Freaking Scumbags

"CAR_IS_MI" (car-is-mi)
10/16/2014 at 11:49 • Filed to: None

Walked out to my Jeep this morning, noticed the hinge on the Jerry can holder was hanging funny. Walked around back, both locks missing, both cans gone.

My neighbor called me, said he heard metal clinking together as he was getting ready for work at 4:30, went outside to instigate, but didn't see anyone.

Police said I have to go to the station to file a report, but with no clues left behind it's essentially pointless, and the 24/7 security team that we pay lots and lots of money to to watch the neighborhood basically said "Ugghhh...duhhhh.....ummmm... we will keep an eye out". FOR WHAT? Isn't that what I already pay you for?

The cans only cost me $100, so it's not anything really big, and I got lucky they didn't take anything else from inside the Jeep as the roof panels are off so getting in would be easy. Just the point that you have to be a shitty person and I am getting real sick of dealing with shitty people.

/Rant / Shitty morning

DISCUSSION (48)

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 11:51

went outside to instigate

I like your neighbour.

But seriously, that sucks dude.

505Turbeaux > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 11:51

fucking bastards. Was there gas in them? Any cameras around?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 11:53

Wastes of space. Having stuff stolen sucks regardless of value.

HammerheadFistpunch > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 11:53

please tell me they weren't pre CARB cans...

Jedidiah > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 11:54

Someone siphoned gas out my car a year ago.

Pissed me off and I had to get a locking gas cap.

jariten1781 > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 11:55

Local kids...same ones that knock over mailboxes and steal Christmas decorations. Career criminals aren't going in to a nice patrolled neighborhood to steal cans. Risk/reward equation doesn't work.

CAR_IS_MI > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
10/16/2014 at 11:58

Might be the best typo I have had in some time...

CounterTorqueSteer > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:00

I woke up at 2:30am once to the sound of 5 people standing around my Mustang, egging it. I ran outside in my underwear and they ran off. There was so much egg on the car that I initially thought the windows were broken. I called the police and they basically just said , "we will keep an eye out." People suck.

PS9 > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
10/16/2014 at 12:01

Neighbor must be brock sampson.

E92M3 > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:03

Buy 2 more cans and put diesel in them, don't lock them this time.

CAR_IS_MI > 505Turbeaux
10/16/2014 at 12:05

No, no fuel, I just left them in the cage so the top strap wouldn't move around and hit the rear glass (like it is now doing). No cameras, although I did buy a set back in July I told myself I was going to set up, I haven't gotten around to running all the wires I need to make it work in front of my garage / house. (my fault, I know)

desertdog5051 > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:05

Sad to hear. Try this. Seems to work quite well. I had a storage room in an unfenced self-store. Scumbags broke into about ten on the back side. Mine was the only one not broken into.

Kinja'd!!!

CAR_IS_MI > HammerheadFistpunch
10/16/2014 at 12:06

Fortunately they were not.

505Turbeaux > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:07

sorry for your loss man. Just totally shitty.

HammerheadFistpunch > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:08

those things couldn't be more expensive right now if they were filled with printer ink. Maybe that's the reason they stole them? thinking they could turn a quick profit.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > desertdog5051
10/16/2014 at 12:08

I had a bike stolen once that had the standard coil locks on it. Put on one of these padlocks and a steel chain, havent had any issues since.

CAR_IS_MI > Jedidiah
10/16/2014 at 12:08

That sucks. Would be the easiest thing to do on a Jeep, no fuel door, no locking cap, just unscrew and go. Luckily I had an empty tank last night so they just would have been sucking down fumes if they had tried.

Tohru > CounterTorqueSteer
10/16/2014 at 12:10

Remember, the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a carton of eggs is a good guy with a gun.

This post is parody. Don't take it seriously.

CAR_IS_MI > jariten1781
10/16/2014 at 12:11

No I agree. Unfortunelty, after the housing market downturn, a lot of the houses that went to foreclosure were bought by investors as rental properties, so A LOT of the people who are in and out of that neighborhood are not the kind of people who could normally afford to be in that neighborhood, and it has raised our crime rate (otherwise it's a strangely convenient coincidence).

CAR_IS_MI > Tohru
10/16/2014 at 12:13

Fuck that, egg my car and Ill run after you with a shotgun in hand solely for the purpose of making you shit your pants so you never do it again.

CAR_IS_MI > desertdog5051
10/16/2014 at 12:13

Yea my boss suggested a lock like this as well. I will have to find some after I replace the cans.

nermal > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:14

Sorry to hear that. Theives are the worst. I had my window smashed and a few bucks worth of change stolen a few years ago.

Probably not the best attitude, but I felt better thinking of the theives shivering and hungry when it was cold out, as I sat in my warm house.

CAR_IS_MI > 505Turbeaux
10/16/2014 at 12:15

Yea, like I said, it's not huge and could have been worse, just annoys me. I keep seeing more and more theft and violence in my area and I am to the point of fuck it, its time to move to the middle of Montana where there is no one to fuck with me for mile on end.

Tohru > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:17

If you egg my car I will go Liam Neeson on your ass. Including the scene with the 240V and the roofing spikes into the thighs.

Kinja'd!!!

CAR_IS_MI > HammerheadFistpunch
10/16/2014 at 12:17

I'm just glad they didn't make off with the hi-lift jack or tool box with about $1,000 worth of tools I have in the back.

HammerheadFistpunch > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:18

at least there is usually a strong correlation with asshole vandal punks and being completely oblivious.

CAR_IS_MI > nermal
10/16/2014 at 12:20

My old roomates car got broken into once for some change, Mine did too but that was when I had the bikini on the Jeep so I would just leave the windows down and the doors unlocked. Left nothing else in the Jeep for that reason; you really want my change, take it, windows are down so you cant break them, doors are unlocked so you dont damage them, the $.84 isn't worth it to me. Have a nice shitty life scum.

FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:23

In my neighborhood some arsonists were burning down trash cans one night and tried to take my can off my truck. It was locked with a chain so they couldn't take it. I also suspect they were too dumb to know how to open the can in the first place as I imagine they would have just poured the gas in another container if they knew how. - sorry for your loss - were they full?

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > E92M3
10/16/2014 at 12:25

One Diesel, One Nitromethanol.

TxBrumski > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:26

I've got a Jeep YJ that I keep the top off 90% of the time. I keep it in my garage so nothing gets stolen but every now and then, some bum will go through the console and see what they can take. Even though there's nothing of value in it because it has been broken into so many times, I still get angry when someone steals something from it. The item that pissed me off? A burned CD. Some ass got in, pulled everything out of my console and then took my burned CD for my stereo. Not the change in the cup holders, not the stereo face plate, but the burned CD.

CAR_IS_MI > TxBrumski
10/16/2014 at 12:35

I wish I still had space in the garage to park it. Unfortunately with 2 motorcycles and a broken down car I have no such space.

jariten1781 > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:38

Yeah, I lived in section 8 housing for a little over 3 years and petty crime was rampant. There was also more aggressive stuff, but that was mostly confined to the gangs and drug users. The windows in the units were just single plates tacked in with a few nails so the super could replace them in a couple minutes. When they ran a bus line out to the area a whole bunch of the kids who had just been victimizing the locals started traveling out to other neighborhoods. That didn't last long because they learned that being outside their own neighborhood was a recipe for getting caught and prosecution so they just went back to breaking into my place.

OPPOsaurus WRX > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 12:59

deduct the cost of replacement from your next security team bill

CAR_IS_MI > OPPOsaurus WRX
10/16/2014 at 13:01

I wish I could. If it were up to me I wouldn't pay this HOA at all. They charge an insane amount of $ and the service they "provide" always fall short.

OPPOsaurus WRX > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 13:23

haha I think we have been thru this before about the HOA on here.

CAR_IS_MI > OPPOsaurus WRX
10/16/2014 at 13:32

Oh yea. Worst 1st home buying experience ever. Never in my life have I hated people whom I know nothing about so much.

OPPOsaurus WRX > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 13:35

i couldn;t believe it when one of our clients houses were denied by the HOA for having the wrong roof pitch. Like WTF do you people know about architecture and how can you think every house should have the same pitch roof. I really love the story bout the guy that could park a Lincoln LT in his driveway but not an F150.

CAR_IS_MI > OPPOsaurus WRX
10/16/2014 at 13:37

It is literally insane. LITERALLY! I got fined once becasue the coaxial cable from my sat dish was not painted the same color as my house...

OPPOsaurus WRX > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 13:47

well shit neither is mine, i better go paint it. what happens if u dont pay the fine?

CAR_IS_MI > OPPOsaurus WRX
10/16/2014 at 14:07

They charge you late fees, send you to collections, eventually they can foreclose on your house.

TxBrumski > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 14:51

Dang, hopefully that car get un-broken down and frees up some room in there. Did they take the locks with them when they got the jerry cans?

CAR_IS_MI > TxBrumski
10/16/2014 at 14:53

Yupp they sure did.

TxBrumski > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 15:40

Wow. Some people just suck...

davedave1111 > TxBrumski
10/16/2014 at 21:02

Oh, I've had that. The worst part was that they actually flicked through the burned CDs and only took some of them. It's harsh having your stuff nicked and your musical taste criticised at the same time.

davedave1111 > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 21:04

I'm not sure I should find that as funny as I do, but round where my parents live it'd be the satellite dish that'd cause problems - only allowed if they're not visible from anywhere off the property. It seems utterly perverse to complain about the cable hanging down rather than the ugly fucking dish on the roof.

The Compromiser > CAR_IS_MI
10/16/2014 at 21:09

I saw one Tuesday, the guy had 4 cans mounted like that but narrower ones so it looked like cassettes. I thought neat but soo easy to steal in the Metro Detroit area... weird.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > CAR_IS_MI
10/17/2014 at 00:19

And just this morning the copier in the office broke, and the receptionist apologized for the incontinence. After it was fixed she thanked us for our patients. I wonder what kind of doctor she went to see last Monday...

Philbert/Phartnagle > CAR_IS_MI
10/17/2014 at 03:06

That sux! Time to get a security cam.