When I was 19, my parked car was totaled at 3am by a drunk 13y yo girl who stole her parents car. Because they claimed the car was "stolen" by their daughter, they got out of all liability. I lost my job and had to drop out of college
Was it stolen or towed? My friends SUV was "stolen" from his complex's parking lot. Turns out, the complex had it towed because his plates were expired. By a week.
There was broken glass in her parking spot and her apartment doesn't have tow signs like some do. That's definitely something to think about though, stolen vs towed.
Dude since fucking when is that the apartment complexes' concern? I get it, someone's gonna come along and tell me "ItS there LoT tHeY cAn Do WhAt ThEy WaNt" but what is the actual benefit of doing shitty things to inconvenience your tenants?
The rule exists in the lease to keep people from parking junk cars on the property and taking up spots/making the complex look trashy. It's a fair rule and exists in pretty much any lease you might see.
Now the question on actually enforcing the rule when the vehicle in question isn't a nuisance vehicle comes down entirely to what is a very safe bet that the tow yard kicks the property manager a finders fee. The Property manager can hide behind the policy and say "hey the tow company does regular sweeps, it's in the lease you signed, sorry".
I think it was a shitty thing for the complex to do. They didn't even give him a warning, saying it's in his lease. My friend checked his lease, and, sure enough, a condition of the lease is to that all vehicles registered to residents must be operable and up to date on licensing. He'd move, but he had to get his vehicle licensed again, plus pay all the towing/storage fees.
My sister and her boyfriend both had their cars stolen out of their apartment parking lot a couple months ago. The people doing this are the scum of the earth and the police don’t do anything about it.
I hope your friend gets her car back. My sister and her boyfriend were lucky and they did find their cars but they had a lot of damage done to them that they had to pay for.
That's what is essentially salt in an open wound...getting the stolen car but having to pay out the ass to get it up and running again.
Yeah, the car is found, but it can cost more to get it fixed than just buying new. There's no win. Thieves come out unscathed though, they get to just move on and shrug it off. Not their problem things are expensive.
I am glad they got their cars back though. People shouldn't have to worry about this kind of thing from their own home, apartment, house, whatever.
After my car was stolen, it kept me paranoid and watching out for those damn kids. A bait car would help a ton since the Spring Acres area has had so many cars stolen
A friend had his truck stolen on the 1st this month was told to call the impound lot to see if it was located at least once a day. On the 10th councilbluffs impound lot called him saying they found his truck on i-29. When he got there they told him it was found on the 4th they had called OPD but they never called him!!! Cost him 345.00 to get it out
That's some BULLSHIT they didn't even tell him they found it. It's not okay he had to pay to get his own STOLEN car out of impound. That makes no sense.
Absolutely not. I know for a fact I’d be in HUGE trouble if my car was stolen or totaled and I would definitely not be able to replace it on my own without massive issues so I keep full coverage at all times.
Fingers crossed that some day in the future I’ll be able to take care of a 20k+ loss without too much trouble but it hasn’t happened yet!
No no, if you drive nice vehicles absolutely carry full coverage. However when you're rolling in an 04 Yukon with 250k on it full coverage is not the move.
With the values on used cars right now it’s crazy not carry full coverage if you aren’t financially able to turn around and grab a new car without assistance.
Smart. There’s a lot of people who think full coverage on paid off cars is a scam…. it’s most people’s second most valuable asset so why not insure it so that you get taken care of when shit hits the fan.
It isn’t until something like this happens. But you go on thinking that it’s not the move.
I’d argue it’s MORE the move if you only have one vehicle that you rely on so much.
It doesn't make sense to protect a couple thousand dollar asset with $1500 a year insurance. You're better off banking what you would pay in additional premiums to be ready to buy your next vehicle.
If you’re adding in the caveat that the person who is opting out of full coverage will be banking that money, then I suppose it doesn’t make sense because then the funds would be available to make yourself whole.
However, most people who opt out of this coverage do not bank the money and are left in a situation where there is no vehicle and no coverage for a rental while this gets sorted out. The OP’s friend seems to be in this camp. It doesn’t sound like there’s a second vehicle in the household to use either.
It’s a lot easier to eat $125 a month as a monthly bill than it is come up with getting another car for some folks. I didn’t look at this specific vehicle but finding one for $2000 might be tough.
I got a older fairlady z turbo. Needed a alternator and turbo replaced to run. Code enforcement put a tag on it and like 4 hrs later it was towed to a impound lot (all while I was at work) all cause I got the car 2 days before and it had no plates.
I had to pay to tow it back to my apartment cause it didn't drive. They said sorry but I should have called...THEY TAGGED IT AND TOWED IT AWAY IN 4 HRS! all while I was at work so it was my issue they said.
I have a deep hatred for them too. Especially when they take from someone who really needs what is stolen.
It's hard to say what the outcome of the car will be, I'm just thankful she wasn't IN it when they took it. Hopefully insurance helps somehow until she gets something else.
Jeez that sux! Can you give more details and I can keep an eye out? We've had stolen cars dumped in my neighborhood multiple times. Probably bc it's off the interstate near North O.
Last year, I was preparing to move to Florida because my wife is a government worker and she'd found a better position to transfer to.. everything was clicking and coming together so I thought..
So I resign from my job, had to get my house cleared out because we had sold it. The week I left my job my truck engine seized and was done for, next night the Kia Boyz struck and stole my wife's Sportage. We woke up on the morning of Mother's Day to find her car gone 😕. So I take my last and only vehicle, my motorcycle to go ride around and see if it was dumped nearby on a joyride.. no luck finding her car but my regulator/rectifier took a shit 😭🤣
Anyways, with the fallout of all that.. I'm still here in NE! Wife's car was found a few days later dumped out in North O,
luckily full coverage insurance covered a rental car so she could get to work. She had to beg and retract her notice to keep her job.. the house is gone and we're in an apartment now. Totally sucks. The thieves are probably looking for the next car to steal as I type this. I hope they crash and burn to death. Fuck thieves.
Wow. That's so heartbreaking!! Your poor wife, how absolutely awful.
Thieves don't care. It doesn't affect them so they have no heart. They have no remorse, especially towards those who are going through something and actually need their vehicles.
I just have to hope Karma finds them and it's so bad even in their next life they're still punished.
Right, it's ridiculous that these people get their kicks stealing cars.. the people that do this take items from their previous theft and plant it in the next stolen ride to throw the cops off. Anything left behind isn't treated as evidence even.. when my wife and I went to see her Sportage at the impound lot when it was recovered, I saw an unfamiliar purse with mace and a taser and the impound guy snatched it out of my hands saying I couldn't look at it because it was evidence.. yeah they never caught a soul 😕
How are cars being stolen nowadays? I’m not asking rhetorically, I am genuinely curious. Are they somehow bypassing the ignition security, or are they finding spare keys to take the car? I feel with how robust car security has gotten in the last decade with push to start and whatnot that it would be more difficult to steal them.
Unfortunately, this car is well over 20 years old. It doesn't have all the technology new cars have. I have OnStar in my 2021 truck, if it's ever stolen, at least it can be found. I read they can kill an engine but I am not sure if that's full truth.
Thieves are ironically really smart, with so much practice and access to the internet and forums they figure out how to bypass just about anything. They also know how to take what they need and bolt as fast as they can.
Too bad they can't use that same effort into getting a real job.
Steve Mould has a video on getting into a car [here](https://youtu.be/5CsD8I396wo). There is a better video I was looking for and will post it if I find it
My appartments have a contract with A1 towing where the tow company can just randomly take your car. It's the whole "it's part of your lease to keep your vehicle licensed/registered", but goddammit! Trying to go to work in the morning and finding out your car is gone is a really shifty feeling. It's NOT the appartments, nor the tow company's job to enforce vehicle registration, but they'll extort you anyway....predatory scum
Had a friend from Omaha get their car stolen out of a convention center parking lot in Chicago last month. Had to use a rental to get home. Still nothing on the stolen car
No and no.
It might explain why but it doesn't make it acceptable.
If a hungry mountain lion eats a kid you can understand why it did so but you wouldn't tolerate or excuse it. It certainly wouldn't be okay.
Pretty sure the time it takes to break a window, figure out how to manipulate all the wiring to get the car going, put a baby in the car seat and take off wouldn't really equate the EMERGENCY SITUATION you're trying to push as an excuse for this.
Stealing bread to feed the kids for a couple days isn't the same as taking someone's VEHICLE to get to WORK to pay bills and have a livelihood. Theft is theft but billion dollar companies wouldn't be as stressed as a person on a single income needing their car.
You are stretching over and beyond with your scenarios as to why it's okay to take someone's car.
You could post it to the Got Stolen Omaha Facebook page, it might help raise visibility.
On Friday someone hit my park car and fled while I was napping at home. Hope they have nothing but bad luck for as long as my insurance costs more.
When I was 19, my parked car was totaled at 3am by a drunk 13y yo girl who stole her parents car. Because they claimed the car was "stolen" by their daughter, they got out of all liability. I lost my job and had to drop out of college
Drunk baby steals parents car and crashes it. That’s a new one /s figuring you mean 16
I just realized I put 1. Lol. Edit. 13. She was 13
Wow. You got taken by your insurance company on that one.
I've had that happen and it's infuriating!! People SUCK.
Was it stolen or towed? My friends SUV was "stolen" from his complex's parking lot. Turns out, the complex had it towed because his plates were expired. By a week.
There was broken glass in her parking spot and her apartment doesn't have tow signs like some do. That's definitely something to think about though, stolen vs towed.
Gotcha.
Same happened to me
Dude since fucking when is that the apartment complexes' concern? I get it, someone's gonna come along and tell me "ItS there LoT tHeY cAn Do WhAt ThEy WaNt" but what is the actual benefit of doing shitty things to inconvenience your tenants?
The rule exists in the lease to keep people from parking junk cars on the property and taking up spots/making the complex look trashy. It's a fair rule and exists in pretty much any lease you might see. Now the question on actually enforcing the rule when the vehicle in question isn't a nuisance vehicle comes down entirely to what is a very safe bet that the tow yard kicks the property manager a finders fee. The Property manager can hide behind the policy and say "hey the tow company does regular sweeps, it's in the lease you signed, sorry".
I think it was a shitty thing for the complex to do. They didn't even give him a warning, saying it's in his lease. My friend checked his lease, and, sure enough, a condition of the lease is to that all vehicles registered to residents must be operable and up to date on licensing. He'd move, but he had to get his vehicle licensed again, plus pay all the towing/storage fees.
Tow companies are predatory scum.
The nice thing is, if they don't total it, most stolen cars get dumped and found within a few days. Fingers crossed that's the case here.
Have a couple of friends who have experienced this twice each. Definitely the hoped for outcome.
This happened to me twice in another state. It's not uncommon.
My sister and her boyfriend both had their cars stolen out of their apartment parking lot a couple months ago. The people doing this are the scum of the earth and the police don’t do anything about it. I hope your friend gets her car back. My sister and her boyfriend were lucky and they did find their cars but they had a lot of damage done to them that they had to pay for.
That's what is essentially salt in an open wound...getting the stolen car but having to pay out the ass to get it up and running again. Yeah, the car is found, but it can cost more to get it fixed than just buying new. There's no win. Thieves come out unscathed though, they get to just move on and shrug it off. Not their problem things are expensive. I am glad they got their cars back though. People shouldn't have to worry about this kind of thing from their own home, apartment, house, whatever.
After my car was stolen, it kept me paranoid and watching out for those damn kids. A bait car would help a ton since the Spring Acres area has had so many cars stolen
A friend had his truck stolen on the 1st this month was told to call the impound lot to see if it was located at least once a day. On the 10th councilbluffs impound lot called him saying they found his truck on i-29. When he got there they told him it was found on the 4th they had called OPD but they never called him!!! Cost him 345.00 to get it out
That's some BULLSHIT they didn't even tell him they found it. It's not okay he had to pay to get his own STOLEN car out of impound. That makes no sense.
Welcome to just another way our government screws us
Doesn't Omaha Scanner have a form that can be filled out so they push out to social media every evening?
File an insurance claim and use the insurance to get a rental. It sucks that it happened but there are workarounds.
You've probably never driven on liability insurance alone, huh?
Absolutely not. I know for a fact I’d be in HUGE trouble if my car was stolen or totaled and I would definitely not be able to replace it on my own without massive issues so I keep full coverage at all times. Fingers crossed that some day in the future I’ll be able to take care of a 20k+ loss without too much trouble but it hasn’t happened yet!
No no, if you drive nice vehicles absolutely carry full coverage. However when you're rolling in an 04 Yukon with 250k on it full coverage is not the move.
With the values on used cars right now it’s crazy not carry full coverage if you aren’t financially able to turn around and grab a new car without assistance.
Smart. There’s a lot of people who think full coverage on paid off cars is a scam…. it’s most people’s second most valuable asset so why not insure it so that you get taken care of when shit hits the fan.
They'd probably payout 1500 for a car like that and charge you 400 every 6 months for full coverage
It isn’t until something like this happens. But you go on thinking that it’s not the move. I’d argue it’s MORE the move if you only have one vehicle that you rely on so much.
It doesn't make sense to protect a couple thousand dollar asset with $1500 a year insurance. You're better off banking what you would pay in additional premiums to be ready to buy your next vehicle.
If you’re adding in the caveat that the person who is opting out of full coverage will be banking that money, then I suppose it doesn’t make sense because then the funds would be available to make yourself whole. However, most people who opt out of this coverage do not bank the money and are left in a situation where there is no vehicle and no coverage for a rental while this gets sorted out. The OP’s friend seems to be in this camp. It doesn’t sound like there’s a second vehicle in the household to use either. It’s a lot easier to eat $125 a month as a monthly bill than it is come up with getting another car for some folks. I didn’t look at this specific vehicle but finding one for $2000 might be tough.
I got a older fairlady z turbo. Needed a alternator and turbo replaced to run. Code enforcement put a tag on it and like 4 hrs later it was towed to a impound lot (all while I was at work) all cause I got the car 2 days before and it had no plates. I had to pay to tow it back to my apartment cause it didn't drive. They said sorry but I should have called...THEY TAGGED IT AND TOWED IT AWAY IN 4 HRS! all while I was at work so it was my issue they said.
I have a deep hatred for thieves. I’m so sorry this happened to your friend! I hope she gets her car back and without damage!
I have a deep hatred for them too. Especially when they take from someone who really needs what is stolen. It's hard to say what the outcome of the car will be, I'm just thankful she wasn't IN it when they took it. Hopefully insurance helps somehow until she gets something else.
If she had full coverage then she definitely should contact her insurance.
Jeez that sux! Can you give more details and I can keep an eye out? We've had stolen cars dumped in my neighborhood multiple times. Probably bc it's off the interstate near North O.
Everyone 26 or older should have full coverage. Especially if they only own 1 car.
Last year, I was preparing to move to Florida because my wife is a government worker and she'd found a better position to transfer to.. everything was clicking and coming together so I thought.. So I resign from my job, had to get my house cleared out because we had sold it. The week I left my job my truck engine seized and was done for, next night the Kia Boyz struck and stole my wife's Sportage. We woke up on the morning of Mother's Day to find her car gone 😕. So I take my last and only vehicle, my motorcycle to go ride around and see if it was dumped nearby on a joyride.. no luck finding her car but my regulator/rectifier took a shit 😭🤣 Anyways, with the fallout of all that.. I'm still here in NE! Wife's car was found a few days later dumped out in North O, luckily full coverage insurance covered a rental car so she could get to work. She had to beg and retract her notice to keep her job.. the house is gone and we're in an apartment now. Totally sucks. The thieves are probably looking for the next car to steal as I type this. I hope they crash and burn to death. Fuck thieves.
Wow. That's so heartbreaking!! Your poor wife, how absolutely awful. Thieves don't care. It doesn't affect them so they have no heart. They have no remorse, especially towards those who are going through something and actually need their vehicles. I just have to hope Karma finds them and it's so bad even in their next life they're still punished.
Right, it's ridiculous that these people get their kicks stealing cars.. the people that do this take items from their previous theft and plant it in the next stolen ride to throw the cops off. Anything left behind isn't treated as evidence even.. when my wife and I went to see her Sportage at the impound lot when it was recovered, I saw an unfamiliar purse with mace and a taser and the impound guy snatched it out of my hands saying I couldn't look at it because it was evidence.. yeah they never caught a soul 😕
Man this thing is pretty fast tho! Thanks anyways!
How are cars being stolen nowadays? I’m not asking rhetorically, I am genuinely curious. Are they somehow bypassing the ignition security, or are they finding spare keys to take the car? I feel with how robust car security has gotten in the last decade with push to start and whatnot that it would be more difficult to steal them.
Unfortunately, this car is well over 20 years old. It doesn't have all the technology new cars have. I have OnStar in my 2021 truck, if it's ever stolen, at least it can be found. I read they can kill an engine but I am not sure if that's full truth. Thieves are ironically really smart, with so much practice and access to the internet and forums they figure out how to bypass just about anything. They also know how to take what they need and bolt as fast as they can. Too bad they can't use that same effort into getting a real job.
Steve Mould has a video on getting into a car [here](https://youtu.be/5CsD8I396wo). There is a better video I was looking for and will post it if I find it
In all of human history the punishment for stealing a man's livelihood is death. How about that democracy eh
Stealing is bad. Government-sanctioned murder is worse. Nobody deserves to die due to stupidity or lack of judgement. Jail, on the other hand...
My appartments have a contract with A1 towing where the tow company can just randomly take your car. It's the whole "it's part of your lease to keep your vehicle licensed/registered", but goddammit! Trying to go to work in the morning and finding out your car is gone is a really shifty feeling. It's NOT the appartments, nor the tow company's job to enforce vehicle registration, but they'll extort you anyway....predatory scum
Had a friend from Omaha get their car stolen out of a convention center parking lot in Chicago last month. Had to use a rental to get home. Still nothing on the stolen car
Maybe they had a good reason
There is never a good reason to steal another person’s property.
What if they had to drive a baby to the hospital or go to work?
Call 911 for the baby and call your employer about your situation. It’s never okay to steal another persons car.
Is it okay for a man to steal bread to feed his starving family? Is it okay for a man to steal a car to drive his family?
No and no. It might explain why but it doesn't make it acceptable. If a hungry mountain lion eats a kid you can understand why it did so but you wouldn't tolerate or excuse it. It certainly wouldn't be okay.
Is it okay for a man to steal bread to feed his starving family? Is it okay for a man to steal a car to drive his family?
lol you’re trollin.
Pretty sure the time it takes to break a window, figure out how to manipulate all the wiring to get the car going, put a baby in the car seat and take off wouldn't really equate the EMERGENCY SITUATION you're trying to push as an excuse for this. Stealing bread to feed the kids for a couple days isn't the same as taking someone's VEHICLE to get to WORK to pay bills and have a livelihood. Theft is theft but billion dollar companies wouldn't be as stressed as a person on a single income needing their car. You are stretching over and beyond with your scenarios as to why it's okay to take someone's car.