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Ford GT stolen in spectacular fashion in California

Sirocco

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Ok, read this and got a good chuckle.

I think this would make a GREAT conversational piece during TG's news segment.

Clarkson....are you listening???????? :)

http://sports.autoblog.com/entry/1234000263072799/

In case it gets lost, here is the text....


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Ford GT stolen in spectacular fashion from California dealer

Gone in Sixty Seconds this isn?t. According to KXTV Sacramento, some ambitiously persistent yet stupendously dimwitted car thieves are at large after stealing a red Ford GT in Manteca, California.

Apparently, the exotic pilferers not only broke into Manteca Ford via boot and crowbar, they rifled through the dealer?s offices until they found the key safe, which they managed to crack open. All of this effort must have made it particularly frustrating when the thieves tried to start the car, only to find it stone dead. Undeterred, the robbers then jumped it via a battery charger (how that didn?t anger the supercar?s infamously finicky alarm, we?ll never know), and pushed a Mustang GT curiously belonging to rapper 50 Cent out of the way to make their exit. And in their zeal to leave with their bestriped booty, the bandits unwittingly learned why drag strips aren?t made of linoleum, damaging the GT?s flanks while laying Z-rated stripes through the showroom?s double doors.

Which took them all the way to the locked parking lot. The Hardest Working Crooks in Manteca remained undeterred, grabbing yet another set of keys, this time to a sacrificial Lincoln Navigator, which they used to ram open the gates.

For all of their persistence (and improvisational flair), the robbers apparently never bothered to learn how to handle a car with 550 horses ? the GT was recovered a few miles away with about $30,000 in damage.
 
Damn, all that determination and then they couldn't even drive it! Idiots.

But then, they deserve to be right royally screwed up the arse in prison...
(Sorry, I have no sympathy whatsoever for car thieves, much less those who wreck the cars and go on joyrides)
 
Stupid shitheads, if I were a judge I got them banned from driving for a dead 10 years.
Stoling is one thing, but vandalizing is much, much worse. :x :bangin: :thumbsdown:
 
Thats what happens when Ford makes it so hard for normal people to do down to the shops and get them a GT.

I bet Clarkson is going to want that security system in his car to be working :lol:
 
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thats just excellent. i mean honnestly i dont understand the fuss here, it's not liek the damaged parts will be hard to find or replace, and none of you are paying for the damage (the dealer's insurance will go up possibly, so they'll make less money awww :p )
 
:lol: What idiots.
 
hahahaha all that trouble and they only get 3 miles away...
 
AutoMX said:
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thats just excellent. i mean honnestly i dont understand the fuss here, it's not liek the damaged parts will be hard to find or replace, and none of you are paying for the damage (the dealer's insurance will go up possibly, so they'll make less money awww :p )
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Yeah it was funny, and they really are a bunch of idiots. All of them. The thieves and the dealership.

I've just got a real thing against theives (car or otherwise), vandals and in fact pretty much most criminals (surprise, surprise). I just get annoyed that theives and vandals don't always seem to get long enough jail sentences... I mean what's now stopping those criminals attempting to get a car that's easier to nick - say something on someone's drive?
Sorry, I'll stop ranting now. This sorta discussion is best left for the political discussion thread, as opposed to here... Basically I was just p!ssed off at the time (about something else) and wrote the previous post then...

(Speaking of which, wouldn't this be better in the General Automotive section or something?)
 
at least they went to a dealer to steal it, he's insured

much prefer they do this than nick one at the side of the street
 
Not the smartest thieves... If they stole the car in "Gone in 60 sec" style, it could have been cool. I bet the last car they stole where a Suzuki Liana :lol:
 
bone said:
at least they went to a dealer to steal it, he's insured
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Agreed. Being how determined they were, im hedging a bet they are meth heads. :?
 
monkeymax said:
I've just got a real thing against theives (car or otherwise), vandals and in fact pretty much most criminals (surprise, surprise). I just get annoyed that theives and vandals don't always seem to get long enough jail sentences... I mean what's now stopping those criminals attempting to get a car that's easier to nick - say something on someone's drive?
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That's what we have insurance, alarms, GPS tracking and police for. Honestly, if you don't have at least an alarm it's your own damned fault. thieves go for the path of least resistance, so if you make your car so easy to steal well that's like inviting them in. Besides car jackings, theft is a nonviolent crime, so would you have thieves incarcerated longer than a violent offender?

Who else thinks it's the dealer's fault for not having decent security? I mean if some obviously not so bright criminals can get in, crack the "key safe"(which was most likely a flimsy lock box) and make off with an exotic car like that, they are doing something wrong. I bet it was just some kids who thought it would be fun and saw an opportunity.
 
zenkidori said:
That's what we have insurance
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Which keeps going up thanks to guys like this...

zenkidori said:
Who else thinks it's the dealer's fault for not having decent security?
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Yeah I agree with you completely. It was soo the dealers fault. He obviously knew he'd have more than one exotic car in his garage/showroom so surely this would've been a logical step? In fact, I'm surprised it wasn't a requirement for the insurance...
 
monkeymax said:
zenkidori said:
That's what we have insurance
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Which keeps going up thanks to guys like this...
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I dunno how it's done in england, but over here your insurance is based on a number of factors including location, value, degree of risk etc. If you have a security system your insurance goes down, if you are in a nice part of town your insurance goes down, etc. For your premium to be affected the overall crime rate in the area would need to go up significantly, one crime doesn't do anything(even a rather large one). Of course thier premium will go up, but that's because they don't protect thier investment.

/me used to work for an insurance company.
 
MXM said:
Totally offtopic:
Sirocco, are you sure you didn't misspell your nick? :)
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:lmao:

i hope he did it intentionally, or just misspelled.
 
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