What the car thief said.........

[rich p]

It's big business. The joyriders and radio thieves of the 80s and 90s are long a thing of the past. Cars are stolen to order, keys nicked in a burglary, or on some models a whole new ECU fitted and off onto a RO-RO to the continent/further afield. Big, organised, lucrative, sophisticated. And yes, professional.

I was on a jury for just such a crime a couple of years ago.
Lithuania, since you ask.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I think they do! Isn't it more the Christian Democrats and Christian Socialists who have a problem with it, due to the Sermon on the Mount telling people to turn the other cheek?

Quite a few similar situations are dealt with in this book, concerning the victim dealing with the perpetrator of the crime
In case, advising someone to 'look the other way', if they see the person the Magistrates didn't put into Custody, because if he 'knocked seven shades' out of the scrote, the Magistrates would find space for him in in Jail, "All Day Long!!"

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wasting-More-Police-David-Copperfield/dp/1906308195

 

[Dave7]

B***Y hell.............have you ever started a thread then read the comments and thought "maybe that wasn't a good idea.............I didn't really want to start a war"

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

They break in the house and knick the keys. Most people leave their keys in easy reach of a pole and hook through the letter box

Thanks for the tip

 

[Pale Rider]

Thanks for the tip

The pole and hook car key burglary is known as a 'two in one' or 'Hanoi' burglary.

Two in one presumably refers to the keys and car being nicked.

Hanoi is supposed to come from one of the Yorkshire police forces whose Operation Hanoi targeted that type of crime a few years ago.

 

[fossyant]

B***Y hell.............have you ever started a thread then read the comments and thought "maybe that wasn't a good idea.............I didn't really want to start a war"

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

The pole and hook car key burglary is known as a 'two in one' or 'Hanoi' burglary.

Two in one presumably refers to the keys and car being nicked.

Hanoi is supposed to come from one of the Yorkshire police forces whose Operation Hanoi targeted that type of crime a few years ago.

mhmm mhmm,yep writing this down.

 

[User482]

B***Y hell.............have you ever started a thread then read the comments and thought "maybe that wasn't a good idea.............I didn't really want to start a war"

It's the cafe, what did you expect?

 

[fossyant]

It's the cafe, what did you expect?

Almost as bad as SC&P

 

[SheilaH]

Unfortunately when this does happen, the liberal lefties/bleeding hearts, don't line up to make excuses for the victim of the initial crime

Because this really happens, doesnt it...all of the time.

 

[User482]

Almost as bad as SC&P

And I'd been led to believe they're completely different...

 

[NorthernDave]

The pole and hook car key burglary is known as a 'two in one' or 'Hanoi' burglary.

Two in one presumably refers to the keys and car being nicked.

Hanoi is supposed to come from one of the Yorkshire police forces whose Operation Hanoi targeted that type of crime a few years ago.

If the door key is on the same key ring as the car key, the really cheeky thieves will then use it to open the front door and nip in and grab your telly, Sky box, mobile phone and anything else lying around and then use your car to transport them all away...

 

[Cubist]

The pole and hook car key burglary is known as a 'two in one' or 'Hanoi' burglary.

Two in one presumably refers to the keys and car being nicked.

Hanoi is supposed to come from one of the Yorkshire police forces whose Operation Hanoi targeted that type of crime a few years ago.

Yep, West Yorks. They date back in my memory to the late 90s when we saw the first ones.

 

[Cubist]

mhmm mhmm,yep writing this down.

He's not giving anything away. We used all of that info and more to inform the public with preventative measures. I even had some keyrings designed with the message "If you want me to stay with you, take me to bed"

How's your Google skills? Tell me why a patrolling cop will always stop a Landrover with a front headlight out?

 

[Pale Rider]

If the door key is on the same key ring as the car key, the really cheeky thieves will then use it to open the front door and nip in and grab your telly, Sky box, mobile phone and anything else lying around and then use your car to transport them all away...

That can happen, although the classic Hanoi allows thieves to get the car without entering the house.

This is good because there's less chance of tripping a burglar alarm or a confrontation with the householder, which in turn might prevent the successful stealing of the main target - the expensive car.

In several of the cases I've seen, the first thing the householder knows about the burglary is when he looks out of his window in the morning and notices the car isn't on the driveway.