Date:         Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:03:45 PDT
Reply-To:     Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Subject:      Re: Thieves like the poor will always be with us...
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You need to keep a severed hand on your front seat - that might keep them
out - who would want to associate themselves with a serial killer crime
scene just to get a radio...

>From: Jonc <jonc@webgears.com>
>
>I had my radio stolen out of my vanagon while it was parked in front of a
>hotel on Miami Beach... they took out the driver's side window to get at it
>.. while the car was at the dealer getting the radio and window replaced by
>my insurance company... Some energetic voles, climbed the fence into the
>dealers high security lot and again broke the window and took the new radio
>before I ever saw it... At that point, I gave up on radios in the Vanagon
>at
>that point and have become a pretty good whistler...
>
>No longer do I wax my Van though I have brought the maintenance of the
>running gear to obsessive levels... I also use old engine covers on new
>outboards... In my experience, things that look a little shabby have a
>tendency to stay around longer ... tax men do not pay them a lot of notice
>either...

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