I think I was being scouted...

[mcantar18c]

Take out some of the fuses including the starter fuse and the main electrical fuses. Not the battery since this will power the alarm if you have one for it.

Good idea. Hell, just pullling the starter relay and/or the fuel pump relay should take care of it.

[theskalickys]

The Denver area is pretty safe, but when I lived in Minneapolis there where places where you had to watch your car. I own a nice Del Sol and Honda's are their main choice. I was a part of MNsportcompacts and actually still am.
We had our first club meeting back in 1998 at a buddies house and three cars were broken into and stuff stolen out of them.. Next meeting after trusting all of the "Mods" of the forum, we set out night vision cameras, ran out caught the three kids, hog tied them, and called the cops. No guns were used, but the amount of people running out there surrounding them made the kids stop and drop to the ground.
There is some thefts I have heard of around the Aurora area, but feel comfortable with my Honda sitting outside with the alarm. I always have my gun on me, just because You don't know if you are approaching people with guns. That being said, I do not have my gun drawn and when I have approached people boosting cars I have made sure I in a spot where I can get behind another car if they happen to have a gun. 98% of the time it is just stupid kids boosting cd players etc..
Just make sure you park near a light.. that usually scares most of them off. Also install a $150 car alarm..

[cofi]

if you kill someone breaking into your car you are guilty of murder.....chances are it was just someone lost....i dont think car thieves are scouting cars like gone in 60 seconds most are just targets of opportunity

[Ronin13]

if you kill someone breaking into your car you are guilty of murder.....chances are it was just someone lost....i dont think car thieves are scouting cars like gone in 60 seconds most are just targets of opportunity

Update- it's almost 2200 and still nothing... going to bed soon, I don't really think I have to worry because my CSP neighbor is home (she parked her cruiser here- I'll have to ask about that sometime)... Also I now realize I don't think they were scouting me because they'd have to be the dumbest criminals on earth. By the way, I wouldn't have drawn down unless it was a very last resort, I'd confront while carrying but wouldn't bring it to drawn unless I had no other options. And the whole letting them follow me home- the entire time they followed while suspicious, I thought it was coincidence, it happened to me once where I thought I was being tailed and the guy turned out to be one of my neighbors- he even unlocked and went into the apartment above and across from me. Damn you uncle sam for installing the hyper vigilance app on my brain!

[BPTactical]

What screwed Bobby Wallace, was Bobby Wallace.
What you do after is just as critical as what you do during.

[sniper7]

What screwed Bobby Wallace, was Bobby Wallace.
What you do after is just as critical as what you do during.

exactly. he lied after the fact, he didn't call for a while, he didn't get a lawyer right away. He did lots and lots of things wrong that looked suspicious and still got off.

If you walked outside to go get something out of your vehicle that you left in it, and you saw these guys trying to jack your car and confronted them, then they didn't run and tried to escalate it and make you think you are in imminent fear for your life, I don't see how that wouldn't be justified.

For some people a car is all they have, maybe their way of life and it deserves to be protected. Insurance is nice to have but some people can't afford full coverage insurance. And like the people trying to steal a car, who may be down on their luck, the guy whose care they are trying to steal may be on the verge of losing everything but is trying to scrape by doing things the right way. In the end it is a personal decision to decide whether or not it is worth it. That is what life is made of.

[sniper7]

Update- it's almost 2200 and still nothing... going to bed soon, I don't really think I have to worry because my CSP neighbor is home (she parked her cruiser here- I'll have to ask about that sometime)... Also I now realize I don't think they were scouting me because they'd have to be the dumbest criminals on earth. By the way, I wouldn't have drawn down unless it was a very last resort, I'd confront while carrying but wouldn't bring it to drawn unless I had no other options. And the whole letting them follow me home- the entire time they followed while suspicious, I thought it was coincidence, it happened to me once where I thought I was being tailed and the guy turned out to be one of my neighbors- he even unlocked and went into the apartment above and across from me. Damn you uncle sam for installing the hyper vigilance app on my brain!

maybe I have too much tinfoil, but if I have a strong assumption I am being followed, I instantly start looking for ways out; a place to pull over and sit or a parking lot to go in to so I can watch what they are doing while driving.
I have had one guy follow me when I was a teenager....17 probably. he was riding my ass while I was in my dads truck and he was in a honda civic, I was heading home from a golf tournament. He got brake checked and then I drove 10 under for about a mile on a one lane road. He started following me even at speeds in excess of 90 mph. I pulled into a very nice neighborhood and he followed but I zipped out the back way and lost him. went and sat in a parking lot for a while and didn't see him for about 10 minutes then went home. i was prepared with my 3 iron and a pocketknife.

[Zundfolge]

...cars are replaceable, people are not.

Something that car thieves should have to consider, not car owners.

No I'm not suggesting you kill someone over your car, but I'm not convinced that thieves should have the protection of the law like they do.

Most folk don't have full coverage insurance on their cars and theft of an uninsured car can be financially devastating to some folk and as such getting caught stealing a car should also be devastating.

Once upon a time we hung horse thieves. Just sayin'


Also being armed while checking on your car is not so you can kill someone trying to steal it, its for defending yourself if stumble across a thief and he takes umbrage at your accusations.