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Right. The alarm makes them only target the easily available junk that is in plain view. With no alarm, the thief could quietly spend 30 minutes "working on" th

Right. The alarm makes them only target the easily available junk that is in plain view. With no alarm, the thief could quietly spend 30 minutes "working on" the vehicle so they could clear out your trunk, and maybe even a few parts like the radio/GPS

haser_au 6y ago
No thief is going to spend 30 minutes on a suburban street rifling through a car. If it's in a secluded parking area, or behind a building, maybe. But not on a main street with neighbours and traffic.
thelean12 6y ago
AFAIK, people don't really steal stock radios anymore. Or at least, it's not very common. Your trunk should also be empty of anything valuable. There's no reason to keep much back there overnight. I guess thieves could steal my tire chains and donut right now, but that hardly seems worth the trouble.
- issamehh 6y ago
  Jokes on any thief that tries to steal from my trunk. I don't really care about any of the junk in there other than maybe my jumper cables and tool set. Have fun sorting through all of the extra stuff to find them in time
- olyjohn 6y ago
  Thieves stole my chains, first aid kit, and my cheap ass toolkit that I kept in the trunk. No value on any of that shit so I’m not sure why they took it. But they also left an envelope that had a piece of paper in it with scribbles in it, and a roof rack mount from a different car. Thieves aren’t always stealing things because it’s logical.
  - grogenaut 6y ago
    had someone smash my window and rifle through my stuff. Window was $70. I found a uncached $375 check on the passenger seat I had lost in all of the checks from work (back when you got physical checks). So... yay!
tinix 6y ago
Even with an alarm... our car was stolen from our (detached) garage. If anything, the garage gave them ample cover to work in privacy, actually. Still not sure exactly how they did it... Our vehicle has physical keys, no wireless fobs or keyless entry, so it wasn't a relay/clone attack. They basically just stripped out the ignition, and busted out all the interior lights, and did something in the fuse box (probably pulled a fuse or something to disable the alarm while they worked on the ignition cylinder). We have them on video driving away in our car... Apparently Kia really sucks at anti-theft. We still had all keys in our possession, too. Normally, if you unlock or open the door from inside, while it's locked, the alarm goes off. The car was recovered only a few blocks away, parked in an alley, blocking someone else's garage. I got videos of the thieves walking away down the alley after ditching it. They left actual valuables in the car/garage like tools, sunglasses, camping gear, etc... and destroyed a lot of nonsense things. The only valuable thing they took was the dash cam. As it stands, the garage, the alarm, the steering lock, key requirement, and video recording did little to stop them. The garage was locked too, and very well lit with motion activated flood lights. I don't know what else we could have done other than have the garage secured with motion/door sensors and a very loud exterior siren/strobes... to protect our shitty 2011 Kia. lol, right... Basically, thieves gonna thieve, and vandals gonna vandal. https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/12/05/denver-police-kia-thefts/ https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/12/05/denver-police-kia-the...
- asveikau 6y ago
  That long story and it didn't look like they got much out of it. At that point you start to wonder about the motive. Drugs? Plus not having a lot of intellegence or skill?
  - meowster 6y ago
    Probably needed a disposable car for a crime.
    - asveikau 6y ago
      Hm. Maybe I am wrong on this, but then you would expect them to dispose it near a potentially faraway crime scene, not close to where it was stolen.

haser_au 6y ago

No thief is going to spend 30 minutes on a suburban street rifling through a car. If it's in a secluded parking area, or behind a building, maybe. But not on a main street with neighbours and traffic.

thelean12 6y ago

AFAIK, people don't really steal stock radios anymore. Or at least, it's not very common. Your trunk should also be empty of anything valuable. There's no reason to keep much back there overnight. I guess thieves could steal my tire chains and donut right now, but that hardly seems worth the trouble.

issamehh 6y ago
Jokes on any thief that tries to steal from my trunk. I don't really care about any of the junk in there other than maybe my jumper cables and tool set. Have fun sorting through all of the extra stuff to find them in time
olyjohn 6y ago
Thieves stole my chains, first aid kit, and my cheap ass toolkit that I kept in the trunk. No value on any of that shit so I’m not sure why they took it. But they also left an envelope that had a piece of paper in it with scribbles in it, and a roof rack mount from a different car. Thieves aren’t always stealing things because it’s logical.
- grogenaut 6y ago
  had someone smash my window and rifle through my stuff. Window was $70. I found a uncached $375 check on the passenger seat I had lost in all of the checks from work (back when you got physical checks). So... yay!

tinix 6y ago

Even with an alarm... our car was stolen from our (detached) garage. If anything, the garage gave them ample cover to work in privacy, actually. Still not sure exactly how they did it... Our vehicle has physical keys, no wireless fobs or keyless entry, so it wasn't a relay/clone attack. They basically just stripped out the ignition, and busted out all the interior lights, and did something in the fuse box (probably pulled a fuse or something to disable the alarm while they worked on the ignition cylinder). We have them on video driving away in our car... Apparently Kia really sucks at anti-theft. We still had all keys in our possession, too. Normally, if you unlock or open the door from inside, while it's locked, the alarm goes off. The car was recovered only a few blocks away, parked in an alley, blocking someone else's garage. I got videos of the thieves walking away down the alley after ditching it. They left actual valuables in the car/garage like tools, sunglasses, camping gear, etc... and destroyed a lot of nonsense things. The only valuable thing they took was the dash cam. As it stands, the garage, the alarm, the steering lock, key requirement, and video recording did little to stop them. The garage was locked too, and very well lit with motion activated flood lights. I don't know what else we could have done other than have the garage secured with motion/door sensors and a very loud exterior siren/strobes... to protect our shitty 2011 Kia. lol, right... Basically, thieves gonna thieve, and vandals gonna vandal. https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/12/05/denver-police-kia-thefts/ https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/12/05/denver-police-kia-the...

asveikau 6y ago
That long story and it didn't look like they got much out of it. At that point you start to wonder about the motive. Drugs? Plus not having a lot of intellegence or skill?
- meowster 6y ago
  Probably needed a disposable car for a crime.
  - asveikau 6y ago
    Hm. Maybe I am wrong on this, but then you would expect them to dispose it near a potentially faraway crime scene, not close to where it was stolen.