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1 posted on 04/29/2012 11:23:25 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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I remember a fad in the 70s where people engraved a number on all their stuff. I think it was called Operation ID.

I remember my dad doing that.


2 posted on 04/29/2012 11:25:07 AM PDT by DManA
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Um, won’t the thieves just break/remove the glass? Not sure how this is a deterrent.


4 posted on 04/29/2012 11:30:01 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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First this will be voluntary, and people will think it’s a great idea. Then it will be mandatory. Then there will be enforcement checkpoints. Then some poor schlub will get arrested because he failed to get his windows etched, or because the dyslexic doing the etching mis-transposed a couple digits in the VIN.


5 posted on 04/29/2012 11:37:34 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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Toyota did that as an anti-theft package for my new RAV4 back in 1996. As a matter of fact, the VIN is engraved on every piece of glass and all large components.


6 posted on 04/29/2012 11:41:18 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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Car thefts are way down in my part of the nation due factory installed anti-theft devices, like the key fobs. Car jackings seem a little up, but theft of scrap metal is through the roof. So, sometimes that older car that gets stolen goes to the car crusher for scrap metal and a couple hundred bucks into the thieves pocket. Leave an old car on the side of the highway and it may get towed by an unscrupulous scrapper.

Here’s a little tip for any DIY’s or homebuilders. Spray paint any copper piping that you put in your houses because scrap yards will not accept it and copper thieves know this.


8 posted on 04/29/2012 12:05:42 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (A Bounty on Zimmerman, Can Be A Bounty On ANYONE. No NBPP Mob Justice!)
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Car thieves can’t replace auto windows?

Most mechanics could do that in their own garage.

This poster - hardly a grease monkey - removed a car window once to replace a convertible top, having nearly *zero* mechanical aptitude.

This is just more nannie state cr@p.


10 posted on 04/29/2012 12:23:15 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Obama ate his own dog as a child in Indonesia??)
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This is a permanently etched number in the glass

Glass ain't permanent though.

11 posted on 04/29/2012 12:28:41 PM PDT by bgill
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The VIN is already clearly visible on the dash through the windshield.


13 posted on 04/29/2012 12:50:57 PM PDT by MistrX
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Whoopee.
The number is already on the frame, transmission and other places. VIN on a window? Replace the window.


26 posted on 04/29/2012 2:10:54 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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