Yappers, has one of your cars ever been car-napped?

since it's been in the local news lately... it's time to ask if you (or someone close to you) have experienced parking your car somewhere and it's gone by the time you get back to it. also your thoughts about it.





i'm grateful i never had to deal with that since all our cars have locks and alarms, but my grandparents weren't as fortunate... their early 80's Corolla Liftback was just so easy to take when cars didn't have alarms or whatever. all the PNP could do was put that car's license plate in their database as if it's so hard to change the plate, the paint, and even the chassis. personally, i think these car-napping syndicates are in the automotive buy-and-sell business.|||Thank God there has been none. Our cars have alarm systems and our carport has CCTV. Besides, car theft is not easy in our gated community. When out, we take more than the usual precautions, to a point where it seems we are "praning" (paranoid) already. We also constantly update ourselves, and our drivers, about the latest modus operandi of carjackers. Like lately, they stick something at the glass at the back of the car. So that when you are backing out and you see this distraction, you get off and the thieves immediately enter the car, speeding off with you not knowing how the car "drove itself".|||My car almost got carnapped but was prevented because the unaware police officer who passed by with his mobile motorcycle made noise that fled the carnapper who threatened me with his ice pick.





I rushed in to my car and drove it because I was afraid of him, coming back.





Thank God for that.|||Fortunately, my car was never car-napped or looted but its tail light was once smashed by somebody in a bad neighborhood, I presume. I do think too that car-nappers have connections with car dealerships. I mean, who would steal a big item if they can't dispose it easily?