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To: goldworldnet who wrote (100778)	6/22/2018 9:32:01 PM
From: kidl	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110582

I had no idea car radio theft was still an issue. Strikes me as a crime of days gone by. I only have one car radio I care about. It’s an antique Becker in my equally antique 911 and that gismo scrambles if forcefully removed.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (100778)	6/22/2018 11:00:39 PM
From: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)	Respond to of 110582

I seen cars that their CD players had removable face plates and people were lazy as they stored them in the glove box or under the seat. The thieves knew this and it did not stop a B&E.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (100778)	6/26/2018 1:07:59 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110582

After having my car broken into and my stereo stolen many years ago, I bought a cassette deck (cassettes, remember those?) with a removable faceplate. I took the faceplate with me whenever I parked anywhere I was worried the car might be broken into, including at my apartment complex every night when at home. The car was broken into again and the thief was upset I'd taken the faceplate, making the stereo useless to him, so he jammed a tool, probably a screwdriver, into the metal connectors to show his anger. That made the stereo unusable. That was close to the time I got my tax return, and after that I got a car alarm with dual interior and exterior motion detection fields, with a pager that would go off if someone caused either one to trip. If someone just walked by, the car would chirp at them. If they broke in, the siren went off and so did my pager, alerting me to the break in. It also came with a blinking light that mounted at the front center of the dash under the windshield when the alarm was set. No one ever touched my car again after that.