[–] Ah_Pook 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Car theft was deeply embedded in Winnipeg’s teen culture. Peers pressured each other to steal cars, usually for joyriding. Thieves were quite young, stealing their first cars, on average, at age 13. There were even reports of 10-year-olds stealing cars with screwdrivers. “Auto theft is an activity for them,” one government informant explained in a report funded by Canada’s National Crime Prevention Centre. “Somehow it got started, and now it’s just what they do. In one neighborhood, they play pickup hockey. In this neighborhood, they steal cars.”
In an earlier lifetime, I knew a guy whose main source of income was pawning other people's stuff... couple of us were sitting around one day and he comes in, big grin on his face. He says "the alarm was pissing me off" and holds up a box and some cables. He stole a car alarm. Nothing else, just that.
[–] cdinvb 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
So go by around two in the morning. Trip the alarm. Wa Wa Wa OoEE OoEE OoEE etc. Owner resets it. Come back a few minutes later. Trip it again. Repeat as necessary. When the alarm doesn't go off, the car is yours.