"Stuart Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Maybe you need to follow the example of pharmacists- "NO CASH OR DRUGS LEFT
> IN THIS VEHICLE".
I used to know a guy who lived at North Sydney and had to park
on the street and used to leave his car unlocked so he wouldn't
have to keep paying for new locks or windows. He also used to
leave a few dollars in the ash tray so the thieves wouldn't
get too pissed off and vandalise the car. It's a sad society
we live in.
> My valueless '85 Toyota Corolla got stolen and driven around the bend
> from Granville Police Station where it stayed for 6 weeks until
> someone reported it or the police noticed it. Always on the ball those
> police, they should be out catching the real criminals....
well sometimes it's hard to tell a dumped car. Last "clean
up Australia day" the 4WD club I'm in did Ourimbah State
Forest (inland from the central coast). We all rolled up
early Sat morning and there was a dumped car just inside the
entrance to the forest. There's dozens (possibly hundreds)
of dumped cars in there and one of our major jobs for the day
was to recover all the wrecks into a few piles at strategic
places for trucks to come and take them away.
Some people were going to start on this car but I thought it
looked a bit "fresh" and had some personal effects in it still
including a stack of business cards (all the same). Anyway
we rang the number on the cards and turned out it was only
dumped the night before (stolen from Wyong train station).
So we left it there and the guy came and got it later that
day. According to the local state forest ranger, Ourimbah
state forest gets between 5-10 cars a week dumped there on
average, mostly stolen but some are dumped "paddock bashers".
(the easiest way to recover these cars is pull them over onto
the roof and drag them. This is usually up rough 4WD tracks
so the cars end up wrecked if they weren't already. Thiefs
seem to delight in seeing how far they can get cars like
hyundais down 4WD tracks before something fatal breaks on
the car then they often torch them and leave them. Or
sometimes they push or drive them (driverless) off cliffs
so we have to winch them out.)
Dave.
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