Seeing a video of a this kind of theft just makes me mad...

Jun 14, 2021
3:10:24pm

Breaded Hamster All-American

Apparently catalytic converter theft is on the rise in Washington, and this article has a video of a theft taking place in 30 seconds in someone's driveway:

king5.com

Police report 'rampant' increase in catalytic converter thefts across western Washington

KING 5 News was among the latest victims.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/police-report-rampant-increase-catalytic-converter-thefts/281-f7bd86c4-3a01-406b-8b6b-a1a08170b410

I'd feel so violated if that was my truck.

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Seeing a video of a this kind of theft just makes me mad...

Breaded Hamster

6/14/21 3:10pm

What do they do with these?

ThirdStringStreamer

6/14/21 3:14pm

Sell them for the metal in the converter (article below)

runitup590

6/14/21 3:16pm

We had ours sawed out of my wife’s car like 8 or 9 years ago

runitup590

6/14/21 3:15pm

How did nobody hear them cutting? A sawzall on metal is pretty dang loud.

Pimpin4Paradise

6/14/21 3:22pm

It was a really big complex and garages are below all the apts and spread out

runitup590

6/14/21 3:27pm

especially since you know the cops do nothing more about it than filing a report

Pangare

6/14/21 3:17pm

Not the cops fault.

geddylee

6/14/21 3:19pm

yes, not their fault, but it is their job.

Pangare

6/14/21 3:24pm

RE: yes, not their fault, but it is their job.

geddylee

6/14/21 4:24pm

Like I mentioned before I back the police 1000%. Thank you for your service

Pangare

6/14/21 4:38pm

Private security is the answer. Private ownership of the means of production is

jvquarterback

6/14/21 4:38pm

It’s ok

geddylee

6/14/21 3:17pm

This is increasing everywhere. There are locks you can buy for the CC now.

TeeKaa

6/14/21 3:20pm

I started looking at this - seems like a lot of options are popping up.

Breaded Hamster

6/14/21 3:34pm

Washington is a great state, but issues like this will continue as long as the

wabluecoug

6/14/21 3:21pm

Seems like a rising problem nationwide, especially at airports

Gustav

6/14/21 3:21pm

Had my car worked on last week and mechanic said that any cars they can't park

Gustav

6/14/21 3:31pm

That's why people put these on...

Division Bell

6/14/21 3:28pm

That looks like more of a challenge than a deterrent.

Pangare

6/14/21 3:34pm

Sometimes it's about making it just a little bit harder when so many others don't. They'll just shimmy under another car

Division Bell

6/14/21 3:38pm

This. In a target rich environment you just need to be mildly more inconvenient

joelvandyne

6/14/21 3:40pm

This has been a problem in California for years

HiLife

6/14/21 3:40pm

Yes, they need to come down on who's buying them.

Parker Schnabel

6/14/21 4:43pm

I was in Dallas this past week. THey had a segment on it in local news as well as a dealership had 30 of their cars

Police report 'rampant' increase in catalytic converter thefts across western Washington

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