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2006-09-01 Iraq
Stolen US Cars Used in Iraqi Suicide Blasts
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2006-09-01 10:25|| || Front Page|| [9653 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Time to put GPS units into every engine computer and rfid tags everywhere on cars.
Posted by 3dc 2006-09-01 11:39||   2006-09-01 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Time to smack Syria hard.
Posted by Darrell 2006-09-01 12:11||   2006-09-01 12:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Things brings to mind a trend I've been seeing over the past two years. Nearly everyday on I-40, I see a caravan of 2 or 3 vehicles each towing an additional vehicle. It is rare that any of the vehicles have tags and 99.9% of the drivers are Hispanic. The caravan is heading west in every instance I can think of.
Posted by psychohillbilly 2006-09-01 12:34||   2006-09-01 12:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't buy the brand new Dodge Nitro then...grmpfff
Posted by Jaiper Thoting7791 2006-09-01 12:52||   2006-09-01 12:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Well most local police and DAs think that with insurance, its just low level property crime unworthy of resources. Even when caught and convicted the perp usually gets only a year or two. What was the old saying in Missouri, 'we hang horse thieves'?

It goes along with the degraded treatment of property by government. It's only things. No - actually it took some of my limited lifetime on this planet to accumulate enough resources to procure the 'thing'. The act of theft is stealing part of my life. And time on this planet is one thing that you can not get back.
Posted by Ulumble Angeck2580 2006-09-01 12:58||   2006-09-01 12:58|| Front Page Top

#6 
BOLO: Ford Pinto.
Posted by Master of Obvious 2006-09-01 13:10||   2006-09-01 13:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Yea, but don't tell anyone what the FBI is doing so we can catch them in the act.


sssshhh
Posted by Captain America 2006-09-01 14:15||   2006-09-01 14:15|| Front Page Top

#8 stinky linky
Posted by Captain America 2006-09-01 14:16||   2006-09-01 14:16|| Front Page Top

#9 3dc:while i like the thought, it would only take a short while before the 'big brother' syndrome would kick in and i am not wanting my daily movements tracked. its bad enough that living in a small town everybody already knows what you are up to, but these folks can be (loosely) labeled 'friends.' maybe a gps or rfid tag that can only be activated by the owner would work. other wise i gotta vote no on your proposal.
Posted by USN, ret. 2006-09-01 14:17||   2006-09-01 14:17|| Front Page Top

#10 The link is bad, but the Globe article dates from a year ago. I blogged the car found with a Texas inspection sticker in November 2004.
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2006-09-01 14:21|| http://northcountry journal.org]">[http://northcountry journal.org]  2006-09-01 14:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, we could address the problem with better police work and reduction in stolen vehicles. Auto theft is rampant in many American cities, and one of the reasons (speaking as a former cop) is that departments don't make stopping it a priority. Usually the only way a car is recovered is if there's a BOLO and some 16 y/o punk is joyriding in it at 80 mph. Hard to miss. But the good old fashioned grind it out investigation that's required to stop the theft rings is not being emphasized. Why? I suspect because there's not as much revenue generating potential as there is in writing speeding tickets for 40 in a 35 zone.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-01 15:34||   2006-09-01 15:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Go to France and steal Renaults. Ya won't even have to put bombs in them...
Posted by tu3031 2006-09-01 15:48||   2006-09-01 15:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Start inspecting all containers entering Iraq. Sideline all arriving vehicles and secrete transponders coupled with inexpensive vibration detectors (accelerometers) on them. Monitor all of their destinations and pay especially close attention to when vehicles are static but the vibration detector is indicating. This will show when modification work is being performed on the vehicle.

Or simply hand-deliver each arriving vehicle to it's final address and note who it is. Tag the entire vehicle's body with glass micro-spheres or polymer flags and track car bomb remnants back to the delivery addresses.
Posted by Zenster 2006-09-01 16:04||   2006-09-01 16:04|| Front Page Top

#14 How about loading up a favorite model with HE and then blowing the ship out of the water in route ?
Posted by wxjames 2006-09-01 20:58||   2006-09-01 20:58|| Front Page Top

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