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I too am sorry to hear about this senseless act - like the others, I would like an opportunity to explain to these idiots in a non violent way the error of their ways.
I might have to belt then around the ears with a piece of redgum 4X2 to get their attention firstly though so they hear the message clearly.
Is that the remains of a router?
Sorry to hear Lig. Hey, it could have been a lot worse, imagine if you'd left the Domi in the car after taking her out to see a movie or something!
My thoughts exactly - it would have been too awful if Lig's new SWMBO (:D) was in the ex Commodore. The loss of a Triton (?) isn't good, but it's a heck of a lot less of a loss than a Dom...Quote:
Originally Posted by Carpenter
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I was away for a few days at the start of the week and Domi was in the boot as i never leave her home alone. The night i got back she stayed in the boot:eek: Never again:o
But it could have been tragic. I stuffed up the bin pick up day and had it pushed up againsed the window waiting for it to be collected. It was their for a week and i got sick of it and arainged an extra pick up on Friday. And it was full of all the goodies we throw out. Dry timber, oily rags, old thinners tins, newspapers etc. If the little pyropricks had tourched that, it would have been a matter of minutes that where i sleep was up as well. Having no car sucks, but as i said, thank god no one was hurt:)
Very funny;) :p :pQuote:
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Yes, you guesed the orange color:(Quote:
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Sorry to see what happened to your car Lignum, little b##$rds, maybe just a quick touch up with an old dry piece of hardwood would set them on the right path!
Bugger the hardwood, keelhaul them through half an acre of blackberries, should have a twofold benefit...........(3 if it includes making you feel good)
Is this where you start thinking about a motion sensor activated light? I don't think that there is anything you can really do to stop them.... except make yourself seem to be a hard target. This will probably just push them down the road to some other poor b#stard. :( :o
It sucks, and I hope that the insurance pays out enough to get a decent LPG ute.
Clint, the trouble is the area has big spotties from the other factories and is very well lit. They got two fires going which showed they were in no hurry.
yep you have my sympathies mate
This was our family car nicknamed the "Venga Bus"... a Ford Spectron import... beaut car actually tuff as buggary and next to new when we bought it...
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After I bought the missus her little jap zap machine I took it to Kal when I first headed up there with my son to seek work on the mines loaded with tools gear cameras and as much as I could fit (intention was initially to get a job and move the mob up there) me and the son parked ourselves in a caravan park and my two eldest daughters and their partners lived in town... went to the eldest daughters place for a phissup one night got well and truely sozzled and ended up leaving the car there... theres these great wide verges up there so Id parked it hard up against the chainlink fence Danny (daughters boyfriend) had chained the front wheel to the fence and taken me home to sleep it off
Got a call from him at 4am "eerr dad? I'll pick you up in a few okay got some bad news"... so he comes around and takes me out to the remains about 1/2 a mile out of town... the fence and chain was cut with a pair of bolt cutters I had in the tool box in the back and theyd gone zooom zooom zooom BOOM!... apparently a train driver spotted the flames from several miles away
What we found when we got there...
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http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/4...108AZMnLNy2ctL
Nothing left to trace the bastards legally... and no idea who would do this sorta thing to a bloody small bus! usually they would go for something like... well... like a commiadorio!! (sorry Lig but they do seem a popular choice for joyriders over here)
Anyway we were totally stranded in a town we barely knew with no job no car and buggar all possessions! just a few clothes we had taken out and into the caravan... stuffed us royally the bloody sh*ts :mad:
In the end the insurance company was no problem we had a cheque for the full insured amount within 5 weeks... trash and burn cars is a pretty common occurance in Kal :rolleyes:
BUT!! good thing was I got the F100 UTE!!! :D
Geeze Shane that must have made you mad. To be all stranded like that would make it so much worse. No idea what posesses them to torch it. Fair enough if they want to knock it of for a joy ride but why burn it. Worst part is when it goes up just like your pic nothing escapes the flames. Shame they didnt catch them. :( At least you got your ute:D
Initially I was absolutely staggered... looking at it I couldnt work out why anyone would steal let alone burn whats obviously not a fast car thats more a family to the shops and back car for someone with kids just couldnt get that out of my head... then I started getting phissed off that the mindless cretins had done it... got even madder finding nothing in there! the tools were just a huge pile of molten metal the police reckoned they had literally soaked the car inside and out with fuel and the fuel mixed with the full tank of diesel it had inside it made it a hell of a torch... the road surface was black scorched and there were several small puddles of colored metal on the ground around its sides.
I settled while we sorted the paperwork with the police and insurance company then lost it when I realized that it was over a bloody klm to the ruddy caravan park on shanks's pony!! on me pat malone cause the kids had all gone off to work by this time...
So I spent the day in the pub drownin my sorrows and along with a couple of bods Id met tryin to work out the best way of planin the perps demise without bein caught doing it... mind you we were phissed there was no way in hell we were going to find these toads but by the gods of Carlton mid and TED we were gonna do it!! :D
One of the blokes ended up finding me a bit of short term work on one mine and the other lent me a bashed up ol... ahem... eerr... commiadorio!!... which got nicked while I was in town about a week later by a young fella that did get caught by the bloke who owned its brother who just happened to know that it was I who was meant to be driving his brothers car not some baseball capped pants around knee 15 year old... and ahem the car came back... after a short detour for what he called some "sightseeing" outside of town... were sorta hopeful that this kid was one of the buggars that did my car cause it was a just finding its hoped the little snotbucket wont be able to drive for some time.
Angry? sure was still am actually Id love to have just a short period of time with them showing them the "sights" as the bloke in Kal did it would give some satisfaction but it wont happen the sh*ts got away with it... but it was a great little bus not the most powerfull thing but comfy (if your a shortass Im 5'6 and my head scraped the roof anyone taller would have to shove their heads out the sunroof :eek: ) and the family loved it cost us a fair bit in mechanics since they tended to see me coming and jack the price accordingly... but it was a good wee car. :o :(
Shouldnt take away from your loss of the commadorio mate... doesnt matter whos car gets torched or where its still mindless stupidity and hurts no matter even if insured in suburbia or out in the scrub still a bloody mongrel thing to have happen... I share your pain Lig ol son :(
Sorry 'bout that Lig. Senseless damage has always been a pet hate - I'm sorry that you copped it. Not much metal in that router either!
Hopefully the gods will smile on you in another way, and drop a #### on them.
Den
hopefully " my name is Earl" will get thru to some of these (insert word oif choice).
What goes arround cones arround.... thats carma.
I realise it comes arround....... but hell a cone is pointy on top... or is my humour just too twisted:D
Well i hope that happens as i have lots and lots of sanding, sweeping, cleaning and alsorts to keep them busy for a few weeks:DQuote:
Originally Posted by soundman
And Den if you keep your chin up and stay possitive good things do happen. Tuesday was one of those days. Thumbs up to you know who for that day:D :D :D
Saw this post this morning and guess what woke me up at 3:30am this morning.
Yep some poor ba*tard's commodore in the park across the road, fully ablaze. The tyres exploding woke the dog who woke me.
Whilst I'll happily put a bullet in the shyte that did this, when are the manufacturers going to start providing descent imobilisers to prevent theft.
The one that was torched this morning was a current model and lets face it, it was stolen first. My 96 model falcon cannot be started without the key or by using a modified engine management CPU box. This means that any theft would normally be done by a professional and not some are*ehole joyriders (lot more of them around).
Why don't manufacturers fit descent imobiliser - cause you go out and buy another car when this one is totalled.:mad: :mad: :mad:
Same here Lig. Sorry to hear about your commodore. Seems to be the trend with the world these days. Destroy what you've worked so hard for because the world owes them. All because they're board and can't get jobs seems to be the current excuse the knuckleheads seem to come out with.
Sorry about your losses. I am surpirsed to learn that just in this thread there are two peole who lost their car and one witness to a car torching. That's scary. Society is failing here. Too many do gooders and whimpy courts. Probaly parents are to blame as well. Are we electing / appointing the wrong people to positions of power in the government departments which are supposed to ensure proper education and respect ? Is community a thing of the past? Is government allowing the community to go feral just so they can implement more of their stupid social engineering agenda which keeps them all in a job? A foot up the ring worked in my day.
We get 2 - 3 burnt out stolen cars a week dumped in the National Parks I deal with. I am really sorry that this happened to you Lignum. Seems to be a growing trend though. Here is a nice little MR2 for you.
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The Fedral and State Govt should have the balls to make it an automatic prison term for lighting fires. Fair enough mine was a pain and inconveniance, but what if my place had of burnt down, or a car in the Nat Park set it ablaze. To many lives, homes and stock every year are lost to f...wit pyros. They need to be taught a lesson
Got in one Lignum, I think community service orders are a joke as people don't take them seriously at all. I have a person living in our street who has been in fron't of the beak 4 times in the last 18 months on charges ranging from Assault to GBH with intent. Yet he is still in the street threatening people and laughing at the police when they turn up.:mad:
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Well after seeing poor old Lig get burned I walked out this morning with my little girl to find No Car!!!:eek::eek::eek:
I checked out the back in the Shed....................No Car:eek::eek::eek:
Once again I checked out the front....................No Car:eek::eek::eek:
A sinking feeling followd that only those who have been there will no. SOme (^@$%(@^#_^^^@r_&^_@&^ HAD STOLEN MY VL Belina StationWagon.
Rang the Wallapers who informed me that they had found my beloved VL 15km up the road. BURNT OUT!!!
A bin lardin missle Could't of done a better job it was simply unrecognisable. Burn to a crisp and well and truely dead n buried.
To top it off the (^%#_$(%^_#@$^%+@! who pinched it did their handy work on a local reserve.
Dispite the fused rubber and nothing but Rim touching cobbled stone the police politely informed me that It was my responsibility to move the car from the reserve:eek::mad::mad::eek:
I figure life really isnt that fair sometimes............................and is an end of an era for my old VL ..........................the first car I had ever owned!!!
Regards Lou:(:(:(
Probably some drunk or drugo getting a cheap ride home.
Al
Realy sorry to hear that Lou:( Its a bloody horrible feeling isnt it. If only they would have just taken it for a spin and leave it at that, but to burn it.... Makes you feel sick thinking of it:(
Well I guess it ain't all gloom n doom I got my old treadly out n ready to run today. I'm carrying 20kg xtra at the moment so here comes the health kick!!!
Whhhhoooooooooooo Hhhhhhhhhooooooooooo
:D:D:D
Probably some drunk or drugo getting a cheap ride home.
Al
The scary part is AL it was probably a couple a 14 year old kids......................Times are a changin
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Thats the up side:D I have lost 5kgs since mine was burnt out just from riddin the treadlyQuote:
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Any tips for me Lig???
I'm nothin but sheer self neglect at the moment
I just know I'm gonna be in a world a hurt for a few weeks:o:o:o
Yup did make me feel sick when I first saw the old VL just sitting there nothin but black just like a chared piece a toast. I can help but think WHY?
But hey...................kids will play
So now its time to work a few angles on the BAnk MAnager. I was thinking something along the lines of:
Hey you can buy a car for me I'll call it mine but you'll really own it for the next ten years n make a quid outta it ta boot................sounds like the deal of the century huh!!!!
REGards Lou:)
Thats the worst part, because having them come and take something of yours from right under your nose and just destroy it for the fun of it realy hurts. It took me two or three weeks to get over the anger factor. To go to bed one night having an oldie but a goldie in your driveway only to wake and not have it anymore realy sux.Quote:
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Sorry to hear of your loss Lou but maybe this should be a wake up call for all those members with Commodores.
Since my last post another 2 have been burnt out in the park across the road and yep they were all Commodores too.
Don't bother with car alarms, no one responds to them and they just annoy the shyte out of your neighbours who will eventually wish the car was stolen. Get an immobiliser system or fit a concealed tap to your fuel line. Maybe even a switch on the elctronic fuel pump circuit - need to check with manufacturer or local auto sparky for that one as it may interfere with the engine management CPU. The local grass cutter uses a wheel clamp on his trailer. If all else fails, park your car behind closed gates - I know that wont work for everybody but the majority of people have this option but are mostly too lazy to do it (yes that includes me :) )
There has to a way to stop these bastards from taking our property cause local law enforcement just doesn't seem to be capable of taking any action.
A nice big old pan licker aka dog does wonders for these mongrels - most dogs recognise these ferals for what they are.
Sorry to hear your news Lou
Sorry to hear your news Lou, at least you and the family are still here to talk about it.
Australia seems to have gone mad lately but we insist on electing the same losers from both main parties so maybe we have ourselves to blame for the soft approach the courts apply to these waste of space.
Keep your chin up mate, in a few years it will only be a good yarn.
That's a prick, Lou :(
Hope you get it sorted out with insurance & all that crap.
Cheers mate.............Sean
RIP MY VL StationWagon
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Bastards:(
This is just plain horse theft for which the penalty is lynching in most of the civilised world. Sorry to read about your vehicles Lig & Lou. Prix!
I'd prefer to hear thud, crunch, aaaaaaahhhh rather than words.Quote:
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Whhhhhhhhooooooooo Hhhhhhhhhhhoooooo:)
I'm on the Road again!!!
I'm wrapped..................
Thx John RIP..........................First HAppy ending to a sad story.
Your turn LIG;):D
Regards Lou
excellent way to be back on the road too. good to see things turning around for ya.
cheers
onya Lou!