My personal preference is for the Death Wish 3 That's my car scene.
3 cars stolen, small condo, one night
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If you have manual trans they probably won't bother.
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It’s great to be an armchair vigilante, but good luck telling that one to the DA anywhere, regardless of how “free” you think you are.
It's called humor. I know the rules.
That thought is overused. All of my nieces and nephews are between 19-27 and can drive a manual. You wouldn’t assume they could if you saw them.
I had the impression that in order to receive tracking device near you on my Samsung A53 5G that I had to install an app for that. I looked on Play Store and the ones I tried all required a fee, so I don't have any of those apps.
Subie, you imply that all phones come pre-loaded with this app. If so, why would Play Store sell it?
While there are apps to detect tracking devices, I think they have to be loaded by the phone owner on Samsung phones, and maybe also Apple phones, but I'm not sure about this.
Its default on Apple. If an unregistered AirTag stays in proximity iPhone will alert you that your being followed. I don’t think it can register other tags but surely there are apps that do and presumably sophisticated thief’s would have them.
I’ll have to try it on my wife’s phone
she has Android, rest of family has iPhones. Apple tags are cheap enough it may be a fun test. If I get a call “what the heck is this??” I guess I’ll find out the hard way lol!
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Yeah that happened to me. The part where my phone alerted me that a monkey was traveling with me, and in my trunk.
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They are saying 911s with manuals
Are very desirable, so agree
Under Tex. Pen. Code § 9.42, the use of deadly force may be justified to prevent imminent arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime, where the land or property cannot otherwise be protected or recovered.
A lot will hang on that word “may” and on what measures you took to leave the property in a position where “it cannot otherwise be protected.”
A "lot" will also depend on what state you are in. Texas, shoot them first, if they still move, shoot em again. And there are a few similar states. Then there are the states where if you show a gun and even don't pull it out, you are in deep trouble. It certainly is not a one size fit all category of law.
Since he was quoting Texas code, my reply was solely about Texas.
But even in Texas use of lethal force is going to have to be justified and while the code might allow that, a DA might not.
I suspect that law was written to address horse thieves - in which the theft of a horse years ago - was tantamount to killing a man by taking his livelihood and transportation all at once.
To kill someone over a car, that is insured, in an apartment lot, in modern times, is a very different matter, with much less impact than the loss of a horse had back when the law was written.
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The Club has always been completely worthless against a thief with a hacksaw.
The only good anti-theft device is a starter lockout circuit.
If they can't crank the engine over, they aren't going to try to repair the issue in your driveway, they will just leave.
Though if they really want your car, they will comeback either with a tow tuck, or will carjack you right after you start it.
There is not enough deterrence. If thieves were more afraid of [likely] repercussions like jail, fines, loss of income, shame, beat-downs, future opportunities and possibly being maimed or killed there would be less theft.
How we get there? I don't know. All this modern tech, cameras everywhere it should not be this hard to catch the MFrs. I'm a big fan of legitimate community service... guy doesn't loose his job and turn into a burden on society and we get all our labor costs for trash, highway and waterway cleaning, fire watch, shoulders and medians mowed and trimmed, sorting recycling etc. How about force them to help the night asphalt crews all summer?
How we get there? I don't know. All this modern tech, cameras everywhere it should not be this hard to catch the MFrs. I'm a big fan of legitimate community service... guy doesn't loose his job and turn into a burden on society and we get all our labor costs for trash, highway and waterway cleaning, fire watch, shoulders and medians mowed and trimmed, sorting recycling etc. How about force them to help the night asphalt crews all summer?
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Heard today that the cartel/gang members who have flooded into the country the last few years are really getting it going with big time sophisticated car thefts. Stealing several cars at a time in one place and some how shutting down the security cameras at the locations and times of the robberies. We are just going to see it ramp up more and more. Glad we have ours in the garage each night.
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This is just getting worse with authorities , all across the country are in a constant fight over what to do with them once arrested. After our brave , dedicated LEOs put it all on the line to catch many of these dangerous people , the powers that be are in a serious fight as some want to just let them all go (no matter the crimes) and others want to follow the rules of law and give them what they really deserve. Even worse is the fact , I am sure there is not enough place to lock up all these criminals our society has in many ways created. We are teaching them they do not have to worry about punishment or paying for what they have done when caught no matter what the crime.
