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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnry5hqKhBc because thieves have all the time in the world to screw your life up Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | ||
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| Big Stack |
Car door locks are very easy to defeat anyway. If someone wants to break in to steal your stuff in the car, the door locks are a mere speedbump. What keeps cars from being stolen nowadays is the chip in key immobilizer system. These can't be defeated nearly as easily and quickly as the old ignition locks used to be. This has slowed down car theft a bit. This coin trick wouldn't defeat that. | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Agreed. A thief is a thief is a thief. They will find a way to steal ANYTHING regardless the barrier placed before them. Chop off their finger on first offense...hand on second. Then maybe they might think twice about stealing again... "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Meh. You can say that “theives will take your stuff anyways” if you want to. The facts show that contents from vehicle thefts are 99 percent from unlocked cars, that the owner acknowledges they do not lock. Actual smash and grab thefts are rare in most of America. Most of those can be attributed to groups like the “felony lane gang” types. If we stopped responding to unlocked vehicle content thefts, larceny would drop by nearly 100 per cent. Lock your cars. | |||
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I just tried this on my truck (2008 dodge ram 1500) - it doesn't prevent the door from locking. The only way I could stop it from locking is to prop it open enough that the door was actually unlatched - which is impossible to do if the door was locked in the first place and if it wasn't they don't need to prop it open and wait around. This is nothing but click bait (if you go to the parent website it is all clickbait). Shawn I reject your reality and substitute my own. --Adam Savage, MythBusters | |||
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| sick puppy |
I like the comment on the video that said "i was blissfully unaware of how stupid this video was going to be." googling it only comes up with Snopes calling it fake or random spammy-looking "news" articles, and it all reads like a chain letter. dont flash your lights at people or you'll get beat up by gang members type stuff. Not that thieves aren't ingenious and shit, but I don't see this being that great of a "trick" over slim-jimming old cars or just going through lots checking to see who has left their car unlocked. ____________________________ While you may be able to get away with bottom shelf whiskey, stay the hell away from bottom shelf tequila. - FishOn | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Sure took them long enough to get to the point | |||
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Prepared for the Worst, Providing the Best |
This. X100. I work in a small town. In 8 years I have never taken a report about a random break-in to a vehicle that involved forced entry (I have had some that involved suspects who knew the victim, but the motive was vandalism rather than outright theft). I have taken countless reports of thefts from unlocked vehicles...and it boggles the mind what people leave in their unlocked cars. Crooks don't want to risk the noise and effort of smashing windows. It's a lot easier to just walk down the street and try door handles, and help yourself to the contents of the unlocked ones. Not to mention, if we happen by while they're doing it, it just looks like some guy getting something out of his car. It's a lot harder to explain a big pile of broken glass. | |||
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thin skin can't win |
Dreaming of ad money! You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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Unflappable Enginerd |
My thoughts as well, 3+ minute video with 30 seconds of content... __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
My experience: Couple months ago, my delivery truck was hit. Door window on passenger side smashed. Glass pebbles all over the place. Cab was ransacked, looked like a hand grenade went off in there. Everything thrown around, thousands of dollars damage, but the only thing the bastages took, was pry off a panel on the passenger side dash and take the airbag. So yes, Virginia, they do break in to locked vehicles. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Brother locked his car. When it was returned after someone stole it, they had removed the radio and just totally trashed the dash. They cut the steering lock out of the steering column and put a big dent in the front quarter as well as breaking out the rear window to get in. The car was pretty much trashed. It was just his go to work car but it was his and was unusable when they were done. NRA Life Endowment member Tri-State Gun collectors Life Member | |||
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This was for the people in the real world, In the quad cities they just leave the car open and the keys accessible. they ( the l.e.o.'s) are pointing at teens in the area ( according to local news) for over 140 car thefts in the quad city area. but way over a third of the thefts were when the cars were unlocked with the keys accessible ! Does insurance even cover car theft if you leave the car unlocked with the keys in it ? Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
 The same holds true for stolen vehicles. The vast majority of vehicles that get stolen are unlocked cars with the keys left in them. (Often left running, too.) Turn your car off. Lock your doors. Take the keys with you. | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
It would be a good idea to chop a finger first, but you could apply a tourniquet around the neck to slow the bleeding. (if only...) | |||
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| Flow first, power later. |
What an irritating video. And dubious does not mean the same thing as devious :-) 1:09 mark in the video | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
Guess who’s wife left her car unlocked LAST NIGHT.  Luckily it was just some quarters. Little shits. Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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Plowing straight ahead come what may |
My grandfathers advice..."it doesn't cost anything to lock your doors"...and his admonition was always to "push that button down before you get out"  ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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| Prepared for the Worst, Providing the Best |
Not saying it never happens. But it happens a whole lot more to folks who don't lock their cars. | |||
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