A brief message to the person who jacked up my car at 3 o’clock in the morning, removed the lug nuts from the passenger-side wheel, took the wheel (presumably to replace a damaged wheel on his own Scion TC), and left my 3-wheeled car for me to discover at 8:20 a.m. this morning
Thank you for leaving the lug nuts from the stolen wheel in a neat pile next to the wheel drum.
It was quaint and really quite thoughtful, and I must say that having those lug nuts simplified matters for me today.
March 6th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Damn that sucks.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Hmmm, nothing quite like having a good sense of humour about things!
March 7th, 2007 at 12:15 am
srsly. people do some fucked up shit to each other’s automobiles in this city.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Damn man, that sucks. When I bought a new vehicle, I opted for the crap wheels and just purchased after market. Those require a special “key” to get the lug nuts off.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:08 am
Chad has a good idea. The “locked” nuts mean the thief now has to steal your entire car to get your wheels. :-o
Seems, like one of those “it could be worse” situations.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:11 am
You both end up happy. The thief avoids the ethical and legal (think of a Judge saying “grand theft auto”) problems of stealing the whole car. And you’re left with a $300 task to angrily complete. The thief probably has very little risk of ever getting caught.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
I’ve got the tire with me. I’ll return it later today.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Nice car you have there, sir. :D
Clearly it was just a thug wanting a sweet hubcap but was too chicken to commit a real crime and make things really inconvenient for the victim.
That’s like stealing a bunch of stuff from a house and putting everything back neatly when you’re done.
March 7th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Dude - that sucks. Another reason to not have a car in the city, and another arguement for me selling my car…
mp/m
April 7th, 2007 at 11:38 am
damn bro, that aint even right.
April 7th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
p.s. - Good to see that the Google Ads are right on the money… currently there is an ad for “Wheel Locks”
June 18th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I had the same thing happen to me! Someone stole my front left wheel…. 12 hours after I bought the car!! Thankfully, the jerk put it up on a cinder block so that the rocker panel was damaged as well. Needless to say, I bought some wheel locks the next day.
July 3rd, 2007 at 2:36 am
Honestly the wheels for that car are expensive. If my TC had a flat I probably would have taken your tire too. Luckily I still have my spare.
October 16th, 2007 at 4:24 am
At least they only took one.