Well i let my girlfried use my truck yesterday while i was fixing hers and someoone broke into it last night at her house. its kinda weird because they only took my in dash dvd player, they left my cb fuel card a bunch of tools and even cash that was in my center concole. and they put the dash back together and taped up all the wires from the stereo they didnt break anything

how can i stop them from getting in. i think that they slim jimmed the door cause i left her house around midnight and checked and it was locked up. is there anything that i can do for cheep/free to stop or at least make it harder for someone to get in?

 

Sounds like they had a lot of time to steal it. Nice thieves though. They put everything back the way they found it. That seems really strange to me.

 

Hmm, put things back together and taped up the wires......

That would tell me that whoever did it wanted to be sure it could be driven safely..Who borrowed your truck?

An inside job if I ever heard of one..

 

Yea that is really fishy! But if your needin ideas i would go somewhere around you and get a pretty good alarm system.

 

Another easy way to deter theft is to not have eye catching goodies in sight, such as Dvd players and the like, they are nice, but in my experience they just invite prying eyes, even in nice neighborhoods.

 

Rig up some razor blades under the dash where you know they're going to reach. I can pretty much guarantee that they'll forget all about your DVD player when they start squirting blood.

 

And then sue you and get away with it...lol, but its happened.

 

sad but true

 

My Blue Heeler takes care of anyone that gets too close to HIS truck. He is always locked up inside but lets be honest, whos gonna jump in a truck with a mean ole looking dog in it?

 

Don't keep a messy truck. If they don't think anything is in there then they wil think twice about breaking in.

Criminals are opportunist.

 

I think that it was someone that knows me because i have left my truck at her house with it unlocked and the keys in it lots of times and no one has ever touched it, even if i stay the night there. Its really weird that the one time i am not there it gets broken into.

i have 5% tint on the windows so you really have to try to see inside, another reason i think it was someone that knows me.

and they really took there time i think that they knew they would not get caught and didnt want to break anything in my truck.

I have an idea of who did it but proving it is another story. i do not want to accuse unless i can be sure it was him

 

I have a blue heeler too but i am not going to leave him locked in my truck, he protects it at home but he does not like anyone but me, he snaps at my mom if she tries to hug me

 

This is what Texas has on the books for theft in the nightime

§ 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is
justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or
tangible, movable property:
(1) if he would be justified in using force against the
other under Section 9.41; and
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the
deadly force is immediately necessary:
(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of
arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the
nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing
immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated
robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the
property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or
recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to
protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or
another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.

Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974.
Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, § 1.01, eff. Sept. 1,
1994.

Look it up yourself. Texas Penal Code.

 

the truck was not at my house it was a couple miles away. if it was at my house you can guarantte i would have been out there with my gun stopping it

i have heard about something you can install inside your door to stop slim jims from being used. does anyone know anything about these

 

If you are trying to defeat forced entry Jimmy Jammers work well on the Fords. Still to new to the Dodges to know how entry is made for BOVs. How was entry made to you rig and who had the keys?