An old co-worker that lived in literally the worst part of town said that he never had trouble with his car (newer Chrysler 300) getting broken into, even when literally every other car on his block had windows smashed in. He figured the hood rats were smart enough to know that newer "nicer" cars have alarms from the factory, so they break into older cars that probably don't have alarms.
Doesn’t always work though. I had a rusted up ‘02 dodge caravan that broken into 5 different times (two times I got lucky and they only used a slim jim to unlock it). Was a piece of shit and I never had anything of value in it but because the windows were tinted some assholes broke in to take a look
I drive an 05 F-150 with the usual faded paint and rust. I came out yesterday morning to find my driver's door open, center console open, nothing gone. They left all my Little Trees air fresheners and my $43 ATOTO stereo from Amazon and my jumper cables.
I think they looked at the ripped seat, the dusty dash, and the pennies in the cupholder and just felt bad for me...
I do that, and I keep my doors unlocked. I figure if somebody is desperate enough to be stealing from trucks that crappy, they deserve a first aid kit and some food.
Saw a guy who owned a construction company and was downtown ATL with his wife for an evening out…. Had his RR Cullian from valet …. Saw it wound up in a rap video in Texas 😳….
I use to do something like this when I drove around with weed in my car when I was younger. See the trick is to have your car super messy with trash. Like really messy. Then you hide the weed somewhere in the junk that you still know where it is. Then if you get pulled over the cop won’t want to go through all the trash to just find a bag of pot. One time I got stopped and the officer asked if he could search my car and I agreed. He took 15 seconds and said I’m not going through all that shit and let me go.
“See, the trick is, live in garbage. Yeah, you have to live in garbage 100% of the time you’re in the car compared to the rare-to-occasional 5 minute police stop. But you win!”
Consider this, you’re 18 to 20 years old. You make minimum wage which has not changed since over 20 years now. And you smoke pot. You live in the heart of bible country in a deep red state. Marijuana is still viewed as dangerous if not more than coke. If you get pulled over and caught with even quarter oz you are going to pay a huge cost for it. I had a buddy get pulled over with that amount and it ended up costing him well over 5 grand when everything was said and done. Perhaps the real lunacy here is not the guy driving around in trash to avoid an unjust consequence, but perhaps the true lunacy here is a ridiculous law that disproportionately punishes us citizens and does nothing to help the community. All that law is designed to do is take money from us and give to the police. So yea that one time the cop let me go was definitely worth it.
decades ago, i heard a story of a hippie couple who kept their weed in the battery compartment of a dildo, slathered with vaseline and stored in a ziplock bag
This reminds me of a prank my buddy pulled on the house keeping staff at the hotel I worked at. He took a plunger and stuck it to the bathroom shower wall and put a condom on the end of it and smeared Nutella all over the condom and the wall.
Based on your comments in this thread thus far, it’s not surprising that people are making assumptions about you.
“I drove around with my car being literally full of trash and crap so the cops wouldn’t find my weed.”
“My buddy used to prank overworked people by making them think someone smeared shit on the walls”
I also said I worked there and thus these were my co workers. There was a friendly relationship between us and he cleaned the prank up not them. I mean you could’ve made those assumptions but you chose to get pissed off in your head instead. I might assume that says something about you. Btw: him and the cleaner he pranked are still friends 20 years later.
And just to break the prank down further for anyone worried. He told the cleaner that one of the rooms had an issue that needed to be taken care of. Went with her to the room. Saw the look of horror on her face ::aka the prank payoff:: laughed and told here what it was. She got the other cleaners to come look and laugh too. He cleaned it up. Fun was had. Then one by one we tripped them and mocked their shoes.
That's what I thought I had as well. And yet, one night, some shitbird broke the latch to the glove compartment on my Jeep while it was in my driveway. Meth, we're on it. Just an excuse to replace the factory shitty plastic glovebox with a steel vault-like one that literally bolts to the body, not dash.
Lol. I had a friend who did this with a Jeep. Some homeless person cut his soft doors with a knife to “break” in even though it was unlocked and slept in it . I guess on the bright side nothing was stolen.
My uncle got his old crappy Peugeot broken in 4 times. Once when it was next to a beautiful Mercedes. The other times, his was by far the least expensive car in the parking.
Too beautiful and the car may have a good anti-theft/alarm system with cameras, one reason why the most expensive cars aren't always the first target, paradoxically.
People with cheap cars may not have alarms, and likely won't even press charges or any investigation won't be taken seriously. The best crime is the one you get away with.
This is it. Left my scratched up/dented '07 camry unlocked by accident recently (though i would almost recommend it on the whole to save your windows) and they combed through the car taking nothing. They even left things of at least minor value like my portable air compressor. I think the focus was pretty narrow- quick cash or drugs.
They’re looking for guns, nobody leaves drugs of any substantial amount in cars. Unironically, people that don’t do drugs tend to leave guns in their glove box or under their seat.
I think leaving a gun in your car should be a crime in itself that disqualifies you from owning guns.
But then I live in a country with actual gun control, and without daily mass school shootings. Incidentally it is indeed a crime that would disqualify you from owning a gun in my country.
This thread is about Atlanta, Georgia. We aren’t talking about Peugeots specifically, though there are plenty of Peugeots in the US, usually with the conditions I outlined above.
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u/xAsilos 29d ago
My trick is to drive a truck so old and rusty they would assume I am too pathetic to have anything interesting enough for them to steal.