Yes, everyone here is right: seems like the thieves are protected more than your possessions and/or your law-abiding self.

Seems that everyone here is also scared about the *legal* reprocussions of protecting your stuff and your person. Scared of the lawyers? Research who are the biggest contributors to trial lawyers and the ACLU and you decide where you stand on the issues such as these. Granted, trial lawyers typically go after "bigger fish" (i.e. insurance cos, tobacco, etc) but the wonderful folks at the ACLU protect scumbags such as car thieves and terrorists alike. According to them, everyone has civil rights whether they be murderers, thugs, etc. No mention of the law abiding citizen.

Anyways, I do want to say that lawyers are not bad people, though some are clearly are 1mm above criminal. To me, lawyers are like taxi drivers: you curse at them b/c they cut you off and drive like speed demons. But when you're late to the airport, you want your taxi driver to drive the same way.

Bob

 

Lol... this isn't too legal or morale but this is what a COP told me... If i ever find someone breaking into my house or vehicle. Get a gun and kitchen knife. Shoot the person at point blank range and then wipe your fingerprints off the kitchen knife and put it in his hand. That way you can always say "He had a knife!!!" but of course you don't say he had it when he was dead. Pretty scarey and funny when you hear it coming from a cop.

Edit: Oh yea Herk.. that happened to a friend of mine with a little sukuki samurai.. They cut his back cover only to find the doors unlocked then they ripped the face plate off (taking the front of the stereo off too and destroying it) and they they tried to take his dash apart and pull the radio out, the thief ended up jabbing the screw driver a good inch into his hand, bleeding all over everything, grabbing my friend's sweater to catch the blood and then running off. My friend found the screwdriver in the floor board, the front of the stereo, and his sweater a mile down the road. No faceplate in sight!

 

I really hope the cop was joking... that is just plain scary.
Nothing worse than having people who are meant to uphold laws and rights only to warp them to fit their needs.

 

So true
That's an amazing analogy - I may use that sometime in the future

 

I have kept an old Buck knife I found Hunting "Cleaned of everything" and in a plastic bag for years just in case. I didn't hear it from a Cop either.
I did this back before I bought a house and was living in an apartment complex. We were getting an average of 2 vehicles a month getting stolen or broken into. I was not going to see any of my good neighbors or myself going to jail because we caught a thief. And we did catch several.

It is perfectly "OK" to sit on top of a suspect and shove their face into the asphalt every time they open their mouth while waiting for the police to arrive. It's even better if no one makes the call for a awhile after they are caught.......

 

Haha I love it man. To me them getting the ˟˟˟˟˟ knocked out of them is what they deserve.

 

what's the best way to attract someone to get them to try to break into your car so you can nail them? a steak-out maybe?

i want revenge

 

It usually is.

One time, my friend's driveway/ car got egged every other day for about a week, so we slept out side in sleeping bags (we were 15-16), and got lucky that the kids came by and threw eggs again. So we chucked eggs at them, ran after them, tackled them, and sat on top of them, pining their limbs, rubbing their faces in the grass, until we got them to say "You are my daddy, I will respect your wishes, sir."

They ran away, and he has not been egged since. High fives were in order, and we promplty went to sleep.

If revenge is so bad, why does it feel so good?

 

Just recently I was standing on a street corner with my family and a diesel trolly (one of those san francisco rail carts like the kind on the rice-a-roni box except with a diesel engine) rolled by with people partying and yelling at stuff.

It's normal to see this sort of stuff in san francisco and usually people acknowledge the trolly by waving back or whatever...

Well those poeple ended-up egging my family and hit my uncle and a bunch of other people in the area and stores and some cars.

I got really pissed 'cuz my uncle is a really respectable guy and I went into the local chinese restaurant and requested two eggs for revenge. The owner, barely speaking any english, handed me the two eggs and was happy that I was getting revenge for him too becuase his store had been egged in the process.

So I ran for about 10 blocks and just when I was within throwing distance the cops pulled this bus over. Apparently someone had called the cops :cry:

So I came up there and they took my two eggs away

After all the comotion was over with, I recieved $100 as compensation for damaging of my uncle's shoes becuase my uncle's shoes really weren't damaged and he thought I deserved the money

sweet revenge.. though I think throwing at least one of those eggs would've been worth $50....

 

I spent a night in jail when I was 16. I had a camaro that was a junkyard piece of ˟˟˟˟. I sanded and worked on that thing for ever so I could drive it when I got my licence. Ended up getting a custom aluminum dash and some light cage work and some knock off recaro type seats. Eventually I got a racing steering wheel that was detachable from the hub so I always took it off when I parked.

My cell phone woke me up around 2am and it was my neighbor telling me there was someone breaking into my car, his mustang was stolen a few nights earlier. I told my neighbor to call the cops and I put on some shoes and shorts and grabbed my knife (put it in my pocket) and a golf club. He was under the dash so I smashed the guy in the back pretty good. Quickly I put my hand on the back of his head and smashed his face into the dash busting open his forehead then did it again shattering his jaw on the steering wheel hub. About that time my neighbor was there and kicking him in the mid section pretty good just as the cops come up. We both spent the night in jail. Had a trial about 6 months later and we got off with probation. The scumbags family was suing us but the judge overrulled it considering he had stolen many cars (including my neighbors) and even had a murder charge outstanding. In another turn of events, he is an ex marine. Pretty sad that two 16 year olds beat the ˟˟˟˟ out of an ex marine.

Bottom line its not worth going to jail for a car or somthing in your car. I was a minor which probobly led to the judges leaniency, but some of you older guys wont have it so easy.

 

but it sounds like so much fun.

 

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carguy,

you're my hero. if we ever go off roading, the beer afterwards is on me.

even though the judges here in So CA are generally liberal, you'd be screwed if you were up in No Cal!

It just amazes me that in this country, the thief and his family can sue you for his misdeeds.

remember richard ramirez? the night stalker? if you remember that guy, the largely hispanic neighbors were about 1 inch from killing that guy. if i recall correctly, the city gave an award to the neighbors for being "vigilant".

bob