Clown World.
Fighting crime is one of the handful of basic things for which government exists — that is what the city should be focusing.
Criminals aren’t to blame. They have to steal.
AOC on increased NYC crime: “Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren’t paying their rent & are scared to pay their rent & so they go out & they need to feed their child & they don’t have money so... they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry.”
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Having a new stolen car or selling it to a chop shop would gather more bread for the starving people.
Yup. Just like guns, blame inanimate objects for criminal behavior.
Liberal Washington thinks car thieves are victims of the cars!!
Same idea as “puffer” laws, ticket car owners for letting their vehicle warm up in the winter because someone might steal it.
A litmus test for the court hearing this.
If it is not thrown out immediately the court is hopelessly corrupted.
amazingly Hyundai and Kia cannot sue the government for failure to prevent theft when government has the sole law enforcement authority, but government can sue Hyundai and Kia (who has no law enforcement authority) for failure to prevent theft.....
I don’t blame Kia for failing to install anti-theft measures in my 2016 Soul.
I do kinda blame them for the fact that breaking the rear window didn’t set off the alarm when someone tried to steal it on July 3rd.
But mostly I blame them for lying to me.
When my car was broken into in an attempt to steal it, my dealer told me there’d be difficulty find parts. And that surprised me not at all. The part they were waiting on was no longer used in current model years, and how many discontinued parts did they have on hand?
When it became clear that it was going to take more than a few days, I began considering buying a used car. I was driving a month-to-month rental, with my insurance company discount - $750/month. Uncomfortable but not a disaster.
After the first month I contacted Kia Customer Assistance and was given an expedited case number and was told that I should have my part in a couple of weeks. But I didn’t need to worry about it, Kia would reimburse me for the rental.
And so it went, month by month. The rental got more expensive, after the insurance company discount expired, and Kia kept telling me the part would be available. On November 16th they told me that the parts were still being manufactured and my part would fly out of Korea on November 24th. Well, if a shipment was sent, my dealer never got one.
So I finally gave up and bought the part on eBay, gave it to my dealer, they installed it, and I have my car back. (And I’ve installed an actual functioning alarm.)
After all of this - six months of them lying to me about being able to get the part, I submitted my reimbursement request, and was told they no longer reimburse for theft attempts.
So I’m out $6,000. Not because they didn’t install a theft-prevention system, but because they lied to me about being able to get the part, and about their reimbursing me for my rental expenses.
So if a criminal robs your house you can be sued for not installing a deadbolt?
I hoe the first judge that sees this case laughs them out of court and sanctions the attorneys.
criminals running the criminal empire
I am surprised that Seattle has not outlawed these cars in the city. That would take care of the problem. Communists never have problems with laws like that.
Will the judge call this abuse of the courts? It being utterly ridiculous and all…
I’d be happy to find a cheap way to get a backup key and/or key fob for my 2012 Kia Sportage. I’m not paying $300 to the dealer for keys!
If I were Kia and Hyundai, I would close all dealerships in Washington and declare problem solved.
Because Seattle won’t prosecute criminals, cops can’t pursue car thieves because it’s a non-violent crime.
Are they suing YouTube also since they allow videos that show how to steal a car on their site? Yeah, didn’t think so.
I had a 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88 that was stolen back in 1988.
They smashed the steering column with a hammer then used a screwdriver to pull up a rod that would start the car. I had to use the same method to start the car till I got a replacement steering column. I was told that GM used pot metal for the column and it is easy to smash.
The car was recovered the next door minus the radio and they used the hammer to smash the windshield. You could see the imprint.