What's the most expensive thing that was STOLEN from you??

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rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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Originally posted by: AMDMaddness
Toyota camry from my mecahnics shop.. i had just bought the car with cash and i didnt get it insured yet (not road worthy no need to insure in MS) it had a bad tranny and couldnt drive it so it was there to get fixed... he fixes it the day later its gone... :( it took me years to get over it.

How is it handled in that case? The shop had to pay back through their insurance?

I often wonder because they leave those cars unlocked all the time.
 

Lonyo

Lifer
Aug 10, 2002
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My £350 ($700) bike, followed by the £300 ($600) replacement bike ~30 months later.
Second one was insured though, so my second replacement should arrive soon-ish.
 

RightIsWrong

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I had a Ninja that was stolen. I got a knock on the door about 2am and the cop was interviewing me asking me if I gave anyone permission to ride it etc. while his radio was giving me the play by play of the high speed chase the other cops were involved in with the guy that jacked it. He ended up laying it down and doing some pretty good damage.

I got it all repaired and back to new looking and then about 2 months later.....it got jacked again! This time, a security guard was able to stop it before it was taken off property and they guys had a chance to crash it.
 

mh47g

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Originally posted by: RightIsWrong
I had a Ninja that was stolen. I got a knock on the door about 2am and the cop was interviewing me asking me if I gave anyone permission to ride it etc. while his radio was giving me the play by play of the high speed chase the other cops were involved in with the guy that jacked it. He ended up laying it down and doing some pretty good damage.

I got it all repaired and back to new looking and then about 2 months later.....it got jacked again! This time, a security guard was able to stop it before it was taken off property and they guys had a chance to crash it.

DOH
 

Aikouka

Lifer
Nov 27, 2001
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I haven't really had anything taken from me except maybe a pen or something :p. I'm super protective of my stuff and rarely let anyone touch my expensive things. Now some fine wimmenz? They can touch my goods whenever they want :cool:.

Originally posted by: moshquerade
a jacket.

but that probably doesn't count b/c it was returned. i noticed a girl i knew wearing it. i confronted her. she said her bf had stolen it for her b/c someone had stolen her jacket. doh.

How romantic :p.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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I had $800 stolen from me once, and this was back when I was like 17 so that was a ton of money.
 

SlowSpyder

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
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Years ago, I was getting ready to go to college orientation for the upcoming semister and saw that my car door was open. They took about $1k worth of stereo stuff, CD's, etc. In time I heard some rumors that it was 3 guys I went to school with that stole it all, 2 brothers and a friend of theirs. Fast forward a few years, and I found out that one of them died in a car accident... haha loser.
 

MotionMan

Lifer
Jan 11, 2006
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Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Years ago, I was getting ready to go to college orientation for the upcoming semister and saw that my car door was open. They took about $1k worth of stereo stuff, CD's, etc. In time I heard some rumors that it was 3 guys I went to school with that stole it all, 2 brothers and a friend of theirs. Fast forward a few years, and I found out that one of them died in a car accident... haha loser.

Sweet ironing.

MotionMan
 

oddyager

Diamond Member
May 21, 2005
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IPod Nano. For some reason (probably just me being plain stupid) I stashed it away in my backpack's outside pocket. Was ripe for picking...
 

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
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My 155" K2 Dart snowboard (and my friend who I was snowboarding with got her's stolen at the same time). We walked into the lodge to change as we were getting ready to leave, and when we walked out our boards were gone. I'm guessing someone watched us go in and then just grabbed them as soon as we were inside.

Filed a police report and all that, and we eventually got them covered under homeowner's insurance. My board was worth about $300, her's a bit more.
 

wasssup

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Nov 28, 2000
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My car, last month.

1999 Honda Civic EX coupe, red, manual transmission, ~130k miles, awesome condition (other than a cracked bumper I was going to replace this summer). I only had liability, so I got owned. It was worth at least $5k if not more (KBB was $7k, but that's imho not realistic). I was pretty bummed, my cars are the world to me...they haven't even found a shell yet.
 

mugs

Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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When I was in college, someone stole a $200 TV out of my storage space in the attic. Little did they know one of the colors no longer worked, so everything was blue. They just saved me from having to haul that heavy TV down to the dumpster at the end of the year. Suckers.

It was a Zenith... I really liked that TV.
 

hoihtah

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Jan 12, 2001
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my 97 integra gs-r... over christmas weekend in NYC.
they say that in ny, if you don't find your car within 30 min... it's not going to get found.
 

Red

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Aug 22, 2002
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About 9 years ago I had a sweet Sony minidisc player stolen while I was sleeping at a weekend wrestling tourney.
 

wasssup

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Nov 28, 2000
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Originally posted by: MotionMan
Originally posted by: wasssup
I only had liability...

...my cars are the world to me

Despite the evidence to the contrary.

;)

MotionMan

Eh I'm a male in my mid-20's in NJ, I wished I could have max insurance on all my cars but it's just not practical here. :(

About a year ago I got rid of comprehensive, figured if repairs needed to be made for any reason I'd shell the money out. Obviously, I did not take theft into account.....
 

Damn Dirty Ape

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Nov 1, 1999
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$550 canon SLR upon deboarding a plane in Frankfurt Germany. We had bought it on Amex 2 weeks earlier and they allowed us to go buy another one in Salzburg Austria the next day. Nice protection.