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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. :not_me:

Gunna pick him up later and bring him round mine for a cuppa.

 

Please Beware!!

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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. :cry:

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.

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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! :blush:

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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.

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My neck of the woods :scare:

 

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 :scare:

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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! :thumbs:

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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. :thumbs:

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