that shits gone for good we know. but insurance is all good to have

Tam · Post by **Tam** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:24 pm

Man that sucks. I hate it when people do this.

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:47 pm

He had liability and no alarm or anti-theft at all on it? That's not the smartest, but that really does suck.

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:27 pm

LilSparkPlug wrote:He had liability and no alarm or anti-theft at all on it? That's not the smartest, but that really does suck.

When you're broke.... you're broke.

He had to wait for income tax to atleast get liability on insurance.... no way he could have afforded full coverage. He's been out of a job for a while....so no way to pay for an alarm or anything.

I don't have an alarm on my car.. it's a 89 coupe that's worth 1800 kbb...manual everything. I do have theft coverage though.

jrumann59 · Post by **jrumann59** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:52 pm

auto insurance is always more expensive when you don't already have coverage.

INVUJerry · Post by **INVUJerry** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:34 pm

LilSparkPlug wrote:He had liability and no alarm or anti-theft at all on it? That's not the smartest, but that really does suck.

I've had liability only on my 98 since I bought it. Adding any thing to it almost doubles my insurance payment on it. It's been hit once too which sucks, since I can't afford to fix it either.

Good luck man, hopefully she turns up.

esfan · Post by **esfan** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:15 am

This is really bad. Just good luck and hope it can be found asap.

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:37 am

LowNSlow wrote:
LilSparkPlug wrote:He had liability and no alarm or anti-theft at all on it? That's not the smartest, but that really does suck.
When you're broke.... you're broke.

He had to wait for income tax to atleast get liability on insurance.... no way he could have afforded full coverage. He's been out of a job for a while....so no way to pay for an alarm or anything.

I don't have an alarm on my car.. it's a 89 coupe that's worth 1800 kbb...manual everything. I do have theft coverage though.

True enough, then the situation is understandable. Any word on it yet?

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:02 pm

We were tracking some leads.... from a few sources.

I think we might of just busted a chop shop...more word later.

I'm gonna see if I can go with my camera and snap some pics

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:37 pm

Car has been found...

More details later.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:38 pm

INVUJerry · Post by **INVUJerry** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:59 pm

neonslg09 · Post by **neonslg09** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:08 pm

LowNSlow wrote:Car has been found...

More details later.

ahem, time to work those fools.

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:42 pm

People arrested...chop shop shut down.

Here is how the car looks now

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:44 pm

Ouch. Well, I guess it could be worse. Glad to hear your friend got it back and that a chop shop got shutdown in the process.

neonslg09 · Post by **neonslg09** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:48 pm

congrats.

cops shoulda let you at em for a good 5 minutes before the arrest.

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:09 pm

They put his coilovers on another car in the shop....

He's getting em back...

He took a nice alpine cd player off the shelf...

Really the only thing we have to do is put his old shit back on the car...and paint.

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:40 am

Looks like they really only had a chance to start to change the color for the most part? A*Holes deserve what they are going to get. Glad to see it's back and pretty much alright.

SOKADAO954 · Post by **SOKADAO954** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:27 am

wow great news!!
glad to see its back and cool they got busted in the process.

v95 · Post by **v95** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:41 pm

wow glad to hear you got that shit back

Ntyvirus1 · Post by **Ntyvirus1** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:21 pm

congrats

neonpla · Post by **neonpla** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:47 pm

I don't get why they would start painting it... the vin would still be a tag to a stolen vehicle.

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:10 pm

I'm sure they were going to swap VINs off other cars? Maybe a shell they had?

They had quite a few 240s there... not sure how many were stolen.

Tam · Post by **Tam** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:22 pm

Good to hear your friend's car is back and doing OK!

Pocahontas · Post by **Pocahontas** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:28 pm

What they did to that car is just plain darn awful

I'm really glad he got it back!

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:08 pm

neonpla wrote:I don't get why they would start painting it... the vin would still be a tag to a stolen vehicle.

Probably a quick way to get people looking for the wrong cars --> Looking for a black one instead of a white one.