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Jeff240sx

10-13-2005, 03:39 PM

Happened mid-day. Left at 1pm, got home at 3:30 from class, and someone shot my window with a bb-gun. The tint is the only thing that held the glass together. And the bb.. we couldn't find. Not in the window, but didn't penetrate the tint. And it didn't bounce off and hit my gf's car parked next to it.
Russ is going to ship me some glass. He's got like 8 million car parts in his garage.. if you need something, hit him up.
Other than that.. any ideas on where to park? The cop said that some people throw rocks through the window (or could shoot it) to see if the car has an alarm (no, I don't). Then they come back later and destroy the weakened window and collect their parts.
I've pulled the radio and shift knob out.. the subs and amp are old and I dont' care enough about to unwire. Wheel keys are in my house, and I'm going to make a window out of garbage bags. But I need to park this thing somewhere other than my apartment, so it won't get robbed. My only thought so far would be parking it elsewhere in the apartment complex - off to the side of nowhere.

At first I was pissed about how senseless this was. Once the cop said they might come back to finish their job.. it makes more sense, and I'm not so pissed. Now just kinda worried.
-Jeff

TheSquidd

10-13-2005, 04:17 PM

Park it as usual, and then sit in your GF's car a few spaces away watching. When that sucker strikes, shoot HIM with a BB gun.

srpowered240sx

10-13-2005, 04:41 PM

Park it as usual, and then sit in your GF's car a few spaces away watching. When that sucker strikes, shoot HIM with a BB gun.

^i like this guys thinking. put it right back where they shot it, and park your g/fs car within good view, but leaving you a comfy hiding spot. drink lots of rockstar/redbull, and wait for that ass-shat to come back, preferably with a louisville slugger. even better, let him stick his ass in the car, then snap a quick picture as you charge him with your bat, have proof and an incapacitated suspect when the cops show up. just my $.02

NemeGuero

10-13-2005, 04:55 PM

unless he shows up with 5 big ass mob style lookin' fools.... then a bat won't do you much good.. and kiss your car goodbye too.

now onto a solution:
find a friend with a big garage in a safe place... then, get an alarm

TheSnail

10-13-2005, 05:39 PM

Get all the crap from your/friends house that does not work. Fried ps2, decks, broken tv's, boom boxes etc. When they steal it, you can get well over $1000 in collateral damage for shit that "worked before" they stole it.

rancid240

10-13-2005, 05:54 PM

Do what P. Diddy woudl do. Put some dog poop on the seat and watch him sit in it. squish....

wootwoot

10-13-2005, 05:59 PM

Man, fucking Tampa. I have no s14 parts to help with, sorry brotha

mr_240sx

10-13-2005, 06:09 PM

wow you must live in a bad neighbourhood eh?

OdessaS13

10-13-2005, 06:23 PM

yeah good thing it didnt break into the car, i had my front window smashed b4 and the glass got into the AC vents, it took a while for all the pieces of glass to flyout (AC full blast)

SimpleSexy180

10-13-2005, 06:39 PM

that sucks ass i know how u feel. except my car got shot at with a real gun and the glass actually broke into peices everywhere. make sure not to cut yourself :)

SR240DET

10-13-2005, 07:18 PM

hey jeff... do what my buddy did.... he cleverly hooked up some car batteries it up in a way that if you use a slim jim.. or touch the handle.. you get shocked... if interest ill talk to him and give you guys the details...

Jeff240sx

10-13-2005, 07:25 PM

^^ Someone else has tried that. And got arrested and convicted of attempted murder.
The way our fucked up legal system works is that you are intentionally going to attempt to cause undue harm to anyone who touches your car in a way that only a consious carjacker would. But that carjacker, no matter how little reason he had to slimjim your car - will get away with it.
-Jeff

North240

10-13-2005, 07:50 PM

dead men tell no stories, its time this piece of shiot was taught a serious lesson. You know you would only be doing the world a favor. Dont steal....................... you never know just how crazy the owner is

mrmephistopheles

10-13-2005, 08:01 PM

that sucks, Jeff.

Jeff240sx

10-13-2005, 08:15 PM

I've got a garbage-bag window for 3-5 days.. and then will need to search for a tint shop who will install 10% tint (illegal in FL), and then deal with the fact that 4/5 windows have 4 years of fade on them... and one doesn't. That'll drive me crazy.
-Jeff

projectRDM

10-13-2005, 08:25 PM

Jeff, check your mail. I need an address to ship to. I'll express it in the morning and we'll settle whenever you get time. Get it fixed and tinted first. I'm not worried about the money for now, I just killed some poor schmuck on a front bumper cover, so he paid for your shipping.

Damn, hope he doesn't frequent this board.

Jeff240sx

10-13-2005, 08:30 PM

Emailed you Russ.. sorry about that.
-Jeff

SR240DET

10-13-2005, 08:31 PM

our fucked up legal system
-Jeff

sorry to go offtopic... same goes for people who drive around with no insurance... i got fucked.. and im fixing my s14 my self now..... i cant take his only car away... even though he damn near took mine.... basicly i cant do shit.... and i get fucked

element240

10-13-2005, 10:05 PM

man that sucks, but at least the window's still held up and nothing was stolen. my car was broken into 2 wknds ago.
hm..tampa huh...i'm moving there soon :smash:
good luck w/ the replacement

theicecreamdan

10-13-2005, 10:43 PM

GPS and leave it, hopefully they will get catched.

wootwoot

10-13-2005, 11:45 PM

wow you must live in a bad neighbourhood eh?

Not really, thats just Tampa kinda.

A Spec Products

10-14-2005, 02:07 AM

i would highly not suggest the stakeout method ^ suggested couple posts above.

putting being macho aside, its NOT worth it. a friend of our shop tried to stop some thieves who were in the process of stealing his civic. long story short, they hit him with the car and drove off. luckily he was alive, but suffered broken bones and a ton of physical therapy.

if i saw someone jacking my car, i have no idea what id do in a panic situation like that, but its not worth it, just let the police handle it, take down as much info as you can and hope that you get it back. if you cannot live with the thought of losing your 240/parts/investment, then you shouldn't be parking it in public. its like going to vegas, your money is good as gone once you put it down on the table. its just a 240, your life and safety is a bigger priority.

karma will serve all.

redsuns3838

10-14-2005, 02:15 AM

thats why u dont stake out with only one person. or tail em and find out where the chop shop is while u got the cops on the line =)

SimpleSexy180

10-14-2005, 02:59 AM

yeah following them is the best method if plan to stake out. Who knows if u try to stop them and they have "GAT" lol

Sky240PWR

10-14-2005, 03:45 AM

240 STEAKOUT........coming to a thearter near you!!
that sucks man, if it hasn't already been said, you sould video tape your car for like a week or so.

FaLKoN240

10-14-2005, 08:57 AM

Everyone that is suggesting a stake out, is retarded, the title of the thread is going to go from "So my window got shot..." to "So...I GOT SHOT!!!"

Cutting your losses while you're ahead is a MUCH better idea, why would you knowingly welcome thieves to your car, at night, while you are alone, and you don't know anything about these thieves? Don't suggest stupid things, that may result in injury or death.

Plus, a window is only $120. A window for $120, is better than: hospital bills, possible legal threats made by the thieves, and the possible loss of your car, when you could have just re-parked it. Walk away before you can't is always my theory.

North240

10-14-2005, 09:49 AM

ok so maybe stakeout and kicking ass was not well thoughtout, but seriously wouldn't it be great for any of these thieves to try and jack something only to get the crap kicked out of them? In my opinion that is karma at its best. Personal safety is the best method though and it is only a car.

FaLKoN240

10-14-2005, 10:40 AM

You cannot make karma happen. That is called revenge.

i-love-my-s14

10-14-2005, 01:00 PM

It is now legal to shoot someone in florida if you are being threatend
"The law, which came into force this week, says that people in their house or vehicle do not have to become victims before shooting an attacker" Got this off MSN.

SimpleSexy180

10-14-2005, 01:09 PM

^sounds nice to live there now

Destructo

10-14-2005, 07:21 PM

Ah that blows man, that happend to me last summer. I stuck it too the pricks who did it cause they got caught and i sent a estimate for like 550 with labor for new windom and paid like 200 to acctaully get it fixed so i made like 300+ bucks. Just restitution payments take for ever.

-usmd-180sx

10-14-2005, 08:20 PM

Id hangout in the back of the car..With a couple of buddies nearby outside. And then wait ..and right as he is about to start the motor.. Id strangle his ass and cuff him to the steering wheel and call the cops.. But as i wait.. id continuously bitch slap him over and over again. :rawk:

But sorry to hear about what happened. Too bad justice isnt always brought to people in life who deserve it . But if you believe in charma.. he'll get his 1 day.

Being a vigilante kicks ass! But do at your own risk... of imprisonment,injury, or death.\

Gnnr

10-14-2005, 10:58 PM

Everyone that is suggesting a stake out, is retarded, the title of the thread is going to go from "So my window got shot..." to "So...I GOT SHOT!!!"

Oh please, its Tampa, not Compton. lol. :D

It is now legal to shoot someone in florida if you are being threatend
"The law, which came into force this week, says that people in their house or vehicle do not have to become victims before shooting an attacker" Got this off MSN.

This is true. Now its legal to do what everyones been doing here anyways. Haha.

PARAD0X

10-14-2005, 11:47 PM

shit, if you wanted to drive it across the howard franklin, i'd let you park it in my garage. but downtown st pete isn't the shortest drive from tampa. also i got a 10% installed over here on us19 next to gibbs high school in south st pete. just a heads up

wootwoot

10-15-2005, 12:00 AM

One of my friends just got jumped/robbed in downtown St.Pete the other night. Blah

420sx

10-15-2005, 12:35 AM

dude they usially bb the car to see if u got an alarm. be alert

Omarius Maximus

10-15-2005, 04:20 AM

I don't know about would be thieves using a pellet gun though.... Usually for the alarm to go of, the car has to shake a bit, but a pellet , although it has a lot of force, has a very small surface area. So this wouldn't make the "average" alarm go off. I spoke to some asshole would be thief at work who wanted a B series motor for his cockroach CRX and he was tellin me how he threw a soda can (full) at a civic Si just to see wether it had an alarm or not....wanted to deck his ass right then and there. Plus a broken window isn't the only way for a thief to get inside a car....

240_sx_guy

10-15-2005, 09:00 AM

I noticed there are lots of wannabe ethugs here on zilvia (and on lots of other forums too) Maybe it's someone who you banned from zilvia. Some people are like that.

tak-

10-30-2005, 05:33 PM

Would setting up a security camera out of a second story window to prevent this stuff be overkill? I was thinking about it, because where I live, wich is not so far from jeff, alot of shady shit goes on. The alky chicks who live nextdoor always have dings in their cars, and it just so happens that all the neighbors cars get hit in the middle of the night. My car has been hurt more parked at home, then it ever has while driving. I am about tired of it.

PARAD0X

10-30-2005, 08:59 PM

One of my friends just got jumped/robbed in downtown St.Pete the other night. Blah

yeah, i live in downtown st pete...it happens, but odds are he was on the southside, which is 10x worse than north st pete. still no compton

240meowth

10-30-2005, 10:33 PM

my window got smashed for no apprent reason the 3rd day i owned my car, the glass clean up was ULTRA GAY even to this day, 3 years later, i still have broken glass in my door because the whacked out angles of the door dosn't fit a vaccume hose, and if i try to clean it with my hand the small peices jabs into my hand. Tint saved you pain!