Comments about Car Stereos being stolen Awesome! And you didn't have to replace a $110 window! The perks of being an e-celebrity... The thief shold have used a sledge hammer You need to bait the thief, and wait for him with a baseball bat. It appears my plan is unfolding perfectly. Muahh ha haa! This is a warning from the Bluetooth Headset Army. Be very afraid. Ha, who did it Rob? Hmm, you look a bit like William H. Macy in that first photo. Oh, great story, as well! At least you still have your stereo... my ipod was stolen out of my car last week. Regardless, love the site. I read it often. Thanks. :) maybe your car was invaded by a woodchuck Lock your doors next time! Why do people even break into cars? 9 times out of ten the only thing that can actually be stolen in 10 minutes is a case of CD's and even then they're usually all burned anyway. Grats, you broke a $500 window to steal $2.50 worth of CD-R's Sorry to hear that, Rob. Glad everything was kind of okay. Can we PayPal you some money to get things cleaned up and looking like new again? Good jorb, Rob! lucky You could sell that awl on eBay - make a profit, who says crime doesnt pay!!? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH what a knob.... I could have done a better job. Lucky you;-) I had someone break into my car in Ashville, NC a few years ago. They ripped the lock out of the door. They didn't forget the stereo... or digital camera... Don't you hate common punkism like this? My car was broken into one time (the doors were unlocked, but if they have to physically open a door or window to get in, that technically is the 'breaking' of breaking and entering) and instead of taking an alternator for the car (which they could have gotten actual money for) or some other miscellaneous stuff, they instead took my prescription sunglasses. I’m sure they didn’t realize they were prescription at the time, they just wanted’em anyway. Glad you didn’t lose you tunes! Luckily, you were attacked by a group of intellectually disabled citizens. weeeeeee Will this teach you to lock your car? I think the colander will melt faster than the bowl That's why a Well installed radio is a good repellant to Stupid stealers. Maybe they managed to steal your soul instead. Are you certain your stereo hasn't actually been cleverly removed by the aforementioned escaped rats and replaced with some sort of sinister rat-invented mind control device designed to look exactly like a Pioneer P-3700MP SuperTuner CD player? what a fuckin cunt Jeebus. What sort of society do we live in where the theives won't take the stereo? Wow!!! Very lucky! Stupid ... Wait. It isn't actually a Mercedes G500? Why the heck didn't you call your insurance company? i like cake. My car got broken into 5 times in 5 months. They stole my faceplate & Oakley Sunnies & couldn't steal the sub so they stabbed it with a knife several times. The second time they took my insurance-replaced subs by cutting the wires in the boot. Third, fourth & fifth time they took nothing. After that they realised I wasn't replacing the gear with stereo gear, but with a car alarm! Hahahaha!!! (BTW, it was kids and I live in Darwin, Australia... go figure the types of kids it was in the end). You got soooo lucky! It must be the good CARma from your fun website protexting you. Now LOCK YOUR DOORS. My truck broke down once and I was forced to leave it on the side of the interstate overnight. I made sure I took anything of value with me, and I even left the doors unlocked incase someone wanted to break in, they wouldn't have to cause any damage to figure out there was nothing in the truck. But of course when I came back the next morning, I had a cinder block through my passenger side window and they stole my soccer ball out of the bed of the truck. I'm glad everyone's safe! that sucks but atleast you still have your stereo. Thank god the bastard didn't get the cup holders! haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa wow Perhaps the thief didn't see what kind of stereo it was until a Perhaps the thief didn't see what kind of stereo it was until after much work. Imagine their disappointment.. you should have called the cops anyway so they can increase patrols in your neighborhood good job! flipping idiots. My butt smells like farts. He (or she?) should be shot. Why didn't you call the police? They'd have filed a report, and your insurance would have given you a check for the damage. There could be fingerprints on the awl, or on the console. note to self: carry screwdriver next time. Show the finished product! What does your center console look like after you repaired it? thanks for telling us about the backstrap. we'll get the stereo next time.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! Got any pictures after you fixed it all up? lock your door next time. Next time leave a screw driver on the seat so your dash doesn't get so chewed up. It's help me save the pristine look of my dash many times, only I get a little tired of the empty spot where the stereo should be..... Do people really have interesting things to say about E-v-e-r-y-thing? i doubt it, but we'll soon see. Pressing Submit now. I'm happy for you, Rob 1, Rubber 0. Damn i hate these moth**f***er, GO TO WORK AND EARN YOUR MONEY INSTEAD OF STEALING!!!! is that a tape deck? they went to all that trouble, FOR A TAPE DECK? The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago in Atlanta. I guess my parents were right; it is a dangerous city. Funny story, though: The stereo was broken and I was planning to replace it. Unfortunately, they did get disc 6 of a $150 ten disc "Teach Yourself French" CD set. Incidentally, they also removed the bulb from my dome light, and I have yet to recover it. Perhaps there is a black market dome bulb ring? Lucky! Why not create a comment board so we can all talk to each other about your adventures? yes I think we should think of the poor theif. He spent all that time gnawing, and all he got was bloodied gums (and perhaps a mild workout). Poor bastard. d Why are some people such tools? Go sell plasma 4 times and buy the stupid stereo! Lucky. meth is my gueth... Sucks that your interior got all masticated, but given that someone broke into your car, that's pretty awesome. "Lock up your doors when you're hanging around" -- MC Front-A-Lot "Start Over" Chinese... you can't live with them... always awling away at your stuff... I mean, if you want a stereo just go to the nearest sweatshop and get them to crank you out one for a buck or two. You aint gotta go all ballistic on my buddy Rob's Hyundai. Maybe if he owned a Kia, then it would be ok, but not a Hyundai... that's crossing the line. lucky duck! You got a handy ice-pick out of the deal! Glad the rats were able to escape. What is going to replace them to generate more of those awesome gas savings? This was probably retribution from the blue-tooth Carls Jr guys, for revealing their secret hideout. Fantastic. This is why suck at being thieves; they are stupid. There must have been something that freightened the would-be cheap stereo thief. What a wanker! I'm glad your console wasn't destroyed as badly as it looked. Congrats for being able to make a potentially enraging incident into a comedic piece for the rest of us, well done again, Mr. Cockerham! Good show indeed. YOU MUST HAVE AWESOME KARMA. AAIIEE!! I'll get you next time, Cockerham!!! Well, I guess it could have been a lot worse. If you're willing to pay the deductable, insurance will pay for the repair. find him and burn him I hate thieves. you should have the screw driver dusted for prints. Same thing happened to me the punk broke my window, but left without the stereo, makes me wish there were more professionals out there, at least they would have used a slim jim or something... Perhaps the thief did use actual starving rats. That would explain why he didn't get away with the radio. Damn Amateurs Did your car supply him the awl or did he just carry one with him? If it's the former, you should always store one of those things in your car, in plain view, so that nothing will ever be stolen. it was me -thief that is awesome! I hope you find those SOB's and shank em'! Oh and I love you! In the time of "car-phones" where there was just a handset and no real important working parts, someone threw a brick through my mom's window and took the useless handset. Oddly enough, the brick also wedged itself in the headrest and was stuck there. Sons-a-bitches!!!! Wow. Now that's an ineffective thief. it was me I'm not a queer or nothing like that, but I wouldn't mind spending the night with you, Rob. RObert you should really move to someplace safe. Try Milwanna I bet you'll never forget to lock your doors again! Also, Robert, would it be possible for you to format the comments display page so that the replies don't run out of the normal page boundries? Victory! One up on the scum of the Human Race. Dude, that sucks. Sorry to hear it. Any luck getting that "not-so-unchewed" look returned to your console/dash? This would annoy me even more than if they had stolen the stereo. It was all for NOTHING. They messed up your car for nothing. Grrrrr. I'd put the screwdriver on eBay if I were you. need an automatic flamethrower to torch thieves that break into or steal from cars *** ****** *** ****** ****er*uck**! Another clue, soon Rob, soon I will have all the pieces... gay gay Why don't car manufactures add automatic locking features on cars? Your cd player almost got stolen because your car was unlocked, and a few months ago my spare car key was stolen from my step-dad's Envoy because he forgot to lock the doors. You would think the most simple theft determent system should be standard by now on many vehicles. Anyway, glad your loot didn't get grifted. What a bunch of idiots, what right do they think they have? It made me so happy to see they had failed miserably, and I hope they jammed the awl into their hand a few times accidentally. Sorry to hear about it rob, You should get a trunk monkey I hope your insurance company doesn't read the part about you leaving your car unlocked... wouldn't that make a difference? -KJR those moth**f***ers! I think your perpetrator is a complete amateur. You need to look for someone who has never stolen a car stereo before. Someone like me. this has to be connected to the ipod heist It's as if Mussolini was in your dashboard! Wow, how lame, i guess the kids didn't want to be late for bedtime! I just take the faceplate out and put it in the glove compartment when I leave my car alone, never had a problem. somehow, the same thieves attempted to do that to me in winnipeg, manitoba, canada... must be some sort of really really really bad ring of thieves who really don't know how to steal car stereos, and only know how tomangle centre consoles... I think this is job for Mythbusters. I do not believe anyone could get those screws out with an awl... Finger print the scratch awl if they didn't steal the car, and didn't steal the stereo, why the hell break into your car? Funny. It was me!!! "Tragedy avoided! It is what makes life worth living." It'll get you sooner or later, Cockerham. --Oedipus. yo mama Rob "Lucky Bastard" Cockerham what luck!! I once had my car stereo stolen. My only consolation is that the robbers would probably exchange it for drugs and this way, shorten their lives. Nope! This is all the fault of cost-cutting auto manufacturers. If they would stop cutting corners to save nickels and dimes, they would built all new vehicles with keyed door locks standard. This would stop these passer-by thieves by not allowing them easy access inside our vehicles. Oh, wait. after a quick jog past every major automaker's web site, I have found that they are already doing this. Sorry for the trouble, better luck next time. So, can I get my awl back, or what? wow I had someone break into my car once and try to pry the stereo out the same way. They didn't succeed. But the stereo was removeable -- if they would have pushed a button it would have come right out. Stupid thieves. Jeez oh man! what a tool. my car stereo got stolen once, parked right in front of a church... check the awl for prints! Rob - sorry about your car. I live in Sacramento too and my entire Honda was stolen! Bastards. Luckily, I got it back... the cy-borgs from Carl's Jr. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this was their evil plan similar think happend to me a few years ago. They couldn't prise off the stereo, but got a few CDs. They broke a window to get in so I was out a few hundred to repair that. Funny thing is that I had two laptop computers in the car but they did not notice them. Phew. woohooooooo I forgot my screwdriver so I made best of what I had. Sorry I didn't know it was your car :( This makes me smile! who takes the time to break in to a hyuandi? That's so awesome that the idiot attempted thief could not even get your stereo out!!! The person is a damned fool to not use quality burglary tools. A craftsman is the going tool of the trade now, correct?!? ;-) a stock radio my friend, they never steal the stock radio, upgrade the speakers if you wish, but stick with stock. And would it be possible to wire 4 or 5 tazers into the dash so the only mess left is a pile of goo on your floor boards? pule I want to see a picture from after you got it all put back together. Word. That happened to me once, except they broke my window and then couldn't remove the self-installed stereo. Coke through the nose...thanks! You should submit this story to the worlds dumbest criminal shows. That trim piece will cost more then the deck did. Call salvage yards and you might find a cheapy. maybe you can get fingerprints off of the awl. LOL PWNED. You should install ink Packets behind your console so when the next so called "entrenepeur" comes along they'll have a surprise. But the disadvantage to that is any auto mechanics working in that area would be extremley upset. so much effort spent to get at that thing... Spend hours every night risking prison or death so you can sell the stereo for $20 at a flea market. Lock those doors! Wow, just when your day starts out like shit, you get one of the best stories you could hope for. If you've got comprehensive, maybe you can file a claim to get it "fixed" :) Assuming no pesky deductibles. Dude: You find them much? Stolen cars? Cop: Sometimes. I wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck though. Or the Creedence tapes. Maybe you should put together a device that sprays the thief with pepper spray or ink when they try to pry it open (as a safety feature). And if they steal the $130 stereo, at least you would have gotten them, so to speak. I'm glad you got to keep your stereo. I had mine stolen. I looked it up on eBay, and used CD Players the same model as mine were going for $20. dude Yaaaaaay! Tough break.... on an unrelated note... I may have left my awl in your car. I'll stop by tonight. If you find them, kick them so hard in the nuts their kids will be born bruised At least you fared well... BTW, I pretend my Dodge Neon (with spoiler) is a Porsche, so, you are certainly not alone in your desire to upgrade your ride! Cheers mate! Do you feel violated? this reminds me of the time someone broke into my car to steal the two (blown) speakers from the trunk, and the face-plate from the glovebox. Mind you, the rest of the stereo was left in the car. They just thought it might be fun for me to find out that it costs more to replace a stupid faceplate than it does to buy a new stereo. Creeps. i like cheese Happened to my dad, actually. Some weirdo broke into his car in the middle of the night and tried to get at his stereo. Realizing he couldn't, he made off with the owners manual (?) and nothing else. What he could do with the owners manual of a 12-year old car is beyond me... I'm just glad the hatchback wasn't stolen. THEN you'd be screwed! How else would you fit your next Halloween costume in the car? You actually put a $130 stereo into a hundai accent? wow Now that is an odd pattern of bleep asterisks. damn Hot Damn! I hate theives. If you want something, get a job, buy it. DAMNIT THAT'S WHERE MY CHINESE SCRATCH AWL IS! wow. You are one lucky bastard. Why did you bleep out the two letters in the second syllable of "moth**f***er"? Am I not allowed to say that word anymore? a bunch of savages in that town... you should definitely leave it unlocked again but this time booby trap the car Isn't it amazing how stupid people are? Dear Rob: You need to move somewhere safer. Perhaps your own private island will finally sever you from crime! This is just the first step in a malicious scheme for a gang takeover of your neighborhood. You better hire the A-team. Or even consider moving. On the other hand, knowing your ability to create and manipulate cool things, try assembling a MacGyver style car security device that electrocutes people whenever they touch your dashboard if it's activated. I know you can do it! And even if you can't, you could still make an interesting article about it to post on your site and sell the leftover burnt parts on eBay. Rob, I will never tire of the ways you can twist your face! WOW!!! Looks like they worked on it for quite a while! The big question is, "Does the Stereo still work?" They didn't steal the knobs? why not? My friend makes a hobby out of collecting knobs off of discarded appliances that are left at the curbside- and i have to admit, it's pretty fun. did they take anything? or just mess stuff up and leave you with an awl? You should find the thief and make fun of him, while poking him with the scratch awl. Which you should then sell on Ebay. Im sorry your car got broken into. I had a simlar break in in my car as well. They used the same technique but they managed to get my stereo and everything else in the car i mean EVERYTHING chapstick, change, cleaning products. Strange they left my skateboard which was probably worth $120! heres a pic of the damage http://barnapkins.org/carbreakin1.jpg . I hope insurance will pay for the damages. Later. Ryan you should dust the awl for fingerprints as a science club experiment his teeth mustof broke I didn't care so much about the crappy kenwood tape deck but the red "Paul's Boutique" tape in there was priceless, to me. Oh yeah, they threw a AA battery through the passenger side window. It spiders the glass mostly, rather than raining all the shards down onto the seat. yay The Odd Numbers from 0 to 4,000 after pics? What a sad attempt. But does the radio still work/ Everyone knows that you use a beaver to chew through brackets, not rats! Stupid hoodlemons. yeah, i got tired in the process of the theft. but whatever... Save the awl. Hopefully the police can get fingerprints from it. Cripes I hope the would-be thief is caught & brought down for at least vandalism. I'm glad to see you drive a manual. Automatics are crap! Your mom RAR I BITE YOUR STEREO GIVE IT TO ME NOW a couple of weeks ago i forgot to lock my car and somebody took off with all my burned cds and left my actual cds that were signed and the stereo.... criminals are stupid. Hyundai? Really, what's the point? Not that having your car broken into is funny, but I think it'd be funny if the guy (or girl?) who broke in was a frequent visitor to your sight and saw this story. What if he's thinking to himself (or herself), "Damn, I forgot the stereo...and my Chinese-made scratch awl." Now, that's an entertaining thought. Sorry about the break in though. People suck sometimes. Have a good one! Hahahahahahahahahhahahahaa something similar happened to me. They broke into the car, ripped out the lights, and didn't take anything. YOU FORGOT EVERYTHING, MOTHERFUCKER! I hope you find that fucker and shove that awl up his piss hole heh, i hope that thief learns to bring some american made tools next time. oh yeah....lock your doors This is why you should really keep a wolverine in your back seat. When one suffers property damage at the hands of ne'er-do-wells, one might contact the police. Even if they can do nothing, at least you may add a data point to their crime database. Plus: insurance! haha, thats grade A woof woof woof woof Rats are fun. Rob, come on? Get an alarm for that car already, besides, is a decent car, in my place we have lots of them, and they have some nice customization, take care of that one. And yes, you had the Beginners luck :P Wow, I'm glad this experience wasn't as bad as it could have been. Did you file a police report? wow dude...lock your doors. rockin' If anything, the two screws for the faceplate saved your faceplate from theft. Some people are just assholes. I got about $30 worth of calligraphy pens (that would resell for about 30¢) stolen while I was at an art show. duh! wow, that was lucky Now the thief will return to finish the job! I suggest replacing your stereo with an angry badger. locks penisfaec? Remember to lock your doors. Only YOU can prevent theivery fires! I think you should wait outside with a pb&j sandwich and see if they come back. If they do, I think you should take the screws to them. Hooray that the good guys won in the end and the stereo remains yours! I live in Cleveland where you don't dare leave your doors unlocked or faceplate on, or anything sitting out for that matter. I think your best bet is to just remove the faceplate from now on. That way it doesn't tempt anybody. They also forgot Poland. Fingerprint the awl! It's not an attempted theft, silly. It's somebody's fetish. Hahaha...they're not very good at it now are they? I'm coming back tonight with hachet, a salad fork and coat hanger. Thank god they didnt steal your TLC Greatest hits cd..... Dont go chasing waterfalls looks like after all that chewing and the theif left empty handed. looks like you dodged a bullet this time! Looks like some "undocumented workers" were getting in a little overtime before the big boycott. It looks like the culprits were probably scared away before they could really get down to business. It looks like they were getting ready to flip the car over and break the windows. I have heard that these things happen in that part of the country all of the time. Lucky for you this guy (or guys) were not able to finish the job. I hope the loser thief-wanna-be has someone try to steal his teeth with the same method. one time i bit a snake, just to give it a taste of its own medicine. Had whole civic stolen over spring break in Sac. Damn thieves ate my kids peeps! Anything but the peeps... Mothsofabeer? Whew! stake the thing out next week with a camera, and catch the moth**f***er in the act Could you post some photos of everything put back together? any sign of the Ipod? any sign of the Ipod? NO SHIT!! Dude, I had the stero in my Hyundai Accent stolen Last year!! Can't we all just get along? have you seen my baseball? Those two little screws look like BOLTS. As in, you would need a socket or wrench. No. Not really. Forgot to take the stereo? That sounds about right for a thief who decides to steal from an Accent. i havenoticed that you now allow all of the cockeyers imput on everything. Even the items that are not needed to be imputted on. but i do enjoye everything else Car theives are so unprepared lately I think something scared him off before he had a chance to finish the job. Most likely a guardian angel. I woulda stolen that thing clean off. Amatuer. Why does Rob put comment boxes on all of his pages now? Lucky day. My stereo hasn't had any attempted stealing from a previous break in, but it's a tape deck with removable face. Precious spare change was taken instead. The theif can't make an honest living and now can't make a dishonest one. This is so sad. I thought that the cardboard would be a better insulator, but now that there is a car stereo involved I don't know what to think. Cover the car in rat poison. If the theif comes back and licks the car, he will die. Yeah, well it was dark and I couldn't see SHIT. GOD. those assholes! sheesh....you should have gotten a trunk monkey - Sucker... Lo Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. v You misspelled m*th*rf*ck*r. . What a jerk who tried to steal your stereo. I hate people like that. Give me my awl back, Moth**f**ker! Yay! That's just sad. I can't believe people actually steal stereos anymore. Even homeless people can afford one nowadays, and i can't imagine there is still a bkack market for stolen stereos. Now, if they had stolen your air freshener.... Whadda idiot.... Lucky. Yay? This affects me how? :-D The doors, Rob. The Doors! You've got to lock 'em! I drove an accent and this exact same thing happened to me, except my AC controls never worked again, and neither did the stereo. Their method of getting it out was jam the screw driver in any gaps and wiggle it around. They did manage to take my subs, though. Did you check to see if the perp took your "BEST OF MICHAEL BOLTON" CD? Be glad you left your doors unlocked. Else it would have costed you 1 or 2 new door locks or a new side window pane beside the cleaning up of all the mess left behind! I got my stereo jacked a couple years ago. Fortunately, the stereo was not only incredibly cheap, but it was completely broken to begin with and was wired/installed poorly anyway(not my fault). Ultimately, they did me a favor. Although they did steal the bic I had in the glove compartment... well done, you! Glue works.. or a built in taser when you push the wrong button. Perhaps a taser that shoots glue.. hmm i'll get back to you. That sucks, man, people are such dicks. I would've bagged the screwdriver and taken it to the cops. On the off chance it had prints from someone who had a record, it might've been worth it. Thank GOODNESS you didn't have an 8-Track installed. The damage would have been worse! huh. did he leave any prints on the screwdriver? It was not a car thief, it was a Vinyl Zombie feasting on the flesh of dead dinosaurs in your plastic console. prints only work if they guy is a) arrested and b) has prior prints on record. Otherwise, BFD. I would be so mad if someone broke in and messed up the interior of my car. I have a hyundai as well ... but an older one ... still like it. I have an utterly cheap stereo, so it would suck to be the theif who stole my crappy cd player which has a random function which continuously picks the same songs, loses it's memory all the time, and generally annoys the hell out of me! To pay for the damages, you ought to auction one of the Heating/AC knobs. Im sure your loyal fans would be willing to help you out! I told you not to follow the Blue Tooth Zombies so closely...now they are after you! That is classic! My apartment got broken into 2 weeks ago...they stole 2 laptops and a costco-sized bottle of cranberry juice. Thievery makes you thirsty I guess! I wish they'd *forgotten* my wallet and phone when my backpack was stolen a week ago. Perhaps it was the same theif, only tired out from the backpack so they didn't take your stereo? what a dumbass did you call the cops? why didn't you claim insurance? eat the stereo That sucks. If I ever chatch someone doing anything like that to a car, they will be fucking dead. No matter how young they are. Such tragedies can also be avoided by removing your faceplate. don't bother being a criminal if you suck at it. thats all i can say. always lock your car It was I! IT WAS ME damn sewer rats He OPENED the door of a HYUNDAI to TRY steal a PIONEER stereo? Obviously a criminal genius! ouch, close call but lucky! (in some ways), i guess it was very lucky that the guy didnt know how to hotwire a car. Ive had my car stolen once and stereo stolen four times in the past five years. Yay Chicago! Last time I looked, a Pioneer can be removed with little more than two strips of metal. Lucky this guy was dumber than a box-o-rox. TURN THE CAR OVER IN THE STREET! Did you dust for prints? maybe i'm easily amused, but maybe this is the most joyously funny thing i've seen all week. what luck! Mercedes G500?!? Wow I was beginning to think the Ebay auctions were paying off, or that your started selling Herbal Life or something! :) Park it and lock it, not responsible! Robots did it. Maybe it was just a distraction. Maybe while you were busy fixing your stereo, he stole all your salsa. Horrors! I was doing a project and one of the items required was a sratch awl. I had no idea what it was and was intending to look it up. I visited cockeyed.com as usual, read the new article and actually found out was it was. Thanks. I was doing a project and one of the items required was a sratch awl. I had no idea what it was and was intending to look it up. I visited cockeyed.com as usual, read the new article and actually found out was it was. Thanks. XD at the theif, what a dumbass Motherfucker! Those pics and comments made me laugh. Fucking asshole theives should burn in hell. Someone had broken into my Mercedes G500 Grand Edition and had stolen with my stereo. The word you were going for, before you gave up and accidentally left the brushstrokes of your editing showing, is absconded, i.e., "and had absconded with my stereo." You're welcome. :-) WTF? No HTML allowed? Lame. Almost as lame as the idiot who posted all the numbers from those spreadsheets. LOL I PWNED UR CAR No. glad everything is awl right. har har. I want to see what it looks like put back together weird morans. I hate thieves... I had my car stereo stolen once and didn't get as lucky! you should go on a nationwide manhunt to find the culprit. your an idiot for leaving your car unlocked. the thief is more of an idiot for not taking the stereo. hahahaha filthy midgets! That thief fails at life. amusing Did you dust for prints on the awl left behind? I'd like to see the finished dash. I don't want my stereo to be stolen, but if you really want it that bad, take it. But what upsets me the most is the 1000 plus dollars in damage these idiots do to your dash, locks, windows, just to get a stereo that is barely worth 50 bucks on the street. What a f**king dumb*ss Sorry bro. Wow, you got off lucky... Once someone broke into my mother's minivan and stole her cupholder, change and all. I think this might be the work of the same dastardly thief. trampled by turtles I had something similar happen. My car was broken into resulting in several hundred dollars of damage to my door but the (decent) stereo remained. I love you Pantyhose "and had stolen with my stereo" ? Is that English or Mexifornia? :) Glad they failed... That is pretty freakin amazing. I heart hilariously dumb criminals. When my stereo was stolen, the theives managed to find my well-hidden toolset that I keep on hand and used it to remove the system. This is most probably what happened becasue the odd-sized, security bit screws used to attach the stupid thing were lolling about on the floor. The theives stole the stereo, my cd case, and my cell phone charger. What they got was 48 burned CDs, a $2 car charger that put out only half the needed power (so it took HOURS to charge the damn phone) and a Sony CD player model that has been off the market for 11 years. My mother got the same model installed in her brand new 92 Corolla. The most expensive thing taken was the toolkit, of which most of the tools are probably unrecognizable to your average would-be stereo thief. Whatever. I got a better stereo out of it and a slick repair job to the door, lock, and center console which had all been mangled. That's what good insurance is for! you were near KFC.. weren't you? Tones of Vincent Vega. "It would almost be worth having my car keyed, if I coudl catch the guy keying it"... Got no time for the jibba jabba! get the fucking screwdriver dusted for prints how many dolors were assigned to this experience? better luck next time... Thats great to hear that they didnt get away with anything, I despise people like that who stoop soo low. Next time install a broken cd player or better yet, one with a Yanni CD stuck inside, just to mess with them. lol. I am so sorry I entered and tried to steal you radio. But my 12 siblings are dying of hunger and needed the money to buy myself more alcohol to forget all these problems! Sorry Again! Wuud B. Thijf Scumbags! I had the "For Sale" sign stolen from outfront my house yesterday. Can't believe how stupid some thieves are! XD WOW Little June is getting quite rebellious Oh Pooty, why the nayno? YAY Wow. Who knew those two little faceplate screws were also anti-theft devices? Wow. Who knew those two little faceplate screws were also anti-theft devices? I love it when the good guy wins (yes, I meant you Rob). I hope you didn't touch the awl with your bare hands. Fingerprint evidence, you know! The cops might actually have something in which to arrest the jerk (not the expletive I'd LIKE to use, but it's a family site... You should sell the awl on eBay and paste it with Cockeyed-branded GoogleAds - pule This is one more reason why you should wire your center console directly to your car battery when your car is not in use. While the face plate was off I'd booby trap it with thumb tacks or somethin'. So if they didn't get the stereo what did they take? does your insurance cover that? Maybe you should check the scratch awl for lead poisoning...or finger prints I hate it when stufff like this happens. Even though you really did not lose anything of value, you still feel violated. Someone broke the window on my Altima to steal the purse by mother-in-law had left in the back seat. The purse contained nothing of value but I still needed to replace the window tint it and repair some minor cosmetic stuff. Total loss $450. My insurance deductible is $500, so I paid out of pocket and did not report anything. It seems like the repair is always right under your deductible, crap! At least no one was hurt, so it could have been worse. Seems they were awl screwed up. cool damn theives I had the same thing happen to my VW Golf, except they did steal the CD player...which didn't work anyway! jhsetkftgbkmbkrjvbiuwadlsui did you give the cops the screwdriver...to dust for prints? Theives - 0, man with funny name - 1 Ha Congratulations. Personally, I woulda kept my grubby little nubbies off the awl and turned it in to the cops. Damn, I knew I forgot something... my precious awl, passed down generation to generation. Damn car radio stealen mutants! Idiot kids who don't even know how to steal a car radio. He will most likely come back, try again, or deface your car... i dont assume you can park it anywhere enclosed... i often worry about people scratching or breaking into my 03' mustang GT... X_X sucks to be you http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/03/mexico.drugs.ap/ &totse moffofofofoffofofofffofofoofofkeekekkekkkekekkekkekekkekeekee my girlfriend has an Accent, and I installed a stereo in it for her. It was a pain in the butt, so I'm sure he felt similarly trying to remove one. The moral of the story is to make sure you weld the stereo to the car how can this be? I had the same thing happen once, only I wasn't so lucky. The thief got away with my stereo and some tools I had in the trunk. That feeling was horrible. What a useless thief. Seriously. people are idiots nice work - stick it to those criminals shoot the bastard next time! Lucky. Last week someone smashed my window in and actualy stole my stereo. They also took all my CD's and my textbook in the backseat. Pretty lame... yo motherf*cka i only quit cause i realized that radio was a total piece SHUT YO MOUTH This calls for a science experiment involving finger prints and police response time chinese made scratch awl? is that China's answer to the screech owl?: should have tried juicy juice Almost as cool as me. JOSEPH! String the fuckers up and cut their nads off. You're one lucky bastard Congrats. Hovercraft hahaha that's similar to the time some people stole a toilet seat out of our cart of paid-for stuff at walmart...good times, good times. I'll get you next time stereo! must've been some 15 year old wannabe thief.... what an idiot. As two Radio DJs say, Criminals Are Stupid. i made hot pillowy love buns in yer car police? no Wow. Wow! Looks like you scored a free awl! did you call the police and/or set up survalence? Gosh, I'm glad that overall everything worked out okay. Lucky for you that the thief didn't have a screwdriver! lol Your site is so awesome that I feel compelled to start a fund to pay for the damages. Even if you don't want to shill, I think you should. lol, what kind of fool would leave the stereo? Did they steal anything else? your change maybe? "dude, don't bea smarty I think it's sad that you have to even take the faceplate off to keep people from stealing. Aaw! You got a little memento and a wonderful story that might otherwise been a suicide-inducing trauma. I was after the sunglasses. The stereo damage was just for fun. Awesome Rob! I know what it's like to have it happen, and I feel for you! Last time someone broke into my car, they forgot the stereo also, but they stole my damned spark gap checker!!!!!! Fucking dirty Mexicans should all be shipped out then shot yabba dabba doo? Maybe it wasn't a thief after all your cd player just finaly had enough of the AC/DC live album that has been jammed in there for 10 years... or maybe not the same thing happened to me last year! except the thieves damaged my door (it was locked) and stole an easy-to-remove VTEC controller. but they tried to get the stereo, and failed. my center console was more damaged than yours, though, and i had to buy a new one. Three words. Buy a shotgun. Watch Veronica Mars! m Backstrap? Aw man, and I really wanted that stereo too. Forget the stereo! Did the cupholders survive the break in??? Man if your going to be dumb enough to steal, at least be able to steal I hope you find the guy who did that! Wow, what a retard. HAHA!! STUPID WOULD-BE CRIMINAL!!! good job! I had a car broken into and the stereo stolen when I was in HS, the stereo was a tape deck and the brand name was Spark-o-matic, and it worked just fine, well about a week later my dad was cutting the grass and found the stolen stereo in the middle of our front yard, the theifs returned to the scene of the crime to return that piece of crap radio. Survelence. Leave it unlocked again, but this time watch the care! Why in the hell wouldn't he have just used a screwdriver? Crazy. Unless the awl was laying in your car and it was the only thing he could find. I recently had my car stolen, and it was recovered about 4 days later. They stole the $10 in quarters out of the ashtray, but left the $35 in cash in the envelope in the glove box. They took the toddler seat in the back, ripped off the visor trying to grab the CD case with 3 burned CDs in it, but left the $150 CD player in the dash. Thieves are dumb! Duuuuuuuuude. bung Hungry hungry rippos I actually had my stereo stolen out of my Suzuki Vitara a while back. They were very polite about it though. They unscrewed everything and just slid it out with no damage to the console. The thing that pissed me off was that they cut through one of the vinyl side windows to get in. If they had cared to investigate further, they would have discovered that they could have unzipped it from the outside. Clearly my car is a nigh impenetrable fortress. Anyway, glad to see things worked out for the better for you. balloon NO COMMENT, MOTH**F***ER! Lol man that must have sucked MotherdudelBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB were there finger prints?!?!? CATCH THE "THEIVES"!! GET 'EM ROB! GET 'EMMMM!!! Nothing makes me madder than getting my car broken into. I hope the M*****F*****s who did this burn in hell. Also, the title of this page made me laugh out loud. you're leaving it that way, right? kick ass! lucky you-kandi Can you put some pictures of what it looked like after your repair job? burn the motherfucking car stoonads I didn't think mother needed to be censored. I feel like an old vulgar man now, and I'm only 19. Silly thieves. When will they learn. My story: Replace the stereo: $100, Replace the Stolen Center Dash Panel: $170, Replace the smashed window: $100. Total cost to me: $370. Street value of stolen equipment: $20. I wish the punk had just asked for $50... we'd both be better off! I've had 2 car break-ins. The first, after going through the entire contents of my car (which included several thousand dollars of musical equipment), the theif settled on the grand prize - my ashtray. The second break in, after smashing the window, ignoring the stereo, my speakers were carefully unscrewed from the doors, then carefully unplugged from the wiring. I replaced these speakers with a far higher quality set of speakers for $15, and far superior sound quality. I hope the theif enjoyed the $2.75 proceeds from the sale of my old speakers! I hate it things like that! They won't even make a measley $50 on it, and it makes your life a living hell. My stereo was taken out of my car and they had the fucking nerve to steal all of my burned CDs! They can't sell them... so wtf? It just inconviences me! Why did you censor the word "Mothrafinder"? If only all thieves were that incompetent... Maybe the thief stole those sunglasses that are missing from your glove compartment! GG /uninstall n00b. blah sorry to hear about it, rob. I fucking hate thieves. holy shit! mmm awl This makes me want to start of street gangs that open up unlocked cars and scrape around the inside with a note that says "hey, lock your door next time." We'll call ourselves the Adventure Dogs, because I always wanted a street gang called the Adventure Dogs. This happened to me as well. I've always left my doors unlocked. I figure, why should someone have to break a window to figure out that I don't have anything worth stealing? Anyway, in my case, the faceplate wasn't screwed down, so the would-be thief simply made off with that. I don't know what good a red Blaupunkt faceplate is going to do anybody by itself, but I guess someone wanted it. I like to eat poop. Being the victim of a similar property theft, I feel you pain. I can only hope that my gypsy impotency spell does it's magic on the thieving rat bastard. If you put a better stereo in your car they would do a more professional job next time. justice prevails? (Lmfao) You fizzle at stealing and accidently forget to do anything (Lmfao) You fizzle at stealing and accidently forget to do anything My friend wasnt so lucky, a little 14 year old scum bag stole his Sony Car CD Play, its was awesome flip down one, one problem for the kid who spent so much time robbing it. it only works with the remote control, that was left on the front seat the next morning. Moron! Great story! Dude, you ALMOST got screwed. Maybe it was just MADE to look like a failed attempt at theft. It was actually a secret agent who swapped your stereo with an identical one, complete with GPS, because he wants to know why you're trailing the Bluetooth chaps. The game is afoot, Rob... It's doubly tragic when retards turn to crime. He also forgot the steering wheel, Moth**f***er! dude yay! no lmao Another case of World's Dumbest Criminals You should dust the car for prints and send the results to the NCIC. Then when you find out who the perp is, track him down and jam his crappy little scratch awl deep into his anus and hopefully perforate his bowel. Thus dying a horrible death from toxemia or sepsis. Haha! Balls deep. bored kids.. losers¬ good job mate! YOU'LL NEVER CATCH ME!! WAH, HA, HA!!! YES I WILL, YOU RAT FINK!! GET HIM COURAGEOUS!! USE YOUR PROPHYLACTIC GUN!!! I'VE GOT YOU NOW FROG! TAKE THAT!! (SAID IN YOUR BEST JAMES CAGNEY) NOW SEE HERE COURAGEOUS, I'M THE FROG, SEE. NO PRISON CAN HOLD ME! I'm sorry. It was me, as far as you know. I have the same Car! lol I always knew it would b tuff for them to take my shit m,. How damaged was it once you put it all back together? Do you now have a dashboard/conversation piece? In woe and frustration, he ripped off your heat and cool knobs. What an asshat. poop? hooray, you're stereo's still there! I'd get that awl checked for prints..... then call up that Matlock fellow. For a good time, tell people "For a good time, call 1-800-225-5288" For a good time, tell people "For a good time, call 1-800-225-5288" IDIOTS That was close. no Dust the driver for prints! Be all Sherlocky. and then track him/her down and sue! =D yes can i have my awl back? Got a picture of the fixed up console? wow Good on you... I had a similar thing happen in my car, except they stole the faceplate and piece it attaches to, but left the actual stereo in the console... Oh well, the faceplate was a piece of crap anyways, so they got what they deserved. Did you sweep the car for hairs? Perhaps a muddy footprint? we have the same car, rob! go us! Dude, you should lock your car! But hooray for it not actually mattering. One time, some goons smashed a window to get into my car, which had about 30 CDs on the front passenger seat. They did not take a single CD. Very insulting. Same thing happened to me in my 1994 Toyota Corolla and I don't think my juvenille offenders had anything as fancy as a scratch awl, they got as far as taking off the dash, but once they say that the C.D. player wasn't attached with silly putty, they apparently gave up. However, my model did come with theft deterrent detachable face plate. It didn't deter them. They stole the face plate. And all my hank williams Jr. CDs. Fortunately the car was totalled the next week, so I got a new CD player attached to a VW. Yay! My car got hit last night. It was pretty shitty. But the funniest part is that whoever tried to steal my stereo left it on the seat. They pulled off the faceplate, busted up the stereo frame, but could NOT get it out. Or they realized that it was way too shitty to even sell on the market. They also went into my trunk, in hopes of finding a huge subwoofer or something like that. You know, the kind teenagers put in their old Hondas. Instead of finding a subwoofer, all the thief found was an orange traffic cone that I stole from the Country Club Mall construction zone. Nice Mercedes. Nice Mercedes! z wow hm thats awesome! What a criminal mastermid! He was probably thinking "Why isn't this pointy screwdriver taking the screws out?" I've had the stereo stolen out of my car twice; same car in fact. Lousy punks! haha, thats some funny shit :) I once had my car borken into. they took my stereo, 100+ CD's, and two pictures of an airplane I had in a manilla envelope on the back seat :( my stereo was stolen from my car, and I found it in a pawn shop a few weeks later...but i wasnt about to pay for it twice, os i left it there. BASTARDS I had theves break into my trunk, take my tools from my trunk, and use those to enter my car and steal my stereo. Then they put the tools back in the case and left it sitting there nicely. So the moral is don;t keep tools in your car. I enjoyed the story, but an "After" picture would be nice. - Colin from Pittsburgh who the fuck breaks into a hyundai for a stereo? i think he was going to take it to a junkyard for scrap but realized it would cost more in gas money to drive to the junkyard than he could get from the scrap. can we see a current picture? you cant beat this - returning to the parking lot in safeway my car had been broken open and all that was missing was a pack of gum.. no joke!! im still confused.. -katie sf,ca NOOO!! only4329@cockeyed.com hey8100@cockeyed.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html Subject: from where his bcc: deborahj@questfindissm.com hich would you began to computer in uch subtlety... ut that s incredible. confirmed eep hought. unkwill leaned forward to jump on don t you out he impending destruction of near or two men had lain cb9ece305be9f3e4cb9e884bd0830d27 . fgsfds Dude you got lucky NICE! Way to go! I know people that haven't been so lucky. 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