When I was in Afghanistan on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan we would see hundreds of cars go through on trucks still with US license plates, 80% of them had California Plates, we took bunch of them off and had a wall of plates back on the base, we sent the numbers to the States, every single one of them was Stolen. And 95% of them were Toyota Corolla
And you're wrong. But if you're expecting them to be able to easily find a car in a radius of thousands of miles with limited resources, then please go back to bed cause you're dreaming.
That’s because it’s a huge waste of the police’s time and resources to look for stolen cars. The police are way too busy to have officers tied up for hours or even days looking for stolen cars.
The flip side is when people steal your identity to get a vehicle. That's what happened to me and people even went as far as to duplicate my ID as a driver's license
"If you find your stolen car using GPS, don't try to get it yourself, call the police and let them throw your case on the back burner for a few months, and when your turn does finally come up we can say 'oh well too bad it's gone'" The cops probably have so many of these cases you are better off getting your car back on your own like the dude who went to Mexico did, F the criminals that think they are untouchable and the Government that aides their escape.
Not sure what you're salty for. Nobody is going to recommend finding criminals, obviously you take a risk if you want to retrieve your own vehicle back.
This is crazy and wild. I remember my car got stolen near my neighborhood in Brooklyn a couple years ago while I went inside a restaurant to grab some food. While inside I felt like something was a little off when I went back outside 10mins later I didn’t see my car I thought I was in a dream like I had to laugh a little before reality set in. Long story short the NYPD found my car a couple days later in upper Manhattan and my car was almost unrecognizable cause the person whole stole literally moved ALL of their house belongings inside of it like they were living inside of it. The car ran out of gas and the person left a note on the windshield. Car got a ticket cause he/she parked it by a bus stop lane. Cops said they arrested the person cause the person came back to the car. Person was mentally ill. Just wild.
Literally the same story i have here in San Francisco. I’ve also left it with keys 30seconds in a 5*star hotel gone. The rest of the story is same as yours… crazy. Suspect also put on my clothes from my car and took my id pretend to be me…
This is why license plates from those stolen vehicles are switched out and changed into foreign plates when they arrive in a foreign country. And I do believe that once those foreign plates hit that country or shall I say once the vehicle is in a foreign country the American plates are switched out for foreign license plates. Make it possible for law enforcement to track these cars down! And what is also frightening is the fact that once the car is getting to a foreign country the vehicle identification number is completely defaced. And that tells you right there at the car would be totally untraceable!
The sad part is. Every single person with insurance coverage on their vehicle, Is paying for other peoples cars being stolen. They raise it $.50 here. They raised five dollars there. So we pay higher rates. And they give you some story it’s your ZIP Code. But all of us lose money over this.
I work for an insurance broker and have always said this. It doesn't make any sense that rates go up at "more at risk" areas, you are punishing everyone for the mistakes of others. Lately I've seen premiums go up as well for removing cars which was not as common before.
The real sad part is that with all of our technology and the lines of cars waiting at the border……and shipping ports not one single tax dollar goes into a computer system with a license plate scanner to put an end to this.
How to stop this? Close all of the borders with Mexico, Don't let anyone in or out of Mexico. Don't cut off governmental ties with the government of Mexico, Close the borders to save yourself.
So this is 'Gone in 60 Seconds' in real life. All Cargo containers should be required to be inspected. Period. Boarders should be like airport security. Check your ID, documents, etc..
I’m surprised y’all just finding out 😂. I’m shocked everyone in the US thinks their neighbors are good peeps. Boy if you looked a bit closer you’ll find thief’s, murdered, rapist, drug dealers, traffickers. It’s usually the person you think is straight. Myself I know there’s definitely 2-5 drug dealers around and 1-2 murderers. Keep yourself well prepared every time you walk out that front door.
I saw a documentary or tv show where they were over seas and saw a dealership selling nice cars for half their actual price. Almost all of them were reported stolen in the US
If the police took any time to look into it, the person would say they’re being “targeted” or “profiled” and liberals would back them. Cop gets fired and criminal gets settlement.
A lot of cars stolen from here end up in either Romania, Albania or Poland. A magazine did some research and went to Albania. In the streets they would see people looking homeless driving around in expensive cars, sometimes even being Bentley and stuff like that. They also found a salvage/impound yard where the Albanian police had confiscated cars. There was everything you could want and it was mostly high-end cars. They found one from our country that still had the plates on, and they found out what insurance company it belonged to. The insurance company told the journalists that the owner had indeed have his car stolen, but it was so long ago that they had already ridden this one off and gave him a new one. It was absolutely wild. There was even a lightly armored (and very heavy) Mercedes AMG in this lot, though not from my country. All kinds of cars with plates from surrounding nordic countries. You could also tell that they weren’t really taken care of because the lot itself was very overgrown and the cars just randomly parked.
You forgot to mention Kosovo! So many stolen cars end up there it's insane. When I visited last year I couldn't believe all the brand new Mercedes and Audis mostly
It's not possible for Romania and Poland anymore, there is an European register for stolen cars. As for Albania, I've never seen a single car from the Nordics everytime I went. You do see some big Mercedes sometimes, but it's mostly swiss plates with Albanians coming back home for the summer. Otherwise, people drive old German cars that are not worth much.
I see that in the Bronx. A black man in a hoodie drives through da hood in a Mercedes or BMW. Do you think he’s making car payments? Hispanic immigrant changing out license plates in broad daylight. Was there a problem at the DMV? Cars lined up outside of garages, all with the back window broken. High end vehicles lined up and hidden in the back of the garage… yeah, NYC Webster Avenue in the Bronx! It isn’t hard to catch it if you know where to look.
My daughter traveled to Jordan a few years ago and she mentioned that there were cars driving around still with Virginia, New York, Quebec and Ontario license plates on them.
If you ask around on Toyota forums you can be redirected to an African auction site where you regularly see cars for sale still with their US, CA and EU plates on them. People on the east coast tend to browse them when their cars get stolen in hopes of tracking them. Was either Sierra Leone or Liberia, I can't really remember. Another dead giveaway is they list cars under names/with badges and trim levels that were only designated for North America, or sometimes even US-only spec that wasn't available to even Canada or Mexico. Like 4Runners being sold instead of Hilux Surfs, or Infiniti G36's instead of Nissan Skylines
My favorite are Viper alarms. Because while they give you the option to track the car they also set off a siren and even keep the car from being started so it’s not as easy to steal it.
@@greenzeldayoshi4192 Yup I have the same alarm on my Camaro. But i had the installer hide the module deep in the car to make it very difficult to find
Last time I crossed into Mexico on foot, I wasn't checked by the Marinas or any Law enforcement. I just crossed over, so this doesn't surprise me at all, ✌️
It would not be hard for them to have the license plate reader 5 miles in advance of the border, so they can stop any cars approaching. They must not care about fixing the issue all that much.
I'm dominican and i went to the dominican republic 2 years ago and i was suprised after watching so many AMG in the street ..like i live in NYC and i see a lot of AMG but not like that in a poor country .. then my cousin told me that they usually ship it from the US after they fix it from copart or stolen.
So, why can't they arrest the person who sent the container or own the container? Somebody has to own those containers and what were in the containers.
I was working night motel security in the late 1980s in San Diego and assigned to a cheap motel on a major east/west highway(I-8) that was a short drive to the west to connect with another major north/south highway(I-5), which ran along the west coast from the Canadian border down to Mexico. We would get a lot of unsavory characters there, like druggies and prostitutes, and occasionally we would get car thieves who would stay for a few hours to get some sleep while transporting a car down to Mexico to be placed on one of these cargo ships to be transported to Asia or South America for their auto black markets.
@@J.G.Wentworth69420 On the contrary, since you seem so concerned about what happened, when he drove in I noticed that his unsavory demeanor and appearance did not match the car he was driving, plus he was trying to sneak another guest into the room for free. After I alerted the night manager about him, so that he could be billed appropriately, I kept an eye on him as he would go out at about 45 min intervals, indicative of drug activity very late at night. I scrutinized the car closely and noticed signs of forced entry near the door handle and ignition lock damage, suggesting that it was a stolen car. When I reported the information to San Diego PD, they ran the plate and found nothing and so did not want to pursue the matter. After more instances of suspicious activity, I again contacted the police and implored them to check further. When they called the registered owner at home he reported that the car was missing from his driveway. The cops came out, when I told them he was out, and I filled them in on the pattern of his behavior. We set a trap for him when he would return, where I would signal the cops with my flashlight when he drove in. They intercepted him, he ran and they ran him down and they found a nasty and hostile prostitute in the room. This was such a good bust for the cops that the sergeant gave me his business card and invited me to call him personally, whenever I saw any kind of criminal activity. Not all security guards are incompetent and lazy losers. Actually, I wasn't even a real security pro but a student working an easy night job while I was waiting to start my MS program in physics at San Diego State Univ. that fall.
@@pirrracy Have been gang stalked here for years, so plenty of organized crime and gang problems, the farming you mentioned is the legitimate side of New Mexico. Do you live here or did you google it? Sounds like you googled it or you would know.
This was literally an episode in The Sopranos. They were stealing luxury vehicles and selling them in Russia. This isn’t new. Been happening since cars were invented.
I’ve heard shady wealthy people will actually hand “thieves” their keys and then report them as stolen for a percentage of the cut, and then claim insurance. Also a lot of US luxury vehicles make it to Russia too because the oligarchy there is still very wealthy despite the war and trade restrictions.
That has been a thing in Europe too. German car owner got tired of his car? That's when he hired a professional "thief" from Eastern Europe to come and "steal" his car so he can file an insurance claim and get his money back with much less headache than selling it. And at the same time Eastern European "thief" got himself a great new, often luxury car.
You can break the tumbler of "The Club" steering wheel lock with the same flathead screwdriver you can use on the ignition tumbler, and you can break the internal steering lock with your bare arms and leverage.
Just gotta love how they casually gloss over the obvious inside job from plenty of workers at the port...because how are all of those cars actually getting loaded into those crates?? There could easily be a system in place for them to scan each item that is loaded in, along with the calculated weight and a manifest digitally signed off by the worker. More security cameras couldn't hurt either. They don't truly want to prevent this type of crime...they just want to appear to do their jobs.
Every vehicle should have a remotely detonated explosive device. Car gets stolen? Hit the red button. You should see how well this deters bike thieves once word of the consequences gets around. Instead of an RFID in their ECU, we need more POS in the ICU.
My bmw x3 m40i got stolen 2 months ago within 6-7 minutes in front of the house around 5:30 pm. It’s really heartbreaking I still can’t believe this happened to us.. 💔
I remember a few years ago when a French peace force was stationed in I believe Serbia during the early 90s conflict with Kosovo...A lot of the country officials were driving cars with French license plates, they did a check and turned out most of the vehicles had been stolen in France.
You could tell me that but if I find out my car is somewhere else I'm going to track them down because I have a special set of skills do things that I don't want to do
Yeah plenty of ppl in my area (northern nj) got arrested who worked at the port which is funny bc getting in that port as a job is hard enough cuz it’s union good pay so these guys raked in a lot of money
There is already a video out there where the cars are stolen out of people's driveways and they show up in another country with all their stuff in it for sale The auto manufacturers are to blame for how easy these cars are to steal because of the way they made them start
That's why I hate keyless start. Geek with little knowledge can make a repeater that will extend the range of the remote to start the car. When you start it, you don't need a key until you shut it off... in a completely different country or in the shipping container. That's why it's a bad practice to hang keys for cars like this near the entrance to the house. I like my BMW's key for that reason, remote that needs to be put into the slot to start it, not as easy to steal it although not impossible too
I bought a used Toyota Avalon US imports from used car market in UAE, Sharjah, and it had a problem when starting it. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I took it to more than one workshop and they couldn’t figure out the fault. Then I extracted the vehicle’s carfax, and there I was shocked that the notice of this vehicle was stolen, if I now something to communicate with them, then i confirmed that problem was in operating system, after that i completely replaced it and it works perfectly
"It's just the cost of doing business" it's weird how there's always a saying for when there's a problem that nobody wants to actually deal with that usually affects the majority of Americans
When I was in Afghanistan on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan we would see hundreds of cars go through on trucks still with US license plates, 80% of them had California Plates, we took bunch of them off and had a wall of plates back on the base, we sent the numbers to the States, every single one of them was Stolen. And 95% of them were Toyota Corolla
Toyota Corolla is a very high demand car in Afghanistan and their favourite reliable one.
@@vaishakviswam1970 Toyota Tacoma's so they can fill them up with terrorists.
I just bought a brand new Toyota Corolla 2022 Le 😢
But you didn't do anything you didn't report it it just happned and you did nothing think it's safe to say we didn't need you to serve homie
Armed thieves caught on video stealing Arizona man's truck FOX 10 Phoenix
The police don’t even look for stolen cars.
I SHOULD KNOW BECAUSE I'VE STOLEN SEVERAL ALREADY
And you're wrong. But if you're expecting them to be able to easily find a car in a radius of thousands of miles with limited resources, then please go back to bed cause you're dreaming.
That’s because it’s a huge waste of the police’s time and resources to look for stolen cars. The police are way too busy to have officers tied up for hours or even days looking for stolen cars.
Yes, they do, I've seen gone in 60 seconds.
In Mexico the cops are are probably involved.
The flip side is when people steal your identity to get a vehicle. That's what happened to me and people even went as far as to duplicate my ID as a driver's license
and the person who did it was probably an American
@@geraldarnoultyeah americans living in the US. 🤡
How did it happen
How did they steal it
That's why you use Credit Karma
"If you find your stolen car using GPS, don't try to get it yourself, call the police and let them throw your case on the back burner for a few months, and when your turn does finally come up we can say 'oh well too bad it's gone'"
The cops probably have so many of these cases you are better off getting your car back on your own like the dude who went to Mexico did, F the criminals that think they are untouchable and the Government that aides their escape.
Not sure what you're salty for. Nobody is going to recommend finding criminals, obviously you take a risk if you want to retrieve your own vehicle back.
really bad idea! Specially if your insurance can cover it!
Ok genius, go into Mexico and try and get your car back from the Cartels...6 feet deep you will be I foresee. .
@@seavee2190 lol cartel can stick to eating refried beans or whatever they do, Ill go get my damn car back
@@FierceZs1 bootlicker
This is crazy and wild. I remember my car got stolen near my neighborhood in Brooklyn a couple years ago while I went inside a restaurant to grab some food. While inside I felt like something was a little off when I went back outside 10mins later I didn’t see my car I thought I was in a dream like I had to laugh a little before reality set in. Long story short the NYPD found my car a couple days later in upper Manhattan and my car was almost unrecognizable cause the person whole stole literally moved ALL of their house belongings inside of it like they were living inside of it. The car ran out of gas and the person left a note on the windshield. Car got a ticket cause he/she parked it by a bus stop lane. Cops said they arrested the person cause the person came back to the car. Person was mentally ill. Just wild.
That's what you get for leaving your car running or leave the keys behind in NYC
Mentally ill sound like NYC
Literally the same story i have here in San Francisco. I’ve also left it with keys 30seconds in a 5*star hotel gone. The rest of the story is same as yours… crazy. Suspect also put on my clothes from my car and took my id pretend to be me…
You must be mentality ill to leave your car unlocked and running while inside a restaurant.
Crazy and wild shutup
This is why license plates from those stolen vehicles are switched out and changed into foreign plates when they arrive in a foreign country. And I do believe that once those foreign plates hit that country or shall I say once the vehicle is in a foreign country the American plates are switched out for foreign license plates. Make it possible for law enforcement to track these cars down! And what is also frightening is the fact that once the car is getting to a foreign country the vehicle identification number is completely defaced. And that tells you right there at the car would be totally untraceable!
Cars need to have an encrypted deactivation code that the owner can use
Hide an airtag in the vehicle that's difficult to find so you can track it.
wouldn’t be very wise to just show up into cartel country across the border, into africa, moldova
how long does thee battery last?
Tell it to the insurance company. That's their problem.
I work at a dealership and we had a track hawk that was stolen. And then they went 20 minutes down the road and stole a hellcat.
The sad part is. Every single person with insurance coverage on their vehicle, Is paying for other peoples cars being stolen. They raise it $.50 here. They raised five dollars there. So we pay higher rates. And they give you some story it’s your ZIP Code. But all of us lose money over this.
gives you an idea that it benefits insurance companies to have your car stolen. so they create the groups to steal the cars
I work for an insurance broker and have always said this. It doesn't make any sense that rates go up at "more at risk" areas, you are punishing everyone for the mistakes of others. Lately I've seen premiums go up as well for removing cars which was not as common before.
The real sad part is that with all of our technology and the lines of cars waiting at the border……and shipping ports not one single tax dollar goes into a computer system with a license plate scanner to put an end to this.
Fake news
@@maverick4040could be multi car discount being removed
Hahaha Land Rover is a high end vehicle. Good luck whoever gets one, they don’t last past the first 15k miles.
Silly American 🙄 Once in Africa or Mexico the mechanics down there fix them with Chinese parts that last longer than the garbage from jaguar.
@@xavierd3298 Thank you for letting me know that you know absolutely nothing about cars.
Pos
@@xavierd3298Lev Andropov : [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN....(Armageddon, 1998)
They are by definition a high end vehicle but that doesn't make them reliable
I remember when my truck was stolen by the tow truck company
How to stop this? Close all of the borders with Mexico, Don't let anyone in or out of Mexico.
Don't cut off governmental ties with the government of Mexico, Close the borders to save yourself.
The US has given so much aid to Mexico. How is there so much crime and how are they not any bigger.
So either the shipping container packer or recipient needs prosecution protocols.
Idk why we’re still so soft on Mexico, on everything.
If you aré in usa yall aré the ones doing this 😂😅 yall providing México just riding along
Dad had a friend who bought a brand new 96 bronco and got stolen 1 week after he got it never saw it again
DON'T WORRY. I WILL SOON BE STEALING YOUR CAR TOO.
Same with American guns. Where do you think the cartels get their guns?
Things like fast and furious always come back to haunt.
the mexican military mostly
@@eldebtor6973 🤡
So this is 'Gone in 60 Seconds' in real life. All Cargo containers should be required to be inspected. Period.
Boarders should be like airport security. Check your ID, documents, etc..
Corruption buddy, i imagine the paycuts big
Keep dreaming.
I’m surprised y’all just finding out 😂. I’m shocked everyone in the US thinks their neighbors are good peeps. Boy if you looked a bit closer you’ll find thief’s, murdered, rapist, drug dealers, traffickers. It’s usually the person you think is straight. Myself I know there’s definitely 2-5 drug dealers around and 1-2 murderers. Keep yourself well prepared every time you walk out that front door.
Yes you know
Don't pack a lunch, pack a strap?
Typical US citizen comment. Disgusting!
This is where all our Classics go it is a damn shame😔
Funniest part was when the officer called the X6 an X8! 😂
Only car people would find that funny
Ik I drilled him when he got home he forgot his glasses 🤣
You know in the kinda dark situation like that sometimes 6 can be 8 in some people eyes , give the old man some slack
Glad they are starting to chase this issue it shouldn't be that easy to get a whole vehicle shipped out little alone 1000s a year
I saw a documentary or tv show where they were over seas and saw a dealership selling nice cars for half their actual price. Almost all of them were reported stolen in the US
Yes so are they giving them back to the owners or are they selling them at an auction to make profit for that local police department???
Majority of the stolen vehicles are in the U.S running around with new identity. Most patrol cops are just too clueless to detect them.
If the police took any time to look into it, the person would say they’re being “targeted” or “profiled” and liberals would back them. Cop gets fired and criminal gets settlement.
@macdaddyp8437 there are plenty of ways to detect them. Ill be happy to tell you if you're law enforcement.
"Nice BMW... X8" what? 😂 1:36
How do they leave without proper paperwork?
A lot of cars stolen from here end up in either Romania, Albania or Poland. A magazine did some research and went to Albania. In the streets they would see people looking homeless driving around in expensive cars, sometimes even being Bentley and stuff like that. They also found a salvage/impound yard where the Albanian police had confiscated cars. There was everything you could want and it was mostly high-end cars. They found one from our country that still had the plates on, and they found out what insurance company it belonged to. The insurance company told the journalists that the owner had indeed have his car stolen, but it was so long ago that they had already ridden this one off and gave him a new one. It was absolutely wild. There was even a lightly armored (and very heavy) Mercedes AMG in this lot, though not from my country. All kinds of cars with plates from surrounding nordic countries. You could also tell that they weren’t really taken care of because the lot itself was very overgrown and the cars just randomly parked.
You forgot to mention Kosovo! So many stolen cars end up there it's insane. When I visited last year I couldn't believe all the brand new Mercedes and Audis mostly
It's not possible for Romania and Poland anymore, there is an European register for stolen cars. As for Albania, I've never seen a single car from the Nordics everytime I went. You do see some big Mercedes sometimes, but it's mostly swiss plates with Albanians coming back home for the summer. Otherwise, people drive old German cars that are not worth much.
Also in Canada, where the stolen cars end up sold in West African countries like Ghana.
@@twann74bikealbanian born and raised, you've seen nothing respectfully
I see that in the Bronx. A black man in a hoodie drives through da hood in a Mercedes or BMW. Do you think he’s making car payments? Hispanic immigrant changing out license plates in broad daylight. Was there a problem at the DMV? Cars lined up outside of garages, all with the back window broken. High end vehicles lined up and hidden in the back of the garage… yeah, NYC Webster Avenue in the Bronx! It isn’t hard to catch it if you know where to look.
My daughter traveled to Jordan a few years ago and she mentioned that there were cars driving around still with Virginia, New York, Quebec and Ontario license plates on them.
I’ve seen videos of trailers being off loaded somewhere in Africa with stolen cars from the US that still have NY, NJ, CT and PA plates on them.
The same thing is happening in Canada and going to the same countries.
If you ask around on Toyota forums you can be redirected to an African auction site where you regularly see cars for sale still with their US, CA and EU plates on them. People on the east coast tend to browse them when their cars get stolen in hopes of tracking them. Was either Sierra Leone or Liberia, I can't really remember. Another dead giveaway is they list cars under names/with badges and trim levels that were only designated for North America, or sometimes even US-only spec that wasn't available to even Canada or Mexico. Like 4Runners being sold instead of Hilux Surfs, or Infiniti G36's instead of Nissan Skylines
Its worth it to install a GPS tracker on your car - maybe even keeping an airtag / similar device hidden is enough to track it
They will figure a away to block those signals. There is no impossible for organized crimes.
then what you gonna do?
@@80glk5 you can find the vehicle before it gets shipped off
My favorite are Viper alarms. Because while they give you the option to track the car they also set off a siren and even keep the car from being started so it’s not as easy to steal it.
@@greenzeldayoshi4192 Yup I have the same alarm on my Camaro. But i had the installer hide the module deep in the car to make it very difficult to find
Back in the 80’s, my neighbor’s Chevy Blazer was stolen in LA. He spotted in Cabo a few months later being used as a police car.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 too good to be true
Last time I crossed into Mexico on foot, I wasn't checked by the Marinas or any Law enforcement. I just crossed over, so this doesn't surprise me at all, ✌️
It would not be hard for them to have the license plate reader 5 miles in advance of the border, so they can stop any cars approaching. They must not care about fixing the issue all that much.
How long ago was this? Because to cross into Tijuana, you have to walk through a scanner like you're getting on an airplane.
I'm dominican and i went to the dominican republic 2 years ago and i was suprised after watching so many AMG in the street ..like i live in NYC and i see a lot of AMG but not like that in a poor country .. then my cousin told me that they usually ship it from the US after they fix it from copart or stolen.
So, why can't they arrest the person who sent the container or own the container? Somebody has to own those containers and what were in the containers.
I was working night motel security in the late 1980s in San Diego and assigned to a cheap motel on a major east/west highway(I-8) that was a short drive to the west to connect with another major north/south highway(I-5), which ran along the west coast from the Canadian border down to Mexico. We would get a lot of unsavory characters there, like druggies and prostitutes, and occasionally we would get car thieves who would stay for a few hours to get some sleep while transporting a car down to Mexico to be placed on one of these cargo ships to be transported to Asia or South America for their auto black markets.
And you did nothing
@@J.G.Wentworth69420😂 like fr! 🤦♂️
@@J.G.Wentworth69420 On the contrary, since you seem so concerned about what happened, when he drove in I noticed that his unsavory demeanor and appearance did not match the car he was driving, plus he was trying to sneak another guest into the room for free. After I alerted the night manager about him, so that he could be billed appropriately, I kept an eye on him as he would go out at about 45 min intervals, indicative of drug activity very late at night. I scrutinized the car closely and noticed signs of forced entry near the door handle and ignition lock damage, suggesting that it was a stolen car. When I reported the information to San Diego PD, they ran the plate and found nothing and so did not want to pursue the matter. After more instances of suspicious activity, I again contacted the police and implored them to check further. When they called the registered owner at home he reported that the car was missing from his driveway. The cops came out, when I told them he was out, and I filled them in on the pattern of his behavior. We set a trap for him when he would return, where I would signal the cops with my flashlight when he drove in. They intercepted him, he ran and they ran him down and they found a nasty and hostile prostitute in the room.
This was such a good bust for the cops that the sergeant gave me his business card and invited me to call him personally, whenever I saw any kind of criminal activity.
Not all security guards are incompetent and lazy losers. Actually, I wasn't even a real security pro but a student working an easy night job while I was waiting to start my MS program in physics at San Diego State Univ. that fall.
@@videomaniac108 r u still in san diego????
@@greatestvideos3496 No, I left there in 2004 and moved up to Berkeley in the SF bay area after a divorce for a change of scenery.
That's one of New Mexico's main job opportunities, gangs and organized crime.
Farming actually.
@@pirrracy Have been gang stalked here for years, so plenty of organized crime and gang problems, the farming you mentioned is the legitimate side of New Mexico.
Do you live here or did you google it? Sounds like you googled it or you would know.
@@streetchat5054 Manufacturing, Agriculture, mining, textiles, petroleum industry... crime is not the 'main job opportunity'.
@@pirrracy Did you google it or do you live here? If you googled it you don't know what you're talking about.
@@streetchat5054 Maybe its an attractive lifestyle choice for idiots or lazy people. Which are you?
I have quick release steering wheels installed on my cars. Go ahead. Forward or reverse?
I wish it was easy to have removable steering wheels on cars.
This was literally an episode in The Sopranos. They were stealing luxury vehicles and selling them in Russia. This isn’t new. Been happening since cars were invented.
Ah, these are "expensive" cars. Not much sympathy from me.
I’ve heard shady wealthy people will actually hand “thieves” their keys and then report them as stolen for a percentage of the cut, and then claim insurance.
Also a lot of US luxury vehicles make it to Russia too because the oligarchy there is still very wealthy despite the war and trade restrictions.
That has been a thing in Europe too. German car owner got tired of his car? That's when he hired a professional "thief" from Eastern Europe to come and "steal" his car so he can file an insurance claim and get his money back with much less headache than selling it. And at the same time Eastern European "thief" got himself a great new, often luxury car.
armenians in socal are known for doing insurance fraud like this
Why not use a pedal lock or steering wheel lock? It could be just enough of a deterrence that the thieves would look for an easier target.
Steering wheel locks are easy to bypass
@@armando_perezremote engine disable?
You can break the tumbler of "The Club" steering wheel lock with the same flathead screwdriver you can use on the ignition tumbler, and you can break the internal steering lock with your bare arms and leverage.
@@armando_perez The idea is to make the thief choose a different car
Just remove the entire steering wheel and shift knob
did anyone notice the officer misread the bmw? he called it an x8 but it was a x6 xdrive coupe
This is why we can't get a break on our car insurance thanks to.these thieves
Just gotta love how they casually gloss over the obvious inside job from plenty of workers at the port...because how are all of those cars actually getting loaded into those crates?? There could easily be a system in place for them to scan each item that is loaded in, along with the calculated weight and a manifest digitally signed off by the worker. More security cameras couldn't hurt either. They don't truly want to prevent this type of crime...they just want to appear to do their jobs.
I remember seeing this on The Sopranos.
THE SOPRANOS IS FAKE
@@nno3757 😂😂😂🙄 Really? I didn't know.
My things is how long does each ship waits at a port til it’s departure ?
Maserati 🔥
It's actually crazy how many different types of crime there are.... so sad
Why did they put a mattress around the car? Cars are properly secured inside the container right?
It's better to get stolen rather than found after trashing it. Insurance will cover 100%.
New Mexico is like hispanic alabama
I'm starting to thing new vehicles should have some kind of GPS or RFID in their ECU
Every vehicle should have a remotely detonated explosive device. Car gets stolen? Hit the red button. You should see how well this deters bike thieves once word of the consequences gets around. Instead of an RFID in their ECU, we need more POS in the ICU.
Steering wheel locks are good to have on but hidden trackers that cost $50 are even better!
Ok
@welvas. Yupp!
@@Ak47777-l yuppppper
so this is what happens to my cars that i cant find for repo.
I hope they hire more people to help with this crime. Incentive is high government pay.
1:38 X8!!!!!! Dude is on 2040 already
Depending where they find your car. They will charge you just to return back to you. If u dont pay. The police keep it and sell it
My bmw x3 m40i got stolen 2 months ago within 6-7 minutes in front of the house around 5:30 pm. It’s really heartbreaking I still can’t believe this happened to us.. 💔
Broad daylight?
How’d they bypass the alarm and the security system?
@@joeyuetang754 they put some kind of gps tracker on our car and they were following us.. they have all the devices to steal your car
@@n_hr18
Did insurance cover it?
which state?
that's the problem if your vehicle is nice
I remember a few years ago when a French peace force was stationed in I believe Serbia during the early 90s conflict with Kosovo...A lot of the country officials were driving cars with French license plates, they did a check and turned out most of the vehicles had been stolen in France.
the camera quality in this video is top notch.
CBS trying to eat Vice’s lunch
cbp is going to hold you for 5 hours because you stole your own car smh
You could tell me that but if I find out my car is somewhere else I'm going to track them down because I have a special set of skills do things that I don't want to do
Us customs also have a price. Remember that.
Yeah plenty of ppl in my area (northern nj) got arrested who worked at the port which is funny bc getting in that port as a job is hard enough cuz it’s union good pay so these guys raked in a lot of money
There is already a video out there where the cars are stolen out of people's driveways and they show up in another country with all their stuff in it for sale
The auto manufacturers are to blame for how easy these cars are to steal because of the way they made them start
i agree. Cars are way too easy to steal by design.
And the same people will cry 1984 or Big government if they try to do anything about it
@@Sidicas thanks talk to text doesn't always work out great for me
That's why I hate keyless start. Geek with little knowledge can make a repeater that will extend the range of the remote to start the car. When you start it, you don't need a key until you shut it off... in a completely different country or in the shipping container. That's why it's a bad practice to hang keys for cars like this near the entrance to the house. I like my BMW's key for that reason, remote that needs to be put into the slot to start it, not as easy to steal it although not impossible too
In San Diego and Los Angeles it is well known that if they steal your car, it will probably end up in Tijuana.
We use manual rectangular rod like locks if we park outside for long. They can't be broken easily.
The people that shipping them to other country need to be held accountable . They been doing that for years
Yooo that man said an X8 😭😭😭😂😂
😭😭😭
Love how all of this starts in Chicago. They need to get this under control.
Martial law
@@cappiece3786 are you out of your mind lol. Martial law. Gtfoh. Go live in Iran then you clown.
Where in this video did anyone say it started in Chicago?
@@tundaiclark8154 the beginning of this documentary. He stands on the bridge over I-90/I-94 in downtown Chicago
Insane this amount of stolen goods just leaves port and no one seems to care
My truck been missing since August 16 2022, miss my chevy 2500 😔
I love Officer Panzarino's NYC accent.
its more like a jersey accent tbh
@@SKC_carhe was born in the bronx
Thank you 🙏
Buy a tesla. Nobody will touch it😂
Imagine them putting this much effort into people.
I bought a used Toyota Avalon US imports from used car market in UAE, Sharjah, and it had a problem when starting it. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I took it to more than one workshop and they couldn’t figure out the fault. Then I extracted the vehicle’s carfax, and there I was shocked that the notice of this vehicle was stolen, if I now something to communicate with them, then i confirmed that problem was in operating system, after that i completely replaced it and it works perfectly
Damn this is awful thanks for covering this cbs
Nobody wants to steal my car. Just one look and thieves ignore it.
"its one of the busiest years this year"
All crime should equal the DP. Enough.
Meanwhile in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Saudi Arabia ZERO cars stolen everyday. you should think about it when u go sleep if u are live in USA.
True also cars are often left and abandon
The Qazi may rule to cut off one’s limb. Think twice.
Huge problem in the UK too :(
I think for every container they pop, there is a hundred that get through.
Call police and don’t get it yourself. Yeah right like I’ll be waiting 2 years
maybe invest in blocking car pole if you already got new car
HOLD THE PORTS ACCOUNTABLE THEY SHOULD BE SENDING THEM BACK AND CHECKING THEM WITH PAPER WORK
I guess you must really mean that you type in all capitals I'm surprised you didn't type in bold
Why aren’t these cars checked before they leave the port how tf are they missing these?
It shouldn't be that easy to jack and export those cars.
Mexico wants the US to build a border in Arizona for economic commerce!🤣🤣
Now In days you can put an Apple air tag underneath the cars carpet and track it at least
Buy a Tesla, they’re almost impossible to steal
No need to view….just watch gone in 60 seconds for a great answer.
No car goes undetected unless there is someone helping on both sides . That includes the U.S.
And we all pay higher insurance rates as a result. More could be done but it’s just the cost of doing business.
"It's just the cost of doing business" it's weird how there's always a saying for when there's a problem that nobody wants to actually deal with that usually affects the majority of Americans
America
Of course they don’t stop the guy who stole the car but stop the owner .. perfect example of the justice system
How do you even get a stolen car that far to the other side of the world ?!
Easy money
check panels, tank, tires etc. sometimes whats inside the car is worth more than the car. hint.
Not mine..it has two diff custom security systems in it