Apparantly if you leave your keys in the car with it running, some punk kid will wrap it around a light pole. Poor G8 owner.. anyone on the board?

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/police/1532615,4_1_JO18_CARTHEFT_S1.article


(This happened in JOLIET, IL)

Unfortunate, but could have been avoided. Would have taken less than a second to turn it off and pull the key out. Laziness has no bounds. Of course the owner didn't deserve it though don't get me wrong. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." An old axiom but one that still rings true. Maybe his misfortune will help one person here who does the same thing to turn it off so their car doesn't get stolen due to laziness. Noone wins here. :(

I've gotten gas at that gas station before, a few years ago when I bought Bonneville seats for my old Caprice.

It seemed like a pretty nice neighborhood when I was there.

Ok, ill be the first here to say it... He deserved it... Your that lazy to not remove the key from your car, you deserve it. I could see if it was remote started and some punk kid took out the window and somehow drove away (wouldn't happen without key). But no this moron leaves it running, and at a gas station no less. Hell if I was at this gas station I would have cheered on the robber. Its a pet peeve of mine people who leave there cars running with they keys in it, I always hope secretly someone takes it. Not like he lost his car to gun point.

Now onto his life as it stands. Hope he paid off the car, because it would sure suck to pay for a totaled car. Because he was so dumb, and lazy his insurance will NOT pay that claim. Its a 100% on him self at this point. So the guy lost his car, and now has to pay 100% of what is owed. If he owned it, well I guess he lost 30k pretty damn quick.

Some insurance companies will still cover it. Its a law around here to leave a running car unattended.

they will cover it uumv is what it was it is still stolen period.

I'm sure they told the responding officer "but I do it all the time and no one has ever taken it before!"

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you know what...i live in joliet, and about 3 weeks ago i was at home depot, saw a red one in the parking lot (havent seen another red one around here at all) i go in and when i get back out he had moved his car next to mine. i have a pic but im at work and cant post it yet. if its the same guy...i was cussing him out during the winter, everytime i went to the laser wash and seen him...he always had that dirty, icy brush and was using it all over his car, just made me cringe...man losing that car sucks bad.

Ok, ill be the first here to say it... He deserved it... Your that lazy to not remove the key from your car, you deserve it. I could see if it was remote started and some punk kid took out the window and somehow drove away (wouldn't happen without key). But no this moron leaves it running, and at a gas station no less. Hell if I was at this gas station I would have cheered on the robber. Its a pet peeve of mine people who leave there cars running with they keys in it, I always hope secretly someone takes it. Not like he lost his car to gun point.

Now onto his life as it stands. Hope he paid off the car, because it would sure suck to pay for a totaled car. Because he was so dumb, and lazy his insurance will NOT pay that claim. Its a 100% on him self at this point. So the guy lost his car, and now has to pay 100% of what is owed. If he owned it, well I guess he lost 30k pretty damn quick.

Blame the victim? I couldn't disagree more. This idiot kid had already stolen one car, steals this one, runs from the police while running redlights and driving like a maniac. What if he had killed someone?

The simple truth here is: he took something that did not belong to him, so he is a thief! He broke the law, plain and simple. He is no different that the trash that breaks windows and steals cars. The fact the car was running is moot since the car wasn't owned by him. Hopefully the courts will not be merciful and the time behind bars will cause him to rethink his direction in life.

I hope the owner's insurance comes through for him.

I hope the owner's insurance comes through for him.


I don't for one, remember your rates go up due to morons like these. No I do not like the fact someone could have gotten killed with any chase that happened. But the fact is you leave the car keys in a running car your asking for it. And if your that dumb/lazy then well enjoy paying for that car. My premiums should not go up for your careless/lazy/dumb thing like leaving keys in a car while running unlocked.

I got onto a lady the other day for this. She left to go into a gas station and left the car running with 3 kids in the car (all under the age of 5). Car was unlocked not sitting in the best neighborhood. She came out and I riped her a new one saying anyone could have left with her kid in a blink of an eye. She couldnt leave her poor babies in the sun (it was 78 degrees that day). Hell my parents wouldnt leave a car running, let alone with a kid. When I got older to stay in a car, it was my problem then. If it was 110 out and I wanted to stay in the car it was left without the car running and locked.

I have nenver so much left my car running to go in the house to grab an item and come back out. I pull the car up, shut it down, go get the item, and start it back up. How hard is this? Im a bigger guy than most people on this forum, and I dont even break a sweat doing that.

And no most insurance companies will not insure that kind of stupidity. Leave a gate unlocked and someone takes something theft and trepassing. If it is locked then its "breaking and entering" and theft. Guess of the two choices carries the higher jail time? I know because our back yard got broken into. The lock for the gate could not be found thus no breaking and entering charged could have been assest then. Only when he left the lock busted that belonged to the shed where they then able to write him up for breaking and entering.

Like I said I would be all for the guy taking the car untill he endangered any life. The owner I hope learned an $$,$$$.$$ leason and had to pay for the full thing.

Actually, when I had a car stolen, the insurance company told me they would pay out a claim on a car stolen if the keys were in the ignition. At least then they know why it got stolen, as opposed to opening a month long investigation into trying to figure it out.

I don't leave my keys in the car either, ever, but the real problem here is the people doing the stealing! Our premiums wouldn't be so high if scumbags wouldn't steal cars to begin with. If not a running G8, it would have been another car, heck he already had one earlier in the week! There is the real issue.

I do hear what you are saying Hardtech and agree with some of it. People DO need to be more careful these days, but it is sad at the same time that some people don't respect other folk's property and hard work.

Granted he shouldnt have left his keys in the car but, the sad part is when the car got wrapped around the telephone pole the idiot car thiefs head wasn't wrapped around it as well.

I had a motorcycle stolen from me, anyone who has ever had a vehicle stolen knows the feeling of having something that you worked hard for just taken from you. They used to hang horse thieves.

Granted he shouldnt have left his keys in the car but, the sad part is when the car got wrapped around the telephone pole the idiot car thiefs head wasn't wrapped around it as well.

I had a motorcycle stolen from me, anyone who has ever had a vehicle stolen knows the feeling of having something that you worked hard for just taken from you. They used to hang horse thieves.

I had my old car stolen from a ferry dock a few years ago; I was furious. I had it locked and it was alarmed, but they took it anyhow. The cops found the car about 6 miles away, minus wheels and stereo. Luckily, I saw the thief driving an old POS with my nice wheels on it, followed him to his house and called the cops.

The brainiac said he bought the stuff off of some guy, but he had my stereo, amps and even some of my engineering charts from work still in the car. He was even wearing my National Guard gortex jacket--rank still on it! He got arrested and was crying as he was carted off. It was great. Well except I never got my amps back as the police department "lost" them.

What a fiasco...the car was totalled by insurance because the jerk ripped and cut my interior apart and the car's bodywork was crushed on the bottom because when he took off the wheels, he let it fall to the ground.

I was thinking the same thing about what they used to do to horse thieves! I'm not sure I'd advocate executing car thieves, but the thought isn't altogether bad! ;) LOL

I had my old car stolen from a ferry dock a few years ago; I was furious. I had it locked and it was alarmed, but they took it anyhow. The cops found the car about 6 miles away, minus wheels and stereo. Luckily, I saw the thief driving an old POS with my nice wheels on it, followed him to his house and called the cops.

The brainiac said he bought the stuff off of some guy, but he had my stereo, amps and even some of my engineering charts from work still in the car. He was even wearing my National Guard gortex jacket--rank still on it! He got arrested and was crying as he was carted off. It was great. Well except I never got my amps back as the police department "lost" them.

What a fiasco...the car was totalled by insurance because the jerk ripped and cut my interior apart and the car's bodywork was crushed on the bottom because when he took off the wheels, he let it fall to the ground.

I was thinking the same thing about what they used to do to horse thieves! I'm not sure I'd advocate executing car thieves, but the thought isn't altogether bad! ;) LOL


Its definitely a rough feeling because there is nothing you can do about it except suck it up.

I remember goign to EBAY every day looking for used Ducati parts thinking the thief was a complete moron and would try to part it out on EBAY. I went through all the local newspapers....to this day it has never been found, and that was almost 4 years ago.

In many communities it's unlikely this would happen. But in Joliet, the owner should have known better. Flame away now... ;)