| Author | Message | ||
| 1975GT4Don (1975gt4don)
New member Username: 1975gt4don Post Number: 48 Registered: 1-2002 |
Jack, no problem whatsoever, that is what was amazing. The only real problem I had with the alarm system, was the idiot doing the install of the brain unit of the alarm. I ended up redoing part of the install myself. More people should be thinking about adding this feature in to protect their investment. It was not expensive to add the cover to the alarm system. The only real obvious problem with the car cover installation feature is that one windy days, one must tie down the cover where the doors are to one another along the bottom of the car, but this adds to protecting the tires as well. | ||
| Tim N (Timn88)
Member Username: Timn88 Post Number: 602 Registered: 6-2001 |
The plate "YOU SUCK" migh get some people pissed. | ||
| Jack (Gilles27)
Junior Member Username: Gilles27 Post Number: 73 Registered: 3-2002 |
Bill, There used to be a guy near me with a red 308 and the license "DUI ATTY". I wonder how often he got pulled over! Don, that's pretty intricate, yet brilliant. Have you had any problems with the system itself, such as the switches? | ||
| 1975GT4Don (1975gt4don)
New member Username: 1975gt4don Post Number: 47 Registered: 1-2002 |
What works for me to protect my baby: my alarm system is custom designed by myself and is probably unique due to the fact that my car cover is integrated into my alarm system. the cover has mercury switches sewn into both sides of the cover and a plug sewn into the front area of the car portion of the cover. The receptacle of where this plug goes into is very small and is located directly underneath my front bumper and inset a few inches behind the front bumper to help conceal this receptacle. The alarm systems capabilities are extended by this feature. When the alarm goes off, my alarm system will page me. I have a hidden antenna that is a transmitter for the system as well as using the OEM antenna on the rear of the car for redundancy purposes :-) So, if someone wants to key the car, scratch it anywhere with more of an impact on the damage, they would have to raise up the car cover. Voila! Alarm goes off. Vandalism avoided. Pretty neat huh? I once almost caught a guy smashing in my wing window on the driver side of my GT4 one night and I would have killed the jerk. I did not have the car cover feature added yet when this had happened. I strongly urge you all to install something similar. :-) | ||
| Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Junior Member Username: Wsawyer Post Number: 55 Registered: 2-2002 |
If you really want to enrage people try this plate: COP KLR | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 1696 Registered: 5-2001 |
I have "ICT 1" as my license plate. The company name. Don't see what that should enrage a vandal, but I see your point with eg: 2FAST4U or CATCH ME. | ||
| Jack (Gilles27)
Junior Member Username: Gilles27 Post Number: 71 Registered: 3-2002 |
Something occurred to me as I was just walking home. On this page we have people talking about unfortunate cases of vandalism, and on another we have people discussing what would make cool vanity license plates. I would think that the first thing we SHOULDN'T do is order some catchy license for our Ferraris. The cars speak for themselves, and like it or not, a vanity plate, no matter what, says a**hole to a would-be vandal. | ||
| Mark (Study)
Junior Member Username: Study Post Number: 202 Registered: 10-2001 |
I had a guy drive up, cut my cable, and steal the car cover. Sort-of a loss leader in a way. At least they didn't mess with my car. | ||
| Terry Daniel (Dogue)
New member Username: Dogue Post Number: 22 Registered: 9-2001 |
Back to Vandalism. One of my good friends owns a Testarossa, a Mondial and a 348 and drives all three regularly to work. He works at a gym and is in the office till 7:30 or 8pm. He is a big advocate to covering your car for detering vandalism. He once told me a story, he was leaving work late and walking up to his 348 noticed 3 of the cars parked around him had the windows smashed and the stereos taken. Thinking the worst he lifted his cover to find everything was as he had left it. He had even left the targa top off and the doors unlocked, but the vandals (theives) did not bother his car. This is not the best neighborhood either, very close to a college. He has never had any vandalism to his cars since he started covering them religiously. I think for the small time (e.g. key scratching) vandal a cover would make it just that much more difficult to inflict their damage quickly and easily and he might move on. I realize that a cover might draw some attention, but not as much as an uncovered Ferrari, unless you use one of those form fitting bright red covers. A cover also wouldn't stop someone if they really wanted to hurt the car, but nothing else would either. I think a plain grey or beige cover could deter many jealous people from damaging your cars. | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 1689 Registered: 5-2001 |
hope you will never be my judge  I may "chicken" quack! | ||
| Nika (Racernika)
Member Username: Racernika Post Number: 365 Registered: 12-2001 |
Martin ..... I'm not going to try the case again on FC........but I can sum it up like this: If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck EVEN looks like a duck - chances are it ain't no turkey It's a DUCK. He's guilty | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 1687 Registered: 5-2001 |
Its quiet around OJ lately. He plays bad Golf so I would not necessarily play with him, although I believe he would be an interesting person to talk to. | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 1686 Registered: 5-2001 |
was it that much evidence? - blood on the outside of the car, miraculously no blood on the inside. - bloody glove in the front yard from jumping over the fence, guess with his arthirtis he should have opened the gate. - bloody sock in the middle of the bedroom (black or brown in color) making it really easy to overlook that on a light beige carpet, especially that he was consious enough not to leave any other things or any other blood marks anywhere else. - Mark Fuhrman (a old school buddy has the same name) hated n****** (as per his own words). Did lied under oath, was found guilty of planting evidence before in a murder investigation (planting a gun) All the evidence is blood on cloths and the outside of the car. Once you have something contaminated with the victims blood you can easily plant evidence with somebody you hate. It could have been that Fuhrman was standing in the pool of blood and whipped of his shoes with a rag and then decided to do the rest when arriving at the OJ house. - OJ was driving the RR with Kato a few moments before the killing but the blood was on the Jeep outside the house. | ||
| Mark (Study)
Junior Member Username: Study Post Number: 201 Registered: 10-2001 |
Hey Martin, Since OJ moved to Miami do you guys play a little golf and ride around in the 348 together? I think its funny that he jumped out of CA after getting snubbed at the country clubs and ended up in Miami. What's the local OJ buzz down there? | ||
| Nika (Racernika)
Member Username: Racernika Post Number: 364 Registered: 12-2001 |
But why go to all that trouble to plant evidence? Did OJ forget to buy his ticket to the policeman's ball? | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 1684 Registered: 5-2001 |
this could be a long thread. Reminds me of the religion threat that just hit 500 yesterday... I still believe that OJ was not proven guilty. Too many inconsistencies. DNA is great but not 100% when you have Police that has dirty fingers (literally and figuratively). -You just killed your wife and jump over the wall to get into your house, lose one glove in the yard and leave one sock with blood on your bedroom floor, yet wash you hands and all other cloths in a way that there is no blood left in the pipes of your house (they removed those). Just too easy if you ask me. (I predict 300 in the next days.. ) | ||
| Mark (Study)
Junior Member Username: Study Post Number: 200 Registered: 10-2001 |
OJ had perfect proof in both cases... But you also need a jurry that had at least High School science class,....or all the DNA in the world won't help. | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 1683 Registered: 5-2001 |
looking at OJ did not make sense either. How can you be guilty but not really. If they tried you in Criminal Court and you were found innocent, how can somebody persue you further and get you a guiltiy in Civil Court. Are there different levels of guilt? Are there two justice systems? I understand the technical term and all that but when you think about it it does not make sense! | ||
| Nika (Racernika)
Member Username: Racernika Post Number: 362 Registered: 12-2001 |
Just look at OJ Simpson | ||
| Mark (Study)
Junior Member Username: Study Post Number: 199 Registered: 10-2001 |
Martin - I'm not a lawyer but it has to do with the proof. In Criminal law its got to be perfect. In civil law it just has to be more than likely. | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 1679 Registered: 5-2001 |
...and maybe somebody can explain this to me: How can somebody be found innocent of a criminal act and then sued civily for the same crime that he was just found innocent of? | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 1678 Registered: 5-2001 |
I am moving to Louisiana! | ||
| Erin Patrick Pierce (Fulmina)
New member Username: Fulmina Post Number: 7 Registered: 3-2002 |
Intresting discussion. I don't want to tempt fate, but I have to admit that I have not had an issue with vandalism on any of my vehicles. Of course, I keep a close eye on my Ferrari. I am not a particularly violent person, but if someone went to damage my car, they would have to live through some pain. In Louisiana we are protected by state law... R.S. 14:19, to be more precise. "The use of force or violence upon the person of another is justifiable, when committed for the purpose of preventing a forcable offense against the person or a forcible offense or trespass against property in a persons lawful possession; provided that the force or violence used must be reasonable and apparently necessary to prevent such offense, and that this article shall not apply where the force or violence results in a homocide." My interpretation: In Louisiana if you catch someone damaging (or about to damage) your property (or property someone left in your lawfull possession), you can use whatever measures you must to stop them from doing so--short of killing them. Of course, under R.S. 14:20,4... you can kill someone if they are trying to make an unlawfull entry into your car and you feel the use of deadly force is necessary to prevent the entry or compel the intruder to leave... but I digress. These things vary a bit from state to state, so look up the law before you start pounding on anybody. Although the state of Louisiana is typically accurate in interpreting these things, this is a criminal defense and not good enough to protect anyone from possible civil liabilities. OK... I am through. How the thought of vandalism gets my blood flowing! | ||
| cory mitchell (Mitch328)
New member Username: Mitch328 Post Number: 15 Registered: 8-2001 |
My best friend of 26 years is currently testing for Pierce County sheriff. This will help me not only with future vandals (this is enevitable with a Ferrari) but also if I get ever get a led foot. This is also enevitable.  | ||
| BretM (Bretm)
Intermediate Member Username: Bretm Post Number: 2072 Registered: 2-2001 |
Vandalism is the asbolute epitome of stupidity. They should cut off their f^cking hands. I bet if you had half a dozen one handed kids walking around town the others would think twice about keying a car. I can understand robbery, assaults, etc as in some sort of convoluted mind they have benefits worth the cost. No one gains in vandalism though, it's sheer stupidity. Cory I would be cool with the Sheriff, it could come back to help you in the long run. Don't bust his balls or anything cause I'm sure he's pretty embarassed and pissed about his ahole kid. On a personal note, I know I wouldn't be able to control myself is someone vandalized either of my cars. If I was able to I would file a claim and then later jump the kid when no one's around. I'm a very calm person, but once I get going I have a pretty bad temper. Something I should probably work on as I get older. | ||
| Chris Brody (Cbrody)
New member Username: Cbrody Post Number: 8 Registered: 3-2002 |
Last summer, I was at a bar/restaurant in Southampton, NY where I live. The place was packed and some people got up so we were able to get a table. About 2 minutes after I sat down. I saw a two kids walk by my car and it looked like one of the kids was keying it. I thought maybe he was joking around to his friend. Well as soon as they crossed the street, I went outside and checked my car. Noticed there was a huge keymark from END TO END of the right side. I then waved for two of my friend to come out from the bar and we followed the kids through town. Of course we debated about beating the kids up.... which were about 4 years younger than us... but we took the safe root and waved a cop down that just pulled out from a parking lot. They got arrested and said they were innocent until a officer found a bottle cap with my paint on it in one of their pockets. Finally, 8 months later I got a check for the damage. I was very lucky here!!! It was a slim chance that I sat by the front window at that time, and that I had the front parking spot right infront of the window!! So, I can't stand dirtbags that destroy other peoples property for NO REASON!!!!!!!!!! I could just imagine if I didn't see it happen. That would have been worse. Felt a little better that they got caught! | ||
| arthur chambers (Art355)
Member Username: Art355 Post Number: 328 Registered: 6-2001 |
In California, parents are responsible for the first 10k of damage that the kids do. If you sue them for those funds, I bet the smirk will come off their face. I bet most jurisdcitions have a similar law. One way to make sure that kids are responsible is to take your pound of flesh from the parents, and then maybe the parents will act responsibily in raising their kids. Art | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 1672 Registered: 5-2001 |
parents should face the music as well. Kid does 30 days, parent does 3 days, 10% of what the kid does until the kid is 16 | ||
| David Albright (Dalbright)
Member Username: Dalbright Post Number: 300 Registered: 2-2001 |
When I went to the Juvenile corrections office to listen in on the meetings, some of the kids that had busted my Tahoe where there in the lobby area joking around with there parents. The parents must be so proud of their little punk a$$ kids. | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 1668 Registered: 5-2001 |
I agree. There is victims are criminalized and criminals set free becasue it really is just a minor thing. It just sucks for all of us that obide by the law. I would not worry about taking their money. Good thing. If you feel bad about it, give it to local charities. Maybe the Sheriff sponsers youth training camps. If you really want to piss of the Sheriff, write him a letter after you donated the money that it will come in handy as his son will see your generosity first hand soon again.... | ||
| cory mitchell (Mitch328)
New member Username: Mitch328 Post Number: 14 Registered: 8-2001 |
Saw a couple of comments on the lack of punishment given to these punks that damage our cars. I personally have little faith in this area of the legal system. The state of Washington won't even crack down on car theives until their 5th or 6th offense from what I hear. Anyway, I'd still like to share a positive story with you all. About two years ago I parked my car in a shopping center to grab some nuts and bolts when I noticed four teens sitting on a flatbed truck. When I got back to my car I found 44oz of fizzy water all over my leather and the cup on the floor. Almost immediately I had people handing me descriptions and a plate number, everything I needed to kick a$$. Even though it did no real damage I told the police it did and handed them an estimate from Ferrari showing what it would cost to replace the passenger seat leather. 1527.00! As it turns out one of the kids responsible was the son of a high ranking county sheriff and was brought down to the station by his own father and plead guilty. So far I've recived half of my money and am guaranteed the rest by September. Sometimes I feel bad about taking their money until they drive by and flip me off. That's when I wish I'd actually caught them doing it. |