Darn shame if the thieves got shot someday. Darn shame.
It ain’t just Tacoma. Our neighborhood in Reno has been seeing a rash of them. Quite a few on camera. Some even around 6:00 a.m. Hydraulic floor jack, battery recip saw. Boom gone. Of course if you have a garage perhaps clean it out and park in it. Unless you have a chevy EV. Do NOT park them in enclosed areas. Hear local scrap yards are paying $250-$300 for them. Why aren’t they balking at buying them? Probably because they’re getting double when they resell? Anyone? Bueller?
I need to research the costs in adding the shield to cover the converter
Its getting so bad that someone broke in my garage and heisted 125 of the catalytic converters I stole!
Say goodbye to the parts catalytic
Stolen by perps parasitic
We just couldn’t hide
The goodies inside
And gone are what made our motors tick.
More converters will be stolen because of the border being open.
āI was in fear for my lifeā
It’s happening all over. Had a half dozen pilfered at a local college about a month ago.
New auto sales down?
I purchased some bright colored hi-temp spray paint, crawled under my trucks and painted each CC. Then engraved my license plate number on the converters.
It’s quite a big crime here (Western Washington). They are moving on to tires per the local fish wrapper.
When there are NO consequences for crime - or criminals can not be arrested unless they are caught in the act (per a new WA state law), it is open season for what ever they want to steal.
I would just cut out the CC myself and replace it with a straight pipe. Pawn shop proceeds should pay for the straight pipe plus some extra.
Why donāt they go after the people who buy the catalytic converters? Seems like that would shut down the practice pretty quick.
Any muffler shop can probably weld it back together for about $50
Be glad they did not get it all the way off.
Unless you’ve lived in Seattle/Portland area in the last 5 years, most Americans have no idea how dangerous these cities have become.
I saw the beginning of this once Obama became President.
He was clearly building an army and he was testing them out in Portland and Seattle.
I got out before it got really bad.
I have a soultion. Make it legal to replace a stolen converter with a straight pipe and a car ECU update. The greenies will lose their minds and demand the death penalty for theives.
Hmmm... You would think the liberal globullWarming EPA fanatics would be on it...
The snake is eating its own tail semantically... Sort of.
Interesting that the same people now caught by emission control would be fined ... Kind of like government imposing one thing and then having thieves make sure it cannot be obeyed...
A text book double bind schizophrenic control of society
If there was any confusion, that is the actual police report I filed online.
The democrat party supports the US Taliban.