[mitchntx]

I'm working a strange shift, heading for work about 0230.

I go out this morning and notice the radar detector cord is hanging down. Detector is gone. At first, I thought it had fallen down.

Then I notice that 2 of my driving gear bags are gone. Damn ... the HANS, suit, helmet, gloves, nomex underwear, shoes ... everything.

That is all just stuff ... what is irreplaceable is the notebook inside the bag that had 3 years of track notes.

This new truck is cursed, I tell you ... I'll have to wait till daylight and the rain to stop to see if the truck itself was damaged.

I guess I'll have to change my habits ... I always have my gear in the truck. Never know when I'll wind up at the track and have an "oppurtunity".

But, depending on what insurance says, my season might have ended before it even began.

[Cal]

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.