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this has been eating me up the last few days and i thought it would be best to get it off my chest, i wish to rant about how much i ****ing hate the scum of the earth that is car thieves.

On thursday night we got a call from one of our family friends, telling us that his VL commy had been stolen from his workshop. Some little ****s had obviously been scoping it out for a while, because his workshop has no street frontage and is totally fenced off. They cut through the fence and took the car. It may just be a VL commy but the motor is what he was most worried about. Hes spent a number of years working on it. Its the normal vl rb30 block with an rb25 head with a supercharger hangin off the front of it, pulls bout 200 KW at the wheels with a piggyback ecu and the normal shitty vl 3 speed auto, loud as ****, haha and sounds really really good. anyways he tells us that the cops have told him they have found it dumped and that it was "driveable" ....so off we go to retrieve it for him, expecting the worst. i drove it home and luckily it still ran perfectly, but there was a few scratches on the body, cassette player had been taken, but they left the cd player in it, but just for fun coz they couldnt take it, smashed the face of it. his mobile phone was still left untouched in the console. The brazen little pricks even had the audacity to put their victoria p-plates on it, coz they were still on the windows when we picked it up. Supposedly it was 4 kids that stole it, 2 were said to be bout 18-19 and the other 2 were thought to be around 10 years ****ing old. The car was covered in mud so obviously they had given it a good caning round in the mud all night as well. If only these pricks knew how much time, effort, money, research and development has gone into this car. Only to steal it for one night, thrash the **** out of it, then just dump it, seems so pointless to me and i just cant understand why people would do this.

To add insult to injury the owner was out of town, and while he was away someone tried to knock off his r33 gts-t as well.

Luckily both cars are still intact with basically no damage and still run perfectly, but the hassle and stress and sheer anger these ****s cause is too much to convey in words. even though they werent my cars he is one of our family and it may as well have been our own vehicles. I now know how the people on these forums and anyone else that have had any of their cars stolen at one time feel and i especially feel for the ones that werent as lucky as us to get their cars back at all or get them back a burnt out shell or worse.

On the extreme long shot that any car thieves happen to read this, i hope none of us ever find you, because you will wish we hadnt have believe me.

I hope at one stage we all get to catch up to these poor excuses for humanity and we can exact revenge on them, oh how good that feeling will be.

END RANT

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I know how you feel. These people are retarded sons of bitches who were probably denied toy cars as children. One night some idiot had the nerve to break into my Dad's van outside our house. My brother heard the noises outside and turned a light on which in effect scared him away.

You have every right to rant about this. People like us work hard and earn money to buy our cars and some uneducated goon attempts to take them away from us.

Thieves always get caught in the end. :)

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About a year back I had a stolen Supra embedded in my front yard gum tree. These 3-17 year olds had flogged it in Brisy, headed North and got spotted by the law in Gympie. Being really smart, they went bush, up my dirt road and actually lost the cops by hiding behind the outbuildings on my property. Thinking the fuzz had gone, they exited and arrived back on the road, right in front of a 2nd cop car. They planted it and that old 1JZ accelerated so hard they just drove straight into the nearest tree. The driver broke the steering wheel with his chest, the front passenger stuck his head into the windscreen and actually broke it. The girl in the back escaped with the driver but both were caught trying to make a getaway on my 17hp mower. The windscreen breaker was never found but I’ve got my excavator ready to dig a hole for him. I traced the tyre tracks around my property and that Supra had spun it’s tyres non stop into the tree, they had no idea, and totalled a beautiful car.

Occasionally I drive my son’s 220rwkw Skyline, so I have a huge respect for brute power, and I’ve worked all my life to get where I am so have zero tolerance for thieves.

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nah unfortunately they didnt have immobilisers, but after this incident that problem has been resolved. never gonna let any of these bastards get away with anything like that again.

thats a crazy ass story gigor, but it is funny that they tried to make a getaway on ya lawn mower, just proves the absolute stupidity of these weak excuses of life doesnt it?

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Anybody who attempts to steal, or even damage another persons property deserves to die... Not really related, but my gf's car was vandalised last week (these were obviously people who are too stupid to even become theives). They wrote two immmature profanities on the passenger door, and "tagged" the drivers door... I don't know what they hoped to achieve from such a feat, but i'm guessing it was my fist in there face...

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lawn mowers go faster out of gear down a hill than off full throttle...even my 17.5...which nonethe less is a BEAST :aroused:

great choice of getaway vehicle. probably took longer to start than they actually spent riding it.... actually no...just adding to the list of clever moves they made that day. smooth move you ****ing dickheads.

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