my new anti car theft strategy.

[North Texan]

Keep a live rattlesnake in something very tempting to steal. Once is all it takes and you can leave your keys in the ignition and valuables on the dash.

 

[Blue Jays]

Hi All-

The moderators should toss this thread in the dustbin as soon as possible. It contains so much misinformation I need hipboots when I read it...

~ Blue Jays ~

 

[V4Vendetta]

"Keep a live rattlesnake in something very tempting to steal."

There is so many things wrong about that idea that it's not even funny.

1. Where would he get a snake?

2. How could he guarantee that his family or himself not get bit?

 

[rick_reno]

Something that is legal is skunk scent. Many hunting stores carry it - liberally spread it around the inside of the car. I doubt they'd steal it. Start expoxing tennis shoes to the exterior - and spray paint obscenties on the doors (make sure they're really large). Again, they'll probably look elsewhere. There are a number of things you can do to your car to make it undesireable to steal. Do enough of them and you won't want to drive it either - then you've won not only the battle with the crooks but the internal struggle to give a rats behind about what you drive. Replace it with a mid-80's pickup that has no value, you'll be happier.

 

[Blue Jays]

Hi Rick-

I've considered your humble suggestions and decided....uh, NO.

~ Blue Jays ~

 

[Blue Jays]

Hi All-

As an aside, this post (my 229th) is the same number as one of my favorite firearms...The SIG SAUER P229. We now return you to our previously scheduled thread.

~ Blue Jays ~

 

[Bobarino]

uh people, lets not forget that this is my daily driver. i do not want to have to wear a gas mask to drive it nor do i want shoes and obscenties on the outside of it, nor do i want pit vipers inside of it. (whiskey tango foxtrot?!?!) i think i'll post a poll about the pepper shotgun rounds and see what people think since this thread has deteriorated into scooby-doo like booby traps.

Bobby

 

[HankB]

I read a story some years back about how people were dealing with car thieves and carjackers in the new South Africa, where the crime rate is so high the actual numbers are regarded as a state secret.

Some have installed side-firing flamethrowers on their cars, some have spring loaded sword blades that come out from underneath, but the cheapest solution was a guy who kept a bottle of brandy he'd laced with either cyanide or arsenic in his glove box, figuring whoever stole the car would find the booze and drink up.

In the USA, doing any of these could get you in MORE trouble than the car thief. Clearly the flamethrower/sword ideas, being mechanical installations, are booby traps of your doing, banned in most states. If the authorities could conclusively link you despite your denials to poison booze via fingerprints on the bottle or something, you wouldn't duck legal trouble there, either. Don't get caught doing something like this.