OK, a chauffeur leaves the £80k Merc S class with all the kit and caboodle on his drive overnight, ready for an early start next day. In the morning, the car has gone. Has sophisticated anti theft alarm, coded keys, whatever. No one heard a thing. Tracker shows zero, nothing, zilch, da nada!
How did it get stolen? Answers on a postcard please. (PS Chauffeur has the highest personal integrity, absolutely no suspicion attached)
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Abducted by Martians.
(Martians= very practised council car lifters doing a bit of moonlighting).
Bye bye chauffeur's drive, hello St Petersburg.
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How did it get stolen? Answers on a postcard please.
Will here do instead?
Fishing rod through the letterbox to reach the keys left on the hallway table maybe.
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KEYS! Are you from the past?
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...fishing rod?
No, keys still in his possesion.
....Lifter?
hhhmmmmmm, maybe....but wouldn't it have woken everyone up?
Can car key signal be cloned?
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">In the morning, the car has gone.<"
Yes, that's because the chaffeur had an early start, you said so yourself. Do I win the prize?
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Dodgey dealer or employee, dissabled tracker, cloned the key, obtained the chauffeurs address off the computer system
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i can beat that £80k by additional £420k -
News: Mercedes boss's car stolen 23 Nov 04
CEO of DaimlerChrysler Jurgen Schrempp drives one of the largest, most expensive models in his company's line-up: a S600 saloon kitted out with bomb-proof steel plating, a landmine-resistant petrol tank, bullet-proof windows and special wheels which would enable him to keep driving even if his tyres had been shot or shredded. His limo is estimated to have cost around £500,000 - and was supposed to have been fitted with the latest state-of-the-art security technology.
However, Schrempp left his car for 20 minutes whilst he attended an evening meeting in Stuttgart, and travelling for once without a chauffeur or bodyguard, returned to find the car gone. It is thought to have been loaded onto a transporter, and to have had its satellite tracking devices disabled.
Stuttgart police say that the car has almost certainly been stolen to order for use by a Russian mafia boss or shady newly rich entrepeneur. This theft follows the disappearance of a similar Mercedes S600 from the garage of Frankfurt mayor Petra Roth, though her Merc was traced and recovered. Interpol estimates that over a million stolen cars from Western Europe have been trafficked to Russia, and says that highly expensive armoured cars are particularly in demand
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That's one thing about ownig a Landie......they've been so totally "dissed" here today nobody'll want to nick it.
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So have Tracker systems beome pointless now, seemingly the thieves know where they are and how to disable them.
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It depends on what the tracker relies on. GPS signals are weak so would be blocked within a lorry. Mobile signals can also be blocked with a jammer. Neither method involves any nouse or even opening the car.
Most of the cars heading east will go in container ships. Fancy cars will probably end up in Russia. Workhorses will end up in Africa or eastern europe.
One of those large steering wheel locks that cover the whole wheel are about the best deterrant to car theft. They are a pain to get off even in the security of a garage. The weak link is always the person that owns the car as they can easily be threatened to hand over the keys.
teabelly
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Interpol estimates that over a million stolen cars from Western Europe have been trafficked to Russia, and says that highly expensive armoured cars are particularly in demand
Am I the only person to think it speaks ever so highly of Interpol's efficiency that a million cars have headed east without being intercepted?
If the vehicles are an average of two car-lengths apart, that makes a 10,000km queue of stolen metal heading east. Is it expecting too much for someone in EuroPlod to suspect that this length of queue is a little bit supicious?
Maybe they send them by ship. Even if 1,000 cars fit on one ship, that's still 1,000 ships. Isn't that size of flotilla something which might just show up on someone's radar?
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I suggest he replaces it with a B-class. If someone steals it, it'll wake him up and he can call the police sooner.
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What area do trackers cover? I heard of a car being lifted in Brighton, no satellite signal at all until a couple of days later it appears in France. Would Tracker reach as far as Russia?
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Spontaneous combustion?
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L\'escargot.
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The Boss's company is going bust, the car is on the company books. The boss (who holds a set of keys) has nicked it and sold it in an insurance scam to liquidate the company assets into cash, before going into bankcrupcy and fleeing to the cayman isalnds.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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The Boss's company is going bust.........
LOL that's a funny one. The daily turnover of the company is more that the yearly gdp of a large number of countries.....put together!
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