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Coldamus

22nd July 2006, 12:28 PM

Not the Kingswood!

Seriously, I have to agree with your title. Even if the toe-rags get caught they will only get a slap on the wrist while you get five years hard labour saving the money for a replacement and doing all the work again.

It is not typical to just burn a vehicle in situ. Normally that is done to remove fingerprint evidence after having taken the car for a joy ride and/or stripped it for parts. Perhaps they stripped some parts on site?? Otherwise, craigb may be on the money.

Still, who can guess at the logic behind twisted minds.

I get angry whenever I see private and public property damaged by vandalism, grafitti etc. and even more so by the bleating about it being the artistic expression of poor, misunderstood little darlings who came from broken homes or had a difficult childhood.

Who didn't have a difficult childhood? I find it hard to believe that vandals will ever be anything but a blight to society and have no sympathy for them when they get their just desserts.

I remember one case quite a while back where a car thief was shot by police after he attempted to run them over in a stolen car. His mother complained "I know he did drugs and I know he stole cars and I know he used to beat up old ladies and steal their handbags but he was such a goooood little boy." A medal for the policeman, please!

my condolences,
Coldamus

Wood Butcher

22nd July 2006, 12:34 PM

Lignum,
Sorry Mate, what a mongrel thing to do!:(

Gra

22nd July 2006, 01:36 PM

Comiserations Lignum, Having had my car vandalised recently I can relate. I have been considering setting up a webcam in my letterbox to catch the little !@#$%'s

echnidna

22nd July 2006, 01:41 PM

You can pick up wireless cameras that hook up to a pc, on ebay sometimes, not real exxy either.

NewLou

22nd July 2006, 01:57 PM

What can ya say Lig:(:eek::(

Set up an 8 foot Fence electrify it cameras on all perimeters trip wires that send the foolhardy into a puddle of acid loud speakers chiming noise at decibles adults cant hear......................Oh yeah and a 22cal with some RAt Shot

Be careful though

The theives can sue you. If you touch them you'll get charged with assault n not to mention if you loose any court battles you'll foot the BILL

Gggggezzzzzzzzz what the world coming too!!!!!

You need a Shed for the Wheels Lig

Commisserations Lou

echnidna

22nd July 2006, 02:10 PM

The theives can sue you. If you touch them you'll get charged with assault n not to mention if you loose any court battles you'll foot the BILL

Lou

So beat them up properly, the other lads might stay clear then coz they know they'll get a mother of a hiding.

Rocker

22nd July 2006, 02:36 PM

Sorry, Lignum. It must be very disheartening to see this happen to your property. Sounds as though you are wise in taking your Domino indoors at night.

Rocker

martrix

22nd July 2006, 03:15 PM

Massive bummer Lig! I hope you reported it straight away to the cops.

Don't know if there is any connection, but the North Melbourne footy club rooms were burnt down last night as well.:mad:

scooter

22nd July 2006, 06:12 PM

Sorry to hear, Lig, what a pr1ck. :(

Regards............Sean

ozwinner

22nd July 2006, 06:28 PM

.!!seloh esra ginkcuf tahW :mad: :mad:

Sorry to hear about your loss.

Al :mad:

himzol

22nd July 2006, 06:46 PM

.!!seloh esra ginkcuf tahW

my thoughts exacly !!

sorry for your loss.

H.

HJ0

22nd July 2006, 06:54 PM

Lignum: Sorry to see and hear about it.:eek: :mad:

The things that happen to Domino owners are amazing.

This make nice front page story.

Arsonist found with Domino wounds to 100% of his body, but the bad news is they are taking a breath every 5 minutes.

HJ0 Cheers;)

Groggy

22nd July 2006, 07:00 PM

What IS the point of doing that? I can never understand it - vendetta yes - but just because you can? Bit of chlorine needed in the gene pool there.

Lignum

22nd July 2006, 07:22 PM

Well what can i say. This time yesterday i had a decent old car, right now its a shell in a scrap yard in Braeside. S*#t happens. At least no one was hurt. Must say i was impressed with the speed of the response of the Firies and Cops, rang 000 and they were their within minutes.

Seems they were just (punks) out to cause trouble as their was empty smashed stubbies all over the street and they even put all old paletts around a tree and set fire to them as well. My car had the club-lock on so they couldnt pinch it, so after putting a big brick through the window they rolled it out on to the street and set fire to it.

Lucky for me as its always parked hard up againsed the roller door, so im just relieved they didnt set it on fire there. Because ive been crook for the last few weeks and full of anti biotics and crap i was out like a light and only heard the last two explosions, spewin cause normaly i would have heard the first brick through the window.

Still got me beat how or why people get a kick out of destroying other peoples property. And Midge i know that its not what they mean when they talk about hotting up your Commodore, but it is another way to do a good burn out:rolleyes:

Auld Bassoon

22nd July 2006, 07:29 PM

Oh what a buggah! I'm really sorry to hear about your loss Lignum.

Hopefully the insurance will help a bit...

Total s*d, plus all the time it'll take to organise another set of wheels.

johnc

22nd July 2006, 07:37 PM

Lignum,

Sorry about the loss of the car, like you said at least the little scum pushed it away from the house. Can't see what they get out of it you can only hope they burnt themselves in the process, but I guess even that lesson would be lost on them.

John

Clinton1

22nd July 2006, 07:45 PM

Too bad, mate.

ss_11000

22nd July 2006, 07:45 PM

.!!seloh esra ginkcuf tahW :mad: :mad:

Sorry to hear about your loss.

Al :mad:

exactly what i was thinking....

i hope they find the people responsible:(

MajorPanic

22nd July 2006, 08:25 PM

Lignum, mate ,

I sorry to here of your loss! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Do you know anyone in the mid to late teen age group? See if they can ask around & find out who is responsible. I'll leave retribution up to you....... just wear a ski mask!! ;)

Here's a hint........ it's hard to steak/break into cars when you can't walk. The legal system is stuffed!

Gumby

22nd July 2006, 08:37 PM

Doesn't this sort of thing give you the $hit$ ! Sorry to hear about it Liggy, it's just indicitive of what some people think is fun these days. No respect and even less inteligence. arsewipes. :mad:

Exador

22nd July 2006, 10:07 PM

If you need a big stick to flog 'em with, let me know - what a bunch of tools (not the good kind, either):mad:.

journeyman Mick

22nd July 2006, 11:10 PM

Bugger!:(

Mick

Lignum

22nd July 2006, 11:34 PM

Two fire extinguishers and a little lump of wood are sitting close by so i can sleep at ease tonight. Pyros are a sick mob who love to see things flame. Id hate to think that they would have a return bout for some kicks:confused:

journeyman Mick

22nd July 2006, 11:43 PM

Lignum,
sorry to read about your car. I hope the little bastards come back and you catch them (around the ears with your lump of timber;) ). We've got a firebug in our area who's been setting fire to bushland for a few years now, thankfully no-one has been hurt or lost houses etc (yet). We know who it is, and so do the police, but unless we catch him in the act there's nothing that can be done. I keep hoping I'll be the one to catch him in the act:mad: . What's the worst that can happen? I've got an absolutely clean slate, I reckon I'd just get a good behaviour bond.;)

Mick

Lignum

22nd July 2006, 11:59 PM

Mick, out of all the sickos i hate, the fire bugs top my list. Unlike a lot of crime, they plan and set out to destroy just to get their jollies. Not to many years ago a volunteer for the Castlemain CFA was lighting fires and then going with his "crew" to put them out. So calculating they are they need the full force of the law on them. And from what i gather its not uncommon.

My Years in Perth were an eye opener for the crazy amount of pyros running amok. People die and they couldnt care less.

I think they need their little fingers one by one, one finger a week for ten weeks put over a small flame and cooked to feel the pain that they cause others in the community. But the do gooders would have as believe otherwise:(

JDarvall

23rd July 2006, 12:09 AM

Sorry mate. You must be seething....

. And from what i gather its not uncommon.

No its not. I'm in the local RFS. And during the fire session we go out to plenty of fires that are obviously just match dropped.... Of course most of the blokes could never be that way inclined, but, the job does attract those sort of people.....and its a hard crime enforce, so its hard to screen people for as well, unfortunetly.

A lot fires are lit from kids, and junkys....One grass fire I went out to,,,when we got there, I followed it back to the source, and there was a little garden gnome sitting on the ground with a joint in its little plaster hand,,,,,with the grass burn't going away from his feet......a practical joke. Truthfully quite funny, but ...deary me. The captain wasn't too happy.

soundman

23rd July 2006, 12:17 AM

what a sad waste.:(

I hope no tools were in the car at the time:eek:

Its only when you see a car burned out that you realise how little metal is in cars these days.

One thing that has always concerned me is how well cars burn, I can see why the motor sport boys go to great lenghts to get rid of as much flamable stuff off the car as they can.

hope you have some replacement wheels soon.

cheers

craigb

23rd July 2006, 12:28 AM

Lignum, I think you need to move to a middle clas neighbourhood.

These sorts of things don't tend to happen to one there.

Trust me, I'm speaking from experience.

(Like I've said before, I'm sorry about your loss)

Lignum

23rd July 2006, 12:31 AM

Its only when you see a car burned out that you realise how little metal is in cars these days.

One thing that has always concerned me is how well cars burn, I can see why the motor sport boys go to great lenghts to get rid of as much flamable stuff off the car as they can.

Well i was stunned at the severity and what little remained. Mine was a 82 Commodore so their was more metal:rolleyes: but even then it was just a shell and that was it. All the glass had just melted into the body. Metal, plastic and rubber is now part of the bitumen. The only thing that was recoverable was about $15 in change:D Ill clean it up and get a Lotto ticket with it;)

Lignum, I think you need to move to a middle clas neighbourhood.

These sorts of things don't tend to happen to one there.

Trust me, I'm speaking from experience.

(Like I've said before, I'm sorry about your loss)

Sad thing is i am:o Mordialloc is a nice beachside suberb and their is hardly any trouble here. I was just the unlucky one.

soundman

23rd July 2006, 12:35 AM

One of my mates has an interesting view of justice.

he recons that young lout that is proven to display vandalistic / arsonistic tendencies should have special delayed justice.

so young 15 year old burns your car down.... gets caught....normal ordinary jjustuce system operates.... then when he has owned his first decent car for a few short months... a man from the government comes one saturday afternoon and burns his car down in his own driveway...... while you watch.

in the short term perhaps they should be sentenced to wearing an ipod full of val dunican 24/7 till they see some sence or their brain explodes which ever comes later.

cheers

Lignum

23rd July 2006, 12:48 AM

what a sad waste.:(

I hope no tools were in the car at the time:eek:

Can you pick it:(

Lignum

23rd July 2006, 12:50 AM

in the short term perhaps they should be sentenced to wearing an ipod full of val dunican 24/7 till they see some sence or their brain explodes which ever comes later.

cheers

My old man would be a master crim and get away with it:eek:

Harry72

23rd July 2006, 01:19 AM

Thats just sad, I like soundys mate's Idea!

Is that your only car?

Lignum

23rd July 2006, 01:36 AM

Is that your only car?

:o yep:o Its probably a message from the woodworking Gods telling me... You must get a Ute, you must get a ute, u must get a u.....

DJ’s Timber

23rd July 2006, 02:15 AM

Sorry to see your car and router burnt out mate:(

Cheers DJ

Eddie Jones

23rd July 2006, 12:00 PM

Whatever became of the quaint old practice of chaining these little barstools in stocks in the town sqare then pelting them with tomatoes etc? Bring it back and stuff the bleeding hearts!

That of course would be after the poor victim had 10 minutes alone with the t*rd.

Wood Borer

23rd July 2006, 01:12 PM

I too am sorry to hear about this senseless act - like the others, I would like an opportunity to explain to these idiots in a non violent way the error of their ways.

I might have to belt then around the ears with a piece of redgum 4X2 to get their attention firstly though so they hear the message clearly.

Is that the remains of a router?

Carpenter

23rd July 2006, 05:27 PM

Sorry to hear Lig. Hey, it could have been a lot worse, imagine if you'd left the Domi in the car after taking her out to see a movie or something!

Auld Bassoon

23rd July 2006, 05:33 PM

Sorry to hear Lig. Hey, it could have been a lot worse, imagine if you'd left the Domi in the car after taking her out to see a movie or something!

My thoughts exactly - it would have been too awful if Lig's new SWMBO (:D) was in the ex Commodore. The loss of a Triton (?) isn't good, but it's a heck of a lot less of a loss than a Dom...

Lignum

23rd July 2006, 05:42 PM

Sorry to hear Lig. Hey, it could have been a lot worse, imagine if you'd left the Domi in the car after taking her out to see a movie or something!

I was away for a few days at the start of the week and Domi was in the boot as i never leave her home alone. The night i got back she stayed in the boot:eek: Never again:o

But it could have been tragic. I stuffed up the bin pick up day and had it pushed up againsed the window waiting for it to be collected. It was their for a week and i got sick of it and arainged an extra pick up on Friday. And it was full of all the goodies we throw out. Dry timber, oily rags, old thinners tins, newspapers etc. If the little pyropricks had tourched that, it would have been a matter of minutes that where i sleep was up as well. Having no car sucks, but as i said, thank god no one was hurt:)

Lignum

23rd July 2006, 05:44 PM

Lig's new SWMBO (:D)

Very funny;) :p :p

The loss of a Triton (?) isn't good, but it's a heck of a lot less of a loss than a Dom...

Yes, you guesed the orange color:(

felixe

23rd July 2006, 05:46 PM

Sorry to see what happened to your car Lignum, little b##$rds, maybe just a quick touch up with an old dry piece of hardwood would set them on the right path!

Iain

23rd July 2006, 05:53 PM

Bugger the hardwood, keelhaul them through half an acre of blackberries, should have a twofold benefit...........(3 if it includes making you feel good)

Clinton1

23rd July 2006, 06:01 PM

Is this where you start thinking about a motion sensor activated light? I don't think that there is anything you can really do to stop them.... except make yourself seem to be a hard target. This will probably just push them down the road to some other poor b#stard. :( :o

It sucks, and I hope that the insurance pays out enough to get a decent LPG ute.

Lignum

23rd July 2006, 06:10 PM

Clint, the trouble is the area has big spotties from the other factories and is very well lit. They got two fires going which showed they were in no hurry.

Wild Dingo

9th August 2006, 02:45 AM

yep you have my sympathies mate

This was our family car nicknamed the "Venga Bus"... a Ford Spectron import... beaut car actually tuff as buggary and next to new when we bought it...

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4ce06b3127cce9b837b5ebb0f00000016108AZMnLNy2ctL

After I bought the missus her little jap zap machine I took it to Kal when I first headed up there with my son to seek work on the mines loaded with tools gear cameras and as much as I could fit (intention was initially to get a job and move the mob up there) me and the son parked ourselves in a caravan park and my two eldest daughters and their partners lived in town... went to the eldest daughters place for a phissup one night got well and truely sozzled and ended up leaving the car there... theres these great wide verges up there so Id parked it hard up against the chainlink fence Danny (daughters boyfriend) had chained the front wheel to the fence and taken me home to sleep it off

Got a call from him at 4am "eerr dad? I'll pick you up in a few okay got some bad news"... so he comes around and takes me out to the remains about 1/2 a mile out of town... the fence and chain was cut with a pair of bolt cutters I had in the tool box in the back and theyd gone zooom zooom zooom BOOM!... apparently a train driver spotted the flames from several miles away

What we found when we got there...

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4ce06b3127cce9b837b52bb0300000016108AZMnLNy2ctL

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4ce06b3127cce9b837b56bb0700000016108AZMnLNy2ctL

Nothing left to trace the bastards legally... and no idea who would do this sorta thing to a bloody small bus! usually they would go for something like... well... like a commiadorio!! (sorry Lig but they do seem a popular choice for joyriders over here)

Anyway we were totally stranded in a town we barely knew with no job no car and buggar all possessions! just a few clothes we had taken out and into the caravan... stuffed us royally the bloody sh*ts :mad:

In the end the insurance company was no problem we had a cheque for the full insured amount within 5 weeks... trash and burn cars is a pretty common occurance in Kal :rolleyes:

BUT!! good thing was I got the F100 UTE!!! :D

Lignum

9th August 2006, 10:07 AM

Geeze Shane that must have made you mad. To be all stranded like that would make it so much worse. No idea what posesses them to torch it. Fair enough if they want to knock it of for a joy ride but why burn it. Worst part is when it goes up just like your pic nothing escapes the flames. Shame they didnt catch them. :( At least you got your ute:D

Wild Dingo

9th August 2006, 01:14 PM

Initially I was absolutely staggered... looking at it I couldnt work out why anyone would steal let alone burn whats obviously not a fast car thats more a family to the shops and back car for someone with kids just couldnt get that out of my head... then I started getting phissed off that the mindless cretins had done it... got even madder finding nothing in there! the tools were just a huge pile of molten metal the police reckoned they had literally soaked the car inside and out with fuel and the fuel mixed with the full tank of diesel it had inside it made it a hell of a torch... the road surface was black scorched and there were several small puddles of colored metal on the ground around its sides.

I settled while we sorted the paperwork with the police and insurance company then lost it when I realized that it was over a bloody klm to the ruddy caravan park on shanks's pony!! on me pat malone cause the kids had all gone off to work by this time...

So I spent the day in the pub drownin my sorrows and along with a couple of bods Id met tryin to work out the best way of planin the perps demise without bein caught doing it... mind you we were phissed there was no way in hell we were going to find these toads but by the gods of Carlton mid and TED we were gonna do it!! :D

One of the blokes ended up finding me a bit of short term work on one mine and the other lent me a bashed up ol... ahem... eerr... commiadorio!!... which got nicked while I was in town about a week later by a young fella that did get caught by the bloke who owned its brother who just happened to know that it was I who was meant to be driving his brothers car not some baseball capped pants around knee 15 year old... and ahem the car came back... after a short detour for what he called some "sightseeing" outside of town... were sorta hopeful that this kid was one of the buggars that did my car cause it was a just finding its hoped the little snotbucket wont be able to drive for some time.

Angry? sure was still am actually Id love to have just a short period of time with them showing them the "sights" as the bloke in Kal did it would give some satisfaction but it wont happen the sh*ts got away with it... but it was a great little bus not the most powerfull thing but comfy (if your a shortass Im 5'6 and my head scraped the roof anyone taller would have to shove their heads out the sunroof :eek: ) and the family loved it cost us a fair bit in mechanics since they tended to see me coming and jack the price accordingly... but it was a good wee car. :o :(

Shouldnt take away from your loss of the commadorio mate... doesnt matter whos car gets torched or where its still mindless stupidity and hurts no matter even if insured in suburbia or out in the scrub still a bloody mongrel thing to have happen... I share your pain Lig ol son :(

TassieKiwi

9th August 2006, 02:16 PM

Sorry 'bout that Lig. Senseless damage has always been a pet hate - I'm sorry that you copped it. Not much metal in that router either!

Hopefully the gods will smile on you in another way, and drop a #### on them.

Den

soundman

9th August 2006, 02:48 PM

hopefully " my name is Earl" will get thru to some of these (insert word oif choice).
What goes arround cones arround.... thats carma.

soundman

9th August 2006, 02:54 PM

I realise it comes arround....... but hell a cone is pointy on top... or is my humour just too twisted:D

Lignum

9th August 2006, 03:23 PM

hopefully " my name is Earl" will get thru to some of these (*%#$^&* pricks).
What goes arround cones arround.... thats carma.

Well i hope that happens as i have lots and lots of sanding, sweeping, cleaning and alsorts to keep them busy for a few weeks:D

And Den if you keep your chin up and stay possitive good things do happen. Tuesday was one of those days. Thumbs up to you know who for that day:D :D :D

Markw

14th August 2006, 08:39 AM

Saw this post this morning and guess what woke me up at 3:30am this morning.

Yep some poor ba*tard's commodore in the park across the road, fully ablaze. The tyres exploding woke the dog who woke me.

Whilst I'll happily put a bullet in the shyte that did this, when are the manufacturers going to start providing descent imobilisers to prevent theft.

The one that was torched this morning was a current model and lets face it, it was stolen first. My 96 model falcon cannot be started without the key or by using a modified engine management CPU box. This means that any theft would normally be done by a professional and not some are*ehole joyriders (lot more of them around).

Why don't manufacturers fit descent imobiliser - cause you go out and buy another car when this one is totalled.:mad: :mad: :mad:

Bluegum

14th August 2006, 01:38 PM

Same here Lig. Sorry to hear about your commodore. Seems to be the trend with the world these days. Destroy what you've worked so hard for because the world owes them. All because they're board and can't get jobs seems to be the current excuse the knuckleheads seem to come out with.

ernknot

14th August 2006, 06:33 PM

Sorry about your losses. I am surpirsed to learn that just in this thread there are two peole who lost their car and one witness to a car torching. That's scary. Society is failing here. Too many do gooders and whimpy courts. Probaly parents are to blame as well. Are we electing / appointing the wrong people to positions of power in the government departments which are supposed to ensure proper education and respect ? Is community a thing of the past? Is government allowing the community to go feral just so they can implement more of their stupid social engineering agenda which keeps them all in a job? A foot up the ring worked in my day.

sbranden

14th August 2006, 08:45 PM

We get 2 - 3 burnt out stolen cars a week dumped in the National Parks I deal with. I am really sorry that this happened to you Lignum. Seems to be a growing trend though. Here is a nice little MR2 for you.

http://pcuse.com/shaun/pics/car_fire_ubeaut.jpeg

Lignum

14th August 2006, 09:22 PM

The Fedral and State Govt should have the balls to make it an automatic prison term for lighting fires. Fair enough mine was a pain and inconveniance, but what if my place had of burnt down, or a car in the Nat Park set it ablaze. To many lives, homes and stock every year are lost to f...wit pyros. They need to be taught a lesson

Bluegum

15th August 2006, 12:55 PM

Got in one Lignum, I think community service orders are a joke as people don't take them seriously at all. I have a person living in our street who has been in fron't of the beak 4 times in the last 18 months on charges ranging from Assault to GBH with intent. Yet he is still in the street threatening people and laughing at the police when they turn up.:mad:

NewLou

19th September 2006, 07:30 PM

:mad::mad::mad:

Well after seeing poor old Lig get burned I walked out this morning with my little girl to find No Car!!!:eek::eek::eek:

I checked out the back in the Shed....................No Car:eek::eek::eek:

Once again I checked out the front....................No Car:eek::eek::eek:

A sinking feeling followd that only those who have been there will no. SOme (^@$%(@^#_^^^@r_&^_@&^ HAD STOLEN MY VL Belina StationWagon.

Rang the Wallapers who informed me that they had found my beloved VL 15km up the road. BURNT OUT!!!

A bin lardin missle Could't of done a better job it was simply unrecognisable. Burn to a crisp and well and truely dead n buried.

To top it off the (^%#_$(%^_#@$^%+@! who pinched it did their handy work on a local reserve.

Dispite the fused rubber and nothing but Rim touching cobbled stone the police politely informed me that It was my responsibility to move the car from the reserve:eek::mad::mad::eek:

I figure life really isnt that fair sometimes............................and is an end of an era for my old VL ..........................the first car I had ever owned!!!

Regards Lou:(:(:(

ozwinner

19th September 2006, 07:36 PM

Probably some drunk or drugo getting a cheap ride home.

Al

Lignum

19th September 2006, 08:31 PM

Realy sorry to hear that Lou:( Its a bloody horrible feeling isnt it. If only they would have just taken it for a spin and leave it at that, but to burn it.... Makes you feel sick thinking of it:(

NewLou

19th September 2006, 08:34 PM

Well I guess it ain't all gloom n doom I got my old treadly out n ready to run today. I'm carrying 20kg xtra at the moment so here comes the health kick!!!

Whhhhoooooooooooo Hhhhhhhhhooooooooooo

:D:D:D

Probably some drunk or drugo getting a cheap ride home.

Al

The scary part is AL it was probably a couple a 14 year old kids......................Times are a changin

:eek::confused::confused::eek:

Lignum

19th September 2006, 08:36 PM

Well I guess it ain't all gloom n doom I got my old treadly out n ready to run today. I'm carrying 20kg xtra at the moment so here comes the health kick!!!

Whhhhoooooooooooo Hhhhhhhhhooooooooooo

Thats the up side:D I have lost 5kgs since mine was burnt out just from riddin the treadly

NewLou

19th September 2006, 08:41 PM

Any tips for me Lig???

I'm nothin but sheer self neglect at the moment

I just know I'm gonna be in a world a hurt for a few weeks:o:o:o

Yup did make me feel sick when I first saw the old VL just sitting there nothin but black just like a chared piece a toast. I can help but think WHY?

But hey...................kids will play

So now its time to work a few angles on the BAnk MAnager. I was thinking something along the lines of:

Hey you can buy a car for me I'll call it mine but you'll really own it for the next ten years n make a quid outta it ta boot................sounds like the deal of the century huh!!!!

REGards Lou:)

Lignum

19th September 2006, 08:50 PM

I just know I'm gonna be in a world a hurt for a few weeks:o:o:o

Thats the worst part, because having them come and take something of yours from right under your nose and just destroy it for the fun of it realy hurts. It took me two or three weeks to get over the anger factor. To go to bed one night having an oldie but a goldie in your driveway only to wake and not have it anymore realy sux.

Markw

20th September 2006, 08:46 AM

Sorry to hear of your loss Lou but maybe this should be a wake up call for all those members with Commodores.

Since my last post another 2 have been burnt out in the park across the road and yep they were all Commodores too.

Don't bother with car alarms, no one responds to them and they just annoy the shyte out of your neighbours who will eventually wish the car was stolen. Get an immobiliser system or fit a concealed tap to your fuel line. Maybe even a switch on the elctronic fuel pump circuit - need to check with manufacturer or local auto sparky for that one as it may interfere with the engine management CPU. The local grass cutter uses a wheel clamp on his trailer. If all else fails, park your car behind closed gates - I know that wont work for everybody but the majority of people have this option but are mostly too lazy to do it (yes that includes me :) )

There has to a way to stop these bastards from taking our property cause local law enforcement just doesn't seem to be capable of taking any action.