Re: S6 Found

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

I'm sure one or both of you have thought of this, but this sounds a 
lot more like someone who got a less-than-favorable decision handed 
down by your wife, and decided to get a little old-fashioned revenge. 
As you said, the car was taken from a marked parking space at a 
courthouse. Not too much effort for your average brainless scum to 
figure out which car is hers.

Audis have some of the lowest theft numbers around according to 
insurance companies...and if they thought they couldn't move it, they 
wouldn't have stolen it in the first place, and certainly not a car 
that is that unique.  Stealing a car like that(especially from a 
judge) is bound to draw some unwanted attention, and it's too much 
trouble for them(ie, having to torch the car to get rid of 
fingerprints etc means very good chance of immediately attracting a 
lot of attention from anyone who happens by the area) for them to 
just steal it, and then later realize they can't move it.  Sorry, 
don't really buy that.  Then again, there are some pretty dumbass 
crooks; someone broke into my father's 944T; spent a good couple of 
minutes pounding at the doorhandle(?), levering a crowbar near the 
top of the door, finally breaking the small rear side window.  Note 
car was unlocked.  Oh, and they stole the factory radio, some POS 
Blaupunkt.  Jeez.

In all honesty, I think a call to the Canadian equivalent of the FBI 
is in order.  Harassment of a judge is some serious stuff, and 
whoever did this had some serious balls, both to steal the car and 
then torch it.  Doesn't the courthouse have a video surv. camera or 
two, or is this out in the boonies?

I guess another possibility is an Audi dealer hoping to put your wife 
into the market for S4, but I was under the impression that dealers 
were having trouble moving S4's.

BTW, about the Volvo police cars, go to www.volvocars.com, click on 
special purpose vehicles, then police.  Click on a few of the links 
at the bottom of the toolbar; one of the pages shows a couple 
Canadian staties with a volvo or two, an ensemble of police cars in 
Sweeden, and a pair of Brits taking delivery of a Volvo(marked POLIS, 
which is sweedish for Police, so I think either the picture's caption 
is wrong, or Volvo messed up and painted it incorrectly, but I guess 
it gets the point across anyway.)

I was in the bookstore last night and there was a book, "Ford Police 
Cars".  So I pick it up, and in the back is a whole SLEW of charts 
from the Michigan State Police putting various sedans(mostly Chevy 
Caprice, Ford crown vic), and there was a camaro...Interestingly 
enough was a Volvo 850 turbo mixed in.  2nd most powerful car in the 
lineup, it also had all the 2nd-fastest times.  American good-old-boy 
decision making decided that the Volvo wasn't good enough <snort>. 
So, they buy crown vics all around, with a few special purpose 
camaros for high-speed stuff...rather than 850T's all around.

Can you just picture a Detroit cop pulling over someone in his Volvo 
850T police package?  Heh heh...when pigs fly, eh?

 From  the data, you could also see that police cars are total boats. 
In the 60's, they threw 300+hp V8's in them...now, the top HP car out 
of the entire lineup of Fords+Chevys was a 212hp Ford crown Vic; fuel 
prices are probably the cause.

Brett


At 10:01 AM -0500 11/6/99, Don Muirhead wrote:
>Got a call at 5:30 AM from the OPP.  Found the car about 20 minutes from
>the courthouse on the Six Nations Reserve in a field off of one of the back
>roads.  It had been torched (not uncommon around here).
>
>We just got back after meeting the officer there at 7:00 AM.  They must
>have burnt it early last night since it was stone cold when we got there.
>  Officer figures the car was taken to a chop shop, realized it would be too
>hard to move so they simply drenched it in diesel (you could smell it) and
>torched it.
>
>My wife is actually pretty cool about this today and insisted we drive into
>Port Dover for breakfast and even apologized for the 4" bruise on my arm.
>  I'm a sucker for her puppy dog eyes so we're heading out to London in a
>few minutes to look at cars - am I whipped or what.  I'll also have to buy
>another set of snows for the A4 on Monday since she'll be driving it until
>we find her some wheels.
>
>I'll let you know what we end up getting.

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