[STOLEN] Cúl's VT SS Commodore

[Cúl-Báire]

Hey Guys, and girls - if you see my Blue VT SS driving around with the registration plate RUJ876 (Victoria) or an old brown rego sticker, please contact myself on 0432 117 565 or police link on 131 444 - the vehicle was stolen at 9:30pm from Coomera BP tonight.

I am not too fussed about the car, however my work laptop is was in the vehicle at the time and is quite valuable (due to work reasons more than anything).

If you see it, please report it.

[Voodoo_SV6]

I wish you good luck with the return of your car and laptop. I hope the a$$ who stole it gets his t3sticles caught in a vice

[MDVXSS]

that would suck, hope you get both back in the same condition that they were in.
perhaps chuck a thread up on SC too, someone may have seen it. spesh being a friday night.

[2DIE]

That sucks to hear, Id be devastated.

Might pay to post this in the QLD chapter to get some attention.

I hope you get it back.

[wraith]

Damn man I hope there dumb enough to get caught. Best of luck to you.

[ryan101]

thats f###n shit as

[Thesickness86]

Put a pic up if u can mate. Hope u get the knobs

[calais24/7]

Put a pic up if u can mate. Hope u get the knobs

Cúl's 5Ltr VT SS Commodore

[Cúl-Báire]

Vehicle has been recovered, was found on the M1 southbound at Palm Beach... Sounds like they have broken down as the boot and bonnet were left open, and made off with my laptop.

[EDGE3]

Good to hear that you have the car back but not so good that the laptop has been taken but hopefully if they try to sell it or pawn it they will be caught

[Jonesy484]

you know if there is any damage to the car?

[Rusty]

That sucks mate, lucky to get it back though!

How did it get stolen from the servo if don't mind me asking? Keys left in it? Pity they didn't get footage or something of the scum!

[Cúl-Báire]

Cops reckon there is no visible damage, I am just hopping they haven't put a piston though the side of the block, or dropped the auto's guts all over the freeway.
Reckons it looked like they were playing with battery terminals, and the fuse box... so hope there isnt anything too wrong with it!

[Cúl-Báire]

That sucks mate, lucky to get it back though!

How did it get stolen from the servo if don't mind me asking? Keys left in it? Pity they didn't get footage or something of the scum!

Yeah, lapse of concentration... BP Coomera is probably the busiest servo between the coast and Brisbane bar BP Stapylton/Yatala, there was at least 15 people filling up, more in the vicinity; got him clear as day on CCTV and two witnesses, one of which was filling up behind me!!!... According to the assistant manager who reviewed the CCTV the bloke looked like he was sitting there waiting for an opportunity, and took it! All while the night watch security guard was having a coffee!

[Rusty]

Cops reckon there is no visible damage, I am just hopping they haven't put a piston though the side of the block, or dropped the auto's guts all over the freeway.
Reckons it looked like they were playing with battery terminals, and the fuse box... so hope there isnt anything too wrong with it!

Brace yourself for the worst anyway! I had the cops and a mate tell me my car had no damage after it was recovered. They got it so wrong! Fingers crossed the VT is all good!

Great that they got them on camera! You should get hold of the tape and put it online if the cops can't find them!

Out of interest, does leaving the keys in the car whilst paying for petrol stuff up the insurance if it is stolen? Just want to know because i am sure very few of us here actually take the keys out when refuelling (myself included unless a dodgy person is lurking)!

Sounds like a quality security guard. Bloke loitering waiting for an opportunity and the guard is too busy swigging coffee to care.

[Thesickness86]

Goodto hear u got it back. Hope there's no damage and they get him. Crap bout the lap top, hope work paid for it

[wraith]

Bastards. Least it's back in 1 piece.

[HamaTime™]

Brace yourself for the worst anyway! I had the cops and a mate tell me my car had no damage after it was recovered. They got it so wrong! Fingers crossed the VT is all good!

Great that they got them on camera! You should get hold of the tape and put it online if the cops can't find them!

Out of interest, does leaving the keys in the car whilst paying for petrol stuff up the insurance if it is stolen? Just want to know because i am sure very few of us here actually take the keys out when refuelling (myself included unless a dodgy person is lurking)!

Sounds like a quality security guard. Bloke loitering waiting for an opportunity and the guard is too busy swigging coffee to care.

I do, as soon as the car is off and I'm getting out for any reason, keys come out of the igniton and stay with me 110% of the time.

[Cúl-Báire]

Out of interest, does leaving the keys in the car whilst paying for petrol stuff up the insurance if it is stolen? Just want to know because i am sure very few of us here actually take the keys out when refuelling (myself included unless a dodgy person is lurking)!

It is dependent on circumstances if what I read is correct - although the only references I could find were from the uk - where most policies actually have a clause specifically related to leaving keys in the car. Here it is more like the "driver must take all care and responsibility to minimize loss, damage or theft"... I am told by a Suncorp Insurance claims team leader that "it doesnt matter under what circumstances it was stole, in most insurers eyes it is still classified as theft"... We will see what Youi say!

[DANNY8]

Good to hear u got it back. Is the security guard there to watch over people's cars though? Surely that's ur responsibility, not his. The servo wouldn't pay a security guard to watch over the customers cars.

A few times at my servo if a cop comes through and they see a car parked with keys in it they take the keys out of the ignition, find the owner and give them a lecture.

[Cúl-Báire]

The security guard is employed on night watch, he does patrols of the service station and forecourt, is it his responsibility to watch over peoples cars? Well no, but I would have thought it were his responsibility to move people on that are loitering. The night manager was much more helpful, and sympathetic to the situation than the security guard.

[acarmody]

Out of interest, does leaving the keys in the car whilst paying for petrol stuff up the insurance if it is stolen? Just want to know because i am sure very few of us here actually take the keys out when refuelling (myself included unless a dodgy person is lurking)!

Keys always stay with me, and if my phone is in the centre console, than it also comes with me. And if there is anything that can be reached in and taken quickly than I also lock my car when I go in to pay.

[jujibelly]

I'm sorry but why should the security be responsible for people stupidity? A petrol station isn't a secure place so why would you leave your keys in the car, lazy?
Maybe the security guard was on his lunch/coffee break?

Not having a go at you Cul.

[Troy711]

I always take my keys, hide my phone and LOCK my car every single time I'm at a servo. Not worth the risk, regardless of how busy or quiet it is.

[Thesickness86]

I'm sorry but why should the security be responsible for people stupidity? A petrol station isn't a secure place so why would you leave your keys in the car, lazy?
Maybe the security guard was on his lunch/coffee break?

What do security guards do other than lunch/coffee breaks