Robin
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so, i am woken thismorning by my mother saying to me "your rear window seems to have gone"
obviously, i am stunned, and immediately think that she means its been smashed
but no......
the glass is still intact, and was resting conviniently in my neighbours lavender bush
they also seem to have carefully folded the rear bench down without damaging it
also. no damage to the tailgate area surrounding the window
all they have taken is the pioneer stereo, which would be worth about £12 second hand, they didnt even open the glove box, as i'm sure they would have taken the camera and PDA which i carelessly left there overnight
in taking my stereo, they stole the arctic monkeys album 
and maybre damaged the dash, looking at that pic
and this is how they did it, stanley knife inb one corner of the window, then tore the rubber all the way round til the window popped out
have to say though, well done to them for causing me the least possible inconvinience by not damaging anything more than the rubber
considereate criminals, whatever next?
[Edited on 27-02-2006 by robmarriott]
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Ry_B
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WTF! 
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Ry_B
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Surely it's a wind up 
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a_j_mair
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SHOCKING, SEEMS ALOT OF HASSLE FOR A STEREO 
oops caps lock
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mwg
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Buy a face off headunit next time!
Quite lucky that they were so considerate though although they shouldn't be breaking into cars in the 1st place
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Edd
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more considerate than your average criminal
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Robin
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i also thought it was someone having a laugh
rang the police, they said "as the car isnt damaged, we wont be coming to look at it"
and i was like "WTF? the window has been removed in one piece, do you not think thats a bit strange?"
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broster
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not a good thing dude! you got a new window rubber sorted?
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Robin
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quote:
Originally posted by Matty G
Buy a face off headunit next time!
Quite lucky that they were so considerate though although they shouldn't be breaking into cars in the 1st place
was a face off one, face was on the shelf under the glove box, which is why i was so amazed to find all the othere stuff still there
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broster
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quote:
Originally posted by Matty G
Buy a face off headunit next time!
Quite lucky that they were so considerate though although they shouldn't be breaking into cars in the 1st place
he does have a face off...
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Robin
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quote:
Originally posted by broster
not a good thing dude! you got a new window rubber sorted?
rang police, insurer, insurer again, and again, then autoglass
so yes
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Siberia
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com on mark... give him back his radio....
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a_j_mair
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quote:
Originally posted by broster
quote:
Originally posted by Matty G
Buy a face off headunit next time!
Quite lucky that they were so considerate though although they shouldn't be breaking into cars in the 1st place
he does have a face off...
not any more
il close the door
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mwg
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so did they take the face off bit too?
why did you leave the face off bit in the car
[Edited on 27-02-2006 by Matty G]
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broster
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quote:
Originally posted by Siberia
com on mark... give him back his radio....
haha! i can happily say he would have heard me pull up revving the tits off at 8500rpm all the way up the road
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broster
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quote:
Originally posted by Matty G
so did they take the face off bit too?
why did you leave the face off bit in the car
[Edited on 27-02-2006 by Matty G]
where robin lives you dont think about stuff like that to be honest, it looks so quiet and sleepy there..... and on his drive!
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Adam-D
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they damaged the dash thou
that gonna be tricky to find a undamaged black on...
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Robin
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i left it in the car cos it is a crappy pioneer head unit, and i wasnt actually expecting anyone to remove the rear window to steal it
also, if i hadnt left it in there, i probably would have lost my camera and PDA now as well
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broster
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i must say i do love the wiring behind the dash dude!
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Rich H
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Why go to all that effort for a stereo?! Surely if they had gained entry to the car, they'd have at least tried to take the car too? At least they dont appear to have done too much damage tbh (apart from the dash )
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Robin
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so... does anyone wanna buy a nova? i feel i need something more secure
like a wheelie bin
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broster
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pmsl@wheelie bin!
oh dude, you really dont get angry do you!
your more upset by the loss of the artic monkeys cd than the loss of the cd player!
your special
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Rileysport
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At least you can get the rust on the tailgate sorted eh 
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Jamie Walby
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Robin, sorry to see that big guy.
It does seem that they went to an awful lot of trouble for what (going on what you have said) seems like a cheap headunit.
They obviously new what they were doing though, I mean, who carries a stanley knife aaround with them. I would see if anyone else has had their head unit stolen in a similar fashion around your area.
I would however suspect it was done by someone who is familiar with your car.
Schoey wasnt online last night either was he and I do believe he was in the Northampton area yesterday
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broster
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jamie, when vaxuahll designed the rear widnow fixture on a nova they clearly forgot all about security. the window has no bond on it at all... its a very rubbish design.....
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