Posted on 04/03/2023 11:45:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
As you know, there's been a mass migration of Californians to Texas over the past couple of years, but there's something these Californians need to keep in mind before moving to the Lone Star state.
Texas ain't California!
Let's look at just one example: car theft is such a common occurrence in California that people in San Francisco just leave their cars open, so the thieves won't damage the vehicles while robbing them.
"Insurance will take care of it," they think.
And all I can say to that is "thanks for helping raise all our insurance rates, 30% over the last couple of years."
However, stealing a car in Texas goes down a little different.
Case in point:
A car thief stole a truck in San Antonio, Texas.
The owner called the police and reported his stolen truck, but stolen vehicles are not ever that high on the list of police priorities, so the owner tracked down his truck himself with an Apple AirTag he had left in it.
What happened next shows the big difference between Texas and the Leftist states.
Police said that when they arrived, they found several bullets in the truck and one dead thief.
Not that we condone vigilante violence in Texas.
One of the interviewed offices, Nick Soliz, even said "If you are to get your vehicle stolen, please do not take matters into your own hands like this. It's never safe as you can see by this incident."
It's just that, in the land of Texas justice, officials haven't even decided if they're going to charge the owner in the shooting--I mean you can't just steal a man's truck and not expect to get shot.
Californian-based company, Apple, was horrified that its products had been used in forever ending the career of a car thief.
A spokesperson said,
"AirTag was designed to help people locate their personal belongings, not to track people or another person's property, and we condemn in the strongest possible terms any malicious use of our products. Unwanted tracking has long been a societal problem, and we took this concern seriously in the design of AirTag. It's why the Find My network is built with privacy in mind, uses end-to-end encryption, and why we innovated with the first-ever proactive system to alert you of unwanted tracking. We hope this starts an industry trend for others to also provide these sorts of proactive warnings in their products."
Maybe the perpetrator's family should sue them for their role in his abrupt end?
They could probably win in a Californian court.
I tagged both of my cars. And my dog with an air collar.
Watch out
Isn’t the guys truck his personal belonging?
And I think Texas still has some of those ‘range laws’ in effect, where this perfectly legal. Goes back to horse thief days or something like that.
“”AirTag was designed to help people locate their personal belongings,””
Which is EXACTLY what this man did!
I consider law enforcement to be a failed experiment.
I consider the justice system to be a failed experiment.
I applaud people who think outside the box.
Waiting for all the bleeding heart FReepers to chime in about “excessive force,” like criticism of the pharmacist in Oklahoma who finished off an armed robber and went to prison for it.
Too bad about the bullet holes in the door. Don’t mess with Texas.
I condone it.
vigilante justice is better than no justice at all.
It was,excessive force just like excessive stealing.
A friend working opposite a NY union trucking yard asked a trucker why there was no graffiti anywhere on their yard or trucks. (It was literally everywhere else, including police cars.) The trucker said, “Because we don’t allow it.”
There you go. We have people disrupting traffic to protest (fill in the blank), threatening Supreme Court Judges at their homes, and stealing stuff, because we allow it. If there’s no penalty, then people will do whatever they want. That is the opposite of what a civilized society is.
What was?
Moving from CA to TX. . .well, I say no voting allowed for those CA types. Former CA serfs need to live full time in TX for AT LEAST 5-yrs before they can register to vote. . .and 7-years before they can vote...enough time to adjust to Texas norms and culture.
You have to catch them in the act and have no reasonable means of getting the property back. And most importantly you have to have a conservative prosecutor willing not to charge you.
Probably easier to keep your trucks graffiti free if the owner is mobbed up. Nobody wants a casual visit from the pinkie rings.
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“And most importantly you have to have a conservative prosecutor willing not to charge you.”
Alternatively No police involvement SSS.
I gather the word got out that if you were caught spraying a union truck the justice was instant and painful. The situation was that it is easier to practice your art* on something else.
* Art. Yep, they think they’re artists. I guess if you can’t sell your own art, you can at least make someone else’s stuff look ugly.
So, being in San Antonio, this truck owner might be screwed, I’m thinking.
Regarding leaving trunks open it’s to show there is nothing in the trunk and no need to break the car window to pop the trunk from the inside.
These smash and grabs are rampant. People will leave nothing in their car now.
The drug addicts see nothing in the car so they smash the window anyway to pop the trunk. This shows there’s also nothing in the trunk.
It’s pathetic people feel the need to defend themselves in this way.
Maybe the truck owner can sell the perp's carcass to some maggot farm to recoup the cost of repairs and bullets used.
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