I dunno...it depends a lot on where you live and what they are using it for. I lived mostly in the STL area and stolen cars are often found dumped in certain areas, usually within hours of being stolen. These are cars that the thief just wanted for a robbery, shooting, etc...there used to be a “thing” about being able…

Yeah I acknowledged that, in another post. I had to think about it, but you’re right, it would. Nice!

Well they could put in a hydraulic wall that drops down like on an aircraft carrier deck...but that’s not gonna happen, trust me.

PJI and St. Maarten are Dutch entities. And the Dutch are the people who brought you the Afrikaners in South Africa. And they don’t give a SHIT if you wanna kill yourself, have at it! Not an “everything is someone else’s fault” kind of society like us.

Yeah...it’s not like she was the only one in memory to do it...it’s a regular ritual when the aircraft depart...many people line up on the fence for it. She just had an accident, same as falling off a swingset. Nobody in their right mind would say a swingset was too dangerous to attempt...life is tenuous, you can die…

I’m 51 years old, and would ride the jetwash in a heartbeat. But I got a real good grip, and I’d have a look at that fence first...LOL

Heh. Nice.

I think the winds at PJI are pretty constant far as direction, so as the aircraft was throttled for takeoff she was blown by the jetwash from that, not taking off above her. If the plane was taking off TOWARDS that beach, that would be downwind and you don’t do that...and it would be well off the ground way before…

Ya know...I’m gonna give you this one...thinking about it more, that plate probably WOULD just break and get fouled up in there, and make one have to abort...nice design.

Yeah those were a great idea. I hope someone made a mint on that.

Well see, I don’t know when this “then” we’re talking about was, exactly...there wasn’t even cordless tools when I was messing with this stuff...

Stamped steel would make it even easier...won’t shatter, don’t have to chase the pieces out. FWIW, anything I took was older than say 1982 and often had been stolen/repo’d before, so they may have used a cheapo repair kit.

“Obviously there were a lot of failed attempts as people were buying columns in mass to repair the damage.”

Cordless drills are (were) expensive, and you get attention carrying one around a parking lot at night...screwdrivers are cheap and fit nicely into your waistband and down your leg. And when you break one you take it back to Sears and get another. That’s why we always used Craftsman :)

Not always...like I said before, lotta reasons for stealing a car involve using it for something illegal, even if it’s just getting around town, not even a holdup or drive-by...but if one just wants to use a car for an hour or so to do something, you’re gonna take something that fits into the landscape and doesn’t…

My preferred method was shown to me by a gal who could take ANYTHING, and it worked on pretty much anything domestic built up to sometime in the mid 80's I guess. That uses the trusty ol’ body shop dent puller, or slide hammer, as it’s actually called. You hop in, use a big screwdriver to pop the ears off the…

I kind of glossed over what you said about the old GM...that WAS the quickest way to steal them...you don’t do anything “surgical” to take them, never did, nobody did. All that bullshit they used to show (and still do soemtimes) of people “hotwiring” cars in movies and stuff? That doesn’t work, and nobody does it that…

One other thing I might enlighten you on...the “average” car thief has a type...a certain generation of a certain model of vehicle that is “their” car...and they understand ONE aspect of it very well, how to get into it, and get it driving, very quickly, and that’s what they steal. You seem to be confusing it with…

Not sure. I only know this about the 510s. Don’t know if it was across the board or just that line at the time (1971)

Big use around here is for battering rams to run through the front of jewelry or gun stores...but old Honda Accords don’t work too good for that LOL.