Anyone ever eaten at a La tolteca mexican restaurant? well if you haven’t you’re missing out…
Anyway, it’s a stollings family favorite and we don’t get a chance to go out to eat much… so planning a special valentines dinner out with the boys and the mrs has been something all of us have been looking forward to for weeks! YahoO
So, it was about 5 o clock and we were all starving and ready to go… we even planned on hitting the hobby shop or toys r us afterwards…
We all head out the door, smiling and drooling …ready for a nice night out basically ::
that is until i get on my lift and start my ascent… halfway up i’m saying to myself " what…the…fuck…is…all…over…my…floor…and seat…and dash…and console? ? ?
unfortunately i’ve seen this sight before… matter of fact this is the 3rd time in 5 years now… BROKEN TEMPERED GLASS!
pair that with a big gaping hole where the stereo used to be, dash board cracked in 3 places and 2ft away from its original spot… switches, relays and about 100 or so wires hanging out…
" hey honey… go order a pizza… I’m calling the cops "
i felt horrible for the wife n kids because they were so upset for me… my van and stereo (my baby violated) #@$^
safelite is supposed to be out tmmrw (jeez its 420 am) i should say later today… to replace the glass… insurance adjuster is scheduled for tuesday… what a pia… and the pocket via deductible verdict_in
so after a couple hours go by… it’s about 8pm at tis point… jack says " so, are we going to tolteca or what?"
haha sorry little fella, we’re just gonna half to pretend tmmrw is valentines day and try again, everything will be just fine… the only thing is a little glass and plastic needs to be replaced" not too bad considering all the real bad stuff life could be throwing ya at any given moment…
still pisses me off though, and would love nothing more then to put much lead in the ass of any degenerate thieving scumbags that steal from me…
I’m usually awake all hours of the damn night… just never hear the pricks… if they would only make enough noise, then just wait there for 10 mins while i get on pants and load my gun… a guy can dream…
the county cops finally arrived shortly before midnight… and i’m still too wound up to sleep…
I knew it was gonna be a nice day, but getting Royally Screwed was a bonus! … I was only expecting a quickie on a school night
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Holly crap John. Sorry this happen to you. Rat bastards!! #@$^ :-)### people need to find a job and quit stealing from people. I hope they find the guy or those guys and hang them by their b@ll$.
That sucks man. If you want I can help you run a wire from the battery to the frame, most effective alarm I’ve ever found. We can wire in a remote kill switch that functions off the key fob - if someone actually dies we’ll just blame it on a short from the lift.
We had someone break in to Lynn’s car a few years ago and steal her GPS. We were fortunate to still have the box and had the serial number to include on the police report. A couple weeks later the police called, they founf our GPS at a pawn shop and we got it back.
The beautiful part is, the dipshit, in an effort to make it look legit, programmed his own address in the “HOME” button of the GPS. So the police had plenty of proof … and I had the address ;D I drive by his house occasionally and am always amazed at the frequency people throw rocks through his bay window. Just a bad neighborhood I guess.
Sorry to hear that John, I had a competition stereo stolen once… they didn’t even break the glass, just twisted the lock off the back of my old blazer. I was actually up and looking out the window UP at the lightning while they were below me stealing it… probably for the best I didn’t see them or they would have tasted buck shot and I’d have to face the music (pun?)
Thats really bad John. those lazy dregs seem to be on a loop. keep coming back. fourth time? a real bunch of brain dead low lifes. might have to let romeo sleep in the van. that will fix em.
That suxs John, they hit me two days before XMAS, took my GPS without the mount or power adaptor, took 4 pair of cheap sunglasses and my new $20.00 cowtown coat. Makes you even sicker when you realize that most of the stuff the pawn shop won’t even take and what do is like worth 20 bucks.
I was really mad at first then just tried real hard to hope it was someone that really needed it for their kids and just didn’t know how to go about it any other way.
Thanks everyone… and yeah it just plain ol’ sucks for sure!
but when it rains it pours… friday safelite came to the house and replaced my window… a few hours later we pile in the van to go get our long awaited mexican dinner… i put the van in reverse, hit the brakes… nuthin, two more pumps of the pedal and they feel fine… WTF? i dunno, but we’re going to dinner… After a few stops along the way all i hear is grinding when hitting the brakes… good thing i have an in-house mechanic ( my neighbor uses my garage for auto repair side jobs) he was actually just getting done a job when we got home… pulled my van in, yanked the wheels and ahh-haa! one of the rear brake linings fell right off the metal surface of the pad, destroying the rotor of course and the damn caliper had some very slight fluid seepage around one of the pistons…
thanks for the quality parts there Ford! my van only has 40k miles on it #@$^
It just wasn’t my week ::
anyway, my brakes have never felt so good and i go see the insurance adjuster on tuesday to get paid for the carnage from the theft…
I also found out that the local crack head thief just got out of jail last week… hmmmm funny coincidence…
when i called the police back to give him the model/serial number of my radio i told him the local thief was back… the officer knew the idiots name right away… said it makes sense, and he’ll be sure to “keep an eye out for him, and occasionally park in front of his house just to do some paper work”… he also said having the serial number may very well turn up something, says most stuff ends up at the pawn shop…
I’m not holding my breath though …
btw… this “suspected” a-hole just got outta jail for robbing my next door neighbors HOUSE…
glad we have romeo!
i hate to say it, but why can’t this POS just OD like his thieving brother did a couple years ago, do us all a favor and save some tax $$ on future incarcerations >IDEA<
All in all its no huge deal… its just the stress of worrying about it happening again…
I though about just putting the stock pos stereo back in… or put in a nice new pioneer with a cord attached to the pin of a grenade hidden in the dash… it would destroy my van, and i’d be in a cell with bubba… but goddang would it be nice to hear that explosion at 4am YahoO
Sorry to hear about all of that nonsense, John!!!
Install the stock unit in the van, but connect it to some sort of air horn device. That will scare the crap out of the scumbag.
Oh No! Not bad brakes. never want those to fail. Bad Ju-Ju! I know the feeling. i just had a couple grand of repair done on the Vue last month. only 60K on it. needed new front calipers and pads, rear shocks, a rear bearing was self destructing the trailing arms needed replacing because the built in bushings fell apart, and had a nail in the edge of tire, needed new tire. but it runs smooth now!!!
hey, since you have a work in mechanic, you might check this place out for parts. pretty good. ship fast. Ive used em when i DIY. http://www.partstrain.com/
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