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Post by JerryScript on Sept 20, 2015 9:03:27 GMT -5
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Post by novaraptor on Sept 20, 2015 12:14:52 GMT -5
Ladies!! This is why scumbag thieves make bad househusbands!! Don't do it..
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Post by oldchopperguy on Sept 20, 2015 21:11:17 GMT -5
Hmmm...
A pound of C-4 in the scooter storage area attached to a motion-sensor and the miscreant wouldn't be stealing anything more, OR making any more babies.
A replacement scooter would be needed, but... It might be worth it for the lesson taght... LOL!
Oh well, I suppose that wouldn't be politically correct.
Leo (pants up, don't loot) in Texas |
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Post by crawford on Sept 20, 2015 22:49:32 GMT -5
That's another reason I got my Zodiac weight almost 900 pounds plus a alarm would be screaming while being touched. But really wouldn't a alarm help I'm sure it going off would get attention mine the more you screw with it more ruckus it makes.
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Post by dollartwentyfive on Sept 21, 2015 1:39:21 GMT -5
Hmmm...
A pound of C-4 in the scooter storage area attached to a motion-sensor and the miscreant wouldn't be stealing anything more, the only problem with this scenario is forgetting to disable it. my ride is too heavy to be picked up and put in a truck, and too big to put in a van by one person. so i usually just run the chain through the frame and rear wheel. yep, you guessed it, i jumped on it one day and tried to go somewhere only to be stopped because . . . i forgot to remove the chain. i can only imagine what would have happened if i had it rigged to explode. you really can't do too much to completely stop theft, but you can make it difficult. i used the biggest link chain i could find, these links were at least the thickness of my thumb. a bolt cutter would have a hard job of cutting those links. chain your bike to an immovable object, parking lot lamp post for example. keep your ride covered at home. |
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Post by SylvreKat on Sept 21, 2015 7:56:59 GMT -5
Ah Leo, you're so wonderfully violent. You Texan you.
I agree that there's pretty much nothing you can do to truly stop a thief, short of land mines or C4. Best you can do is make it more inconvenient to take yours than the next bike, so they move on.
At work, I park in front of Panera's then use a cover and a little bicycle cable to lock to the handicapped sign.
At home, I park in front of a Ford Focus hatchwagon. Gotta move the car to steal the scoot. Or at least break into the closed garage.
>'Kat, ignoring that car (?) alarm that's been going for 10 minutes now....
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Post by floridagull on Sept 21, 2015 10:22:35 GMT -5
Hmmm...
A pound of C-4 in the scooter storage area attached to a motion-sensor and the miscreant wouldn't be stealing anything more, OR making any more babies.
A replacement scooter would be needed, but... It might be worth it for the lesson taght... LOL!
Oh well, I suppose that wouldn't be politically correct.
Leo (pants up, don't loot) in Texas
A pound? Wouldn't that be a bit much, and cause great collateral damage? How about a quarter pound...? |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Sept 21, 2015 12:26:55 GMT -5
Hmmm...
A pound of C-4 in the scooter storage area attached to a motion-sensor and the miscreant wouldn't be stealing anything more, OR making any more babies.
A replacement scooter would be needed, but... It might be worth it for the lesson taght... LOL!
Oh well, I suppose that wouldn't be politically correct.
Leo (pants up, don't loot) in Texas
A pound? Wouldn't that be a bit much, and cause great collateral damage? How about a quarter pound...?
Yeah, a POUND is overkill... I was always AMAZED at how a gob of the stuff the size of a golf-ball could SHRED a car or truck. NASTY stuff! But SO not "PC"... LOL!
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Post by oldchopperguy on Sept 21, 2015 12:55:11 GMT -5
Ah Leo, you're so wonderfully violent. You Texan you. I agree that there's pretty much nothing you can do to truly stop a thief, short of land mines or C4. Best you can do is make it more inconvenient to take yours than the next bike, so they move on. At work, I park in front of Panera's then use a cover and a little bicycle cable to lock to the handicapped sign. At home, I park in front of a Ford Focus hatchwagon. Gotta move the car to steal the scoot. Or at least break into the closed garage. >'Kat, ignoring that car (?) alarm that's been going for 10 minutes now....
Kat,
With the world being what it is, I guess I had better mention that I'm only kidding here...
Many members have noticed that NOTHING will deter a SERIOUS thief. The best you can do is "keep the honest folks honest"...
My last Harley, a beautiful custom 1970 bagger I bought new, is a prime example. It weighed over 900 pounds and was chained to a pillar with an EXPENSIVE "theft-proof" solid titanium chain. It was BLOCKED by my old full-sized Oldsmobile sedan. I thought it was safe... WRONG!
A little neighbor-girl watched what happened... A van pulled up, a bunch of outlaw bikers jumped out and a couple of them got on each end of the big Olds. They lifted it off the ground and dropped it a few feet away.
They then sprayed Freon on the "unbreakable" chain, and hit it with a ball-peen hammer. It shattered like glass.
Then, two of the cretins got on each end of the Hog, picked it up and tossed it into the van, and they were gone. All in less than three minutes. THAT adventure ended all my desire to be part of the outlaw bike world. The "chopper culture" is just fine, but no more organized outlaw clubs for me.
On the positive side, some days later the same crew tried to steal another guy's Harley. BAD IDEA. He was a Class-3 firearms dealer working from his apartment. He'd rigged a silent alarm to the bike, alerting him in the apartment.
From his balcony he greeted the miscreants with a belt-fed M-60... The thieves DID have nerve, immediately opening up on him with a shotgun, seriously wounding him. NOT ENOUGH though. He "gave 'em the whole nine yards" (the 9-yard-long ammo belt is where that saying comes from).
If I recall, the body count was eight or nine dead bike thieves. When the Dallas police found his machine-gun was legal, their only comment was "good shooting, Bubba".
The fellow did spend a month in the hospital recovering from a load of 00-buckshot in the belly. And, he did totally shred his own bike in the assault... But there was not another bike stolen there for years.
That was clear back in the early seventies, but the lesson is appropriate still today. The only things that have changed is that the bikes cost more, the thieves are meaner and better-armed, and, so are the bike owners. Life is SHORT and FRAGILE... enjoy it...
I wont even get into the "questionable" methods bikers in my trailer-park use to protect their choppers, other than there has not been a successful theft-attempt here in 20 years. Suffice to say they are a brutal bunch... LOL! A stranger really must have sort of a "death-wish" just to enter here, let alone to have plans to steal something... So, there really IS some benefit to living in a rough place...
My best advice is to keep your ride out of sight, and have insurance...
Ride safe, and, watch yer' six...
Leo
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Post by spandi on Sept 21, 2015 17:36:44 GMT -5
Just put in a tracking unit and have child protective services meet the cops at this morons house.  |
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Post by horace on Sept 21, 2015 18:40:57 GMT -5
Personally, I would fund Thermite Brake Handles....  A thief is a Thief--- Somehow that person has found himself in a terrible situation. You may not know that person's plight....... On the other hand, if you're smart enough to be a thief ( and not get caught ) Maybe applying that same effort into being a productive citizen.... Like a Politician or Lobbyist is a better idea |
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Post by horace on Sept 21, 2015 18:44:20 GMT -5
That chain was not really a good one though....... JMHO
If YOU recognize the baby, PLEASE call the police....
That was just silly but, may lead to an arrest in the city of Brotherly love.
Philly is also the city where Hitchbot died.......... Just sayn..... Murica!!!!!
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 21, 2015 19:26:17 GMT -5
I wish we could protect them with dye, like the banks use. If you turn the handlebars without disarming it, it sprays you with dye that will not wash off for a few days.  |
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Post by rockynv on Sept 21, 2015 23:55:46 GMT -5
You'd be amazed how fast a few determined thieves can make off with even a big Bull Dog motorcycle. A co-worker stopped with friends to eat while at bike week in Daytona and saw a van pull up, a few guys get out and start lifting while another took care of the chain with a cordless angle grinder. The event was over and the van gone with the bike loaded inside it before they could get out of the restaurant booth and to the door. He said it was like watching in slow motion as a $35,000.00 Big Dog with all the trimmings was snatched in broad daylight in plain sight right outside the front doors of a busy restaurant.
The super lock and heavy case hardened chain were no match for the grinder with the cutoff wheel.
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