For those who don't know, some bastard flogged my tail light lenses the week before the nationals. $60 later I was back on the road & got over it.

Sunday night, some son of an unmarried goat had another go at my truck!

Broke the quarter window on the sliding door. Fortunately, the sliding door is a deadlock, so they weren't getting in that way & the front door locks are too far to reach. So I've lost nothing, but it pisses me off.

12 years my truck has been parked on the street with no problems. Now it's been attacked twice in a month.
What's got me is my truck looks like such a piece of shit, why would anyone go near it?

Looks like you need to sit up for a while

Been at work both times Dave.
But if I get hold of em their mother won't be able to identify the body.

It was very probably the same person or crew both times. They
probably have a good knowledge of the area and may even be
local (if average crime theory works in this case).

Noticed anyone new in the area with the same model? Go
and have a nice chat with them. Make them feel guilty, you'll
probably see it in their faces if they did it.

They probably won't be back real soon, but they may very well return, as they didn't score a thing the second time around.

Sorry to hear it Mate! Hope you catch 'em!

[Edited on 3-5-2004 by vwombat]

take time off work and sleep in the back with a baseball bat.

had the same problem once, came out one morning, my bugs engine lid was up some one had stolen the spark leads and the spark plugs!!
same day the bug up the street which had been sitting for months rotting started driving around again.
i thnk its just newcastle...

That blows dude. Theres too much of this crap going on, people need to have their morals reinstated.

Mmm , i'm too paranoid to leave my bug anywhere to be honest. Even keep the garage door down if i working on it. Take it to work and use the workshop to detail it etc. Too many people are scum bags and if someone keyed my car or robbed it i'd be so gutted!
I'd wait up and catch the pricks , just don't do it alone

Dan

It's a bit of everyone is right.
Yes Sam, it's sort of welcome back to the city. Been too long in a place where you COULD trust your neighbours.

Vwombat, I do know most of the kombis in the area, but there was a "ring in" appeared a couple of blocks down for a couple of weeks & I haven't seen it since my lenses vanished. Thing is because my gearbox doesn't have the connection for the reverse lights, I painted over the clear bit of the lense. So I WILL recognise my lights if I see them.
However I don't think the 2 are connected. The lenses happened right out the front, either in broad daylight or fair under a street light, (so ya gotta give em an A for balls), the break in was 4 blocks down the road at the railway station car park. Easy pickings.

As for the baseball bat, Ive always prefered pulling someone apart bare handed...........

not just newcastle ,its everywhere.had a mate park his car in local carpark 1/2 hour later it was gone. found it 4 days later minus a few pieces and burnt out. i think a hockey stick would be better as you can hook them back to you as they try to run away!!!!!!!:P

HEY SPOOK

give eum some LEAD poisioning Stuff eum

F... with my VW n U F... with me.

It shall be a duel with rubber chickens at sunrise Frenzix.

No one shall besmeech my unblemished character!!!

Newcastle is a long way to go for a couple of crap parts.
You are practically giving them away with your wrecker
Bus anyway! Did you sell any yet?

you will have to have false noses with the moustache and glasses as well for this duel to be worth while:vader

Trouble with the city Dave is they tend to frown on you carrying a rifle. The bastards even outlawed the big knife I used to carry for cutting beasts out from under locomotives. (Great fun that, there's just no aroma to compare to half a cow jammed under a hot traction motor ):puke

Dannyboy, someone actually damaging my kombi doesn't overly bother me, unless it costs me to fix it. Mine is very much a work horse, so one more dint don't really matter. You'll see people trying to get the "RAT" look, mine just turned out that way.

It's the principle of it. People pinching, or attempting to pinch, my gear pisses me off. Most of all because I'm the kind of bloke that will give away what I don't need. Quite a few people on this forum will back that.

As for being alone when I catch up with them, don't go thinking that because I drive a kombi & my daughter made a dangling bead thing for the mirror, that I'm some sort of hippy. I like violence & I'm quite adept at it.

ahahahaha spook your crazy but i have mates from out west and have the same attitude!!! wild bastards use are!!
just to come along with this hippy thing bad karma will come to them who steal
cheers
rhys

just about every night someone will undo the soft top on andreas roadster and go through the car looking for shit. then leave roof half open, oh for off street parking or pet death adder

oh my god why would someone steal spark plug leads???? they must have been absolutely desperate and tight. Far out, i have a spare few sets of leads i would happily give them way

oh for the days when the local copper etc gave you a great kick up the bum before taking you home to meet the folks who gave you a bigger kick,DISCIPLINE is what is needed these days. DOWN WITH THE DO-GOODERS who protect the hoodlooms of society:cussing
just my 2cents worth about society these days

Some are Chris, not all, but in the end I don't know who did this so I aint about to blame one group, & certainly not a whole generation. You might also remember that I am the father of 5 of todays youth.

As I said there was a kombi appeared to be visiting someone down the road. It dissappeared straight after my lenses. So although it's a pretty fair bet, I'll never know. But as I also said, I will recognise my lights if I see them.

The break in, well you've seen my truck. It's got dints, scratches, undercoat, mismatched tyres & silicone round the windows. Basically it's only worth 100 bucks if it's got a full tank of fuel. But there's a couple of grand worth of tools in the back.

Pod, the bleeding hearts have taken over & we can't go back.
When I was a boy you got six of the best at school, the local copper could give you a size 11 up the date & no one dared question your fathers right to bring you into line. All gone.
Then the same bleeding hearts want parents to pay for the damage these undisciplined children cause!!

It's all in the way you look at things.
They see me physically chastising my children as child abuse. Go the other way, when the first real taste of authority they get is when they are hereby known as the defendant, & it's too late to change a damn thing.
I see that as child abuse.

But if you really want to see where things are f#cked up: I can be fined $400 for smoking a legal substance on central station. Not far down the road, I can inject heroine into my veins, they supply the needle & a nurse & don't ask where I got the heroine.

The world is run by head cases..............

[Edited on 5-5-2004 by Spook]

mmmmmmmmm heroin

where too much like the fukin americans!!
cheers
rhys

this is happening a lot in Newcastle it seems, mate had the tailgate stolen from his F100 truck last nite at Buttai Barn, I had the screen door and bug zapper stolen from my house at Woodberry last year, and my mates and I have given up trying to keep valve caps on any of our cars.

who steals a bug zapper?!!.....jesus thats just stupid......why dont they just get a job!......just a question....were u in the house when the screen door was stolen?

I agree Spook, six of the best or a size 11 never 'hurt' anybody.... and I tasted both when I was a kid!

no, the house had been unoccupied whilst being repainted and it happened during the night.

If anyone gave my kid six of the best (or any physical punishment) I'd be mighty upset and they would be charged with assault, assuming I didnt take the law into my own hands and deal out some justice of my own.

I strongly believe that discipline starts from the minute a kid crawls. You dont smack unnecessarily. Never smack first. Fire a couple of warning shots first. Spend as much time with them as you can so they dont need to be attention seeking. My daughter very rarely gets a smack. Some of the time when she does get one I regret it because I overreact. Dont try to be too regimented. She can jump on beds, make noise, do what she likes so long as it isnt destructive or dangerous. That way she doesnt have anything to rebel against. I find that losing out on ice cream, taking away pencils, or even knowing that mum and dad arent impressed is as much a deterrant as anything else.

When my wife and I temporarily seperated, the kid went off the rails a bit. Yelling and smacking didnt help. But putting a piece of pink carboard on the fridge and giving a star a day for good behaviour did. She got a treat when she finished a row of stars. And the treat was usually nothing, like $2 for one of those shopping centre rides.

The trouble starts when the kid doesnt get any discipline or too much. Gotta be a happy (light) medium I reckon. With any luck my girl wont have time to be a shit. Hope she keeps up her swimming, athletics and ballet, and next year maybe soccer. All depends who they play with at school I guess. One reason why she doesnt go local.

:jesus what a speech.

Hey I need a tailight too. Cos my taillight did $1100 damage to a Hyundai. Dont get spanish ones. They are shit. Dont fit properly and fade in 2 years.