What drives criminals to steal a car? The glory of “Memphis” from the movie “Gone in 60 Seconds” or the desire to quickly get hold of money? Someone does it more professionally than Copperfield dissolves wagons in the air, but someone deserves a pat on the shoulder and a condescending “You tried.” We will tell you about them today.
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One day a man came to Auto Boulevard in San Antonio, Texas to look at a new car. After a test drive of an Infiniti G37, the client asked to see other cars, and while the dealership manager was distracted looking for other cars, he jumped back into the Infiniti and fled in an unknown direction. But the unfortunate intruder left his passport at the car dealership and got on the surveillance cameras.
Car thieves rarely take on flashy cars with unique modifications. But not in the case of the Japspeed JZ1 Impreza, prepared for drifting in bright colors and microscopic clearance. What’s more, the thieves had the audacity to steal a car straight from the auto show! But the kidnappers did not enjoy the booty for long. The car was stolen on Sunday, and on Monday the police returned the car to the owner.
Eric McFall caught his luck when he won a green 1975 Chevrolet El Camino on huge custom rims. But here’s the problem – the car was trying to steal. Four times. Ultimately, McFall got tired of this and began to guard the hijacker. And waited for this. When Jose Galvan (name of the hijacker) once again tried to steal the coveted “El Camino”, Eric, who was a wrestler in the past, took the criminal to a painful hold before the police arrived.
For mass celebrations and holidays in North America, movable parade rafts are often built. And some smart guy thought of stealing one of these rafts. The loss was quickly tracked down (not the most inconspicuous car in the stream, and not even too fast) – the hijacker brought it to the waste processing plant.
A team of car thieves came up with a sophisticated plan to steal a new Ford GT from a car dealership: they had to get inside, remove rapper 50 Cent’s Mustang from the path, use the Lincoln Navigator to knock out the gate and escape in the coveted supercar. But there was a lack of driving experience. The hijackers failed to cope with 550 compressor “horses”, crashed the car, and smashed half the street, causing damage to the city for 30 thousand dollars.
Either stealing or kidnapping. In any case, the act is stupid. In general, the policeman stopped the car suspected of stealing. When the driver got out of the car and pretended to give himself up, he jumped to his feet, jumped into a police Crown Victoria and tried to escape. On his mountain, the policeman managed to jump on the hood and shoot through the wheels of the car at a speed of under 200 kilometers per hour.
The owner of the Corvette received a signal on the key fob that the car parked outside his house had been opened. When he went out into the street, he almost died with laughter: the thief got into the car, but did not know how to make it go – the Corvette turned out to be with a manual transmission. Moreover, the central lock worked on the car and the attacker could not figure out how to leave the compartment. Hitting the glass from the inside with a hammer did not give many results. So he got caught.
Steal a racing car, winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona 1969. Boldly and recklessly. The theft took place at night when all members of the Penske Lola team were asleep. The car was discovered quite quickly, but the attackers had already managed by that time to install a Shelby engine for some reason, and a huge crack was discovered in the tubular frame after returning to the base. All this cost the Lola team participation in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1969.
A hijacker from Calgary, Canada tracked down a rare Skyline GT-R R32 and successfully stole it. But he could not resist the temptation to publish the results of a successful operation on social networks and on YouTube. Local skyline forum users tracked down the car in the blink of an eye. And the owner glorified the braggart hijacker even more. With the help of the same YouTube.
It’s in the Fast and the Furious to steal a car from the police station – like going to the store. The reality is a little harsher. One man made his way to the parking lot of the police station, opened the Chevrolet Lumina, and even got on it to the barrier at the exit. But the story ended there: after all, stealing a police car from the parking lot of a police station swarming with policemen is not a very good idea.
