On 29 Oct 2006 at 9:45, Paul Dorsey wrote:
> It sounds like you don't use LO-Jack because...
In fact, I did have Lo-jack on our previous minivan. The car was
never stolen so I don't know how effective it would have been.
> But, what bothers me from your scenario is that the police use your
> stolen car for 'bait' to lure the thieves back into the area.
It isn't that they plant the car somewhere to lure the thieves back.
They simnply watch it for a few days after they've found it instead
of impounding it right away.
Mind you, these are possible scenarios expressed to me by various
sources when we were examing the anti-theft options for our present
minivan. I can't swear that any particular police force actually
does or doesn't do this. It may be different for different towns or
different local trends in auto theft. They might retrieve a classic
car right away but watch a popular model that is especially hot in
the used-parts market at that time. (I once had a set of Toyota
hubcaps stolen from a rental car in an Orlando hotel parking lot.
Apparently that was a hot item, people buying used, quite likely
black-market, hubcaps to replace the ones stolen, maybe even buying
back their own hubcaps! They were at least keeping that particular
market active.)
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Jim Muller
jimmuller@rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
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