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topanga · #16 07-27-2010, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by zeke

Oh my, please do tell where you went that people were trying to break into a 30-year old car !!!!!
What were they trying to get - not your Becker radio, I imagine?
I am driving around down here with a false sense of security.....

Downtown Austin, a movie theatre right at the college. I don't have the Becker anymore, I have a piece of @*#* Alpine that I really hope someone steals... but around the college, they're probably just looking for ipods and spare change.

vstech · #17 07-27-2010, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by junqueyardjim

It was cool this AM, just under 70 with the humidity down to 60 %. I thought, OH Boy, I am going to get a couple of hours in on the 240D. I have the 617 turbo about ready to re-install, but then I saw my raspsberries needed picking bad. So I picked over 4 lbs of berries, then Wifey and I decided we would can them. We weren't real happy with the frozen raspsberries from last year, besides the freezers were all pretty full. So with what I had picked Saturday and Sunday we canned 2 quarts, 6 pints, and 12 half pints and they look just beautiful. We are going to try a half pint on ice cream tomorrow, maybe I can get my kids to come home for that. Anyway, the 240D is so beautiful and cool just sitting in the garage waiting for the 617 turbo. PO thought painting the engine compartment in flat black was cool, but I sure would like to get it back to that beautiful buttery yellow. Since I lived the first half of my life without A/C, I am removing all A/C from under the hood. To run a W123 on 134 freon seems to be futile, they are always empty of freon and have more problems then what I want to mess with. I can live without AC, can't live without good heat. Drive line is all in and finished, still have to shorten and thread cut the shift rods. Since I won't have any berries to pick tomorrow, I think that will be a good project. At 78 years you just don't want to work too much and never work if you can find a good Base Ball game on TV. The truth is that the 240D will have to wait for those cool mid September days.

I want your lifestyle!
I hope to be this way in 36 years... or sooner!

scottmcphee · #18 07-27-2010, 11:19 PM

Avoid break-ins by leaving the car unlocked, and just don't leave anything valuable in it.
Maybe put a $10 bill in the glove box in plain sight. Hopefully they'll grab that as a tip and not smash something in the car out of spite for not gettin' nothin'.

Skid Row Joe · #19 07-28-2010, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by topanga

Downtown Austin, a movie theatre right at the college. I don't have the Becker anymore, I have a piece of @*#* Alpine that I really hope someone steals... but around the college, they're probably just looking for ipods and spare change.

A strategy to KEEP from getting broken into - is to leave the car unlocked. If there's nothing in it, then you have nothing to fear....

It beats getting a 30 year old car repeatedly thrashed as it did. Because in this society - it will happen again.

What is a guaranteed break-in car is ANY locked SUV, or station wagon. Thief mentality dictates that the valuables are in locked up vehicles. Which they are correct. SUV break ins are especially rampant.

Leave the old car unlocked.

topanga · #20 07-28-2010, 09:46 AM

Well, yeah, but "avoiding break ins" is a pretty much unheard of concept in Austin. I am probably the ONE person you will hear of having a break in here this year. Which means the person probably was sufficiently desperate and/or stupid that he would have broken the car even if the door was open. There are NEVER break ins here, like NEVER, like NEEEVVVVEEEERRRRR. It wouldn't even have occurred to me to do anything anti-theft. The only reason I locked it was that the last time I was down by UT late at night, some kids got in and smoked a joint in my car. I really did not want to be driving home at 2 am (when my movie ended) with a car smelling like pot and risk a $2500 DUI. The real lesson is not to hang around the school at night. It's just not all that fun.

Skid Row Joe · #21 07-28-2010, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by topanga

Well, yeah, but "avoiding break ins" is a pretty much unheard of concept in Austin. I am probably the ONE person you will hear of having a break in here this year. Which means the person probably was sufficiently desperate and/or stupid that he would have broken the car even if the door was open. There are NEVER break ins here, like NEVER, like NEEEVVVVEEEERRRRR. It wouldn't even have occurred to me to do anything anti-theft. The only reason I locked it was that the last time I was down by UT late at night, some kids got in and smoked a joint in my car. I really did not want to be driving home at 2 am (when my movie ended) with a car smelling like pot and risk a $2500 DUI. The real lesson is not to hang around the school at night. It's just not all that fun.

That's odd that kids would use an unlocked car just to smoke a doobee......but be that as it may - I'd still leave it (an old MB) unlocked after this particular experience. I parked my motorcoach in downtown Austin near 6th Street one early evening in the dead of summer a couple years ago, and had no trouble. However there are no guarantees. Q: If you weren't DUI while driving, the smell of marijuana in your car could not convict you. Unless you blew a DUI or your blood tests DUI, what would you worry about?

topanga · #22 07-29-2010, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

That's odd that kids would use an unlocked car just to smoke a doobee......but be that as it may - I'd still leave it (an old MB) unlocked after this particular experience. I parked my motorcoach in downtown Austin near 6th Street one early evening in the dead of summer a couple years ago, and had no trouble. However there are no guarantees. Q: If you weren't DUI while driving, the smell of marijuana in your car could not convict you. Unless you blew a DUI or your blood tests DUI, what would you worry about?

I'd worry about the long, involved process it would take for me to try to convince a cop that I hadn't smoked pot in my car at two am when I'm sleepy and ready to go home if the car reeked of pot. I'm just not so sure that conversation would go really well. I, too, have had no incidents in downtown Austin. Then I had one.

andrewjtx · #23 07-29-2010, 12:41 PM

If your benz was broken into down around campus, they were looking for weed. Plain & simple.

When I had WILCO sheriff deputies come to my house for a burglar alarm, they searched the garage and mentioned , "it smells like weed in here". Doubtful.

And about west campus, I avoid it like the plague. If the drunk frat boys don't puke all over the place, the panhandling bums piss on the sidewalk. What a cesspool. Plenty of good times to be had all over Austin to ever need to go down into the crotch of the city.

Skid Row Joe · #24 07-29-2010, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by andrewjtx

If your benz was broken into down around campus, they were looking for weed. Plain & simple.

When I had WILCO sheriff deputies come to my house for a burglar alarm, they searched the garage and mentioned , "it smells like weed in here". Doubtful.

And about west campus, I avoid it like the plague. If the drunk frat boys don't puke all over the place, the panhandling bums piss on the sidewalk. What a cesspool. Plenty of good times to be had all over Austin to ever need to go down into the crotch of the city.

Agreed.....100%...

#25 07-29-2010, 04:27 PM

Where would the Austin world be without Jester Hall and Sixth Street?

andrewjtx · #26 07-29-2010, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by LarryBible

Where would the Austin world be without Jester Hall and Sixth Street?

On a higher rung of the societal ladder.

Seriously, Sixth Street is a joke. It's now just a PR stunt that unless you're looking to get piss drunk and let a homeless bum grope you will sadly disappoint.

panZZer · #27 07-29-2010, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by andrewjtx

On a higher rung of the societal ladder.

Seriously, Sixth Street is a joke. It's now just a PR stunt that unless you're looking to get piss drunk and let a homeless bum grope you will sadly disappoint.

Or be accosted by the Cops on foot patrol.