[LRflex] Stealing a German car.....
- From: Alex Hurst <corkflor@xxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:31:48 +0100
Douglas and Sonny writ:
BTW, the latest car-theft statistics in Germany reveal that the Trabi
is indeed still very popular - Porsche leads the insurers statistics
and is followed by the Trabi before BMW, Audi and MB (No joke!!!)
They are stealing them for the parts to keep other Trabbies running.
;-)
Stealing Trabis I can understand. The East German joke goes about the
worker who had fulfilled his norm many years running, and could at
last order his Trabi.
He was told that it would be delivered on a Wednesday ten years hence.
"Would that be morning or afternoon?", he enquired of the Trabi salesman.
"I don't know," said the guy, "Why are you asking?"
"Well," said the proud Trabi-owner-to-be, "the plumber's coming in
the morning."
Doug - I amazed by your theft stats. I have a 19 year old BMW with a
very ancient on-board computer. I punch in a four figure code and set
it, and then alarm the car as usual. Unless someone knows my code,
there's no way it's going to start. I know this from bitter
experience, as my lovely wife punched in the wrong code (which she
then couldn't, of course, remember), and it took me two hours with
alarms going off over all the place at fifteen minute intervals to
put things right.
These days they have even more complicated electronic keys, as I'm
sure Porsche do, so how on earth are the thieves hacking in so easily?
I thought these days that thieves were having to pick out older and
less complicated machinery.
OTOH I'm just trying to work out how to build an alarm system into my
Leica III... :-)
Best
Alex
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