Re: BREAK IN-alarm success

["Craig Williams" <roccolister@hotmail.com>]

Jonas,

That's great news that the alarm worked. I have a couple of those stories 
myself, that I'll sjare with you sometime.

Mainly I just wanted to add that finally a crook broke the rear window 
instead of the front tiny window that is a super pain the ass to change.

--Craig


>From: "Jonas Karlsson" <jonas85k@hotmail.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: BREAK IN-alarm success
>Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 07:57:09 -0800
>
>So the unthinkable happened last night. 3:30 AM, car is parked accross the
>street from townhouse complex where I live, alarm goes off. In a drowsy 
>haze
>I re-arm it thinking a passing truck set it off. Keep hearing warning 
>chirps
>go off, and then alarm goes off again. Try to see what's up, and see cop 
>car
>lights coming up the street. Hear commotion and decide to head down there.
>
>Long story short. Two slimeballs caught, cops were already in the area
>investigating 4 breakins in under 4 hours. Cops hear my alarm, race over,
>and apprehend one adult and one minor. All stolen goods is in the
>perpetrator's car.
>
>Damage to my 78: Smashed in Driver side rear window. Completely trashed
>instrument panel as the punks yanked out my Blaupunkt CD player. No other
>damage. Speakers and amp were untouched.
>
>I have a feeling the 16" rims I have on there are what attracted the
>asswipes to the car, so now I have a car cover coming, with a lock kit.
>
>But the amazing good fortune is that the guys got caught thanks to the 
>alarm
>system I have on there. Hopefully the Judge will order restitution. Say,
>what does the dealer charge these days for an instrument panel? and a rear
>side window?
>
>Hope your night was a little less evantful.
>
>thanks for list(en)ing
>
>Jonas
>85 Scirocco 2.0
>78 Scirocco 1.8 Scrapes and bruises but nothing broken.
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