Dog: Remember how heavy the 108's are... if it were rolled it'd probably need every new suspension component imagineable!

But then again, making the 2 kids who wrecked it dissasemble it and then pay for, and then reassemble it with new parts would be a great punishment, especially if you're supervising them (to protect the work's quality, of course, but also to make sure they don't slack off at all!)

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2021 Charger Scat Pack Widebody "Sinabee"
2018 Durango R/T

Previous:
1972 280SE 4.5
2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited "Hefe", 1992 Jeep Cherokee Laredo "Jeepy", 2006 Charger R/T "Hemi"
1999 Chrysler 300M - RIP @ 221k

Sorry for your misfortune and I wish you could kick their ass, a good strap is what they need about 25 bigs ones one the back. Oh I'm so hard. Here is the gig. My travel trailer was broken into this week did about $600 in damage, cops said look we get about 14,000 (yes that is fourteen thousand) auto brake ins a month. We can not just put them in jail. Remember back a few months ago my 300 was keyed, and I mean keyed. Have not even heard from the cops, they don't even bother. Again sorry for your loss. 25 big ones.

No Sir, I've never spent time in the slammer - unless you count parole revocation hearings. That was time in the Big House! Even the movement of the good guys is very controlled. I habor no ill feeling for folks who have committed misdemeanor offenses and learned from their mistake, hell I can even commend a felon who learns from his mistake and corrects his life path after paying his debt.

Works fine. Grew up in Texas, where they like to make space for the next guy facing death row. Might even say that molded my work ethic and choice of profession.

Yes, it really is, but I can honestly say that I have never used the term "book'em Dano". Maybe if I worked with someone named Dano I would.

So? Who cares if they are the neighbor kids, or even my kids. Hell, I'd have my kids locked up even quicker with clear conscience and no regrets. In fact there are several people here at the Shop who know that I speak from experience on that issue.

I don't hide my occupation, it's in my profile.

At least we agree on something. No harm, no foul, just seeing things from opposite sides of the law books I guess. I'm not trying to be argumentative or an insensitive jerk, just giving a little perspective from my side of the fence.

PS: In over 18 years I have recovered close to 500 stolen cars, many of them "rolling" stolens, and have put a lot of people in jail for just what these two yahoos did.

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'73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP
Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72

'02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis

2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel

Non illegitemae carborundum.

Sorry about your loss. so sad.

This topic will also make me re-think my current, morning warm up scenario... I start the old girl and let her run on a main street for 10-15 minutes, before I leave for work. I use this time to go back upstairs and finish getting ready. She is wearing the brake club at this time but anybody that really wanted her could just take the key out of the ignition, remove my security system, and be off with her.

i hear ya dog,i called the DA's office about the little Bas*%^&%*tards,they said they we're released to thier parents and charges will be filed and they will let me know of what and when.my car insurance said was just min coverage so thats no good but i have pretty good homeowners insurance ,so i'm talking with them .maybe !have not been down to see the as of yet (over 100 miles away)but i called down and talked to the ol'boy there,he 's got my leatherman and will save it for me.as for the car i do know that it rolled and ended up in a ditch ,hood /roof/windows/gril and rad pushed into motor lots of oil everywhere said the guy at the junk yard(i think it's toast).my cousin lives in slc,ut owns a jap junkyard,has an izuzu trooper up there he said i could just have so i'll go get that ,and then we'll see about doing some recover on my ol' 68. as for the little peckerwoods who did all this,well i don't want to waste my time and effort going after them,i don't think jack'n thier parents will make it better for me.

but i still have more fishing poles in the garage,so who knows!!!lol

hey mike,we gotta get you some de-caf!the guy next door to me is a u.s. marshall/local cop down the street/i have talked to both of them,the marshal has had his card worked over a couple of times as well.anyway can't snivel about it forever,life goes on.could be worse i could have been stranded somewhere,least i was home.note to self(talk to dog about his job here.)

thanks for everyones replies,but i'm moving on to the next one.mike (de-caf!!)

c-ya

Regular, fully leaded and straight up black. By the gallon too.

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Mike Tangas
'73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP
Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72

'02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis

2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel

Non illegitemae carborundum.

I was thinking about your car being stolen this morning when I looked around the hotel parking lot up here north central Alberta, Canada. Almost every car was running with no one near by. I even left Mr. Hertz idling in the IGA parking lot for almost an hour. (It was ~ -30F) This must be one of the easist places on earth to grab a car so I asked my contact up here.....What's up, do many people loss there cars? He said, never heard of it happening.

Makes you wonder doesn't it?

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'90 420 SEL (sold)
'72 280 SEL 4.5
'98 ML320 (for sale)
'86 560SL
'05 Jeep Grand Cherokee Ltd (offroad in style)
'87 Chevy Blazer (AZ Pin Strips)

In the K.C. area the thefts got so bad that they've instituted a fine for warming up your vehicle unattended. This doesn't affect me out in the sticks but then I don't really warm the car up.
I think the little felons should be required to buy the repair parts and do the restoration. It would make a great Discovery Channel special.

we don't even lock our cars here... course it's an island with only 2 bridges to leave. the other way out is by boat!

sorry to read about your loss. get those parts!

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I never lock my car, and usually leave it running for 20min in the morning to warm up. But there are tons of cops in Milford so I don't think anyone who stole it would get to far.

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