MrBush

One of mates informed me that one of his neighbours had his car stolen from his drive the other night.

Its a UK300 but he wasnt too sure of the year as it had a private plate.

As far as he is aware the car was taken to order, he has a few quite nice cars down his road (Mercs, BMWs etc etc) but they chose to take the Scoob instead.

They broke into his house (while the family were asleep) and ransacked it looking for the keys, even going into there 8 year old daughters bedroom.

Once stolen they proceeded to total it..........

Cornelius

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barstewards

Going to beef up the security on my garage this weekend.

MrBush

Big dog?

tvm

or maybe a big gun

Cornelius

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I have got a shotgun licence

WRX_Dazza

what good is that??? it the gun you need !!! lol


i reckon it was Dave, (couldn't keep away from the old scoobs) lol and its in his manor.

[disclaimer: i'm 100% sure it wasn't Dave]

gutted for them though....

Diesel_DC

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Gutted to hear this, I only know of one UK300 round my way

To$$ers should have their hands cut off if there caught

Dazza

Not gonna nick a scoob when you can pick up crappy old classics for no money at all

WRX_Dazza

lol, you're up early... blimey !!! hahahah

Diesel_DC

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Been at work 20 minutes, well been on scoobynet at work for 20 minutes

spally

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gutted for them. defo gotta get a house with a garage next.

Cornelius

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lol, haven't got round to getting the bangy thing yet, though have got samurai swords, but not sure where I stand with them now the law is changing

EAndy

Wouldn't recommened the Shotgun into the air routine, thats a night in the cell, angry neigbours being woke at 2am and hefty fine.

Wire in one of the Motorola mobile phones hardwired to your battery and sit it under your floor carpet or inside a rear seat. They have gps and tracking facilities.

From work now I know my car is sitting on the drive. I do have the RAC Trackster but.

a.) its more expensive
b.) has more limitations

Least I can log on and view where that phone is now, ie. where the car is and doubt the thieves will find the phone hidden.

Got the idea after reading about how some women bought her husband this phone as she suspecting him of having an affair so used to look where he kept going.

Apparently it wasn't the pub with mates after work each night.

WRX_Dazza

mobile phone tracking in rural areas is only about 5km accuracy though....IIRC

thats a lot of ground to cover to find a car (especially if its locked up)

would be interested to see it working though....

is it around £5.00 per month to track a phone???

joey_turbo

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Bad news. I used to live in Romford.

Would like to know more about this Motorola.

EAndy

Not sure on what the Motorola model number is the phone itself is around 2 years old.

Lots of companies offer the service now though, you pay a fee in advance of say £50 and that'll let you have 300 searches on your phone location for example. As Dazza states though they work on 'which cell' your currently in which leaves a wide area to search/locate.

Lots of the new phones ie. Nokia N95 have GPS that can pinpoint your location to within a few feet so providing you can have some form of exterior sensor that the satellites can view and detect you should be able to access that information and view where the phone is sitting.

The concept is so parents can keep tabs on there children via mobile phone to know where they are.

how mobile cell id location tracking works

There is a flash movie on there shows the basics.

The 'Spycall' on there is pretty good. You ring say your other halfs phone and it auto-answers then you listen to the conversation and when you hang up the phone does. Wonder if anyone has every done that?