Im in Canada so we arent allowed to shoot or even hurt people to protect our property so what I would do is setup a system like my buddy has on his stang. Its a full car alarm system that allows him to know which door is being opened and stuff but the one feature that I would use on this guy your talking about is the remote starter. He isnt about to come back and steal your wheels when the night before you started your car as he was just getting his iron out to take off the bolts. If you got a loud truck as well then it may just be enough to scare him flat on his ***.

But if you want to do something a little more aggressive I would sneak up in all black and rent a white van and then get some buddies to help you kidnap him and drop him off in the middle of nowhere (close enough that he doesnt die of starvation) and then call it quits.

Or even setup a blow up doll in the driver seat. If he sees that he wont go near the car.

 

I said you shoot him with a paintball gun, believe me they can hurt very bad (been there done that) ! go for the knees, if you shoot to the face he'll be very hurt but he won't die ! also try to keep these on video so you can show to the police that he was going to take your wheels. Also if he tries to run away it'll be easy to find him since he'll be all painted ! !

Let us know what happens !

 

After every flight, we had to chock and chain our plane. On carriers they do it because the ship is rolling on the waves, on land it isn't a big deal, except if windstorms are coming.
Put some metal hooks in the ground, and chain the truck down to the ground and put a pad lock thru the chain links. That will surprise the little creep.

 

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yea, but naked

 

run a electric cord to the vehicle and hook one wire to the frame and plug it in, unless he has gloves on, he'll get a real shock when he goes to remove the lugs, did that to a jeep once when a stray dog was coming by in the night and peeing on my chrome wheels, damp weather makes it all the better too.

 

I know he doesnt carry a gun...He doesnt even own one. The locking lug nuts are a good idea....Those would really slow him down. The unloaded gun would only be used to scare him.

 

If I were in you shoes...I would put a few rounds in the mag. and if you see him in the act...fire off a few rounds a couple inches below his feet. Tell him to "stay where you are or I will fire!" and promptly call the police. If he tries to run, put a bullet in him.

At least...thats what I would do. There have been a string of robberies around our house in the past few weeks, and ever since then...my SKS has been locked and loaded next to my bed. The dogs will bark if anyone is on the property, alerting me.

 

forget the bat/gun/taser/pepper spray

get a cane like they use in singapore. hit him with it until he cries. make sure you capture every bit of humiliation and pain on video and post it on the internet.

 

I had a co-worker and every other week he work on Friday from 0700 to 0800 Saturday morning. I worked the same schedule. Someone stole his rims and wheels off his personal vehicle. He replaced them thru his insurance company, but figured they'd be back. He Siliconed razor blades on the wheels, but nothing happened. I asked him when the others were stolen and it was during the new moon, sure enough he came back with the new moon and when he worked all night. Didn't realize he'd cut himself till he was taking off the second wheel. It turned out to be one of his buddies. This was in VA, in MD they probably have locked him up for boobie trapping the wheels.

 

thats awesome

 

How do you know this guy? If it was me I would buy lugnut locks and replace a few of them. What is his reasoning for doing this, and why has he told people? Must not be too smart of a guy.

 

Rig up some kind of capacitor to your truck or an electric fence type of rig. Sounds like an odd situation to be in.

 

When I was a kid my Dad did that with a TV amplifier, to keep a cat from peeing in the vents. One morning he was late and forgot. He made more noise than the cat.

 

IN this day and age, you all need to remember that the crooks seem to have more rights than an honest person. Never forget that!

Setting booby traps can cost you everything you own and possibly get you criminal charges if someone is hurt in the process.

As much as I HATE sneak thieves and other bags of worthless scum that so horribly invade our lives and our private property, I'd be really careful of what I did to protect what shouldn't have to be protected in the first place.

Remember when that last comet came by a few years back and we could all see it in the western sky late at nite? This is kind of goofy, but I was out in my parking area and in order to see the comet clearly, over the tennis court fence, I had crawled up on top of our ...ugh.. Honda and was standing on the roof checking it out. It was pretty dark that nite (no moon) and the area was
pretty quiet. Then I hear a couple people come walking through our drive through area and see them walking towards the fence they always climb over. Then suddenly, one of the pair comes walking right over to my car and tries the door handle. He didn't even see me kneeling on the roof of the thing! I said to him.." What the [snip] do you think you're doing?" This voice out of nowhere freaked this kid out so bad, he fell to the ground and nearly turned himself inside out trying to get away as fast as he could. I jumped off the roof and put my foot on his chest , holding him down, and gave him a "teeny" little lecture about the consequenses of ripping me off. His friend just stood by the fence and watched silently. After the little lecture was over, I then told them both to get off our property and the next time I caught them even near our property, I wasn't going to be Mr Niceguy anymore. They didn't climb over the fence either. And...knock on wood.. I haven't been ripped off in quite some time now.

Thieves realy urk me. I went into the house and told the wife about it and she couldn't believe they didn't even see me there. Hmmm.. I guess how often do you expect to run across someone standing on the roof of their car in the middle of the night?