When I lived in El Cajon (bad neighbor to San Diego) across from a crack house, some crack head yanked my stereo in broad daylight after jacking my door lock all to heck with a screwdriver or something. My neighbor was under his car fixing his VW Bug right across from this guy and couldn't get him before he yanked my stereo/eq and most of my lower dash and ran.
Before I could afford to replace the lock, someone stole it. The police officer said unless it turned up on the side of the road or was used in a crime, there wasn't much hope of getting it back. This was before joy-riding became a big thing though, so ............
I feel for ya........
Getting your car stolen sure makes you feel pretty violated.