Posted on 04/12/2008 7:11:49 AM PDT by Timeout
EARLY on the afternoon of March 26, two young men visited Heritage Auto Sales, a specialty dealership in Calgary, Alberta. They asked to test-drive a dark gray 1991 Nissan Skyline GT-R, a performance model made primarily for the Japanese market and rarely seen in North America.
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One of the men had been to the dealership a week earlier for a ride, but he and Mr. Ironside didn’t get far. The car, with an engine modified for extra horsepower, began to act up. When the man returned with a friend for another try, Mr. Ironside was juggling two customers, so he just handed them the keys, explaining that there was only enough gas in the tank for a drive around the block.
But 15 minutes later Mr. Ironside noticed that the Skyline still hadn’t returned — and that the car that the two men had arrived in was gone. A bad feeling swelled in his gut; still, he reasoned, sometimes a buyer will take a car to have it inspected.
“It’s kind of hard to report a vehicle stolen 15 minutes after it’s not come back from a test drive,” he said in a telephone interview last Sunday.
The car never returned. That night, after reporting its disappearance to the police, Mr. Ironside posted a message on Beyond.ca, a Web site for Canadian auto enthusiasts, to spread the word.
10:28 p.m., March 26 Unfortunately I have to post this as one of my first posts my 1991 Skyline GT-R is officially STOLEN.
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I went and found the original thread.
http://forums.beyond.ca/st/212943/1991-skyline-gt-r-stolen-calgary-ab-cash-rewardpics-of-criminals-inside/
It was like reading a crime novel. If anyone else takes a look, the final stake out is about page 26, perp video is around page 31.
Do you have a link for the orginal thread?
Correction.
“This guy has worldwide recognition for being a really stupid car thief for the rest of his life,” Mr. Ironside said. “The Internet is not going away.”
What kind of idiot parks a stolen car in his own driveway.
This bothered me - but it seems they called the cops but they didn’t come until the owner came?
it takes a cybervillage to catch thought criminal.
Yeah. And no one can verify it either. Which means, Mr. Ironside, someone can give you a "worldwide reputation" as a child molester and the burdern of proving it false will be on you. Good luck.
That's why, in those increasingly rare just societies, the presumption of innocence is considered among those inalienable rights given by the Creator.
Oh, and I beg to differ. Perhaps the Internet will "go away," perhaps not; in any event, it can be severely damaged from time to time as it probably should be...for the protection of the innocent.
According to the contemporaneous posts, someone on the forum went to the house, parked so as to block the stolen auto in.
He called police, but they didn’t come so he sat there for 2 hours?! Then the thief called cops ‘cause the dude was blaocking his car. Cops came within 5 minutes of thief’s call.
Can you believe the perp was so stupid as to call the cops?!
Kind of interesting ! On the Nissan Syyline, I would like to have one of those !
The owner of the car called the police.
So if someone takes something from you and days, weeks and months go by and you finally catch the perp on your own, you don’t have the ability to call the guy a thief?
reload, dude. you missed the point so far (willingly, I presume) that out of pity you get another chance.
That's why, in those increasingly rare just societies, the presumption of innocence is considered among those inalienable rights given by the Creator.
The “presumption of innocence” applies only to the court of law. Public opinion, or personal opinion is not legally bound to any presumptions about anybody.
For example, I think OJ’s guilty and it’s morally, legally and philosophically alright for me to feel this way.
It is perfectly alright for Mr. Ironside to feel the same way about the guy he knows stole his car.
statute of limitations ran out on this thread a while ago.
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