sinbad Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Just thought i'd let you all know and remind you to be cautious. My mate has just had his Focus RS hi-jacked from him. He was washing it at a busy petrol station when a group of lads in a toyota avensis got him talking about the sale of his car when one of them jumped into the drivers seat. The Toyota drove into my mate twice to try and stop him from jumping in the passenger side as he had hold of the passenger door handle. Anyway to cut a long story short they managed to get away with his car. Toyota plates where fake. handed in CCTV footage to police but doubt they can do much. Absolutely gutted for him and just glad he's o.k. I'm really upset about this. Gunna pick him up later and bring him round mine for a cuppa. Please Beware!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 shocking news fingers crossed they can get his car back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmmackfc Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Holy Sh1t , at least your mate is alright. Surely the CCTV gives them some form of identity to these guys. No different than armed robbery IMO, where in this case they use the car as a weapon. Hope everything works out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Nightmare! Where was this, Sinbad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinbad Posted April 2, 2007 Author Share Posted April 2, 2007 In wigan. If you know it at all it was the petrol station near wigan pier. There was a Que of traffic on the road at the side of the petrol station too. The guy in the next jet wash saw the lad jumping in the drivers seat and shouted to my mate to see if he knew him, but it was too late... Im really really gutted. I can only imagine what it would be like to go through. My mate sounded o.k. but it's only just happened. Said his legs were hurting where they had tried to run him over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 bar stewards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomoto Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 and if they get caught ,whats the worst they'll get ? a bit of community service Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny350z Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 From your version of events it sounds like your mate left the keys in the ignition? If so, he's well screwed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 It's amazing how easy it is to be distracted when talking about your car to someone. Even a person you don't know. You just know nothing will happen to them if they do get caught. Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev-the-Rev Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 You just know nothing will happen to them if they do get caught. Guy Well not by the law anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Thats shocking hope they catch the scum that did it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mini Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 That's terrible news, but as others have said at least he's ok. I think he might need something stronger than a cuppa!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam's Z Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 My neck of the woods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_350z Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 @*!#... if he left the keys in (too late now, but why oh why - does anyone else do that? Not me!) no insurance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacko Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 I know it won't help this situation, but thats why my car is always locked at all opporunities. As soon as the filler cap shuts, its locked and keys in my pocket. Too much of this going on now....... you gotta treat everyone like a criminal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan73 Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Holy $hit. I've just come back from 5 years in LA - the beach cities - and I had a convertible which I never, ever locked. Nor did I put the roof up when shopping or anything. I became so lax in security that it's been tough to get used to having to be securicor again over here. That story is terrible. I'll renew my key remote batteries right away. Condolances to your mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_fuel Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Then again in LA they have 1 cop for every 3 citizens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Holy shiiiit!! Sorry to hear that mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuro Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 My neck of the woods That's not far from me either... To be honest I don't reckon the Zed is in the same 'stealability' league as the Focus RS (and Scooby, Evo etc.) I mean, what could you actually do with it? It would be useless as a ramraiding tool, and uttery pointless as a getaway car. You can't even stick 4 mates in it and hoon around town... Stolen to order is more likely I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinbad Posted April 3, 2007 Author Share Posted April 3, 2007 Had to pick him up from the police station last nite. Anyway more of the story.. As he was washing his car he threw his jacket and keys on the passenger seat, then changed his shoes leaving his wallet inside too. I never do this and he knows that it was stupid, but with loads of people around he didnt expect anything to happen. Anyway they managed to get away with his car and used it to try and hi-jacked 6 others. one of them was a 4x4 driven by a woman. The 4x4 was a company car and had a tracker fitted. Traffic police followed and tried to pull it over but it drove off. They then set up a road block but the 4x4 smashed through it, so then the police got a helicopter up. From what i heard, as soon as they saw the helicopter the three gave themselves up. From what my mate said and saying that they tried to hi-jacked 6 others there must have been a large group of them, possibly 2 cars full. So catching the 3 of them is only a small portion of there group. While my mate was in the police station he had a phone call from a guy asking if he was selling a Focus RS. when my mate said he was, the guy had a go at him for parking it in a "stupid" spot. Anyway after telling him it had been nicked, the guy gave details of its whereabouts which is only a 2/3 miles away from where they hi-jacked it from my mate and pretty close to where he lives. Also to note one of the police officers mentioned that sometimes to hi-jack your car they bump into the back of you at a set of traffic lights and when you get out to have a go, they jump you and take the car. I remember reading on here only a couple of days ago that someone had been bumped into at a set of lights at night and then drove away through a red light. Whoever it was, you did the right thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinbad Posted April 3, 2007 Author Share Posted April 3, 2007 Still not got his car back yet though.. Police want to look at it for prints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesterfield Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Thats a good sign - some time ago when my car was nicked (crappy old ford escort at the time) the police couldnt be bothered to print it. As it sounds like this is some sort of gang/group nicking to order, they are probably more interested. Hopefuly there is no damage, and your mate gets the car back soon. We can but hope the scum that nicked it are being asked to pick up the soap by some 7ft gorilla nicknamed "horse" in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_fuel Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Well I hope he gets it back soon. I know of stories like that overhere where people don't get their car back until the end of the investigation, which can take several months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkfish Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Holy shiit!! That's terrible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 At least he is gonna get his motor back. Do we know what condition its in yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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