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Got to work today and started my day with warming up my van. I started it at 6:50am. Went back into the shop for 2 min then back out to the van to grab a few bills then back into the shop. I go out at 7:00am and poof the van is gone. Our carpenter showes up and said it was gone when he drove by at 6:55am. In three min sombody ripped off my van!luckly I had not loaded up with to much, just my stilts and a few trowles.Haven't heard anything yet from the RCMP, not that I am holding my breath. Mondays suck!
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See, if you hadn't of warmed it up for them...
Sorry for the bad manners of whomever is driving your van, may the wrath of the Van Gods reign down on them!
-------------------- Michael A Latham Tee's Me Shirt & Sign 16462 Jefferson Davis Highway Colonial Heights Va. 804-835-3299 signdogopie@aol.com Posts: 379 | From: Colonial Heights, Virginia | Registered: Feb 2004
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Gary..Sorry for your situation. Hope you get the van back in one piece.
For future reference, I can't reccomend a remote vehicle starter highly enough. Living where you do I can understand wanting to "warm it up".
With a properly installed remote unit nobody can steal the vehicle because there is no key in the ignition and the steering wheel can't be turned. Also if you touch the brake pedal, which is normal in newer vehicles in order to put them in gear, the engine quits.
I am sure there are other safeguards but a remote starter is a lot safer than leaving a vehicle running with the keys in it.
Shirley has had themn installed in her last two vehicles and she loves them winter (for preheating) and summer (for precooling with the airconditioner)
[ February 28, 2005, 04:55 PM: Message edited by: Dave Grundy ]
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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keep us updated on the status of the hoodlems that appropriated your trusty van. If I see it here Ill make sure to introduce them to vinyl handcuffs
-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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Bastards! I'll keep you in my thoughts. Love....Jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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Barrhead, huh? That's what those snivelling, theiving buggers need... a bar to the head.
Hope you get your van back. I feel for you.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
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"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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sgt prescott and his dog KING..... still work for the RCMP?
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-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I'd write if off and start planning a new one, hopefully the buggers muck up and you find out who they are and maybe have a say in their punishment. When one steals ones means of making a living, they cross into "no quarter given territory", as their actions declare none on their part. None given, none extended, no-tolerance zone....i agree w/dave; those remote starters are the way to go. heheh Peach...
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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i was close....prescott/preston...got the dogs name right...how many years ago was that show???? i was in grade school i think.
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Joe, Think he was on the night before Sky King, and the Thin Man. Or was it Boston Blackie. No must have been The FBI in Peace and War. Sorry, just after Fibber McGee and Mollie. Ellory Queen, Tracer of Lost Persons? I got it! I got it! Came on after the show with the jingle, "It pays to be ignorant, to be dumb, to be dense, to be ignorant."
Now if I could just remember where the bathroom is, cause I gotta P**.
-------------------- William "Irish" Holohan Resting...Read "Between Jobs." Marlboro, MA 01752 email: firemap1@aol.com Posts: 1110 | From: Marlboro, MA | Registered: Dec 2001
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Yeh Gary . . .it's even MORE aggrevating than all that. . .
I was all jazzed up to SEE some awesome paint job on a HOT van . . .
Hope you have some good news about your van today.
PS! Wait . . .your van got stolen in CANADA?? I thought y'all were like the nicest-most politest peoples on earth . . .did'nt the alleged 'theif' leave a note??
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6714 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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My big ol'Cadillac DeVille was stolen from right in front of my house one night a few years back. Unbeknownst to the thief, the caddy had no water pump, as I had just pulled the bad pump out, parked it, and was going to put a new one in the next day. I think they got about two miles before they siezed the motor. Got it back the next day, donated it to charity for a big write off. All's well that ends well!
BTW, Caddys are AWESOME cars, they have crap resale value, so you can get great deals on really nice used ones. My wife won't let me get another one as she thinks they are vulgar. I always wondered what customers thought when I pulled up in the Caddy to do their window splash!
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jerry my buddy up in pa has an STS.....s.o.b. is fast!!!!handles like a benz, and still gives a good comfortable ride. the new ones aint your daddy's caddy!!!
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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plenty people steal a marked van b/c they part it out in under an hour on avg....and theres about a 99.9% chance the insurance will not pay off on a theft if the keys are in the ignition when its stolen
-------------------- Gavin Chachere Plotter in the garage,New Orleans La.
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In California it's illegal for us to "warm up" our cars and trucks if we are not IN the vehicle.
(Ohph, well- it may still be in the process of becoming a law, but they act like it's a law already, here)
The cool running Chevy 350 side of the Moon
-------------------- The Moon aka: Stefenie Harris Moonlight Designs Pollock Pines, CA learnin' somethin' new every day! stefenie@comcast.net Posts: 550 | From: Pollock Pines, CA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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The RCMP found my van with the theif in it. They said that he was a pro. The plan is to steal a vehicle in one town drop it in another to be picked up by a second party. The van was spoted in Whitecourt, a town about an hours drive, By RCMP at around 10am. They noticed that the decals on the van where covered up with a white film, mac tac, so they followed and run the plate. The chase lasted about an hour on the open highway with speeds of 160km/hour. The van then turned down a dead end were the theif tried to go into a feild where he got the van stuck in a snow bank. Fearfuly the theif was shifting the van in different gears trying to free the van when the RCMP broke the side window and whiped his shifting arm, breaking it in three places, with a baton. I now have my van back and it goes into the shop next for repairs. Insurance said that they will pay for the damage. RCMP here are looking for the vehicle that he droped off in Barrhead.
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Dang glad to hear the good news about the recovery of your van. The bar to the arm will have to suffice...
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
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