07-22-2017, 06:51 AM
"alternatively, drive a beater that
a) no one wants to steal "
A lot of these cars are stolen for the sole purpose of committing other crimes. They will steal a beater just to use it to crash through a gate. When our shipping container was broken into up near Volcano they used a vehicle to crash through a gate, I'm guessing it wasn't a vehicle they paid money for. The couldn't use bolt cutters on the gate because it was closed with a bicycle cable lock (they are actually pretty time consuming to cut through), so they knocked over the posts the gate was attached to, concrete and all.
a) no one wants to steal "
A lot of these cars are stolen for the sole purpose of committing other crimes. They will steal a beater just to use it to crash through a gate. When our shipping container was broken into up near Volcano they used a vehicle to crash through a gate, I'm guessing it wasn't a vehicle they paid money for. The couldn't use bolt cutters on the gate because it was closed with a bicycle cable lock (they are actually pretty time consuming to cut through), so they knocked over the posts the gate was attached to, concrete and all.