Posted on 06/22/2022 8:08:10 PM PDT by lowbridge
Burglars broke into an upscale Staten Island home, swiped car keys and motored off with a $400,000 Rolls-Royce convertible — till its owner beat them at their own game, cops and a report say.
The crooks with expensive taste had thrown a rock through the first-floor window of the high-end home in the Lighthouse Hill neighborhood around 4 a.m. June 12, then snatched keys to the whip, according to the NYPD.
The owner of the abode, identified only as John, 38, was awoken by an alarm and caught a glimpse of the bandits speeding off in his 2017 Rolls-Royce Dawn sedan convertible, he told the Staten Island Advance.
“I was downstairs within seconds while they were pulling out of the driveway,” said John, who lives near Saint George Road and Lighthouse Avenue.
After making sure his family was safe, the home owner logged onto a computer and used the luxury ride’s built-in tracking device to locate the vehicle in real time as the crooks drove toward New Jersey.
He then activated a remote kill switch — used to disabled the car’s ignition from any location — on the computer, stranding the thieves in Newark, NJ.
“They were attempting to turn [the car] back on, but they couldn’t because I disabled it,” John said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Am I right?“
I never leave the keys to my Rolls on the counter.
Another question: Did he just go there alone, or take another driver with him?
I’m not in the tax bracket for one of those cars with ‘tracking and disabling’; can they just be started up again, or did he need a tow?
I’m wondering how he got both cars back...
The comments at the link are worthy of FReepers.
Sorry
I’d have picked a better place than Newark to go get my car....
Sorry,
I posted under the wrong thread.
It was a second amendment thread that was my basis.
I am sure he called the police, only to document that he was innocent.
No way the cops would have bothered to be anywhere near where the action went down, at least in my town.
My favorite they use is "strap hanger". That is used to describe people on the subway.
It's almost like a paper from 1930. Another word they use a lot is "crook". I love that.
Some of it might be the Brit influence. (NY Post is owned by News Corp)
Just as good as prison?
Newspapers often spell it as a compound word, without a hyphen: "straphanger" - which makes me think that it ought to be pronounced "strafanger."
Regards,
He’s fortunate that they didn’t trash his ride in anger at being thwarted.
Per the article:
“Car thefts are up 114% on Staten Island so far this year, and 61% citywide as of last month.”
That's what UBER is for!
IKR? A $400K Rolls Convertible is NOT a ‘whip.’ She also doesn’t know the difference between “awoke” and “awakened.”
Natalie O’Neill was a staff writer and now ‘free lance.’ Guess she’s been sitting at home with a Thesaurus trying to spice up her writing...
I have a tray-o-crap by the door that I empty my grimy work pants pockets into when I drag myself in in the evenings.
No, it’s not visible from outside. And I haven’t lost my keys since I started doing something similar— with a kitchen mixing bowl— 30+ years ago.
My wife set her keys on a cardboard box in “her” corner of the living room, and forgot them. I had spares and made up a set she used for 8 months. Then she moved the box and heard them rattle around inside it.
That was a funny day :)
Strafangers are orthodontia for vampires.
The car companies need to put a sleeping gas device in these cars to immobilize the thieves after the owner immobilized the car. That’s a real “two-fer”.
When seconds count, the police are 78 minutes away.
Perhaps something like that is available in South Africa? They are always coming up with new anti-jacking techniques.
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