crisipicada wrote:Report it immediately to the nearest police station where the carnapping transpired. And then, together with the flash alarm, police blotter report and or a spot report, bring along your car's Original certificater of Registration, Official receipt and report the matter to the nearest Highway patrol Group in your area.
YOur care is valuable. So do not let carnappers take it away from you. Protect it. You and your HPG both share this responsibility.
This can be very scary! My brother-in-law had a fairly new car stolen and driven to California. When they found it, it was fairly well trashed, and that was years ago.
Carol's brother when working in Nigeria had someone open his car door and pull his watch off his arm. He is very lucky that is all they got.
I have a 1997 Van and a 1969 pickup truck. I never even take the keys out of either one of them. We are so remotely located that it would be highly unlikely that anyone would even come to our place, but it could happen. Another ranch we lived on we never removed keys from vehicles. The towns we have lived in I locked everything up though.
The Van we have is a Chrysler Town and Country, and it has what is known as phantom locks. It locks and unlocks while driving. Slowing down, speeding up, turning corners, and puttin on the brakes all activate the locks. You lock it and it will unlock itself while you are walking away from it. When we lived in the Stehekin Valley would would park it, lock it, get on the boat, go to Stehekin, and when we returned we would find all the doors unlocked. I kept it covered and there were no valuables in it, so it always turned out okay. I think the wind rocking the Van caused it to unlock. I was vandalized one time in Spokane Washington while in a pet and feed store asking about a job. It was an old Chevy Van, and it was easy to break into. The thief or theives got a case of motor oil, and my brief case that had valuables and things that were difficult to replace, like my birth certificate, flying log and instruments as I had been piloting airplanes recently at that time. That was in 1986, a long time ago now.