other Gosh Darn People! (By People I Mean Person(S))

[gliding_serpent2]

Someone stole the roundel of the rear of my car today. I was parked at work.

Some people....

Edited May 5, 2014 by gliding_serpent

[jerry]

that sucks, but your title infers you might be more content on a deserted island...

[mo02]

x2 what Jerry said. I am no detective, but this seems more of a 'message' crime, else they could have done a lot worse. I guess the worst part of it all is feeling slightly betrayed by your fellow man....

MF

[Mike Self]

Sorry 'bout that.  Did you report the theft to your company's security folks?

 

Suggestion for its replacement...instead of using the push-on rubber clips to hold it on, thread the two studs and fasten the roundel with nuts and rubber washers.  Then it can't be easily popped off...

 

 

 

mike

[gliding_serpent2]

Some days the deserted island sounds great. Today is one of those days. Do i get to choose the island?

I suspect wandering teens given the neighbourhood (right on a residential area). I call it less of a message crime (my cars rear was dusty and full of opportunity) and more of a crime of opportunity. That being said, part of me is happy it was not fastened down. Had it been, there may have been scratches. I may epoxy it. Will digest options.

No more tii at work i guess.

The deserted island side of me is designing a use for a spare battery as we speak. Of interest, i remember seeing a security system you could buy in south america. A proximity sensor would warn you to step away. If you did not, flame throwers under the car would do their thing.

Lots of people better off on an island i guess.

Edited May 5, 2014 by gliding_serpent

[Emyers]

My concern reference the above suggestion is the BEMs (Booger Eating Morons) instead will likely pry even harder, rearranging the sheet metal on your car trying to pop it off.  Just a thought......

Earl

74 02Lux

02 M Roadster

72 Volvo 1800ES

Edited May 5, 2014 by Emyers

[skipsfcr]

Arkansas "Antique Auto" license tags have an image of some kind of horseless carriage / hup-mobile (Bo Black or Mike Wooldridge has told me what it is but I've forgotten) but as long as the tag number and state are visible, it's okay to cover the image of the car. It's common for us to glue / screw / bolt a badge on top of the tag in that location. I bolted a nice German Flag badge to my license plate several years ago the DAY of a get-together. I stopped at a liquor store just before reaching the host hotel and during the five minutes I was in the store some inbred halfwit pried the badge off my license tag, leaving the tag both gouged and twisted. Dickheads.

[gliding_serpent2]

In irony to my original title... "God damn people" and the first couple of replies, I figured it was not my coworkers, as i work with a small group and we are pretty close. I then realized the office beside us is a chaplains office. Nope... Not likely them (but i did edit my tile in case the big guy is frowning). Next to that is a daycare.

My work is just off a military base in the centre of a military housing area. Lots of young families. Lots of teens. Not pointing fingers.

That being said, i will ask my coworkers if they will kindly give it back if i promise to catch up on my paperwork.

Edited May 5, 2014 by gliding_serpent

[PaulTWinterton]

Yeah! Flamethrowers! Sign me up.

A while back it was cool to make belt buckles out of auto logos. VW, MB, BMW..... Kids.

Maybe it's still a thing.

Sucks. Sorry. Can you still get that old roundel?

[Koblenz]

Toilet piranha!  That is how I view them.  I have had spoilers taken off my E30 and E46.  Just got a replacement lip spoiler for the E30.  Gonna bolt, glue and safety wire this one on. I would rather it break in the hands of some thieving jack-wad then help them remain a piece of sh!7.

 

If I ever catch someone trying to take anything from my cars I will shove that part so far up their twin they will taste OEM for a month!

 

Yeah, I am fed up with it!

Edited May 6, 2014 by Koblenz

[gliding_serpent2]

Maybe we can all live together on a deserted island.

[eurotrash]

Funny (or not), I noticed fingernail scratches around mine recently.  As is someone tried to get under it..  

 

Some people.