My car has been stolen!

[iceman]

Went outside this morning to drive to the train station, and my car wasn't there! It's been stolen!

It's only an old '98 Hyundai Excel that's long past its best, but still - it's very inconvenient. It was insured, but it won't be worth much.

Now I have to wait to see if the police find it before I can worry about whether I need to buy a new (second hand) car.

Frustrating! I'll have to ride my push bike to the station and back for the rest of the week I guess.

[sasup]

that sucks mike sorry to hear...:mad2::mad2::mad2:

[astronut]

Sorry to hear that Mike:( Do you want to release the rego number, so we can keep an eye out for it?:)

[CraigS]

Mike;
Not good. I am sorry to hear that.
A massive display of gross disrespect for everything in a society which gives so much to these people.
I wish things weren't this way but unfortunately, they are.

Chin up ! It'll be a chance to get some exercise, at least !

Cheers & Rgds

[acropolite]

That's a rotten thing to happen and kinda wierd because last night I had a dream that my car was stolen.

I doubt you'll find it, they either end up stripped for parts of burned out by the side of the road somewhere.

[AdrianF]

That sucks Mike Hope they find the lowlifes who stole it.

Adrian

[kustard]

That sucks in so many ways, the inconvenience of not being able to drive when you need it, the hassles with the police and insurances...

Hopefully it all gets resolved quickly for you Mike.

[DavidTrap]

Sorry to hear this Mike.

My folks had an old Falcon Ute stolen - by some fluke I found it 3 days later parked near a carpark where I work on the other side of the city. Very freaky - was actually a bit of a pain, as we would have rather claimed the insurance than have the old girl back. If it is found, the advice from the police & insurance company was to let them collect it and the vehicle should be inspected carefully for needles, etc.

DT

[xstream]

Sorry to hear Mike.
I believe the worst is not so much the fact of the material loss but the feeling of violation and intrusion into one's personal space.

[peterl]

Bad news Mike..
inconvenience is always a problem in these situations!
I hope it all works out .
Fairly quickly.. hope you still have other transport to the camp!


If anybody sees Mike travelling to the Ice In Space camp with all his camping gear and astro gear loaded up on his pushie,with a sign on the back saying "LOSTOCK OR BUST" Please give him a lift!!! :)

Peter.

[Jen]

Hope you get it back Mike but i dont like ya chances :shrug:

My very first car (torana) was stolen and four years later i got a call from the police we have found your car at Vic roads :rolleyes:

[spacezebra]

Not good news at all. Hope things work out.

[Octane]

So sorry to hear that, Mike.

Whilst I haven't had my car stolen (touch wood), my parents business was broken into/robbed back in 1994 and I can still remember to this day, that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach which just makes you go weak at the knees, and the sheer frustration of it all which you don't know what to do about.

Here's hoping that someone noticed something fishy or the police find it. Be prepared to receive some dodgy parking fines/traffic infringement notices. : (

H

[Ric]

Sorry to hear about Mike.

Hope it works out for the best for you.

These type of low lifes really irk me, I hope they get caught and locked up.

[Starkler]

Mike sorry to hear about your car. I do know how it feels as it has happened to me. I was lucky enough to get mine back undamaged a week later abandoned at a train station.

With all due respect for 1998 Hyndai's, they are not the type of target for a parts stripping or rebirth operation, so you probably have a better chance of getting it back than if it were a Falcodore or late model car. :)

Best of luck and hope you get the outcome you want.

[bird]

Hope they find it for you Mike, maybe it's just gone joyriding and you'll get it back safe and sound - fingers crossed!

cheers, Bird

[Suzy]

What a stressful situation, what a pain, what a hassle. The rotten criminals that did this will get their just desserts one day - what goes around always comes around. Hard as it might be, don't let this situation fill the coming days with anger and negativity. Doing so, will feed on itself and make an already bad situation worse, and then you'll have even more stress to deal with, and will end up ruining every thought process. As Craig said, chin up. It will help you deal better. Apologies if my advice isn't warranted here, just trying to get you to stay focused.

[iceman]

Thanks for the support guys. I'd be happy if they found it with no damage - certainly would be a lot less hassle than dealing with insurance, trying to find another car etc.

It appears that they tried to steal our other (better) car first - some cracks around the ignition etc. Looks like they failed there and then went to my car where they succeeded.

Certainly makes you worry when you have had people like that so close to your house.

[DavidU]

That sux Mike. I have had cars stolen and it's a pain !

[troypiggo]

That sucks indeed. You should leave your black-belt gear on the dashboard in plain sight so anyone breaking in realises they'll be in for it if caught.

[Octane]

Reminds me of the time my friend moved in to a new apartment complex and someone went ahead and stole his gym gear/weights set from the "secure" storage area in the carpark.

He put notes up around the apartment complex saying:

"To the person who stole my weights set,

I hope you put them to good use, because, if I find out who you are, it's HAMMER TIME."

The weights were replaced within 3 days, lol.

H

[troypiggo]

LOL. Kinda similar story - when I was at Uni I did Tae Kwon Do for a few years. One night while driving home from a class our Sensei was hit from behind by a car. Driver of the car behind gets out and walks up to him ranting and raving how it was his fault, throwing his arms about trying to intimidate. So Sensei gets out of his car still wearing his 4th Dan black belt and gi. Driver quiets, face goes white, gives his license details, gets back in car and drives off. LOL.

[Barrykgerdes]

Well I would be happy if someone stole my car and I did not get it back. It is insured for an agreed value. Much more than i would get if I sold it.

Baz

[mozzie]

yep !!! the bottom feeders are at it again. sorry to here of that is not the money its the inconvenience yep !!! bottom feeders

[asimov]

Sorry to hear it dude. Bet you'd like to lay some of that blackbelt knowledge down on their arses!

Hope it gets retrieved.

[taminga16]

Left my car (4 month old MX5) outside a friends home at 9.30pm on a Sunday night in June, finished a quick coffee and returned to find that it had been broken into, both side windows broken and the tops of the console and seat cuddy torn off, all for an iPod and a pair of sunglasses. $700.00 to replace the stolen gear and $1800.00 for the glass and panel damage. I still feel ill when I get into it. Bring back restitution for the offenders, the claim of a difficult upbringing and drug use is a B******T excuse. We all have or have had monkey's on our backs at some stage, and for most of us it makes us better people.
Greg.

[DavidU]

My Nissan 280zx that I re built myself was stolen in June 09. Years of work gone. Iceholes !

[AstralTraveller]

Bad vibes man.

Perhaps you are better off not getting it back. A mate had his HZ with a worked V8 stolen and by the time he got it back it was trash. They had thrashed it so hard the axle housings turned in the diff housing. The motor was never the same.

I was also going to to suggest you display you credentials on the dash board but I see everyone else had the same idea. Anyway perhaps I can cheer you up by recalling a story from about 10 years ago. Some low life was robbing a flat when the tenants returned, so they did a runner. Unfortunately the tenants were two members of the ACT Brumbies rugby union team (a winger and a loose forward I think). The report said that they were caught and detained until the police arrived. And we all joked about how glad the thief was when the coppers arrived and they could stop learning the finer points of the ruck and maul!

[sheeny]

Its the sort of thing you can do without.

Often its debatable whether its worth getting it back, if it gets absolutely flogged and abused. Some friends of mine got theirs back after it was stolen, but very quickly wished that hadn't. The clutch was the first thing they noticed, but then it was using oil where it didn't before and eventually the gearbox died...

Whichever way it goes Mike, I hope you get out of it with minimum inconvenience and cost.

Al.

[acropolite]

Security cameras are cheap nowdays mike, might be worth installing one with a view of the car parking spot, at least you might have a chance of identifying them if it happens again.

[spearo]

Bad luck indeed
Its almost become an inevitable part of city life. Everyone gets something stolen/broken into at some point.

Just be glad no loved one got hurt


Its happenned to me a few times (cars in Canada and Oz, my flat here in Oz years ago (completely emptied it with a flat bed truck, in broad daylight while neighbours watched....caught them and took them to Court.
slap on the wrist for one all the others seem to get off
Its a good reason to live in a rural setting if you ask me...
frank

[Alchemy]

Hope you get it back.

[astro_nutt]

Sorry to hear about your car getting stolen. Just hope they dump it unscathed.

[GrahamL]

Hope It all works out Mike .

Stolen cars .. I used to work a nightshift in the lower valley in brisbane years ago and had my ute stolen 3 times out front of work ... First time they crashed it into the arse of another car and fled .. the other two they tried to push it and push it but it wouldn't start with the rotar taken out :D

We nabbed some guys one other night trying to hot wire another guys car , bad luck they got spotted when we where playing pool in the building above , Four of us ran out with ques and bailed them up in the car till the cops arrived.

[supernova1965]

Hope everything works out for the best Mike:sadeyes:

[Jeffkop]

Hmmmm ... I hope it finds it way home Mike, but Ive a feeling that if you hear about it ever again it will be as a result of it being involved in something less than honorable. Lets face it, they aren't taking it to sell by the sound of its age and condition, so unless its joyriders ........ Anyway, fingers crossed mate.

[marki]

The sods have no fear of the law nor respect for peoples property. Hope it works out for the best.

Mark

[firstlight]

Shocking feeling when it happens... Had our house broken into a couple of times, once when we were on holidays and driving back through Moore when the mobile rings from the finger printing mob wanted to get in... that was the first we heard of it. That was a looooong drive home.

Our car was stolen from our carport (spare keys in the console... not a good move). The car was found along the side of the road near Woodenbong, completely cleaned out, pram, glove-box, etc, even the rubbish bin. Two tripods in the roofbox remained, as well as the seatcovers (now in the Honda... a veteran of 3 vehicles) and the dashmat. The driver side door was never quite the same, and there was some slight damage to the front of the car when they went off the road, doors locked with the keys on the seat.

The consensus is that someone was in the neighborhood from out of town, needed a lift home, grabbed a ride... and cleaned out the car.

Hope that it was someone looking for a lift home in your case and is not an idiot.

Tony and Anne-Louise

[DavidU]

OMG ! THAT takes the cake.

[erick]

Strange things happen - my son calls me some year back. He's driving the EL Ford sedan to Uni. Middle of the day from the carpark, he calls me and asks "Have you taken the spare wheel out of the boot?" No, what's happened. He could see something was odd at the boot end (the lock) and found the spare wheel missing. Well, they had popped the boot lock off with screwdriver, pulled on the wire to open the boot, carefully removed the spare wheel, left everything else - jack, tow rope, jumper leads, tool boxes - packed it all back and closed the boot. Go figure!

A pain to have to do the wreckers run for a replacement spare wheel and tyre. Also we then disconnected the internal wire from the the boot key lock to the catch - on looking, it is child's play to get into the boot that way. Only use push button or internal unlatch now.

Hope the car turns up, Mike, relatively unscathed.

[iceman]

Interesting stories from everyone!

The worst part is that in the last 3 months, I spent over $1000 on the car for registration, 2 tyres, servicing and a new windscreen. Redbook tells me the car is only worth < $2500.

Had to ride the pushie to the station this morning. Glad it's not the middle of winter!

[Chi Sao]

Good luck Mike hope it is found not damaged. I had a P plater on her phone (i think) drive into at 50 km/hr. Insurer did me over (market value) then would have sued the other insurance company and then scraped the car. I am sure they made a handsome profit.

I've contemplated installing a hidden GPS chip to track my car if it ever gets stolen. I know in the US you can even remotely lock and stop the car once it is stolen by a mobile phone or the police can when they are following it (my sister was going to have the system installed)

Good luck

[wavelandscott]

Bummer Mike, hope it all comes out okay!