In the other neighborhood we lived in there would be occasional incidents with young urban men who would walk down the street, trying car doors to see if they were locked, and if not, rummage through the vehicle looking for anything of value.
I would see then on my security cameras, they were pretty bold. When I had a 400E it would trip the alarm if it was locked and you pulled on the passenger door handle. Sure enough, they set it off one night. I watched the playback on the security camera, as it was pretty entertaining watching them scatter. -D > On Jun 6, 2022, at 9:33 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Stealing gas is about the lowest kind of theft. > > We've only had one minor car theft in the 16 years we've lived here, somebody > stole the change out of my '85 190D (MB content). It's interesting when you > consider that the people across the street from me are total scumbags. > Apparently the know enough not to try that around here. > > The barn on the vast northern estate has many forms of entry, the 2 garage > door openings on the end are covered with a kind of industrial belting, it's > basically thick cloth nailed to the wall with a 2x6 across the bottom. I left > my Super M in there last winter along with a lawnmower and power washer and a > 2 gallon can of gas. All of it was undisturbed this spring. We have excellent > neighbors up there, always looking out for us. > > -Curt > > > On Sunday, June 5, 2022, 11:07:40 PM EDT, mitch--- via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> On 2022-06-05 22:54, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: >> Anyone seeing or hearing about siphon bandits stealing gas? I thought >> modern cars had a screen in the filler neck to prevent this but when I >> did the recent tank replacement on the '04 Frontier there was nothing, >> and guessing my W116 and W123 don't have anything... > > Not lately. > They got my dad's S-10 during Desert Storm. > Pissed him off, they not only siphoned it, they stole or threw away his > gas cap. > He replaced it, and the cap on mom's Ciera, with a locking cap. > > Also during the Desert Storm pricing, saw a drive off theft at a Checker > station. > Asshat parked an old beater truck at the farthest pump and filled it > with Premium. > When the clerk saw him park there she was on high alert. > When he started pumping premium she wrote down his plate number. > Called the cops as he was driving off. > > By the turn of the century, everybody had gone to prepay only. > Now nobody drives off without paying because nobody pumps without > > paying. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
