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- From: mike%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Mike Suter)
- Subject: Re: improved Anti-theft technology
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.201045.15387%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu>
- Organization: BITS, St. Louis, MO
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:10:45 GMT
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- >As for the electronic protection, all those are by definition useless.
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- Well, I don't know if I would say ALL are useless (especially those
- with ignition kill).
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- >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)
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- >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.
-
- I read that story also, but I thought it was a Lexus?
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- Wish I would have been in the crowd--would have been fun :)
-
- Mike
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