What to do about 'Car Hoppers'

[Dr Lebaron]

Car Hoppers are scum who break into cars during the night, hopping car to car.
I got hit AGAIN on Sat night/Sunday morning. I just realized their BIG score. A dollar store clock in the winter car. Oooo...it had a AAA battery too. Big bonus!

Got hit @ a month ago too. They got 60 cents, a bic lighter on it's last legs and a empty pack of smokes.

Is it really worth dying for that crap? Because one day I will catch them and go insane. I'd LOVE to hook the car up to 220 and run a soaker hose.
I think I will buy a baby monitor and place one end under the seat/locked in glove box. I think they will be back. Maybe I'll look into a camera too. The baby monitor would be like a silent alarm though.
Suggestions?

[kent]

Yeah Doc I feel your pain. When I trucked, my car and later truck would get hit a few times a year. I'd report it to the police just in case some one else had somthing more valuable stolen. Never really got anything of value from me just a few cents. But they would ramsack my interior looking. Once they broke my mirror off and busted my door handle. It wasn't much of a car just a hyundai beater car for the winter. Thats why now a days I never lock my truck when at work. I got hit last year at work when they got my Mag penlight. I had that flashlight for 15 years or so. The BAS---DS!! :bat:

[Dr Lebaron]

I think the worse I got was when the dome light stayed on, on a weak battery. So I had to charge the battery before I could move cars that day.

Now there was other 'crap' in the winter car they didn't take. They didn't want a bottle of ATF, a snow shovel, vice grips, robertson, 12v air pump, washer fluid, ect. The other car had 24 cents.

Once I had my 'yarding' coat stolen. Why??? It's not a homeless score, just a tard score.

[White Aspen R/T]

Here's a quick solution....sleep till 10:00 PM wake up drink some coffee...stay up all night long and :m60:them when you see them breaking into your cars. As long as it's dark and they are stealing your stuff here in Texas all is fair game.

[Dr Lebaron]

Used to play commando when getting tape decks stolen was all the rage.