wazza2770

Why are scoobies so easy to steal? As a traffic Cop we find we have them stolen so very often and used in crime. What are owners doing to safeguard their pride and joy? Are they the most easy car in the world to nick?

chaos.

Gee, I thought they had trackers on them?? Don't they lead you to the 'lock up' when you activate them? BTW any cars easy to steal if you have the keys


cha0s

fitzscoob

think you find now that the majority of stolen scoobs are in fact more difficult to steal, so that now the scum tend to kick in house doors looking for keys.

damn easy to steal a car when you have the keys in your hand.

LeighJ

Because the theiving little t*wts are breaking in to our houses to steal the keys. They are not easy cars to steal, but the insurance companies make us have such good security, that the only way for them to steal the cars is with the use of keys. Being a copper I thought you might have known this. And yes this did happen to me and many others.

So what are the police doing about it?

Leigh Ex-scooby owner

Jye

This looks like either a wind-up or a toe rag on the hunt for info to me.

As a traffic Cop we find we have them stolen so very often and used in crime.

We find 'we' have them stolen, this 'phrase' implies personal ownership i.e. the cops themselves are having 'their' cars stolen.

What are owners doing to safeguard their pride and joy? Are they the most easy car in the world to nick?

To me this says tell me how you protect your cars so I can learna few tricks about stealing them.

Paranoid Jye

pugoetru

mr traffic cop go back to your boss and tell him he needs to get the neds who steal the cars off the streets


that is the real problem no matter how secure a car is they will steal it if they want it

as said above they are not easy to steal

JoanUK300

Wazza, not sure your attitude is going to be appreciated on this BBS.........

Joan.

Scoob99

iTrader: (1)

Not the Attitude I would expect from a serving police officer.

[Edited by Scoob99 - 12/10/2003 4:13:50 PM]

pugoetru

true colours ?

Scooby96

Come and try to nick mine then I'll show you what I'm doing to safeguard my pride and joy

Chris_S199

http://www.zzr-riders-club.co.uk/zzr...RS/andreww.htm

Chris

pugoetru

If he is a real traffic cop then he should know better

Jye

I wonder now if he reads this he might tell his m8's to put more of a priority on burglaries then. My parents waited a day and a half till the police arrived after they had been broken into, and of course they just laughed when my dad mentioned finger printing

LeighJ

When my car was stolen they cop that arrived 20 mins after I phoned, on a bike, a push bike. My girlfriend actually said to him "F**king hell have the stolen your car to"

pugoetru

Its ok they will be stealing those saaabaru things soon as our cars will be too old

wazza2770

Sorry guys, I was only asking!. Great cars, (I would like to have one.) Was only curious as to how, other than by nicking the keys from owner's houses, the scum actually managed to take these motors. It is so frustrating to know we (The old bill) generally only get to see the tail lights as they go onwards into the night, our poor old Omega's are not a patch on these Scoobies. Or we find them with Tracker later if it has not been ripped out. Take care out there boys and girls.
wazza

ajm

I'm afraid I can't tell you what I would do to safeguard my pride and joy because, as we know, it is practically illegal to protect your property under the current laws. [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Adrian F

We shouldn't need to protect them as we pay Taxes (Vast amounts of) for the Police to catch the criminals, therefore ensuring we can sleep safe at night and not laying awake waiting for the car thief to kick the door in waving a base ball bat in our face.

EvilKyote

With Jye here,

looks a rather dodgy thread!

And i *could* tell what methods we use to protect our cars, but then, We'd have to kill you



[Edited by EvilKyote - 12/12/2003 11:46:18 AM]

Jye

Im afraid it looks like wazza2770 is the real deal, i.e. a typical copper m8. Chris pointed out he's a ZZR owner anol, and one oh me fav bikes.

Makes me despair for the UK if this is who is looking out for us tbo.

Danbo

Does not seem like a question a traffic officer should have to ask in the first place!!!

Nathan L

Brush and tar mate.

Wazza, I'm not sure if you are the real deal or not. If you are I think maybe you need to re-evaluate how you word things on this board, with only 7 posts to your name. Fair enough ask the question, but ask it without the tone and mad smillies. These indicate the mood of your thread and replies, as such it could and has been interpreted you think it's our fault our own Scoobs are going missing.

Nathan..

akshay67

Perhaps Subarus are more desirable to theives, therefore making them more likely to be stolen, rather than being easy to steal.

There are some good security measures to prevent this. Debadging helps as it becomes very hard to tell what the car is and will less likely be the target of an Impreza-specific theft.

Perhaps a not so well known fact is that the standard impreza immobiliser can be disarmed with....Sorry Akshay67...even if it was a joke (which i think it was) you dont want to go giving people ideas now

[Edited by akshay67 - 12/13/2003 2:02:52 AM]

[Edited by IanW - 12/13/2003 2:51:20 AM]

Jye

Tar and brush? Well I like others go by first hand experience, thats all we can do.

Its seems people missed this first time round, so I'll paste it again.

http://www.zzr-riders-club.co.uk/zzr...RS/andreww.htm



[Edited by Jye - 12/13/2003 10:01:10 AM]

akshay67

Ian W

It was a wind up, the number was 'Shell Oil' spelt upside down on a calculator!

Nathan L

Jye, my problems not with you here, fair enough you might have had a bad experience but try to keep an open mind.

I was actually supporting what you put as I don't like it either.

Nathan..

Jye

NP m8, kinda gathered that.

I got called out as key holder to a break in at our office at 4 am on thursday night, and for once the police had turned up(they never have on the three times previous), waited till I drove the 30 miles to work and then waited until I had checked the inside of the building.

Its just a pity this is such a rare occurance. I wont go into the man power thing as Im sure all these speed cameras must have freed up time somewhere.

Nathan L

Don't even get me started on those bloody things, hence why I advise everyone to have a Road Angel or similar.

Nathan..

ADP

tis true, when posting on here on issues(very sensitive in this case) you need to be carefull about how you word / ask questions.

I think we all know that plenty are being robbed, lets face it, its damn nearly the ideal get away car(4 seats, fast, big boot, easy to drive etc) however MOST people are trying there best to keep their pride and joys safe - but sometimes you just cant win. Like people have said, if someone kicks your door in and takes the keys by force ie at gun point or otherwise what more can you do?