STOLEN FERRARI IN SEATTLE - FOUND!!!

Here you go Eric,
best of luck

Best
Jurgen

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Thats terrible sorry for your loss

 

Great news!! Glad you found it in one piece (i hope). Stealing is a terrible thing....

 

Excellent news, I hope the damage is just cosmetic.

 

Awesome news! Are they making any effort to catch the asshats responsible? Pulling fingerprints, etc?

 

That is really great news, i hope the car is ok.

 

I had a '74 Alfa spider stolen once. I wondered why anyone would steal it as it's not worth anything really as parts.

The officer told me the only reason they steal these kinds of things are joy rides. They usually end up dumped after a few days as no one wants to go to jail over it. Usually, there's some damage as they drive it literally "like they stole it".

I got mine back about a month later 600 miles away in San Francisco. It had been crashed but it was still running. The starter burned out and it stalled on a hill. They just abandoned the car in traffic.

The insurance company (State Farm) brought it back to 100% and I had it many years after.

I hope your car was not seriously damaged but it's a great feeling to get it back I'm sure. It was for me.

The one thing I remember though is that the police really don't care that much about stolen cars. It's way down on their priority list. I called every 2 days to find out what was going on. Eventually I called and they said "oh yeah. We found your car. It's in the inpound in San Francisco. Here's the number. Bye".

Hope you were treated better than I was. For 99.9% of the stolen vehicles, it's just a commodity to their owners and nothing special.

 

Ah, good old South Seattle. Was it Burien? White Center? Skyway?

 

Yeah I spent a little over a year in Burien/Renton and was working in all of those neighborhoods up through downtown.

 

That really sucks but at least it wasn't wrecked because you probably would have heard about it by now. Hope the tranny and engine are okay, be sure to get everything checked out by a great mechanic before you or anyone else drives it (for insurance purposes).

Here's my story... At age 22 my pride and joy blk/blk 1990 BMW 325is was stolen by some prybar-wielding health-food freaks with either a filed-down or dealer key. They took all the paper work out of the car including one of the few pictures of me and my now passed grandfather.

Police found the car a week later 10 miles from home and returned it via impound lot filled with organic-labeled banana/fruit peels and various empty unpasteurized small-farm juice bottles. This was long before Whole Foods and the mass health craze, so not your typical car thieves. No ignition lock damage, no door lock damage, no needles or alcohol bottles, just a small dent in the B-pillar behind the door frame from the crowbar. Turns out they would steal a new license plate from a similar BMW every night, put it on my car, and drive around until they felt the current stolen plate would be noticed as missing from the car they stole it from. Very weird and unsettling! What I would give to know what went on in/around my car during that week!

Oddly enough, the car thief or thieves ditched the car undamaged with a full tank of gas and a variety of other BMW 325i-specific parts in the car, as well as some sunglasses and a Gerber Multi-tool that I still have as souvenirs...

It cost me around $800 to get it out of tow, which I thought sucked pretty bad especially as a broke-ass kid freelancing for $20 an hour.

Another really weird/funny thing... I had a blk/blk 1996 BMW 328is that had both plates stolen off of it about 2 years ago, and I since had moved from where the 1990 BMW was stolen from. Hoping it's coincidence!

Sorry for the novel, but just know that you and I are some of the lucky ones in this thread! Congratulations on getting your Ferrari back, it's a beauty!! Love the fingerprint picture.

 

Well, maybe your guys are but the LAPD just doesn't give a crap about stolen cars. I asked if they where going to fingerprint my car or look for evidence on who did it and they said "why... you got your car back, didn't you?"

 

Gospel. LAckadaisicalPD. Unless it's one of their own, of course.


via rubber ducky

 

Glad your story ended fairly well. Having had a car stolen, I know its a terrible feeling.

There are a lot of auto thefts and break ins in the Seattle area. Mostly petty thieves looking for items in the car they can steal or parts. Lucky for you they were just joy riders and didn't part the car out!

 

Glad to see they're being diligent about it.


Unless they're just doing it for show since they may know the car has gotten a bunch of attention on the web. I hope not... now that they have prints, it won't take much time at all to run them through a couple of databases to see if anything turns up.

 

Nice you got your car back.

Here is a bad story. My friend had a new Toyota truck. Went to Montréal which is 425 miles from home. They go to a water park so they left everything hidden in the truck in the parking lot and left with swimsuit and towel only. After the day they came out and truck was gone. 425 miles from home with only a swimsuit and towel. No ID, can't rent a car, can't buy clothes, can't get a hotel room. Nobody knows you and you have no ID. He said that was a nightmare.

He learned something that day. No matter where you are keep your ID with you!

 

Just glad you got your car back...

 

Congrats on getting your 308 back!

 

I was in Seattle / Everett last tuesday, but I can promise you taht I DIDN'T steel your 308, althought I love this car...
Happy to know you got it back without big damages. You will even more appreciate driving it knowing you almost lost it...