DH's jeep grand cherokee was stolen from in front of our house. We live in a good neighborhood that is usually very safe. Not that night. Turns out that the cops saw two guys driving it about a block away from our house and started to follow them. They knew it was my DH's car. That's when the guys took off and the cops didn't pursue them for other people's safety. We got a call about it at 5:30 the next morning from my BIL. Their cousin got a call to go pickup the car with his wrecker in the middle of the night. The guys stole anything of value (golf clubs and hartmann briefcase) and tried to run the car into a house. It had good front end damage, but they were trying to total it and failed on this one. Turns out that there were 6 other similar robberies that night and multiple ones on the week leading to that night. We fixed the front end and sold it.
My brother's 1977 RX-7 was stolen when he lived in Philadelphia's Society Hill in the early 90's. It was truly the ugliest car. It wasn't stolen for anything more than the fact that it had 4 new tires on it. It was found a few days later on blocks in Camden. My brother sold it to the impound for $100 but didn't transfer the title the right way. A few years later, he got a call from the NJ police to tell him that they had found his car. A man was pushing it on the side of the road. He had to come to identify the car. It didn't matter that he had tried to sell it, the transfer hadn't been made by the DMV. He had to go to Camden to the courthouse to tell the judge, under oath that he didn't own the car. Whether the other man really bought it or not is irrelevant. He owned it after that hearing.
My brother's 1977 RX-7 was stolen when he lived in Philadelphia's Society Hill in the early 90's. It was truly the ugliest car. It wasn't stolen for anything more than the fact that it had 4 new tires on it. It was found a few days later on blocks in Camden. My brother sold it to the impound for $100 but didn't transfer the title the right way. A few years later, he got a call from the NJ police to tell him that they had found his car. A man was pushing it on the side of the road. He had to come to identify the car. It didn't matter that he had tried to sell it, the transfer hadn't been made by the DMV. He had to go to Camden to the courthouse to tell the judge, under oath that he didn't own the car. Whether the other man really bought it or not is irrelevant. He owned it after that hearing.
