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Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:23 pm
by doc540
(that's BMW for "station wagon")
cliffs:
broad daylight
bad part of town
helping move my 91 year old uncle
20 feet away sitting in my uncle's truck in his driveway
Touring alarm went off
I turned and looked as a pickup truck sped away.
I run to the Touring, see broken window, think "hit and run".
I chase the truck about 8 blocks, flashing my lights.
Call 911 while chasing, give license and description.
Dude slows and pulls into his home driveway.
I park 1/2 block away (out of gun range)
4 cops arrive.
I discover the window frame has been bent = breakin, not hit and run
Guy's mom and dad lied for him and said he'd never left the house.
Cops believe my story, search him, find cocaine,
take his sorry self to jail.
I duct tape busted window, call insurance adjuster, set cruise on 80 on the way home 60 miles away.
Loss: Craftsman tool bag with my emergency road kit.
NOTE: At no time did I either anticipate or seek to involve any of the three guns I had in the car.
In other words kids, Doc didn't fire a shot and didn't want to.
Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:29 pm
by lowonair
glad everything worked out. (thats texan for yay!!)

Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:49 pm
by Lefty Writer
Hopefully you can recover your tool bag as well. At least another dirt bag gets a night in jail....
Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:53 pm
by alpmc
doc540 wrote:NOTE: At no time did I either anticipate or seek to involve any of the three guns I had in the car.
These were in the Touring when the break in happened or on your person?
Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:23 pm
by doc540
alpmc wrote:doc540 wrote:NOTE: At no time did I either anticipate or seek to involve any of the three guns I had in the car.
These were in the Touring when the break in happened or on your person?
One was in the Touring, the other two were in my possession.
In the process of moving my elderly uncle I had removed his guns from the house.
The perp could have crashed and snatched one of the three, but broke a rear, side glass and not a front glass.
Total rookie who fled straight home to momma and daddy.
Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:25 pm
by 03Lightningrocks
doc540 wrote:
Guy's mom and dad lied for him and said he'd never left the house.
This is the part that makes me sick. The cops would have had to drag me off one of my kids in a case like this. I am sorry to say this, but I wish only the worse of Kharma falls upon the home of this entire family. What a house full of scum!!! No wonder the child is working his way to a lifetime in prison!
Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:31 pm
by mgood
03Lightningrocks wrote:doc540 wrote:
Guy's mom and dad lied for him and said he'd never left the house.
This is the part that makes me sick. The cops would have had to drag me off one of my kids in a case like this. I am sorry to say this, but I wish only the worse of Kharma falls upon the home of this entire family. What a house full of scum!!! No wonder the child is working his way to a lifetime in prison!
+1
I don't have kids for them to drag me off of, but if this was me as a teenager living at home, the cops would have got there just in time to arrest my dad, and
maybe in time to get me to a hospital. I was
much more afraid of him than I was of the law.
Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:41 pm
by MoJo
Bummer Doc! You realize when used on a beamer it's not called "duct tape" but "ventilation conduit sealant"

Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:47 pm
by doc540
MoJo wrote:Bummer Doc! You realize when used on a beamer it's not called "duct tape" but "ventilation conduit sealant"

hahahaha.....SO true
And it's $114.57 per roll.
And it's not in stock...has to be ordered.

Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:21 pm
by rm9792
Did you claim under uninsured motorists? Geico filed on my comp when some jerk tore up my door trying to unlock it. They paid 1700 to fix it then jacked my rates triple on renewal. I went to Allstate who told me that Geico filed it wrong, probably on purpose. At least they did not get a renewal although Allstate raised its intial rate as well.
Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:50 pm
by doc540
rm9792 wrote:Did you claim under uninsured motorists? Geico filed on my comp when some jerk tore up my door trying to unlock it. They paid 1700 to fix it then jacked my rates triple on renewal. I went to Allstate who told me that Geico filed it wrong, probably on purpose. At least they did not get a renewal although Allstate raised its intial rate as well.
Can one fill under uninsured motorist if it's an intentional, criminal act?
Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:16 pm
by cheezit
mgood wrote:03Lightningrocks wrote:doc540 wrote:
Guy's mom and dad lied for him and said he'd never left the house.
This is the part that makes me sick. The cops would have had to drag me off one of my kids in a case like this. I am sorry to say this, but I wish only the worse of Kharma falls upon the home of this entire family. What a house full of scum!!! No wonder the child is working his way to a lifetime in prison!
+1
I don't have kids for them to drag me off of, but if this was me as a teenager living at home, the cops would have got there just in time to arrest my dad, and
maybe in time to get me to a hospital. I was
much more afraid of him than I was of the law.
that would have been the same for me growing up.
just an fyi this should be a comp claim. for theft
Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:14 pm
by zero4o3
cheezit wrote:mgood wrote:03Lightningrocks wrote:doc540 wrote:
Guy's mom and dad lied for him and said he'd never left the house.
This is the part that makes me sick. The cops would have had to drag me off one of my kids in a case like this. I am sorry to say this, but I wish only the worse of Kharma falls upon the home of this entire family. What a house full of scum!!! No wonder the child is working his way to a lifetime in prison!
+1
I don't have kids for them to drag me off of, but if this was me as a teenager living at home, the cops would have got there just in time to arrest my dad, and
maybe in time to get me to a hospital. I was
much more afraid of him than I was of the law.
that would have been the same for me growing up.
just an fyi this should be a comp claim. for theft
+1 should be comprehensive, theft / vandalism either way as long as it does not get listed as a wreck
Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:26 pm
by rm9792
I am not an insurance expert, just stating what Allstate told me.
Re: Caught Someone Breaking Into the Touring
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:01 pm
by doc540
Progressive isn't covering personal contents, only the repair which came in amazingly low: $648 before $249 deductible.
The window shade assembly was the most expensive part at $118.