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- From: fitchitt@wam.umd.edu ()
- Subject: Re: improved Anti-theft technology
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.194359.5322@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:43:59 GMT
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- Yea, the club is basically a device to get the thief to try the next car..
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- Problem is on my block about 50% of the cars have 'em, I expect the number
- to go up (that's why I'm moving, but not far enought to really matter)
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- So the detterent effect becomes weaker with every new one sold.
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- I briefly toyed around with the idea of finding out where/if you could buy
- a "boot". It would be a bear to deal with... but with two of 'em, (one in
- front, one in back) only one of those flatbed trucks with a winch could
- grab your car...
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- Of course my car wasn't worth enough to go to this lenght, but I always thought
- it would be a great anti-theft device. After all, its designed to make it
- impossible/very difficult for the OWNER, with a KEY to move it.
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- Arc welders would take car of this protection as well...
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- As for the electronic protection, all those are by definition useless.
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- As you have to provide and "overide" for morons who lose keys, lock 'em in,
- etc... you are providing a easy way to steal the car...
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- Thieves can take anything, you just have to provide a sour enough target
- to get 'em to move on.... This eventually becomes leads to a case where the
- people who can least afford the theft/insurance are most susceptable.
-
- Interesting story on the Infinity Q45. Parking authorities tried to tow one
- of these with parking brake on/in park. They COULD NOT get in for two hours
- (this was in NY where towing guys are pretty adept at getting into cars)
-
- A crowd gatherd to cheer the car on... At some point, they brought in a
- flatbed towtruck with 10,000 lb winch, and DRAGGED it up onto the truck.
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