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CLUBs are worthless.. a good thief would simply saw through the steering wheel and remove it, rendering it useless. Your best bet is to install a passive anti theft system with an alarm (albeit not too sensitive).
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they never caught who stole it...

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Your best bet is to install a passive anti theft system with an alarm (albeit not too sensitive).


let me just tell you that the alarm system would cost more than my car probably...
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How about a giant boxing glove on a spring that is triggered when someone opens the door or starts the engine without a key? Kinda like Data's jacket in The Goonies.
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That would be a good idea, Bossk. Just make sure you use a really strong spring and fill the glove with an anvil or some bricks. If you're gonna do some damage to somebody, you might as well go all out. No pun intended.....this time at least.
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How about a giant boxing glove on a spring that is triggered when someone opens the door or starts the engine without a key? Kinda like Data's jacket in The Goonies.


LOL!!!
very nice indeed..
hrm... maybe i could incorporate slick shoes into that as well...
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I remember seeing on TV these bizarre devices that would avoid your car being stolen: flmae throwers at both sides of the car, a huge blade under the car that would slice the thief's legs, smoke and eletric shocks... But there's really one thing that can stop carjackings all over the world: fighting unemployment and crime.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
I remember seeing on TV these bizarre devices that would avoid your car being stolen: flmae throwers at both sides of the car, a huge blade under the car that would slice the thief's legs, smoke and eletric shocks...


Wasn't that the ad with John Glover in in RocoCop 2? My personal favourite, directed by the Kersh. "Beeehaaave yourselves!!!!" Heh.

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But there's really one thing that can stop carjackings all over the world: fighting unemployment and crime.


Ahh the last of the idealists.

Current power structures have no interest in solving these problems only in disenfranchising them further, after all where is their power? What campaign contributions have the poor and the unemployed made lately?

To achieve true equity the kind only written and dreamed about would involve a massive shift away from exploitative capitalism in the global marketplace and a dissolution of the elite 'haves' in order to solve the problems of the 'have-nots'.

I like to think I'm a fairly Marxist guy and as "Bolshevy" as they come without living on the street but unfortunately I just don't see it happening. Democratic communism works in theory, but the theory doesn't factor in the general crappiness of human nature.

The future is looking pretty dystopic from where I sit, Fritz Lang and George Orwell were spot on. Corporatisation of the Governments will result in the 'have-mores' and the dead.

Just sit back and enjoy the ride down.
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Goering.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Goebbels.

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - Orwell.
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
I remember seeing on TV these bizarre devices that would avoid your car being stolen: flmae throwers at both sides of the car, a huge blade under the car that would slice the thief's legs, smoke and eletric shocks... But there's really one thing that can stop carjackings all over the world: fighting unemployment and crime.


i've heard about that to
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So glad to hear they found your car, Luke. I'm also glad they had the sense of mind to not drive the thing over the Falls.

In other news, I can't believe I fell for Moore's depiction of Canada in BFC. But then, I guess the guy's so deceptive that everybody falls for a little something in his films.
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thx Galahad...

well new update...
insurance wont pay for the damages done to the car due to the fact they'll cost more than the car itself...
i think they are taking into consideration an accident that happened not too long ago.... which is what im trying to fight for...

so if they end up writing it off i'll get $700...
man does life ever go your way?
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I've just called home, as I'm working in another city, and Ive found out that someone has adultered their license plate and now I'm getting those traffic tickets on my name, and I might lose my license unless I can prove it wasn't me, but I think I can because the color description dosen't match and I wasn't driving the car during the times reported, but it's gonna take such a long time to clean up my name and to solve this problem, and... oh FUCK!!

Ok I feel much better now.
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Firing squad needed for both Luke and Ric's perps.
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where's the mangler brothers when you need them!
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man! crooks get my blood boiling. I like to take a baseball bat to 'em Sorry this sh** is happening to you Luke and Ric.
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Well it's like I always say, it could have been worse. I could have been kidnaped, sodomized in a corn field and tortured to death. This could happen. Anytime. But it didn't.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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well, I am certainly glad that didn't happen to you!
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Well it's like I always say, it could have been worse. I could have been kidnaped, sodomized in a corn field and tortured to death. This could happen. Anytime. But it didn't.


Sounds like Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones."
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Well it's like I always say, it could have been worse. I could have been kidnaped, sodomized in a corn field and tortured to death. This could happen. Anytime. But it didn't.


Sounds like Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones."


Who and what?
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It's a book that came out a couple years ago about a little girl who's kidnapped, taken into a corn field, and then raped, tortured, and killed. The rest of the book is told from her point of view in heaven as she watches everyone below cope with her death and the police's inability to find her killer.
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Sounds good, I might check it out.
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Well it's like I always say, it could have been worse. I could have been kidnaped, sodomized in a corn field and tortured to death. This could happen. Anytime. But it didn't.


your definatly right about that...
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Sounds good, I might check it out.


It's a damn good read.
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sounds like it might make a good movie too.