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.
“Thank you AppleAir Tag!”
— Dirty Harry
They used to hang horse thieves because if you stole a man’s horse you basically destroyed his life.
It’s no different with an Iron horse. (car, locomotive, etc)
You can’t get to work and support your family.
I would not vote to convict.
“Too bad about the bullet holes in the door.” Isn’t that a form of redneck air conditioning?
“...shooting—I mean you can’t just steal a man’s truck and not expect to get shot.”
Why not? It’s the modern day version of stealing a man’s horse and we all know what happened to horse thieves in the old west!
“Police said that when they arrived, they found several bullets in the truck and one dead thief.”
Any proof linking to the truck’s owner?
-fJRoberts-
“ we all know what happened to horse thieves in the old west!”
Yes we do. They got hanged - after a trial.
Californians need a 10-day waiting period to vote.
10 *election* days.
We already know they are ok with a 15-day waiting period to buy a gun ... even when they are under a specific, identified, and imminent threat that someone else intends to kill them.
Did that with my convertible. $1,200 to replace the top if slashed. And left $5 in the ashtray, so they don’t get mad and slash the seats
He tracked his property and shot it for running away. Too bad the thief was inside.
In TX, cattle and horse thieves are shot or hanged so why not truck thieves.
Seriously, bad guys should realize they can’t get away with much with today’s tech.
Nah, that's 2-65. Two windows down at 65 miles an hour. Bullet holes are for whistling duets.
Sure we do. The police only care about raising revenue for the almighty police state. I'd just as soon have the victim put an end to the problem immediately, and permanently.
The same story that doesn’t condone vigilante Justice states that cops don’t much care about finding your stolen truck. It’s always one way. Always.
A persons private or God forbid work vehicle is pretty important to their lives.
Sorry to hear about the bullet holes in the truck.
apple takes a bite out of crime...
“They got hanged - after a trial.”
A trial on the trail.😎
>Yes we do. They got hanged - after a trial.
Except of course when the law wasn’t working, in which case either
a) The victim was unable to effect justice, and the robbers got away to do it again and again; or
b) The victim was able to effect justice, in which case the robbers got shot, unless the victim got shot, or everyone got shot.
Unlike TV westerns or the civilization we’re used to, thanks to leftist thugs and the foreign agitators who fund them, the system of law is going away, or even supporting crime. That leaves the general populace with choice a) or b) again. a) only means a descent into the long-treaded path of communism/socialism, rule by the elites, and mass murder.
I guess you could call it sad that criminals will no longer have the law to jail them, because they’ll lose that opportunity for reform. Better than a) though.
This is the way. DAs and police will do nothing to protect citizens.
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