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This happened to me a while back.. but it was recently resolved through the court system. I thought I might share my story with everyone just to let them know just what happens to midnight thieves.
I was looking to sell some 16" chrome wheels off my old eclipse. I had put them up on ebay, but one of my friend's buddies where interested in buying them. So I grabbed one and threw it in the trunk of my coog. I drove over to my friends apartment and the three guys where there waiting. They where your basic ******* white *******..but I humored them. I popped my trunk and pulled out the one shiny chrome wheel. It was a 16" Cragar. Decent looking, but god I hate chrome. So they had to go. They ooooohhed and ahhhed. They asked if they would fit on their 88 Cadillac Cimmeron. Hehe I laughed to myself and said no. The bolt pattern was wrong.
So I tossed the rim back in my trunk and went out for the night. I arrived home around 1 am and had to GO real bad.....So Im sitting doing my thing and I hear a rustling coming from what I though was the bath tub.
I thought to myself. DAMN those rats! I'll kill them as soon as I'm done. My house had mice for a 2 week period, and the lil bas*%ds kept me up every night.
Then I heard "ding, ding, ding"...Oh crap I though to myself! MY WHEELS! So I throw some clothes on and run outside. As I expected the 3 wheels, I had left out to dry after being cleaned, were GONE!
Something told me the culprits had cut through my backyard and where on the road behind my house. But I couldn't hear or see anything! I looped the house once, ran back inside and grabbed the keys to my cougar. I started her up and FLEW down my steep crappy driveway. I took a right and ripped through my neigbors yard and onto the street behind my house.
I came to a stop and didn't see a single car anywhere. So I follow my gut and fly up the street and shift so fast i chirped 1st, 2nd and 3rd. I see a car ahead and I immediately turn my brights on and slam on my brakes coming inches from the car....only to see the bewildered face of one of the guys from the apartments. They where not getting away from me...not tonight. I furiously entered there tag number into my cell.....
They bolt through a stop sign and take a left. I follow suit and burn through intersection not giving them an INCH of leway. I easily overtake them..following them close and hard.
Not 10 seconds down the road do I have not one...but TWO cops riding my ass. Never before have I been so happy to see the blue light special in my rear view. But...if I was going down so where they...
The thieves see this opportunity.. and take a sharp right onto a side street. I downshift..slide through the sharp turn...and pass them in the wrong lane... Both cop cars barrel through the turn in full pursuit....
I pull the ebrake and slide sideways....and block the road with my cougar. Stopping just feet away from the thieves car.
The police surround us...and its over. I tell my story..they all tell incoherent gibberish and all 3 of them end up spending the night in jail, with a record. I got my 3 wheels back, they got their 3 months of court and jail time.
When I asked the cop if I would get in trouble for my stunt. He said. "I would have the same thing, follow me to the station and we'll get a report"
Sorry for the long post.. I just wanted to share!
Kenneth
I was looking to sell some 16" chrome wheels off my old eclipse. I had put them up on ebay, but one of my friend's buddies where interested in buying them. So I grabbed one and threw it in the trunk of my coog. I drove over to my friends apartment and the three guys where there waiting. They where your basic ******* white *******..but I humored them. I popped my trunk and pulled out the one shiny chrome wheel. It was a 16" Cragar. Decent looking, but god I hate chrome. So they had to go. They ooooohhed and ahhhed. They asked if they would fit on their 88 Cadillac Cimmeron. Hehe I laughed to myself and said no. The bolt pattern was wrong.
So I tossed the rim back in my trunk and went out for the night. I arrived home around 1 am and had to GO real bad.....So Im sitting doing my thing and I hear a rustling coming from what I though was the bath tub.
I thought to myself. DAMN those rats! I'll kill them as soon as I'm done. My house had mice for a 2 week period, and the lil bas*%ds kept me up every night.
Then I heard "ding, ding, ding"...Oh crap I though to myself! MY WHEELS! So I throw some clothes on and run outside. As I expected the 3 wheels, I had left out to dry after being cleaned, were GONE!
Something told me the culprits had cut through my backyard and where on the road behind my house. But I couldn't hear or see anything! I looped the house once, ran back inside and grabbed the keys to my cougar. I started her up and FLEW down my steep crappy driveway. I took a right and ripped through my neigbors yard and onto the street behind my house.
I came to a stop and didn't see a single car anywhere. So I follow my gut and fly up the street and shift so fast i chirped 1st, 2nd and 3rd. I see a car ahead and I immediately turn my brights on and slam on my brakes coming inches from the car....only to see the bewildered face of one of the guys from the apartments. They where not getting away from me...not tonight. I furiously entered there tag number into my cell.....
They bolt through a stop sign and take a left. I follow suit and burn through intersection not giving them an INCH of leway. I easily overtake them..following them close and hard.
Not 10 seconds down the road do I have not one...but TWO cops riding my ass. Never before have I been so happy to see the blue light special in my rear view. But...if I was going down so where they...
The thieves see this opportunity.. and take a sharp right onto a side street. I downshift..slide through the sharp turn...and pass them in the wrong lane... Both cop cars barrel through the turn in full pursuit....
I pull the ebrake and slide sideways....and block the road with my cougar. Stopping just feet away from the thieves car.
The police surround us...and its over. I tell my story..they all tell incoherent gibberish and all 3 of them end up spending the night in jail, with a record. I got my 3 wheels back, they got their 3 months of court and jail time.
When I asked the cop if I would get in trouble for my stunt. He said. "I would have the same thing, follow me to the station and we'll get a report"
Sorry for the long post.. I just wanted to share!
Kenneth
