My girlfriend's rental car in LA got jacked

EyeMWing

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WTF is going on over there? Have all the fires and smog made everybody crazy?

My girl had to take a flight out to LA for a family member's funeral. They rented the shittiest little mauve-colored Honda hatchback they could find from the shadiest rental agency they could find and were staying at a relative's place in Hawthorne. In the middle of the freaking day, someone drives off with the rental. Duh?

Worst thing is that all her stuff was still in the car, including a digicam and a laptop that is probably worth more than the car. So now she and her mother are stuck in LA with no spare clothes, no car, and probably out $2000 on a computer hardware, just because aunt edna had to bite it and some stupid mexican wanted a car to run across the border in.

Oh, and there were innumerable irreplacable personal items - emails between her and I, pictures that exist nowhere else, etc. on that lappy and elsewhere in her luggage. If anyone in SoCal sees a mauve Honda hatchback with black donut style rims, tires worn to nothing, and a Toshiba laptop and a king sized set of luggage full of bras and panties - then DESTROY IT. We must not allow certain data and items to fall into unauthorized hands. Of course, I handled the data security myself, and it should be well beyond the reach of any casual thief. It should also prove to be difficult to install a new OS, because the BIOS is passworded and booting from removable media is disallowed. But in the event that, well, the US Government stole that car with the intention of learning about my love life and the workings of my mind, then I'm fvcked.

Oh well, at least the plane tickets for the return trip were in mommy's purse.

What's the problem with all these SoCal nuts? Who just steals the ugliest, most worthless car imaginable?
 

yobarman

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Hey i don't think he's being racist... well not that bad. But still, if it was me i'd be pissed too blaming everyone..

Sorry to hear about your nudies :p
 

jimmygates

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Someone file a police report? Call the police so the car can be registered as stolen. Quicker it's logged as a stolen vehicle the quicker the recovery.



-Jimbo
 

boyRacer

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Hondas are magnets for car thieves around here... and people here aren't exactly friendly. Plus... everyone overreacts to rain. Where exactly was it stolen? I'll keep an eye out for it... :(
 

NorthRiver

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Sorry for your loss, but why leave thousands of dollars worth of stuff in a car? Your girl was pretty much asking for this.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: minendo
Mistake number 1.
from the shadiest rental agency they could find
Mistake number 2: You being a racist son-of-a-bitch.
some stupid mexican wanted a car to run across the border in.
Mistake number 3:
Worst thing is that all her stuff was still in the car

1) No crap. Her mom is teh dumb

2) Sorry, I watch too much FOX on Saturday <3 COPS

3) Hey, out here you can leave your car unlocked with valuables sitting on the dash and keys in the ignition and nobody will touch it. Neither of them have yet come to grips with how the world works outside of hickville. Once again, teh stupid.
 

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First of all, you're a racist moron. Secondly, why would a Mexican steal the car to run BACK across the border to Mexico?
 

RaynorWolfcastle

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let me guess the laptop and the digicam were in plain sight. Oh and I bet they forgot that the cheap-ass rental doesn't have automatic locking doors... at least everything on your GF's hard drive was encrypted with a 1024-bit cipher, right?
rolleye.gif
 

MAME

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Originally posted by: jimmygates
Someone file a police report? Call the police so the car can be registered as stolen. Quicker it's logged as a stolen vehicle the quicker the recovery.



-Jimbo

If it's gone now then it's probably gone forever
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: jimmygates
Someone file a police report? Call the police so the car can be registered as stolen. Quicker it's logged as a stolen vehicle the quicker the recovery.



-Jimbo

That got taken care of immediately. Unfortunately there is next to no chance of the electronics still being present if a recovery is made, which is the important part here.
 
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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
That got taken care of immediately. Unfortunately there is next to no chance of the electronics still being present if a recovery is made, which is the important part here.

How strong was the encryption?

- M4H
 

m2kewl

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you and your gf should know better then that, this is LA we're talking about here!!

let this be a lesson to you! ps, i'll be on the lookout for the nudie pics and laptop. :p
 
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Originally posted by: m2kewl
you and your gf should know better then that, this is LA we're talking about here!!

let this be a lesson to you! ps, i'll be on the lookout for the nudie pics and laptop. :p

Ok, Chester. His girl's 15. :p

- M4H
 

TechnoKid

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It will end up in Long Beach. That is where most if not all stolen cars end up in the LA area.
 

m2kewl

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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: m2kewl
you and your gf should know better then that, this is LA we're talking about here!!

let this be a lesson to you! ps, i'll be on the lookout for the nudie pics and laptop. :p

Ok, Chester. His girl's 15. :p

- M4H

AAAIIIIEEEE!!! My eyes, the goggles.....they.don't.work!!! :p
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: ScottyB
Originally posted by: minendo
Mistake number 1.
from the shadiest rental agency they could find
Mistake number 2: You being a racist son-of-a-bitch.
some stupid mexican wanted a car to run across the border in.
Mistake number 3:
Worst thing is that all her stuff was still in the car

Mexican isn't a race.
LOL

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