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Old 05-17-2008, 05:44 PM
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Trust me, national origin or color of skin should not even play in this one...we have just as many scumbags born on this side of the border doing the same shiiiiiit and been doing it for a lot longer....it's the person not where they hail from

Glad your truck was still there
This is true, I can't say for sure did they cross the border this time or did they born in this side but anyway, we have 95% here hispanic origin.
I think this time of the year (now when the winter Texans have returned North) it is like jackpot if you see another "caucasian" around. Specially at Wally's.

And I now through a witness that the ones who hit my wife's car last year in a private parking area, and run away, that they came from other side of the border. We never catched them even we had a eye witness though. But we have a picture and license number of the car so if it returns one day here, I know what to do... It cost the insurance company $3k to get it fixed and I had to pay the deductible. That Black Suburban will not come back, they change the car for the next trips.
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What anti-theft device do you have installed? I live and work in a pretty rural area, though there is a city a few miles away from home (nothing close to work). More concerned going to get groceries than at home (one way in - one way out : Those found there at night, will still be found there in the day!).
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What anti-theft device do you have installed? I live and work in a pretty rural area, though there is a city a few miles away from home (nothing close to work). More concerned going to get groceries than at home (one way in - one way out : Those found there at night, will still be found there in the day!).
Hi,

I already sent you a private message for the link where that thing is. It is easy to install and use. I don't want the bandits to find out why they couldn't steal my truck.
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Old 05-17-2008, 07:20 PM
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Hey send me that link too please.
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Old 05-17-2008, 07:28 PM
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I'm not going to stay quiet anymore. All but a few of us at FTE know exactly where all the hoodlums and other criminals in this country are coming from. We can take the blame for a certain faction of them, but all of the rest fall right on the shoulders of the dummies that are in office that give them voter registration cards along with their drivers license. If some of you don't like this opinion, lump it!
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Old 05-17-2008, 07:55 PM
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Just one more "truck not stolen" story.

I went to Walmart Thursday night at 9:00pm (where I don't usually go, but I just needed milk and some bread for the next morning, wife is out of town). My shopping took 3 minutes, but the cash line took ~15min due to the issues in this area, who lives here know what I'm talking about).

I got back in the parking lot and threw the groceries to the back seat. Jumped into the drivers seat and I looked around and WTF! The center console was open and stuff around the truck. Then I saw that the steering column cover was pulled up! SOMEBODY HAD TRIED TO STEAL MY TRUCK That's funny feeling!!

I was like wondering, what the hell happened, checked the stuff that was pulled out from the console. Nothing was stolen (I had some stuff worth of $500, but obviously the MORON was just looking the spare key? I don't keep that in the truck anyway. The ignition lock was scratched with screwdriver but that IDIOT couldn't start the truck. What an amateur
I was wondering how he got in and checked the door: the driver door lock chamber was smashed with obviously the same screwdriver and he got the door opened. The lock is now screwed up.

I have a starting preventing system in and if I'm not close to the truck, it won't start, what ever you do. I don't know if this idiot got it even cranking, but he had no chance to steal it. Just pissed me off, and screwed up the door lock and the steering column cover. The ignition lock is ok.
Does anyone have a extra steering column top cover lying around? Color doesn't matter.

I tried to catch the security guy (who should be checking around the parking lot) at the Walmart, but he was nowhere to be found, his car was parked at the front, the rest of the staff was just like "what I'm complaining?" It is your truck and your problem. It was raining little bit and too dark that their cam system could have revelead the MORON, if I had found the security guy. But it is easy to figure out who and where he/they were from.

Well one happy Wally customer less, I'm never going to that place ever gain and I told it to them too. As it was raining I didin't even want to bother the cops, as they couldn't help anyway. And the damage is too small to even complain to the insurance company.

Luckily I did'nt catch that moron in action, I'd be in jail now...
But this event made me even more mad against these our belowed southern border neighbours. They have now violated both mine and my wife's car.
Protect your trucks and avoid dark parking lots!

Please tell me which one it was so i will not go there. I stay away from walmart as much as i can, but sometime I have no choice.
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Hey send me that link too please.
I'd like that info as well. I haven't had any problems yet, but I'd rather prepare ahead, then have to replace my truck...
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Old 05-17-2008, 08:23 PM
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[/quote]I'm thinking to put a sticker to the driver side window in spanish: "Don't break in as you can't get the truck stolen anyway, don't even try!" (No rompa en como usted no puede conseguir el camión robado de todos modos, hace ni trata"!)[/quote]


No offense, but you make the erroneous assumption that these *********s can read or will even bother to read regardless of what language you put it in.
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Please tell me which one it was so i will not go there. I stay away from walmart as much as i can, but sometime I have no choice.
It was the E Jackson Ave SuperWally, close to Texas Roadhouse.

Exactly, I don't visit them normally either but I don't know what the heck I was thinking (I was lazy), I could have gone to the Shell station to get the milk.
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Old 05-17-2008, 08:28 PM
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I'm thinking to put a sticker to the driver side window in spanish: "Don't break in as you can't get the truck stolen anyway, don't even try!" (No rompa en como usted no puede conseguir el camión robado de todos modos, hace ni trata"!)[/quote]


No offense, but you make the erroneous assumption that these *********s can read or will even bother to read regardless of what language you put it in.[/quote]

Yes, true, mybe it should be a Rotweiler left in the car. But I'm not a big dog fan. Maybe a Cougar? I like cats.

I also like the Markadeck's idea of Electrify the car so who ever touches it will die... But it may be a problem when raining, which is rare here though.
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Chris, I've been there and done that with just about everything in life. There is not one thing a member here can do that I have not already tried in my life. For better or worse. I wake up every morning surprised I'm still alive.
I love this quote Mark!!!! I'll rep you as soon as the timeout police let me.

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1. Don't let the cops find the body. It's harder to prosecute if they can't find the body.

2. You assume that the perps can read............

(Humorous post on my part. Nobody here should get their underwear in a bind)
There was a case here where a couple of guys climbed a fence into a high voltage transformer. They went to cut a wire to steal the copper. Fried and died, 13,200 volts. The family sued the power company and won!! Why you ask....because the signs that said "high voltage danger" was in english and not spanish. They now are posted in both languages.
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I love this quote Mark!!!! I'll rep you as soon as the timeout police let me.



There was a case here where a couple of guys climbed a fence into a high voltage transformer. They went to cut a wire to steal the copper. Fried and died, 13,200 volts. The family sued the power company and won!! Why you ask....because the signs that said "high voltage danger" was in english and not spanish. They now are posted in both languages.
Good story, If I'm going to but high voltage, I need both languages
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Old 05-17-2008, 08:54 PM
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Good story, If I'm going to but high voltage, I need both languages
Unfortunatly we have to CYA!!
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The family sued and won because it wasnt in spanish!! That is the biggest crock of shiiit I've heard in a while! Thats just like all the commercials I see for law firms advertising suing people! That crap piss's me off to no end! We need some people with balls in the justice system. If I were a judge I wouldve took one look at the case and laughed the people out of the courtroom! Makomaker I like the Republican thing in your sig.
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