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Thread ID: 116100 2011-02-16 12:28:00 Stolen car qazwsxokmijn (102) PC World Chat
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1178990 2011-02-16 12:28:00 Hi all. Very recently (sometime between 9pm - 11pm Wednesday) my car was stolen right in front of our house. Glass shards on the footpath indicated how the scum got inside it. Police has been notified, and now we're just waiting and letting as many people we can know of our car.

Can West Auckland PF1ers please keep an eye out for a dark blue 1996 Nissan Cefiro, reg number DUZ367? It would have a hole in one of the passenger side window where the scum would have punched it in.

The car looks like the one in this auction:
www.trademe.co.nz

No good has come ever since the nearby Housing NZ complex was built and occupied 6 months ago. Delinquent looking people frequent our street more and more now, local shops have reported more petty thefts, local med center damaged by a fleeing stolen car, neighbour's stone gate demolished by another fleeing car.......should have taken all that as a warning and kept the car inside the gate unless it's needed. :(

Oh, and our house prices has gone down since that damn state housing was built!!

Thanks all! 		qazwsxokmijn (102)
1178991 2011-02-16 12:45:00 If I see anything I'll let you know Agent_24 (57)
1178992 2011-02-16 12:50:00 Thanks Agent. :)

Hoping to wake up and finding it where it was lol. :lol: 		qazwsxokmijn (102)
1178993 2011-02-16 13:20:00 Hi all. Very recently (sometime between 9pm - 11pm Wednesday) my car was stolen right in front of our house. Glass shards on the footpath indicated how the scum got inside it. Police has been notified, and now we're just waiting and letting as many people we can know of our car.

Can West Auckland PF1ers please keep an eye out for a dark blue 1996 Nissan Cefiro, reg number DUZ367? It would have a hole in one of the passenger side window where the scum would have punched it in.

The car looks like the one in this auction:
www.trademe.co.nz

No good has come ever since the nearby Housing NZ complex was built and occupied 6 months ago. Delinquent looking people frequent our street more and more now, local shops have reported more petty thefts, local med center damaged by a fleeing stolen car, neighbour's stone gate demolished by another fleeing car.......should have taken all that as a warning and kept the car inside the gate unless it's needed. :(

Oh, and our house prices has gone down since that damn state housing was built!!

Thanks all!

Same thing happen to us, when Housing NZ built houses near us.
Let's say we had a lot more police cars driving down our street.
That was in west Auckland as well. 		wmoore (6009)
1178994 2011-02-16 17:00:00 RECOVERED!!!!!

Thanks for the concern guys, I appreciate it . Full story if you're bothered to read it lol (excuse the odd expletives here and there, I frequent GP forums as well, and their language is more colorful there):

so car was stolen from my house sometime between 9pm - 11pm . Cops were notified immediately, then I waited for my father to come home so I could drive around in the hope that I may spot it . Went to parks, liquor shops and McD's within a 10km radius . Went back home defeated at 1am, then tried to go to sleep . After nearly two hours tossing and turning in anger and hatred, I got up to go on the PC, not for wanks, but for other means of entertainment because I know I won't be sleeping anytime soon .

After 10 minutes, at approximately 3:15am a police lady called, saying my 'car had been found on the corner of Don Buck Rd aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnddddd . . . . . . . . . . . . ****** Rd' .
Now, when she said Don Buck Rd I jumped, because Don Buck is just a 100m walk up my street . And I don't know why, but when she said 'and' she extended the damn 'and' as if to tease me on the close proximity of the car, because ****** Rd is just some 200m away from my home .

So I thanked her, ran outside, sprinted to ****** Rd, and found two cops waiting for me . Out of breath after sprinting, they took down my details etc . Then I saw the damages that had been done . It's not too severe, but gave us a problem . For some reason the steering wheel has locked itself, rendering the car immobile . A passenger window is smashed . But most annoyingly the car's engine was still running . We cannot use the key to turn off the engine because the ignition port thing was ****ed up when the scumbag hotwired it .

So cops gave me a lift back home (which was by car less than 30 seconds away), talked to my father, then left us . They said they can't do anything else, and we have to call AA . Called AA, got a towing company to come down . In the meantime father turned off the engine by disconnecting the battery . When the towing guy came down he managed to unlock the steering wheel and towed the car back home, as we can't hotwire the car . Nice towing guy said normally for this sort of job at that hour he charges $190 but because he only had to tow some 200m he let us go with $90 . Father and I were extremely grateful of course, and since we only had a $100 note we insisted he should pocket the $10 extra, since he was also a damn nice guy as well, very friendly and professional .


You might think this **** is over, but it ain't .


My family and I have lived here in NZ and this very neighbourhood for the last 10 years (this year is our 11th) . Some seven years ago, our Mazda Familia 323 station wagon was stolen from our house . Back then we didn't have a gate . Thankfully it was insured cause we were able to afford it back then, and the insurance company coughed up enough to buy another Familia 323 . Before the car was even in our front yard, however, it needed some work done on it and so we took it to a garage ONLY around 300m from our house . The next day, you guessed it, our replacement car was stolen, the SECOND THEFT of a car of ours, ONLY 300M AWAY FROM HOME .

At around the same time during winter, mum had forgotten to take the washing off the line in our backyard a few times . TWICE our clothing were snatched off our lines . The missing pieces of clothing were my little brother's jacket, two of my sweaters and a couple of other things . Mum wasn't too disturbed by it, because she reasoned that the thief must be too poor to keep their children warm in the winter, so she let it go without too much thought .

Fast forward to mid 2009, they started building the wretched state housing complex right across the garage where we had our replacement car stolen from six years previously . Once the place was occupied, almost immediately local shops and gas stations reported an increase of thefts, there were reports of intimidation and the general hooplas associated with scumbags who keep breeding undesirables . So our community held up a meeting with the inhabitants of the state housing complex . I didn't go, but my next door neighbour who part-organised it told me all about it . He said an elderly Maori gentleman assured them that there will be no trouble and that he will make sure any of his family who does silly things will be dealt to . My neighbour said he respected the elderly guy and that was the end of it .

So now we come to tonight . By no means I am pointing the finger at one of the inhabitants of the State housing complex, but naturally my suspicion is on them . It is of course possible that a local neighbour was responsible for tonight's theft, and that it was no one from the State housing complex .

So tomorrow (well, today) I will be going to the local police station, only 150m away, to talk to them about everything . My neighbourhood is obviously not a very safe place, especially now . Our cars had been targeted THREE times in the last 10 years, TWICE FROM OUR VERY HOME, and once from a garage ONLY 300M AWAY . On the same note, I would like to have the police try to catch the sonofabitch who stole my car tonight, took it for a joyride, then dumped it only 200m from where he pinched it . He had the audacity (or stupidity, you decide) to do so, and this is something that I am not willing to tolerate . It is possible that he walks past my house everyday, and now he'll look at the car, knowing that he had once stolen it and took it for a ride, while my family keeps on living oblivious to his presence in front of our house and I am not going to tolerate that **** .

This neighbourhood is really going to the dogs, and I only fear for my parents having to live through their retirement in this shithole . We are far from being well-off, and I constantly worry about how I could somehow relocate them to a nicer neighbourhood when my little brother and I move out (I'm probably moving out within the next three years, my brother around five years since he's still in year 11) . I can't stand the thought of me and my brothers being somewhere else, unable to do anything for my parents if this shithole neighbourhood gets worse and worse .



TL;DR, car stolen, recovered, everybody lives happily ever after, the end . 		qazwsxokmijn (102)
1178995 2011-02-16 18:37:00 Deterrents / Solutions:

1. Car Alarm + Immobilizer

2. Steering Wheel Lock and/or Gear Shift Lock and/or Tyre-Wheel Lock (the best)

3. GPS Locator

4. Metla :D

5. Read Here (www.google.co.nz), then implement

6. Install security cameras, even if dummy ones, and include signs in your car windows saying that they are being monitored, etc. 		Strommer (42)
1178996 2011-02-16 18:41:00 Good to hear you got it back in the end. somebody (208)
1178997 2011-02-16 19:26:00 However your neighborhood cant of been that flash before the Housing complex as you said, you had had the 323 stolen twice as well as clothes !
Sounds like you could be jumping to conclusions without any evidence at all! 		SolMiester (139)
1178998 2011-02-16 19:28:00 No good has come ever since the nearby Housing NZ complex was built and occupied 6 months ago .
!

This happened to a friend of mine recently:
http://lobelet . livejournal . com/

We have a housing NZ thing directly behind us, there is 6 houses?Units? in the shared drive .
So far no hassles .

Then again who'd want to steal husbands ute?? 		pctek (84)
1178999 2011-02-16 19:42:00 PC based security system reecording the front yard, driveway and street front.

A big dog!

Or spread the rumour that you're unstable and have guns in the house... it'll make them think twice! 		Paul.Cov (425)
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