Suspect caught after keying hundreds of vehicles

"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
12/01/2014 at 07:53 • Filed to: None

Ugh. Why? What is the point of this behaviour ?

I really don't get it. I mean, I get the motivation (definitely NOT saying I condone it) when you key one vehicle that pissed you off by blocking you in or something. I would never, and you should never, but I understand the motivation. You're angry and want to get even.

Why on earth would you key hundreds of vehicles?

At least they caught him. According to another article, investigators witnessed him doing it. Throw away the keys, both his and his jail cells!

METRO VANCOUVER - A 37-year-old Coquitlam man suspected of scratching or keying hundreds of vehicles in Metro Vancouver has been charged again with damaging another 129 vehicles.

New Westminster police say Soo Yo Kim is charged with two counts of mischief over $5,000 for allegedly damaging 63 vehicles on Nov. 12 in New Westminster and 66 vehicles on Nov. 18 in Burnaby.

In 2006, Kim pleaded guilty to two counts of mischief after he was observed keying vehicles in Port Coquitlam.

Police say Kim was suspected at that time of causing damage to hundreds of vehicles, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.

New Westminster police continue to investigate. Kim remains in jail and his next court date is scheduled for Monday.

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DISCUSSION (22)

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 07:55

Maybe he watched Fight Club and wanted to rage against capitalist culture, but this was all he could manage.

thebigbossyboss > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
12/01/2014 at 07:56

Lol.

pip bip - choose Corrour > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 08:11

just needs a good beating.

when he recovers , give him another good beating.

davedave1111 > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 08:18

Does he work for a paint repair place?

thebigbossyboss > davedave1111
12/01/2014 at 08:36

Maybe. Although apparently he is jailed currently so not for much longer.

GhostZ > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 08:36

thebigbossyboss > GhostZ
12/01/2014 at 08:40

This was great.

OPPOsaurus WRX > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 09:00

37? I was expecting 14. what a douche. key his face.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 09:08

damaging 63 vehicles on Nov. 12 in New Westminster and 66 vehicles on Nov. 18 in Burnaby.

Damn. Guy's been busy.

thebigbossyboss > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
12/01/2014 at 09:16

Yeah, I mean that must have taken two to three hours to do, since (presumably) he was trying not to get caught.

jariten1781 > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 09:16

When I was a kid some dude went around chucking bricks through peoples windows in our relatively small neighborhood. The police didn't do much and didn't have much to go on until the brick throwing guy happened to throw through a window where a little girl was sleeping missing her by a few feet. That finally raised people's hackles and a few weeks later (with way heavy police presence in the neighborhood which was kind of a buzz kill to 14ish year old me) they got the guy.

Local news covered it. Turned out that it started when someone royally pissed him off and it was a revenge thing. Then, when he got away with it his threshold for 'being pissed off enough to throw bricks through windows' kept dropping to the point that he'd stalk around the neighborhood looking for things to piss him off so he'd have an excuse to chuck a brick. At trial it came out that apparently what pissed him off about the girl's house was that he thought the faux shutters they put up clashed with the rest of the paint on the house. His lawyer tried to plea insanity which the judge was having none of. He was even charged with stealing the bricks from a Sam's Club construction site. I don't remember what the sentence was, but the brick throwing permanently ceased.

Some people are just nuts.

thebigbossyboss > jariten1781
12/01/2014 at 09:18

That is nuts. I for one am glad this guy got jail time, I guess because he is a multiple offender. If you got caught keying one car and were otherwise an upstanding citizen, you'd be unlikely to get it. However this guy has a history.

wkiernan > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 11:06

Why on earth would you key hundreds of vehicles?

Kickbacks from the local body shops?

thebigbossyboss > wkiernan
12/01/2014 at 12:02

Possibly I guess.

Tohru > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 12:35

Cut his fuckin' hands off. Let's see you key cars now, bitch.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 12:42

Maybe that many people pissed him off?

I wonder if canada has the death penalty....(clearly I'm just kidding it's evil but you don't kill people for scratching paint...unless it's pearl coat, then you kill that SOB)

thebigbossyboss > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
12/01/2014 at 12:58

We do not. The last execution was carried out in 1962. The final death sentence was handed down in '76. That sentence was then commuted. For a while afterwards death remained the penalty for some military offenses, (treason, desertion etc) although no one was ever sentence. In the mid 90's the penalty was formally abolished for those offenses. After that the max sentence one could receive before the possibility of parole was 25 years. However, recently the government has changed this to make the maximum sentence before parole eligibility to be 75 years.

This law change has been used in one high profile case, and may be used in another case shortly. In the case it was used Travis Baumgartner of Alberta received one of the stiffest sentences handed down in half a century. That was in 2013.

"Travis Baumgartner, the former armoured car guard who shot four of his co-workers, three fatally, in a robbery on the University of Alberta campus in June 2012, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 40 years."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 13:06

yikes.

I grew up in New Jersey where they had the death penalty, sentenced people to the death penalty and then basically used it as a life with no parole scenario. (though this has been changed and they no longer have it, they had it the whole time I lived there).

I now live in Michigan which was the very first state to get rid of the death penalty (assuming my quick googling is correct). I personally don't believe in it as I think it's a bigger punishment to be locked in a cell for the rest of your life.

(tho in the end I hope you know I really was just kidding about all this)

thebigbossyboss > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
12/01/2014 at 13:12

I think the sentencing changes made were appropriate. Pickton, Olson, Baumgartner, they should never be let out. I would have been alright for leaving the death penalty in the military offenses (to be used rarely if ever). Obviously I knew you were joking, but I thought I would impart some knowledge. There is one Canadian sentenced to death in the USA in Montana. I am not sure whether he will be executed or not.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > thebigbossyboss
12/01/2014 at 13:15

He'll probably get sent home, but that's just my guess.

And yes it is fascinating to see how other countries handle things like this.

Also, I'm a firm believer in states rights and if the US Constitution doesn't clearly define the way the whole country should handle it, I don't mind states having different laws. You can pick whatever state you want to live in, I know better then a lot because I've technically lived in 3 of them and chose my place to live.

thebigbossyboss > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
12/01/2014 at 13:23

I am not sure he will be. The government has long declined to bring him home I think, but then the Supreme Court said, if the man faces the death penalty they are obligated to appeal for clemency.

The government hasn't done that yet because Montana has been reviewing it's death penalty.

Edit: I was wrong. The government totally did that because of the supreme court ruling.

If Montana itself decides to abolish the punishment he will die in the Montana jail where he is held I think. Ronald was sentenced in 1983 so if he was going to be transferred, presumably he would have been already.

Kanaric > wkiernan
12/01/2014 at 13:45

There was actually a big court case in the US not long ago about this. People associated with this body shop in New York IIRC would go around and vandalize peoples car. Also had mafia ties apparently.