Como lake road car stolen Blanca peak

[CORed]

I've never had a car stolen at a trailhead, nor anything stloen out of it. However, there was one time, in the early '90's I think, that I returned from a day hike to the Goose Creek trailhead, and several cars had been broken into and stuff stolen from them. My vehicle was untouched. I didn't mention this to any of the other people there, and left fairly quickly, as I was a bit concerned that if they noticed my vehicle was untouched, they might conclude that I was the thief (I wasn't). I attribute my vehicle's untouched status to the fact that it was an old rustbucket of an IH Scout II. I think it looked like such a piece of junk that the thieves concluded that there couldn't possibly be anything in it worth stealing. In fact, I had a toolbox in the Scout that probably would have made the thieves a few bucks. So, one solution to preventing theft at trailheads that hasn't been suggested yet, is to drive an old junky-looking beater. The downside to this is that you would be driving an old, junky-looking beater.

[SchralpTheGnar]

I used to keep my car unlocked just so thieves wouldn't smash the window. They could just take what they want. Wouldn't you know it woke up one day, windows smashed, and 1/2 of my cds stolen, the thief was a Pearl Jam fan, not a fan of bob Dylan, cause he left all those CDs.

[mrburns]

Probably 2002 ish, I returned to my car parked along the CO trail, several miles down a dirt road just East of Pine off of 285 to find one of my rear tires flat. We changed it and drove into town, the guy at the tire place said the tire was fine, someone had let the air out of it. I had parked probably 20' from an old pop up camper,at a trailhead, I guess whoever it belonged felt that was a little too close.

[justiner]

Last time I left my bike up Lake Como road, it got eaten by a bear.

[justiner]

RIP that bear.

[Wentzl]

I've never had a car stolen at a trailhead, nor anything stloen out of it. However, there was one time, in the early '90's I think, that I returned from a day hike to the Goose Creek trailhead, and several cars had been broken into and stuff stolen from them. My vehicle was untouched. I didn't mention this to any of the other people there, and left fairly quickly, as I was a bit concerned that if they noticed my vehicle was untouched, they might conclude that I was the thief (I wasn't). I attribute my vehicle's untouched status to the fact that it was an old rustbucket of an IH Scout II. I think it looked like such a piece of junk that the thieves concluded that there couldn't possibly be anything in it worth stealing. In fact, I had a toolbox in the Scout that probably would have made the thieves a few bucks. So, one solution to preventing theft at trailheads that hasn't been suggested yet, is to drive an old junky-looking beater. The downside to this is that you would be driving an old, junky-looking beater.

My 1979 subaru wagon was stolen from the carpool lot on the Merritt Parkway when I was a teaching in the Bronx in 1985. I am pretty sure it was the junkiest car on the lot. Just had an easy ignition switch to override.

And I still think OP was an insurance scam

[speth]

Are you going to take the fuse out when you park in Denver or when you go in to pay for your gas or pick up your takeout pizza? That is when your car is much more likely to get stolen. My point is just this is a lot of worry about a very very very small problem.

Since you asked, I actually do plan to do this more often now that I know how easy it is to do. I got your point the first time. But it takes me less time to pull a fuse under my steering wheel than the time it took you to type up that post, so I'm going to do it regardless of how many points you make.

I had a car stolen a few years ago - if you’re serious this is probably a more reasonable option.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/h ... -15699546/

[curt86iroc]

Are you going to take the fuse out when you park in Denver or when you go in to pay for your gas or pick up your takeout pizza? That is when your car is much more likely to get stolen. My point is just this is a lot of worry about a very very very small problem.

Since you asked, I actually do plan to do this more often now that I know how easy it is to do. I got your point the first time. But it takes me less time to pull a fuse under my steering wheel than the time it took you to type up that post, so I'm going to do it regardless of how many points you make.

I had a car stolen a few years ago - if you’re serious this is probably a more reasonable option.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/h ... -15699546/

if someone wants your car, really wants it, a kill switch isnt going to stop them. i worked at a car auction facility in college and processed 1000s of cars a month. many cars had kill switches, but we could find 95% of them within 2-3 mins. turns out, people are not that creative in where they hide the switch.

on the flip side, having a kill switch may be a good idea because it does force the thief to take that much longer to boost your whip.