Well I always feared this might happen to my beloved speed someday....It's just too much of a nice car not to attract the attention of sh!theads out there.
I was always dilligent with parking it in clear, high-traffic, well-lit areas. I always put my double pronged steering wheel club on it. I always pulled out the Kenwood's face plate. Well my paranoia was well justified cause it seems that when thieves want it badly enough....
I was at a local titty bar celebrating a friend's stag party, and when we left and went into the bar's parking lot, an old Buick was parked in the spot where my Speed SHOULD have been. I was like WTF!!!!!!
At first you don't want to believe it. I told myself maybe I simply parked a bit further away and can't quite remember....But after visually inspecting every freaking car in the place about a dozen times - even zapping each one with my key fob and reading all the licence plates for good measure - no sign of it. Now panic starts to set in. "Please, oh PLEASE! God let it be here somewhere. Tell me this did not happen!"(nervous)
So my buddies start looking around the ground in the area where it had been for broken glass and such...and one of them pulls up the confirmation - a broken Titanium Grey door lock assembly - right by a rather nasty rubber peel-out mark! Seems they yanked the whole lock right out of the door with a screwdriver or sometin (Note to Mazda: Those things don't look particularly sturdy BTW)
AHhhhh! F&&&&ck!!!!!!!:mad:
My friends tried to console me by saying "WTF do you care - it's insured - you'll get a new car now!"
Yeah, but dammit - I REALLY liked this car! I spent a lot of time and effort researching this particular purchase. And they only made so many of them. I might NOT be able to get another one, and there's not much else out there that I care for....and can afford.
Even if it's found...not sure I'd want it back in the condition those morons are likely to leave it in.
It just plain sucks......:'(
Oh well.
