My Stolen Car Was Involved In A Crime!

[StephanieH]

So, long story short, my Mazda CX-5 was stolen. Then, it went on to lead a life of crime for a little while. It was recovered, but totaled because there was blood and pee in it, along with driving on the rims, dents, and a torn rear bumper.

After gunfire, police seek St. Cloud 16-year-old

 

[Lmustang89]

OMG glad you are ok. Wow. Hope everything works out with your insurance and getting another car. Did he hotwire the car to get it started (do they still do that now adays?)

 

[PrairieWind]

So, long story short, my Mazda CX-5 was stolen. Then, it went on to lead a life of crime for a little while. It was recovered, but totaled because there was blood and pee in it, along with driving on the rims, dents, and a torn rear bumper.

After gunfire, police seek St. Cloud 16-year-old

So sorry to hear that. When was it stolen and how? Make sure you filed a police report. Have you notified your insurance?

 

[flourish]

I moved my current state from a neighboring one almost two years ago.

About one year after moving I get a piece of mail from my old county's municipal Court. Unpaid parking tickets. I'm like, uhhh what?? As I'm looking it over, not one but two of my previously owned cars had unpaid parking tickets and the DMV still showed them both registered to me! One of them I had owned over two years prior for a handful of months, but was a bad luck car (got stolen first week I had it, then returned then broken into and/or vandalized almost daily for months then parts of it just started literally falling off...like the rear view mirror just fell off while I was driving one day, then the plastic arm on the steering column, which turned the headlights on broke so I had to hold it still while driving so my lights stayed on).

Anyway, both cars had been sold to local auto sales companies, and apparently re-sold without the registration ever being updated--I am not sure how that even happens...and with not one but two cars in the same time period. I had to contact the DMV and fax the court a bunch of paperwork from my insurance company, since I didn't have the bills of sale/receipts for selling them.

I've since learned there is a paper one is supposed to complete and submit to the DMV when you sell your car--a release of liability. In my current state it costs $3.50 to file, and flags the car in the DMV file as no longer registered or owned by you. I just got a new-to-me car, and will be selling my old one for junk next week and you betcha I'll be completing and submitting that form!!!

(Ugh off topic, but there's now a pop-up video ad at the bottom of WS pages which randomly opens and plays then closes, and it moves the entire window around when doing so, so I'm typing and all of sudden the page moves. It's super freaking annoying!!!)

 

[katsrfun]

That's awful; so much crime around these days. My brother had his gun stolen while he was vacationing in Florida (visiting me), and the gun was well hidden. They must have been peering in the window. It would have been next to impossible to find otherwise. They then used the gun to rob a 7-11 and shot the two people working and left them for dead. It was fortunate they both did survive. It is just scary what people will do when they have no regard for anyone other than themselves. Thanks, Katt

 

[flourish]

OMG glad you are ok. Wow. Hope everything works out with your insurance and getting another car. Did he hotwire the car to get it started (do they still do that now adays?)

I never did figure out how my car was stolen. I had the only set of keys, and no panels were off, no wires exposed, etc. I actually suspect the place that sold it to me was perhaps in on it as they were super sketchy and perhaps were in cahoots with a local towing company known for "predatory towing," (chilling in the tow truck watching areas where people often park illegally and then snapping into action), because the towing company didn't bother to alert anyone to the fact my car had been found (parked in a fire lane) for over three weeks and despite my protests, my insurance company just paid it without asking why they'd held onto it for so long. If they'd have kept it another like three days or something it would have ran out of the time limit and they would have totaled it out.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to hijack the thread...I'm extra verbose today...

 

[StephanieH]

OMG glad you are ok. Wow. Hope everything works out with your insurance and getting another car. Did he hotwire the car to get it started (do they still do that now adays?)

My insurance has paid out and I got a new (used) car yesterday. The old car was held as evidence, but is now in the scrap yard.