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Just to let everyone know that the heat has brought out the thieving element in force!

I work on Constitution Ave up near the defence offices. At some stage today there were multiple break-ins which were done by smashing windows rather than the old screwdriver in the lock trick. My genius office manager heard several alarms going off but was too stupid to say or do anything (she is closest to the street side windows)!!!

I would not be suprised if they also hit the easy pickings of the big open defence carparks.

Luckily for me I catch the bus Mon-Fri and just use my baby for weekend fun (dirty pun unintended). Pitty that this kind of topic has to be my first post but I thought everybody ought to know.

So be on the lookout and hope for the best but always plan for the worst.

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Wagga has had heaps of break in and home invasions over the past week, as well as a few cars going missing and heaps broken into (around here its usually a broken window).

When I had to park in "uncovered" parks, I always had a bomb just to drive there, a clublock just to make niking it a little bit harder and left it open. It was gone through a few times, but never went missing.

It sucks that you can't just drive whatever you want to work though.

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Somone stole my Crome RAY's Tyres valvecaps off my rims the other day. i was pissed because i can't get replacements. i know there not realy anything important but thats beside the point.

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That sucks!! Would it be cause it is school/uni holidays so people are out bored and looking for something to entertain themselves with?

it could be, but i think mine were stolen when i was parked at the CIT car park. thats twice i've had stuff stollen from that carpark. first all my audio gear. will it ever end..........

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That really does suck! You spend all this time and money on your car and someone just takes it away from you. I spent all this money on Soundsteam gear and it was stolen out of the garage! Pissed me off considering it took us ages to save up for that gear and it was top of the line and a lot of it!!!

I just hope that nothing gets stolen from anyone else so everyone can enjoy their Christmas!!

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That really does suck! You spend all this time and money on your car and someone just takes it away from you. I spent all this money on Soundsteam gear and it was stolen out of the garage! Pissed me off considering it took us ages to save up for that gear and it was top of the line and a lot of it!!!

I remember reading about that on the forms a wile ago, man it sucks. I’m still trying to replace all my gear. It’s like you said it takes forever to save up for the good stuff. As I don’t like to by the cheap gear either. Then add that on top of every thing else that needs to be done, engine mods, gauges ect…….. I need a better paying job!

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Yeah I am currently working three jobs (while doing a law degree mind you) and really upsets me knowing that someone who probably has never had a job in his/her life has got my $20k worth of soundsteam gear! The police knew who it was that stole it and was able to get back jewellery and other things but unfortunetaly my gear seemed to have been so hot that it got passed on really quickly.

Just really annoying when you work so hard to get top stuff for something you love (in this situation, your car) and then someone who deserves something from the gutters gets it all.

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