Car Jacking

[sparkystav]

Saw this on the BBC website: BBC News

Basically a guy was bumped in his 350Z, then when he got out he was carjacked and left stranded.

its ridiculous the length these idiots go to, and then they'll just a slap on the wrist if the police catch them.

Whereas if you got out and battered them with a tyre iron for trying to jack you, you'd be portrayed as a monster and locked up for a few years!

[WylieCoyote]

It's really bad when people do that. The advice is to drive to the nearest police station or safe® place (like a garage forecourt) and exchange details there. They're much less likely to jump you in front of a police station or somewhere where there's loads of cctv.

[Andy-R]

JUst give the cheeky b :tsktsk: ards a good kicking it's the least they deserve, the problem is the main targets of carjacking in this country are females travelling alone or with kids, they don't even have to balls to try and jack someone who can fight back

[Parthiban]

Yeah it's awful, happened to someone my parents knew a while back........worst part is they didn't just take the car, they clobbered him over the head and knocked him out before doing so.

Makes sense if it's late and dark to try and stop somewhere well lit and with people present........

[Steve]

i would not even put up a fight. Its just a car and I am insured and certainly not worth a beating or being killed.

I would simply step back and let them get on with it, call the poilce.. all you can do

[Steve]

remember scarface had his car carjacked a while back.

I have seen all sorts of car thefts on here. Stick through the letterbox, spade prising the window open, jumoing in cars that are ticking over on cold mornings, being carjacked outside a supermarket... goes on and on.

[Parthiban]

remember scarface had his car carjacked a while back.

I have seen all sorts of car thefts on here. Stick through the letterbox, spade prising the window open, jumoing in cars that are ticking over on cold mornings, being carjacked outside a supermarket... goes on and on.

Yep Scarface's one was scary, being in broad daylight in a car park (was it B&Q?).........although I didn't expect mine to be taken in a car jacking off my drive a few weeks later

[Steve]

i havent heard if any IS250 jackings.. has it been safe?

IS200 at the time was the one on the target list.

[shake]

this happens all to often and theres not much you can do. if he took the keys out he would of been beaten to a pulp for sure. i remember a 330ci was nicked after a R1 bike hit it. two passengers jumped out of the bmw and the 2 on the bike jumped into the bmw... leaving the bike the 2 from the bmw set the bike alight which was stupid as the bike was nicked!

[Cotswold Pete]

That's why I like ugly cars.

Cannot see anyone wanting to nick or car jack a bog standard LS.

In my younger days I had all sorts of high performance and high spec company cars nicked, in the end I hada Rover 416, a heap of s**t, but no one ever wanted to nick it.

So maybe there is a market to ugly-kits to make the crims look elsewhere.

[Damer]

Neighbour was carjacked of her A3 a couple of weeks back, out side her own front door! :tsktsk: