I like how the map breaks it down by state party affiliation.

Why not break it down to the city level and show party affiliation? Oh, that's right, it wouldn't be close.

In countless movies and TV shows the hero or bad guy stealing a car just pull some wires forward from underneath the steering wheel, and drive off. Cars have had locking steering wheels since the 1970s. and driving with no steering is called crashing.

Of course in those same movies and TV shows every automatic weapon rattles like a bag of metal pieces, all car brakes squeak as the car comes to a stop, tires will squeal on dirt roads or in the rain when cornering, if a knife is brandished, even a 6 inch blade it sounds like a sword pulled from a scabbard and has a shing sound. A Mercedes 240 diesel will smoke the tires in a burnout if the hero is chasing the bad guy.

One of my buddies has a 993. He was showing me the steps needed to get the car to start when he is the legal owner, and has a key in his hand if the imoblizer is set active. Tune the key on and then off and dance a jig around the car. Well OK, that is not the proper way, but it is complex for the owner. A thief with no key is going to have to load it on a trailer or tow truck.

Be sure to carry a .44 in yo '44 while you roll through the hood.

Everybody gonna want to jack your hoopty.

Around here a lot of fairly high end cars were getting stolen. Coincidentally they had all got a new car stereo from a well known local seller and installer a few weeks earlier....

The police went around and had a word with them and, coincidentally, the thefts of this sort of car with a brand new stereo stopped.

Around here cars are getting stolen because people leave the keys in cars overnight. Story goes that the thieves look for cars that don’t have the mirrors folded in. That cues them in that the keys might be in them....they try, if successful, they drive away.....if the keys aren’t in them, they move to the next house...fools...

One of my kids lived on Warburton Ave in Yonkers. When I visited he told me to move my car to a spot not at the head of the line of parked cars. He said the rollback guys troll at night and will reel in what they want from the head of the line.

In Mpls./St. Paul area, the number of car jackings was up 300% from 2019 to 2020. In the last 2 weeks, there have been at least 2 car jackings that people lost dogs when the car was jacked with some success in recovering their pets. Today I got an Amber Alert notification about a child stolen when the Mother went into the house and left the car running with the kid in back. The kid & car were recovered a short time later without any harm to the child.
In December the Mpls. police ran a sting and in a couple days netted almost 50 car theft suspects and ran another last week with almost 70 people arrested on car theft charges. I wonder how many were people out on bail from the first go around?

I'm no expert but what I do know for sure:
- If the Pros wants your car one way or the other they'll find a way to get it.

Car Jacking? If they have a gun, aside from locking yourself inside a bullet proof car I don't know what you could do about it. If it was me and they had a gun I'd try to grab my phone and wallet and let them have the car. If they didn't have a gun I'd simply drive away (forward or reverse, whichever works). I always lock myself inside my car.

A recent tactic used by the local pros... (From my my cop neighbour) They install GPS trackers on cars they're interested in and then they watch those cars over time from an internet browser. At some point the cars end up on a tilt bed tow truck and they're never seen again. These are mostly really high end or common late model cars and they're most likely being stripped for parts.

An onboard GPS tracking system can be disabled with a very cheap and easy to buy GPS Jammer.

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Yep, best way to stop a car thief. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1612667731.jpg

I guess stamping the VIN on every part didn't work out so well... I wonder where all of these JDM engines for sale come from?!

I occasionally flip through some of the stuff on facebook. I've started getting a lot of "no one knew what this was until the Internet helped" kind of things. Some of the stuff is really bizarre and interesting. But the day after I noticed this thread, this popped up in one of those lists.

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Lower your urge to kill, parts trader

I know you 944 owners think your cars are a hot commodity.

^^^ Only if they have a manual steering rack.

I think that reverse with the wheel cranked away from them so the front end will tag them would be the best way to go. I wouldn't think most would expect you to go backwards, and then you've got the added bonus of breaking their legs. And you could then throw it in drive....

Do you remember the Drive In scene from the movie Heat? Very effective. ;)

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Looks like no one wants the salt soaked vehicles of the Northeast .

Enclosed trailers are what I hear are getting stolen a lot.

Those maps are interesting. I would rather see a map that shows carjacking numbers in concealed / open carry states vs places where this is not allowed. I’m guessing the media would never share data like that.

Actually my air cooled 911s are the real babies, the 914-6GT clone with a twin plug 3.0.
Dead criminals are NOT repeate offenders.

I know of more than a few cases where that has happened with a nice car inside.

Customer tells me about his truck getting pipped today. I think about this thread. I ask "how did they bypass the ignition?" He says. Keys in the lock.