Robbed again

[Brucelles]

I live in a posh street in southern Brussels. My next-door neighbour is an embassy. The guy two doors down (a Brit) owns an Aston Martin Vantage. The people across the street own three Mercedes and small BMWs are too common to be allowed in our street. My wife's car is a Mercedes 320 CLK.

I own a 1993 BMW 740iL. It has a bit of rust under the rear wheel arches, a few minor dents and dings and is usually parked under a tree, so a bit mucky. I paid €4,000 for it 4 years ago when I thought I would need a car for 9 months. It has 230,000Km on the clock, of which I added 60,000. I'm not knocking it, I was clocked doing 250kph in it in Germany (it was retro-fitted with the 4.4 litre M62 engine) and I used to commute from Zurich to Brussels in it in great comfort. It was and is a great car to be in.

However, it is old, worthless to anyone but me, contains only a few home-burned CDs of power metal music and some paper. I have a good sound system, a Sony that plays DVD and MP3, so I can hold something like 700 tracks, but I remove the front bit when I leave the car. The only thing of value in the car would be the spare wheel.

So why was mine the only car in the street that crooks tried to break into last night? They walked past the Porsches, Aston, Mercedes (including my wife's, parked just ahead of mine) other BMWs, Alfas, Jags, Maseratis, possibly a Ferrari (it's sometimes indoors) and a bunch of VWs, Audis and other lesser beasts.

Now my passenger door lock, handle and the surrounding metal are ruined, the moronic wanna-be theives got nothing (and wouldn't have anyway) and I'm going to have a bill for more than the car's value.

Bastards.

[Merlin4458]

damn that sucks. I love the 7 series, so thats prob the car i woulda gone for . jokes, na thats weird, maybe they thought ur car being considerably older than the others would have a ligther security setup on the car?

[Brucelles]

As it turned out my alarm is just as good as anyone's. And the lock was probably better.

[Merlin4458]

hmm weird then. Maybe BMW fanatics. I cant think of any other reason why that car. Intimidated by the mazarati/ferarri's? Just bad luck? Maybe a good excuse for a new car then?

[Koolpc]

Buy a Lada!

[kalniel]

Sorry to hear about that

Thought yours might be the only car with a detachable sat nav?

I'm thinking of starting to leave the atlas on the floor to show them I don't have one.

[Agent]

Don't know if its the same with car's as it is with bikes, but its much easier to strip an older model/year bike down for spares without raising too much suspicion.

[EvilMunky]

Must resist urge to make BMW related comment.

In all seriousness it sucks ass big time. I can never make sense of thieves.

When i was 18 my first car was stolen - a ****ty little fiat uno 45. Worth 600 quid or something but meant a lot to me as it was my transport to work, college, girlfriend, mates etc. When it was stolen i couldnt beleive anyone would wanna steal it. I figured was joy riders or something. 6 weeks later after we received the insurance money, i had a phone call fro mthe police to say they had found the car, with new locks, new ignition and new number plates. I was shocked that someone would go to the hassle of that, but told them it was now the property of the insurance company and to give them a call.

[rox0r]

Astons, Mercs and Porsches are harder to shift, too easy to trace and almost impossible to cut n' shut cheaply. Beemers are ten a penny, simple.

[Brucelles]

Must resist urge to make BMW related comment.

It's OK. I have a dick.

But who'd want it? Seriously. I know it goes well and is well-maintained, but no-one else would. It had the alloy centres nicked in Zurich (bloody Swiss) so the wheels aren't worth much (and they are 230,000 Km old). I admit that the leather could be worth a bit to another 7 series owner, but the hassle may be a bit much.

Anyway, I called the police and they said that I am allowed to set the dog on them or use a weapon to defend myself if attacked, so I'm leaving my machete by the front door from now on. If the alrm goes again, I'm going straight out. Personally, I would fear the dog more though.

[Stewart]

It's OK. I have a dick. But who'd want it?

The wife not keen?

Perhaps a younger woman?

[Howard]

The wife not keen?

Perhaps a younger woman?

well played

[TheAnimus]

come on, pricking on him when he is down isn't fair.

I think you might find they where as mentioned above, just scared by the big brand names, thought old beemer must be easy pickings?

[Steve]

Somebody broke into our house once and stole an acer laptop.

Fools!

[TheAnimus]

a friend at uni had her laptop nicked, out of her room which was at the front of the house. But, this was after i'd removed the HDD because most of the laptop had been totaled by some pinot noir.

The screen was gordon browned, not only had the CCFL or inverter died, but the 'glass' had nasty stains and some pixels seamed to of stuck.

The cpu + ram where dead, and some FETs had lept of the motherboard......

But they took it none the less, even thou the keyboard wasn't plugged in. Thats the level of inteligence the reading theif has.

It was pure luck the HDD was workable, it died very shortly afterwards and i was putting it on a current limited rail (worried it would go pop any second as i only gave it a little time to dry out).

[Brucelles]

The wife not keen?

Perhaps a younger woman?

Thanks for that. I needed a laugh.