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Apparently 2 teenage girls stole the keys from our apartment managers mother at the pool area this afternoon, and then tried to steal her Mercedes SUV. Apparently not the best drivers in the world. I don't know if they were caught or not, when we got home there were 3 fire engines and 4 cop vehicles in our lot, I guess they were afraid the garages might collapse.
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Last edited by Russ Smith; October 9th, 2007 at 07:13 PM.
It gets interesting, the garage on the left is used by a Chinese family that lives in our complex and we've often seen them sitting in there with the door up working on tables with the whole family boxing things up. We assumed they were using it as some sort of business but were never quite sure what and why they would rent a garage in an apartment complex to do it.
Well apparently one of the policemen saw the setup inside through the crumbled door and asked the manager why it was setup like an office, she explained that's what they used it for, and he explained that's illegal it's not zoned for that and he told her she had to inform them to stop using it as an office because he was going to call code enforcement.
I was talking to the manager last night. I assumed the girls had just backed out of the space too fast and hit the garage but the car was actually parked around the corner. They drove it forward in the parking lot at a high speed and when they made the left turn, a car was coming in the other way and they swerved and braked and the car fishtaled and the rearend hit the garages.
They apparently caught one girl the other one ran away and hopped over a fence. She said the one they caught is insisting she wasn't driving, the car they nearly hit id'd her as the driver so she's in a lot of trouble. She'll be charged with both car theft and reckless driving. And she's apparently 13 or 14 so her parents will be legally liable for the damages.
I guess they called the fire department in because the first person to call 911 thought the garage was going to collapse and told them so.
Considering we supposedly live in a good neighborhood this is getting ridiculous, there's a cop in our complex once a week. 2 weeks ago it was kids throwing cement blocks over the fence from the complex behind us hitting a car, last week it was someone hopping the fence and stealing a laptop out of an apartment in the back.
The other day Lucy and I were walking and saw 2 guys hop the fence and 5 minutes later we saw them crossing the street back so apparently they use our complex as a short cut to the shops across the street from where we live. Our lease is up in December, can't wait to get out.
I was rear-ended by a car thief. After the guy hit me he took off running. I called the cops and yep the car was stolen. I'm so glad I got to pay my $500 deductible because of some asshole tweaker.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Two U.S. car thieves failed to make their getaway in a car they had just stolen because they couldn't figure out how to use its manual transmission, a witness said on Wednesday.
The teenagers armed with a gun approached a man outside a pizza restaurant in Marietta, Georgia, late on Monday. They stole his wallet and the keys to his Honda Accord, got into the car but couldn't make it start because it had stick shift, according to John Williamson, 18, a restaurant employee.
"The kid was just sitting in the car trying to start it but he had no idea what to do. He looked dumbfounded. The only thing he had going was the radio," said Williamson who witnessed the scene.
While the thief was trying to start the car, restaurant employees called the police who arrived and caught the teenagers as they tried to escape into nearby woods.
Unlike many parts of the world, the majority of cars in the United States are automatic and many drivers are unused to driving "stick shift" vehicles, in which a clutch pedal must be depressed to change gear.
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