rant: please explain something to me...

[slowSSer]

so, why does one car get its back window smashed with a crowbar and have NOTHING taken while in the other part of a partking lot, a car sits with unlocked doors and windows down about 1" for an entire weekend?

[DeeZee]

Originally Posted by slowSSer

so, why does one car get its back window smashed with a crowbar and have NOTHING taken while in the other part of a partking lot, a car sits with unlocked doors and windows down about 1" for an entire weekend?

and model?

[Sprockethead]

What were the cars? Make, model, year? Sucks if you got your car broken into. I had a similiar experience, someone smashed my rear passenger window to grab my friends FAKE Louie Vitton bag. I was pissed cause I was driving an old Datsun (before Nissan) 200SX and I was parked between a BMW 3 series and Caddy. Go figure.

[genusmtbkr5]

Maybe the person who owns the car with the back window pissed someone off? Or could be a case of mistaken identity.

[foofighter]

random act then, sometimes your property is in the wrong place at the right time for someone that's pissed.

[spookydave]

because there is no need to smash the window when it's already down and the door is unlocked.

[slowSSer]

Originally Posted by 29wheels

and model?

here's the wicked part- both Jeep Cherokees. both with tinted windows

to answer Gene: wrong place, wrong time and Foo, you're probably close.

these cars were parked in the Queen Mary parking lot in Long Beach. the smashed jeep was probaby due to some drunken idiot getting thrown out of the bar at last call and wasnt happy about it.

here's the dose of Karma that he got when he saw inside the smashed rear window: a baby car seat. fvcking azzholes.

[spookydave]

I was just trying to be funny. Sorry if it was your car. Wife's 'burban got broken into at the gym and her purse was taken among other things.

Sucks when some A hole messes with your stuff.

[slowSSer]

Originally Posted by spookydave

I was just trying to be funny. Sorry if it was your car. Wife's 'burban got broken into at the gym and her purse was taken among other things.

Sucks when some A hole messes with your stuff.

no worries. humor is good- nothing stolen, nothing even moved, and no one harmed.

now, the wifey and I have both had the back windows smashed on our cars. here's the interesting part:

back window on a WRX waggon: $750
back window on a Jeep: $145
shards of supposed "safety glass" in your hands?
priceless.

Originally Posted by mechmann

funny thing, when i was in college i wound up with a busted window in my truck. (84 toyota 4x4 lifted) i drove around with no driver side window for a year.

all i did was use a steering wheel lock. never had anyone vandalize the interior.

to be honest, it would have been pretty funny if someone tried to steal that truck. it had a Jacobs ignition in it. if you didn't know about the secret switch, it would run for 1 minute and then cut out, and after that it would NOT restart at all. i would love to have returned to find my truck blocking an intersection, knowing that the their had to bail out and run away on foot!

i have always wondered why more people don't have ignition systems with stuff like that...

because Jacobs ignitions require smart people, and, let's face it, when most people get behind the wheel, the IQ level seems to decline.

[SAR_boats]

Originally Posted by slowSSer

back window on a WRX waggon: $750
back window on a Jeep: $145
shards of supposed "safety glass" in your hands?
priceless.

.

Just so you kow the only glass on a car that is "Safety Glass" (i.e. laminated) is the windshield everything else is just single layer tempered glass. (usually)

Good observation tho...


The passenger side window of my car got broken on Christmas Eve last year. They took an empty Dell computer box I had in the back seat.

First off, it's Christmas Eve. Give the kleptomania a rest on Christmas, k?
Second: They still took the box. They ignored the sattelite radio reciever, stereo, etc but still took the box. Thank god for stupid crooks

[Shu]

99-01 Jeep Grand Cherokee little fixed wing window(15"tall 6"wide) on driverside rear door...$275...most expensive window on the car...

[slowSSer]

Originally Posted by Shu

99-01 Jeep Grand Cherokee little fixed wing window(15"tall 6"wide) on driverside rear door...$275...most expensive window on the car...

the smallest window on the car is the most expensive? wow. in that case, the windsheild must be about $100

[Shu]

I broke into it to get my phone and jacket b/c I was freezing my arse off and couldn't get a hold of my friends(who had the keys)the lady said it's a real shame....had I broken the rear quarter fixed window it would have cost $145...go figure..window 3x's the size cost that much less....atleast I know for the future...lol

[Winger]

It is true that small windows cost more. That small window on my old Mustang cost me something like $200 or $300 thanks to some punk who wanted my $125 leather jacket. It would have been closer to $500, except I got used glass, and the installer knew how to pry that rear panel open without having to dismantle the entire pillar.

Lesson learned: Leave nothing in plain site in your car. NOTHING.

I'm crazy about not leaving anything in sight now. I'll even put a blanket over an empty box.