stolen battery

[variationperson]

is there a way u can put something on a 69 gmc so these dumbass can't steal my battery again ? lmk thanks

[Jcfcamaro]

Chain a German Shepherd to the front bumper.

[Aberdare]

Originally Posted by Jcfcamaro

Chain a German Shepherd to the front bumper.

Yep... very good idea. A motion detector with Camera is a good idea too... with warning sign the area is under video surveillance.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by Jcfcamaro

Chain a German Shepherd to the front bumper.

Hilarious but true.

Depending on your parking situation motion lights and dogs are very effective. But if you park where that is not an option I would try some hardware that is not standard and clamp it down with something that not every crackhead is going to have a wrench for. Just you. I use this on my license plates. You need a special wrench or they don't come off. Kind of like the wheel lock lug nuts they put on expensive wheels that you need a special key for.

Just don't forget where you put it. I just spent an hour looking for my wrench when I put the new registration sticker on my car.

[Zeroman]

Check this thread......

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=646825

This one also......

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=714133

I am installing one, but I am using the 7 foot model, running it under the radiator core support, and modifying the hood latch as the lock similar to the first post.

[jjzepplin]

Be glad that's all they took. When they stole by battery from my 67 Firebird I was kind of happy I still had the car. Was it bolted down? Mine was not...

[bigmac73]

My old uncle had a 65 Dodge truck with a 426 Hemi he built up to drag/street racing and also used it as an actual daily driver a few times to work a week, he actually mounted a loop underside of the hood and ran a chain down to the frame rail and kept the hood locked down with a pad lock , ( a little paranoid you might say) but a lot of cash invested under the hood.,
then once he put his fuel injection mod on he ran a kill switch to the pump power source and kept under the right side fender well

[Rich69shortfleet]

A bicycle cable or a chain and padlock can be easily used to lock your hood. No need to make it anymore complicated than you have to.

[Jim Boy]

When I was a kid we use to mount razor blades on the back sides of our fender skirts to stop them from being stolen. Some mornings the skirts were there but so was a pile of blood. Once bled twice shy. I'm just saying??

[B. W.]

Brothers & LMC sell a remote hood latch kit (looks like the same kit?)

https://www.brotherstrucks.com/69-70...tinfo/HLAC070/

[davepl]

Yeah, I grew up in an area where we had to chain our hoods shut. Inside the garage. No joke. Heck, we chained our BBQ to the studs inside the garage!

But I digress... my Dad had a chain on his hood with a key on they keyring since about 1972 onwards. There may be more elegant solutions, but it was quick and easy. Used a bicycle inner tube to insulate the chain from hitting anything.

[In The Ten Ring]

You can put a lock onto your hood....there are ways (and threads describing how) to do that.

Get a garage for your truck.

Big dog, big teeth, aggressively defends its territory is another good way.

Is your state Stand Your Ground and/or Castle Doctrine? That really does matter. Word gets out which homeowners have zero tolerance for thieves.

The sad state of affairs is, no neighborhood is safe. Drugs are so bad in USA, even "good neighborhoods" are rife with theft.

A bit risky, but how about hooking up a system to give them a good shock the next time some punk tries?

[harpo231]

Yay , let's shoot em over a battery

[In The Ten Ring]

Harpo harping over the real world again.....

[harpo231]

Woot !

[In The Ten Ring]

I'll bet my truck you'd go completely ape the second someone stole anything of yours. Projection is a real thing. I've seen it many times.

OP, standing up for yourself does have a way of getting around. You can't make people like you, but you can make them respect you. It's not without risks but it works.

As my neighbor from Detroit said "two kinds of people don't get robbed in Detroit: the mean and the crazy."

[harpo231]

How about the guy who tried to stab me in my driveway ? Naeryeo kick to collarbone Had my sidearm, never pulled it cuz was outside.

[67ChevyRedneck]

This is a true story I posted in 2008:

I posted this on another forum under "weird stuff that people have stolen" and I thought it was funny, so I'll post it here.

My (soon to be) father in law gave my girl and I their old family boat, a really nice 18' '96 bayliner. They had to move last year, so the boat sat unused for almost two years and wouldn't start, so I drained about 10 gallons of old gas from it, splitting it in two 6 gallon cans. I still live in an aptartment ( )and left it on my porch because I didn't know what to do with it. This was back in early May or so. I'm also on the bottom floor.

I had completely forgotten about the old gas. I'm moving out next week and just realized on Saturday when I was cleaning everything out off my porch (you wouldn't believe how many truck parts will fit in a 4x6 storage closet!) that I was missing my two new gas cans with all the old boat gas in it. Some dumb ass stole and dumped 10 gallons of 2 year old 2 cycle mixed gas and put it in their car. It's so funny I don't care my cans are gone.

This is kinda dumb, so feel free to turn this into a stupid criminal thread or whatever....

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=stole+gas+can

I say put a dead battery in it so when they take it again, they won't come back

[davepl]

Um, if the thought of shooting someone who messes with your car appeals to you, rent the movie American History X. The opening is basically porn for people who fantasize about catching people in the act of breaking into their car. Or just youtube "American history x opening scene". It's very disturbing, and I'm still a little scarred from the curb scene.

See how well it works out for him! Spoiler: don't shoot people over property.

Also, a couple of blocks from my house a local man was run over and killed (our ONLY murder in years) trying to defend his car with his sidearm after confronting the robbers. (Car v gun, car wins). We had a whole thread on it here. Long story short, don't shoot people over property.

[harpo231]

Amen !

[In The Ten Ring]

Originally Posted by davepl

Um, if the thought of shooting someone who messes with your car appeals to you, rent the movie American History X. The opening is basically porn for people who fantasize about catching people in the act of breaking into their car.

See how well it works out for him!

That reminds me of a professor in college that told me "target practice is fantasizing about killing people." I told that to campus police and they laughed.

At no point have I advocated shooting anyone over theft. *Please find it and quote it, which you won't be able to do.

In fact, I have been very clear on what the law allows, especially concerning being involved in the altercation that leads up to the use of lethal force. Considering how some forum members seem to engage in road rage, your warning might be misplaced.

What I was getting at (and which seems to have been so confusing) is that in states that do support the victim over the criminal (Castle Doctrine/Stand Your Ground States) is that if you can scare the bad guy off with a strong response, he'll tell his friends, and you might not have to go through that again. I did point out it's risky though....confronting any criminal directly is going to make an impression on him but it could force your hand. Then you've got to worry about the local district attorney but in the right states the DA knows what cases will see him/her voted out.

Once on a street intersecting mine, a father and son both held a thief at gunpoint until police arrived and arrested him. Were they in your words "fantacizing?" Police and newspapers didn't think so. Maybe the guy's friends did think so....no one else has attempted thefts there.

An extreme case I do not advocate: on my street two teens broke into a garage and were fleeing....the homeowner shot one teen in the back with a 12 gauge bean bag round. It flattened the teen and almost landed the victim in jail......but....the father of the punk agreed to drop his charges if the victim dropped his theft charges. In this case it worked out great for the victim.....the punk told all his friends and they have stayed away. It was very risky though.....it could have cost the victim everything he owned.

It comes down to what a person is willing to put up with....and to a large extent, what the community is willing to stomach. If a person lives in an area that tends to cut the bad guy slack, then options are more limited.

OP: I went through two home break-in attempts in the last couple of years. It works on ya......I have a bit of PTS over it.....it scares me to be away from home at night. I did make my house a lot harder to break into though and I have more structural security planned. It must be really hard for you knowing someone has already violated you so badly and I hope you can figure out a lasting solution that doesn't get you sued or jailed.

67Redneck's idea of a dead battery is pretty funny and it just might work! I read online how a guy put old gasoline into some gas cans and laughed when those were stolen.

[harpo231]

['68OrangeSunshine]

The PO of my '71 GMC Jimmy lived in Central LA, before moving to Arizona. His anti-theft mods included removing the door lock buttons and relay rods. To get inside, his wife had to have her own door key, and unlock the door. Not possible to jimmy the door open without the relay rods.
He also threaded a long thin-linked chain [kids' swingset type] thru openings in the undersurface of the leading edge of the hood and the ends dangled just under the passenger side front framerail, to be joined by a padlock.
PIA as far as checking your oil, or adjusting your carb lean/idle mixture screws at curbside, but effective nonetheless.

[Big Kev-O]

These crack smoking pill popping punks will happily take a dead battery too. You can turn it in for the core value of $10-15 at many local stores. My lousy state laws require me to have a cable lock on my new toys when leaving the gun store. A cable lock, drill and ten minutes of time will keep the crack heads out of your engine compartment.

Another simple $20 idea, wire a simple push button(Normally closed) to a horn/siren.
Closed hood= open circuit no sound,
Open hood = complete circuit and horn/siren blows, crack head runs,


I would take a turd on my own battery just to teach punks like this a lesson. I don't know many people that would willingly stick their hand in poo.

Thieves are the worst, anybody who messes with another man's truck or tools deserves to loose fingers.

[harpo231]

hear hear