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[–] Ah_Pook 0 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.

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[–] cdinvb 0 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.

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[–] WhiteRonin 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Late 80's the way to do it was pull up next to car, pop your hood and set off the car next you, 1 person would pretend to try to turn it off while the other was grabbing shit from the target car.

I nor friends did this but I made some pocket cash by installing alarms and sound systems while in uni so stories where about.

Immobilizes ??? However the system that impressed me was the one that let the car be stolen and then stop several hard yards down the road -- this ends up as grand theft.

Today, I only have that immobilizer thingy and more than often have my windows cracked open. Cheaper than having a broken window.

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[–] 5238177? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Novel idea: a car that detects attempted tempering should send a text message alert to its owner rather than wake up the entire neighborhood.

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[–] Ah_Pook 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I knew a guy who had his pager go off when his alarm tripped. ~1996.

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[–] OneNutWonder 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Same here. The guy worked at best buy and kept getting his nice audio equipment stolen from his suburban. I remember we were in German class in high school and his beeper went off and he went into full panic mode because he thought it was happening again.

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[–] NedTaggart ago 

Well, they used to give you an insurance break for having one. I don't know if they still do, I have a jeep. An alarm with removable doors and a ragtop seems sort of pointless and annoying, so I opted out.

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[–] elcob32 ago 

If you have the right one you get a discount on your auto insurance.

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[–] LoftyGoat 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The Trunk Monkey works, but costs more than the cheap electronic crap provided with most new cars.

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[–] Gardmeria ago 

My parents bought mine

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