Posted on 10/02/2023 12:19:00 PM PDT by Red Badger
City Motors is not going to last long in Philadelphia. You wanna know how I know? They've been open for less than a week, and have already lost almost two-thirds of their inventory to theft. Seven out of their eleven vehicles were stolen last Tuesday night.
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Action News on 6abc @6abc · Follow Police are investigating the break-in and thefts, but since the business was so new, security cameras weren't in place. 6abc.com
7 cars stolen from Philadelphia dealership that has only been open for a week Police are investigating the break-in and thefts, but since the business was so new, security cameras weren't in place.
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Yeah, Philadelphia is going to pot, man. Try to open a business and sell some cars, and then this happens.
A car dealership open for less than a week in Philadelphia's Mayfair section is on the brink of closing for good after thieves made off with several cars on Wednesday.
"If we don't recover the cars, we probably won't survive it," said Nathan Kriegler, the co-owner of City Motors of Philadelphia. "It could be the start and the end all in the same week."
His building on Frankford Avenue was broken into by a group of people sometime overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning.
They ransacked his office, stole the keys to seven of the 11 cars on the lot, and made off with them. They also broke into an eighth car and tried to hot-wire it but were unsuccessful.
They also made off with the titles of the cars.
City Motors was so new that they didn't even have security cameras, so I'll assume all these criminals are going to stay on the streets. Police have already tracked down three of the seven cars, leaving four still in the hands of criminals.
As for opening a business in Philadelphia, well, I'll just let co-owner Nathan Kriegler tell you how he feels:
I think if I had the choice all over, I would not come to Philadelphia. I think a lot of people are feeling that way.
Hopefully the other cars turn up. City Motors doesn't have insurance on the cars, save liability insurance, so they're going to need them back in order to keep the financial hit to a minimum.
But with this being Philadelphia, maybe it's best they close up shop. It's only going to get worse.
Where was Rittenhouse when a dealer needed him?
How else are the natives going to get down to the shopping center to do their looting? Walk...
As Nelson says, “Ha Ha!”
We just need to add more public transportation.
Philly business with no security cameras—lol.
They need a moat, German Shepherds, security guards and cameras...minimum.
Just think of it as poor needy people not having to depend on public transportation any more.
...”the business was so new, security cameras weren’t in place.”
Too late now. Don’t need security cameras for empty, abandoned buildings. And if they were, does anybody really think they’d prosecute anybody other than Caucasoids.
Reparations..................
Crime in America is out of control.
Anyone who thinks it has nothing to do with the most incompetent and corrupt administration in US history, communist prosecutors in Democrat run cities, and Democrat Governors and mayors is stupid, delusional or both.
Pennsylvania Ping!
Please ping me with articles of interest.
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They could use a couple of Korean sharpshooters.
My two favorites for my wife and new children, were a 1976 Plymouth Volare Wagon, 318 V-8, and a 1979 Pintiac Safari Wagon V-6. We drove the crap out of them until 1992. Didn't spend more than $2500 for both. Got ten years use out of them. Last of the great station wagons nobody wanted.
Was Meatball there to provide live commentary?
If it was a new car dealership his losses couldn’t be that great. I just went through the new car buying process and there is no standing inventory. When a car arrives from the factory it’s spoken for or gone immediately. Just in time inventory has come to the auto industry.
They invented it.......................
What an idiot to open any kind of business in any big rat-run city.
I remember the days of going to a dealership at the end of a model year and finding a hundred cars the dealer was desperate to move to make room for the new models. If you don’t buy the ONE car the dealer has today, he’s not concerned, it’ll be gone by morning.
Surprise, surprise, surprise...let me guess the demographics...Amish?
Amish don’t drive cars..................
Most of our New car dealerships have few new cars...................
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