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(Longish description of events, skip to the bottom for the morals etc)
There was a knock at the door at about 10:30pm, I looked out the window & seen a couple of guys standing there wearing football scarfs, not unusual really as the testimonial game at Old Trafford had just ended and there's always a few fans who park there cars in the area & often need directions.
So I answer the door & sure enough the guys were trying to find a hotel, which I pointed them towards. The first guy said 'thanks', turned around & began walking off.
The other guy then said 'thanks mate' & offered his hand to be shook, unfortunately as I went to oblige he belted me in the face!
I immediately hit him back & stepped backwards to try & get into the house to close the door, the two guys then both rushed at the door & managed to get inside. I began wrestling about with one of them, but knew straight away they were after some car-keys & so I didn't want to provoke the situation too much incase they had weapons.
As soon as he grabbed the keys they both legged it, so I locked the front door & told my bro to ring the Police. I then went outside to see if they had got the right car, which sadly they had as the last I seen of it was them giving it plenty of revs & booting it off down the street.
The Police arrived pretty sharpish & took plenty of details of event, they were as helpful as possible to be fair to them.
I'm absolutely fine & was pretty chilled during it all, my bro's always kept himself to himself & so was pretty shook up by it all and a bit gutted as he had only had it 2 weeks but especially worried about his future insurance premiums.
There's huge chances the car shall be recovered as soon as next week, it's certainly not a car worthy of stripping & was simply a 'get me home ride'.
And onto the morals...
NEVER leave your keys in view of the front windows.
To be honest, I've lost count the sheer number of times i've told my house mates not to do so, its a hard lesson learnt for them both.
NEVER answer the door after hours or at the very least have a chain-lock. I never realised the hour at the time & despite there being other people in the street, some criminals are that determined that they are willing to take that risk.
NEVER risk your own life to save a car. While I did fight back to a degree, I was very much aware the danger that a weapon could have been produced, theft-insurance is there for a reason.
ALWAYS take note of these threads, I've seen plenty in my time on this forum, I only wish I had acted in a manor to prevent this type of incident.
Anybody living in the Manchester area, please keep an eye out for...
TOYOTA
YARIS GLS
BLACK
It's most likely abandoned on some side-street etc.
To add a little light-hearted humour, can you imagine how gutted they must have been to have nicked a weedy 65bhp motor! I'm suprised it wasn't ditched around the corner! Saying that, it was great fun with a spot of liftoff oversteer
There was a knock at the door at about 10:30pm, I looked out the window & seen a couple of guys standing there wearing football scarfs, not unusual really as the testimonial game at Old Trafford had just ended and there's always a few fans who park there cars in the area & often need directions.
So I answer the door & sure enough the guys were trying to find a hotel, which I pointed them towards. The first guy said 'thanks', turned around & began walking off.
The other guy then said 'thanks mate' & offered his hand to be shook, unfortunately as I went to oblige he belted me in the face!
I immediately hit him back & stepped backwards to try & get into the house to close the door, the two guys then both rushed at the door & managed to get inside. I began wrestling about with one of them, but knew straight away they were after some car-keys & so I didn't want to provoke the situation too much incase they had weapons.
As soon as he grabbed the keys they both legged it, so I locked the front door & told my bro to ring the Police. I then went outside to see if they had got the right car, which sadly they had as the last I seen of it was them giving it plenty of revs & booting it off down the street.
The Police arrived pretty sharpish & took plenty of details of event, they were as helpful as possible to be fair to them.
I'm absolutely fine & was pretty chilled during it all, my bro's always kept himself to himself & so was pretty shook up by it all and a bit gutted as he had only had it 2 weeks but especially worried about his future insurance premiums.
There's huge chances the car shall be recovered as soon as next week, it's certainly not a car worthy of stripping & was simply a 'get me home ride'.
And onto the morals...
NEVER leave your keys in view of the front windows.
To be honest, I've lost count the sheer number of times i've told my house mates not to do so, its a hard lesson learnt for them both.
NEVER answer the door after hours or at the very least have a chain-lock. I never realised the hour at the time & despite there being other people in the street, some criminals are that determined that they are willing to take that risk.
NEVER risk your own life to save a car. While I did fight back to a degree, I was very much aware the danger that a weapon could have been produced, theft-insurance is there for a reason.
ALWAYS take note of these threads, I've seen plenty in my time on this forum, I only wish I had acted in a manor to prevent this type of incident.
Anybody living in the Manchester area, please keep an eye out for...
TOYOTA
YARIS GLS
BLACK
It's most likely abandoned on some side-street etc.
To add a little light-hearted humour, can you imagine how gutted they must have been to have nicked a weedy 65bhp motor! I'm suprised it wasn't ditched around the corner! Saying that, it was great fun with a spot of liftoff oversteer
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I've always kept the keys hidden away when not in use to prevent this sort of thing happening to me.