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Thursday night while parked at work it appears someone was trying to break in!! I came out from my shift to head home (midnight b/c I work swing) and as I approach the SS the drivers window looks all smudgy. First thing I thought was "Damn, I'm slipping on my details that window looks like shit"
When I got closer it became obvious that someone had been trying to force my window down to get in. I immediately FREAKED!! Had I startled the guy when I came around the corner?? if so where was he so I could cave his skull in. A few seconds later one of my coworkers comes around the corner and notices his window was pryed down... his cell phone, charger, and change from his ashtray were missing along with his diabetes meds. We called the cops and filed a report, but they said the prints were far too smudged and in the event they did get a clean print there wouldn't be much of a chance of catching anyone. Because my coworkers stereo was still intact and nothing else was missing the cops seemed to think it was probably a tweaker just looking for easy money to buy his next high.
So there goes my sense of security. Called up a local shop and made sure they had what I wanted in stock and dropped the truck off this morning for install. Going with a Clifford 50.7x, also going with a secondary kill switch which will be hidden elsewhere inside (not gonna say where) that only I will know about... the placement of this is pretty genius...
Any feedback on the 50.7x?? I wanted something with 2 way and also figured I might as well add remote start while I'm at it. I know essentially all alarms are DEI now, I just happened to like the look/feel of the Clifford fob better than the viper equivalent.
Talking with the cops and the guy at the shop this morning they both said its getting more and more common as the economy gets shittier. People who would only troll the bad areas to steal shit have started migrating into other areas trying to pick up 'better' stuff.
Fucking pisses me off to no end that you just can't have anything nice without some douche-cycle trying to take it from you b/c they're too ignorant, lazy, scummy, or a combination of all those to work for it themselves.
Hopefully between this and Onstar there will be enough deterrents around my vehicle that they'll move on to something else before taking stuff from me. If not I'll be forced to leave a half starved pitbull in my back seat from now on.
When I got closer it became obvious that someone had been trying to force my window down to get in. I immediately FREAKED!! Had I startled the guy when I came around the corner?? if so where was he so I could cave his skull in. A few seconds later one of my coworkers comes around the corner and notices his window was pryed down... his cell phone, charger, and change from his ashtray were missing along with his diabetes meds. We called the cops and filed a report, but they said the prints were far too smudged and in the event they did get a clean print there wouldn't be much of a chance of catching anyone. Because my coworkers stereo was still intact and nothing else was missing the cops seemed to think it was probably a tweaker just looking for easy money to buy his next high.
So there goes my sense of security. Called up a local shop and made sure they had what I wanted in stock and dropped the truck off this morning for install. Going with a Clifford 50.7x, also going with a secondary kill switch which will be hidden elsewhere inside (not gonna say where) that only I will know about... the placement of this is pretty genius...
Any feedback on the 50.7x?? I wanted something with 2 way and also figured I might as well add remote start while I'm at it. I know essentially all alarms are DEI now, I just happened to like the look/feel of the Clifford fob better than the viper equivalent.
Talking with the cops and the guy at the shop this morning they both said its getting more and more common as the economy gets shittier. People who would only troll the bad areas to steal shit have started migrating into other areas trying to pick up 'better' stuff.
Fucking pisses me off to no end that you just can't have anything nice without some douche-cycle trying to take it from you b/c they're too ignorant, lazy, scummy, or a combination of all those to work for it themselves.
Hopefully between this and Onstar there will be enough deterrents around my vehicle that they'll move on to something else before taking stuff from me. If not I'll be forced to leave a half starved pitbull in my back seat from now on.
