Flogging to good for some

[felixe]

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]

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]

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.

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

[Lignum]

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]

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...



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...





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

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

[Lignum]

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

[Wild Dingo]

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!!

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.

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]

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]

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

[soundman]

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

[Lignum]

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

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

[Markw]

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]

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]

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]

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.