re: Catalytic Converter Thieves Deserve Death Penalty

It's ok bro. There was a time where I had all four tires and wheels stolen. They left it sitting on gardening stones. So the only way to lift the vehicle was to find a dealer with a jack that could lift the car and come out to the location to out temp tires on it.

My buddy bought a Dodge Ram TRX a few months back. Last week some shitstains stole both catalytic converters off it.

It cost him $4000 to get them replaced.

Death penalty is fine by me.

It's any vehicle. Trucks are easy because you can slip under with a recip saw and be gone in seconds. I have a Tundra, but I am not sure if it's more common than other brands... I think it's really just access.

I believe Toyota Priuses is the most prized target by thieves due to amount of precious metal content.

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I think it's really just access

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So if you have a vehicle that sits higher, you could be at risk in any parking lot in BR. Nice.

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So if you have a vehicle that sits higher, you could be at risk in any parking lot in BR. Nice.

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wife has a Jeep and got rear-ended at a traffic light a few weeks ago, the other vehicle was a small Ford and ran up underneath her car, knocking the catalytic converter from it's mounts, it was drivable but that thing was just hanging there begging to be stolen, can't believe it survived log enough to make it to the shop

According to this board there must be a shitload of loud arse trucks down south.

No issue in rural WI. We don't steal cats and don't buy Toyotas.

Thieves are emboldened in New Orleans and Baton Rouge nowadays. They know the police forces have their hands tied and they have free rein over the city to do whatever they want.

Accidentally caught a thief in the act of cutting the exhaust pipe on my F250. I remote cranked my truck in the parking lot at work while the thief's sawzall was trying to get through the front section of exhaust pipe. I didn't know it at the time as he was able to get away. In the next few days, I began to smell the diesel exhaust fumes much more strongly than normal. Then I would get a puff of bluish-grey smoke from under the truck after I drove for 15 minutes or so. Crawled under my truck to find the pipe halfway cut through

4 weeks, $100 deductible and $4,600+ total cost later, my truck is back to new. Gotta thank my insurance company for making it whole again and replacing the entire exhaust unit.

To top it off, I reviewed the security cameras here at work and my truck was the third one this POS had crawled under to try to steal. The other 2 were deleted already.

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Lobby your representatives for new laws with harsher sentences for thieves and laws aimed at holding the BUYERS accountable.

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Small government conservatives claim we already have too many laws in this country. Now we want auto parts specific laws on top of car theft laws?

Electric vehicles will eventually solve this problem.