After some long thought, I am becoming more convinced of just that.

I was going through my console and saw the card that has the pass code for the keypad door locks on it.
A few days ago, I sent my truck, with all the gear in the back, through a car wash.

I think it's worth mentioning to Deputy Luckie, one of Hood County's finest.

Keep in mind also folks, that I live in a rather rural, established area that has virtually NO crime.
The deputy said mine was the firs case he's worked in this area in the 8 years he's been on the force and he rarely sees reports about crime in this area.
That's no excuse for being rather non-challant about the security of my stuff. But I am falling back on complacency.

Maybe that's why I'm not real upset about the whole situation. I know there were/are steps I could have taken to prevent it from happening.
But we are describing a vehicle that someone opened and took stuff out of the vehicle and stuff didn't belong to them.

I know the feeling. It should be legal everywhere like it is in Texas to shoot someone breaking into your vehicle.

Last summer I bought my son a car to take to college. Insurance was expensive as hell for a 21 year old, so I cut it back to minimum. Last moday he called up and said he went to get in the car to go to class, and it was gone! He filled a police report, and they found it on Wednesday parked in downtown Pheonix. Still had the lock-picking kit and some tools they used to remove the door panels and stereo. Someone had tried to steal the stereo a couple months ago, but couldn't get it out so they just took the head unit. This time the crooks finished the job, but left it sitting in the back seat. Now he can't run the windows down, because the window switches went with the door pannels.

I might look silly, but when I'm at a track for a weekend, I carry my "gear" bag (HANS, Driver Suit, etc.) into the hotel with me every night....too easy for someone to get in an f-body the way the front window has no sill or into my truck in the hotel parking lot.

At the track, I always hope that someone is more into stealing a BMW, Porsche, or Vette over well prepared F-body!

Wonder what you can find out about the recent car wash.

This post has been edited by Teutonic Speedracer: Apr 11 2007, 09:17 PM

I'd go look in their dumpster.

That sucks Mitch. I have a size 60 or 62 driving suit you can use if needed. Losing that notebook is horrible.

Cal, it is only legal to use lethal force to defend property in Texas between dusk and dawn. It is the night-time mischief law. I wouldn't consider it over the green car, but the red one.... Not sure....

List complied, police report finalized and insurance claim sent. Now it's a waiting game ...

I had no idea of the replacement costs of all that stuff. I've been blessed and gotten a lot of it on the cheap or even free. Replacing it is expensive.

Anecdote:
While picking up the police report, the lady at records asked me what nomex DIVING gloves were.
I explained that it was DRIVING gloves, not DIVING gloves.
She retorted Oh ... I was curiuos why you needed fire-proof gloves under water.

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30 minutes later I had a revised police report.

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