***Friend's WRX stolen in Watchung today***

[westend]

My friend's yellow WRX sedan was stolen today in the TGI Fridays parking lot in Watchung around 1:00 pm. It looks stock except for a blitz exhaust on it (singe tip and its super loud you can hear it comming from several blocks away) and a defi 3 gauge pod on the top of the dash.

Well, the full story is he pulled into TGIs lot and parked infront of a silver S4 wagon. There was a black dude behind the wheel of the wagon and he kept staring at my friend, but my friend didnt pay too much attention to the fact that this guy kept staring at him cause he was admiring the wagon(since they are fairly rare around where we live, ive only seen 1 in my life) so he goes into TGI and when he comes out his car is gone. A couple people around him said they saw two guys jump out of the back of the S4 wagon, get into his car, and drive off with the wagon following them. So my friend calls 911 and flags down a cop and they put out an apb for his car. So then a cop radios in that he saw a yellow wrx being followed by a silver S4 wagon in Irvington but they lost it.

The thing that really sucks is my friend just got a vf-34 turbo upgrade and some other stuff done not even a month ago and now it got jacked So if any of you guys see this car around or a silver s4 wagon around(dunno how rare they are there) in that area I would really appreciate if you could im me about it. Its prolly stripped already but its worth a shot, thanks!

edit: he has a PA license plate: ECV-8456


Modified by rubbaDubDub at 8:53 PM 2-21-2004

[GT17V]

That sucks. THey broken into it?

Posted this over in the Mid-Atlantic Section of http://www.clubwrx.net for additional visibility

http://www.clubwrx.net/forums/...53343

[loveVR6]

Quote, originally posted by rubbaDubDub »

There was a black dude behind the wheel of the wagon and he kept staring at my friend, (they are fairly rare around where we live, ive only seen 1 in my life) So if any of you guys see this car around or a silver s4 wagon around(dunno how rare they are there) in that area I would really appreciate if you could im me about it. edit: he has a PA license plate: ECV-8456 Modified by rubbaDubDub at 8:53 PM 2-21-2004

Black guy driving a $40K S4 wants a piece of $HT wrx. HAHAHAHAAH

I drive through pa once in a blue moon, and there are not many brothers out there. You will have no problem finding a brother in a yellow car! ahahhahahaahhahaha

A black dude driving a Yellow car!!!! Is this a joke? Seriously

They had to be stealing for some white guy

[GT17V]

watchung is in Jersey, not PA

[asinryan]

and i dont think they would appreciate you refering to them as "brothers"

[GS Audio]

That sux man....sorry to hear.

I've been through the same......only right out of my driveway!!!

Don't worry, eventually, those guys will get theirs!

[GlfSprtCT1]

The way things seem to be going in Jersey lately the S4 was probably in the process of being stolen and they figured they'd take the rex as well. Seriously...whats up with S4's getting stolen in Jersey...WTF??? At least every other day some one on Audiworld is getting an S stolen from SOMEWHERE in Jersey!!

[SlowMotion]

Quote, originally posted by GlfSprtCT1 »

The way things seem to be going in Jersey lately the S4 was probably in the process of being stolen and they figured they'd take the rex as well. Seriously...whats up with S4's getting stolen in Jersey...WTF??? At least every other day some one on Audiworld is getting an S stolen from SOMEWHERE in Jersey!!

that's cause they know how easy it is to break into them.
but the cops in irvinton are not gonna look for it. so my sugestion is call a couple of buddy and start looking.
ps bring some guns.

[loveVR6]

Quote, originally posted by ALLMOTORtt20 »

and i dont think they would appreciate you refering to them as "brothers"

Let me holla at you for a minute bra, I think it's okay for me to refer to them as brothers, ya heard! But, I give you props for checking anyone who might be trying to play big and raise their game. Way to shut that ish down, that was sort of gangsta, fo real son!!

[mk2madness]

i thought you couldn't steal new Audi's/vws because of the immobilizer systems???

[asinryan]

Quote, originally posted by loveVR6 »

Let me holla at you for a minute bra, I think it's okay for me to refer to them as brothers, ya heard! But, I give you props for checking anyone who might be trying to play big and raise their game. Way to shut that ish down, that was sort of gangsta, fo real son!!

im white, so i have no idea what u just said, sorry


Modified by ALLMOTORtt20 at 3:03 PM 2-22-2004

[westend]

Thanks for the replies guys, and gt17v i really appreciate you posting that up on clubwrx.net!

The police called my friend back yesterday and said a cop saw his car and started following it but wouldnt pull it over cause he didnt want to risk a high speed pursuit so he decided he would wait till the car stopped and arrest the guys, but the cop lost the car and my friend is back to square 1

How are these s4s getting stolen? my one friend's dad has one and the alarms seem to be super sensative

[loveVR6]

Quote, originally posted by ALLMOTORtt20 »

im white, so i have no idea what u just said, sorry Modified by ALLMOTORtt20 at 3:03 PM 2-22-2004

Your the same guy that said you don't think "THEY" would not appreciate being called "brothers". So I figured, if you knew that, you knew everything else. Guess I was wrong. You know what they say. A little bit of knowledge is worse than none at all. Let me flip it.

Anyway, so the police called and said they saw the car and did not try to stop the guy because they were afraid the guy would take off and start a high speed persuit? Yup, that's what police do. The call and give a play by play. "Man, we almost had'em but, I know that WRX is fast so we let him go. Your theft story has major holes. Also saying it was a "Black Dude" was not cool. Even if the driver was black. You mentioned they were stairing each other down, like the wild west. For what purpose would that serve a car theif. And you wached all this happen; the stair down. And someone just happened to be waching the theft take place stuck around and told you the whole story. No alarms, nothing. OKAY!?

Hmm, sounds like your eye witness helped steal the car. Was the eye witness white. Try to be consisten throwing peoples color around

All righty then

Modified by loveVR6 at 2:28 PM 2-22-2004

Modified by loveVR6 at 2:32 PM 2-22-2004


Modified by loveVR6 at 2:48 PM 2-22-2004

[westend]

ok loveVR6, first of all, there have been car chases with the police before in irvington so im guessing they didnt wanna risk another one...

heres a quote from this website http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/...0.xml ..."Six times a day in New Jersey -- 2,000 times a year -- police are involved in high-speed chases, often with devastating consequences. Of the 2,042 pursuits conducted in 2002 -- the last year for which complete figures are available -- 538 ended in crashes that injured 322 people and killed four." ...and you wonder why they dont want to risk one that could potentially prove fatal to innocent bystanders!?

second, dont be acting like im some racist kkk memeber ok! if i said the driver was white would u be making an issue outta that?...i highly doubt it. im not racist, i was just giving a discription of one of the car thieves that my friend saw and it so happens he was black...third, when my friend pulled into his parking space he saw this guy in an s4 staring at him. where do you come up with this stuff about the wild west? i quote myself from above: "but my friend didnt pay too much attention to the fact that this guy kept staring at him cause he was admiring the wagon" where did i say say they were staring each other down?...i didnt...fourth, i didnt watch this happen my friend saw the guy in the s4 staring at him...fifth, believe it or not there are sometimes people in busy parking lots. when my friend got to his parking spot, someone nearby that was walking to thier car saw some guys get out of an silver s4 wagon and into his wrx and drive off and told him about it. sixth, its not very hard to steal a wrx...1)lack of a frame around the windows makes it easy to pust the window in an jimmy the lock, 2) the remote only cycles throught a 15 digit code that is easy to pick up with a scanning device(my friend locked his car with a remote and the guy with the silver s4 prob did it this way) 3) if you break in and the alarm goes off you can pop the hood and cut the power line to the alarm in under two honks(believe me i know a guy that tried it cause he couldnt believe it was true), 4) once the thief is in if they rip off the plastic cover under the colum pod they can easily hot wire the car in seconds. wrx's are known for being easily stolen. given the fact that this happened at 1pm in a busy parking lot leads one to believe they were professionals so obviously they would be capable of stealing it without attracting too much attention.

Here is a list of 5 stolen wrx's and 2 attemped thefts of wrx's in and around the general area where my friends was stolen...

1. http://forums.nasioc.com/forum...tolen

2. http://forums.nasioc.com/forum...tolen

3. http://forums.nasioc.com/forum...tolen

4. http://forums.nasioc.com/forum...tolen

5. http://forums.nasioc.com/forum...tolen

6. http://forums.nasioc.com/forum...tolen

7. http://forums.nasioc.com/forum...tolen

and btw there have been 3 other car thefts in the lot where my friends was stolen in the past several months

so why dont you believe this happened? do you think im making it up for the hell of it? ill give you my friends phone number so you can call him and he can tell you that all of this happened and that your a dumbass mmm'kay?

[VW97Jetta]

Wow....this "loveVR6" dude really seems to have a grasp on the entire situation

Not....

[asinryan]

Quote, originally posted by loveVR6 »

Your the same guy that said you don't think "THEY" would not appreciate being called "brothers". Modified by loveVR6 at 2:28 PM 2-22-2004 Modified by loveVR6 at 2:32 PM 2-22-2004 Modified by loveVR6 at 2:48 PM 2-22-2004

not to keep this going, i refered to they as in black men, last time i checked the word they didnt single anyone out as the word "brothers" does.

plus i hope your freind finds his car, its unfortunate when that kinda s**t happens

[loveVR6]

Quote, originally posted by rubbaDubDub »

ok loveVR6, first of all, there have been car chases with the police before in irvington so im guessing they didnt wanna risk another one... second, dont be acting like im some racist kkk memeber ok! if i said the driver was white would u be making an issue outta that?...i highly doubt it. im not racist, i was just giving a discription of one of the car thieves that my friend saw and it so happens he was black... ill give you my friends phone number so you can call him and he can tell you that all of this happened and that your a dumbass mmm'kay?

KKK thing hey that's on you. That was the furthest thing from my mind. However, if it made you feel that way, hell that's on you.

For you to mention some "black dude" stole my friends car is insensitive and pointless here. If you don't understand that, that's too bad.

[splitmeister]

S4's are easier to pick than a paper off the magazine stand.

[screwball]

no offense but i'm glad i've got a GTI

[jayz1367]

rubbadubdub, sorry to hear about your friends car, hope he gets it back, sorry to jack up the post but do you wanna come to the TGIF gtg, i figured i'd tell ya since when u missed the gtg in applebees u told me to give u a heads up for the next one

[loveVR6]

Quote, originally posted by ALLMOTORtt20 »

im white, so i have no idea what u just said, sorry Modified by ALLMOTORtt20 at 3:03 PM 2-22-2004

That sounds about right.

I always have to understand you but you can never understand us. And you wonder why ish happens. It's like people walking with blinders on. Ya just have no clue. I feel for the guy who had his car stolen but a lame @$$ description of some black dude stole the car was just retarted. It's dumb @$$ posts like yours that remind me nothing has changed. Your just ignorant and you really need to grow up or get an education. Rubba

[denyle]

Ok, let's just make it simple. I'm black, and I do find it a little wrong that the guy had to mention the person in the S4 was black, but when he is giving a description of what went down, I don't see anything particularly wrong with that. Now, to the guy who said he was white, so he had no idea what was said, I take personal offense to. That is leading one to believe that all black people have poor grammar, and speak "ebonic." Just as where you live you have a certain vernacular, differing states/provinces have their own. If I use the word "dude", am I automatically a white boy from California? Anyway, I'm just sorry to the original guy who lost his car, hopefully they find it soon.

[VReihenmotor6]

wow, thats like 8 min from my house
that sux hardcore, my dubs been there more than once...

btw, do you know who waited on ya?
I know a few of the waitresses....

[asinryan]

Quote, originally posted by denyle »

Ok, let's just make it simple. I'm black, and I do find it a little wrong that the guy had to mention the person in the S4 was black, but when he is giving a description of what went down, I don't see anything particularly wrong with that. Now, to the guy who said he was white, so he had no idea what was said, I take personal offense to. That is leading one to believe that all black people have poor grammar, and speak "ebonic." Just as where you live you have a certain vernacular, differing states/provinces have their own. If I use the word "dude", am I automatically a white boy from California? Anyway, I'm just sorry to the original guy who lost his car, hopefully they find it soon.

my statement was im white and didnt know what was said, your the one that implied that i was talking about black people.i am in no way racist,and i dont know when stating the color of your skin was offensive,but sorry if you took offense.

[denyle]

Well I don't see need for you to have mentioned you were white. Hell, I'm black, and didn't understand what he said either. The fact that you stated you were white, is kind of like me saying "I'm Asian, so I don't know about American cars". If you didn't mean it in an offensive way then cool, no harm done, and don't take my words as an attack, but merely as someone trying to understand why color always need be brought into discussions. I know some white people who are more grimey than black people, and vice versa. Underlying theme is, ***** who steal cars need to be shot, no matter what color their skin is.

[loveVR6]

Quote, originally posted by ALLMOTORtt20 »

my statement was im white and didnt know what was said, your the one that implied that i was talking about black people.i am in no way racist,and i dont know when stating the color of your skin was offensive,but sorry if you took offense.

I understood your point, I was just putting a spin on your statement. I don't think your racist.

There are a lot of black stereo types out there, so when any "non-black" person makes a "blanket statement" like Rubba, "The black dude stole my friends car. Most inteligent educated black people will take offense. I can only respond to things that effect me and that did.

If anyone thinks I am so off base, why don't you cross post in the MKIV forum or the Audi forum and see what happens.

[denyle]

You spelled intelligent wrong.

[asinryan]

Quote, originally posted by denyle »

Underlying theme is, ***** who steal cars need to be shot, no matter what color their skin is.

[XrightcoastdriverX]

Quote, originally posted by rubbaDubDub »

fourth, i didnt watch this happen my friend saw the guy in the s4 staring at him wrx's are known for being easily stolen.

Suspicious looking people in a S4 Wagon staring you down? Just from that alone your buddy should have pulled back out of the spot and left.

Quote, originally posted by rubbaDubDub »

its not very hard to steal a wrx... 1)lack of a frame around the windows makes it easy to pust the window in an jimmy the lock, 2) the remote only cycles throught a 15 digit code that is easy to pick up with a scanning device(my friend locked his car with a remote and the guy with the silver s4 prob did it this way) 3) if you break in and the alarm goes off you can pop the hood and cut the power line to the alarm in under two honks(believe me i know a guy that tried it cause he couldnt believe it was true), 4) once the thief is in if they rip off the plastic cover under the colum pod they can easily hot wire the car in seconds. given the fact that this happened at 1pm in a busy parking lot leads one to believe they were professionals so obviously they would be capable of stealing it without attracting too much attention.

If one knows all this information, why would one drive a WRX? That alone would deter me away from owning one.

I hate to be so negative, but.. Come on.. Sounds like you guys travel to 'jersey often. You should know better.

[loveVR6]

Quote, originally posted by denyle »

You spelled intelligent wrong.

Good one.... how's that for irony.

Nice to see there are some diverse people on the board that can understand the point I was trying to make.

As long as I understand f of X and f' of x it's all good. and limits and the continuity of a line etc....

[asinryan]

back on topic.....how would this guy be staring at you when u said he was behind you...whenever im driving my eyes are focused on the car in front of me...

[loveVR6]

Quote, originally posted by XrightcoastdriverX »

Suspicious looking people in a S4 Wagon staring you down? Just from that alone your buddy should have pulled back out of the spot and left. If one knows all this information, why would one drive a WRX? That alone would deter me away from owning one. I hate to be so negative, but.. Come on.. Sounds like you guys travel to 'jersey often. You should know better.

That's only the tip of the ice berg. Newark, Irvington and the surrounding area had more car thefts than all of california back in 1994. The movie "Jersey Drive" which was a car theft movie based on the car thefts in NJ was filmed and based on a true story of what goes on in the area. I had my radio stolen broad day light by the court house in Newark out of my old 86 GTI and almost got my fathers Brand New 16 Valve GLI Jetta stolen on another occasion. My friend lived in Irvington and I would hang out there back in the day. So I hate to say this, but a white person with PA plates in a yellow WRX in Irvington is not a good mix. I am smart enough not to stop in certain places so I got no problem sharing that with anyone. I also played in a football leauge in Newark and there were some cops on the team and I would hear stories every Sunday about the car chase from Saturday night.

Anyone see the video from "Naughty by Nature" the line says if you ain't never been to the Ghetto, then don't come to the Ghetto and stay the #@$% out of the Ghetto.

Hmmmm, I wonder what brought them to brick city, holla aaaaa yoooo, ya'll taking me back and I really don't won't to go there TRUST! I am to old for this.

[XrightcoastdriverX]

Quote, originally posted by loveVR6 »

That's only the tip of the ice berg. Newark, Irvington and the surrounding area had more car thefts than all of california back in 1994. The movie "Jersey Drive" which was a car theft movie based on the car thefts in NJ was filmed and based on a true story of what goes on in the area. I had my radio stolen broad day light by the court house in Newark out of my old 86 GTI and almost got my fathers Brand New 16 Valve GLI Jetta stolen on another occasion. My friend lived in Irvington and I would hang out there back in the day. So I hate to say this, but a white person with PA plates in a yellow WRX in Irvington is not a good mix. I am smart enough not to stop in certain places so I got no problem sharing that with anyone. I also played in a football leauge in Newark and there were some cops on the team and I would hear stories every Sunday about the car chase from Saturday night.

Understood. I grew up in NJ and had my share of things stolen. It isn't fun, and man does it suck. But you learn to live and move on.
Although, I miss the street racing in Newark and Franklin Twp. I'll never forget that firebird from TK High Performance that was stripped and the owners nearly shot for cheating w/ nitrous when they should have been running all motor in high stakes drags.

[loveVR6]

Quote, originally posted by XrightcoastdriverX »

Understood. I grew up in NJ and had my share of things stolen. It isn't fun, and man does it suck. But you learn to live and move on. Although, I miss the street racing in Newark and Franklin Twp. I'll never forget that firebird from TK High Performance that was stripped and the owners nearly shot for cheating w/ nitrous when they should have been running all motor in high stakes drags.

hahah Sounds about right,

I used to ride a NINJA ZX7 and my boy had a 900RR, he had mad wheelie skills. We were on our way to battle some riders in Newark in a wheelie contest. Well, the contest was deemed a tie. So we are on our way to NYC, to wild out and on the way there, my boy and the guy he battled decided the would break the tie by racing to the city by way of the Lincoln tunnel. Well, my buddy flipped his bike before we could make it to the city. He was okay and road back on my bike. The guy he was racing crashed that same night into a taxi cab doing a three point turn while the guy was doing a stand up wheelie.

My family keeps me in check although I can't comment on all that happens on the streets. Nothing good comes from racing on the street. trust me on that one

be safe people and watch your back

Modified by loveVR6 at 6:02 PM 2-23-2004


Modified by loveVR6 at 6:03 PM 2-23-2004

[westend]

ya jayz if you can lemme know where it is so i can mapquest it ill definitly be there and will try to bring a couple peeps.

sorry if i offended any black people, i was just trying to give a discription and didnt imply any racial hatred or anything demeaning towards black people.

my friend usually goes to north plainfield to visit a friend, i dunno how he wound up in watchung.

for the person who asked y my friend would buy a car he knows is so easy to steal... he didnt know how easy it was to steal when he bought it, he only learned about it after surfin nasioc for a while. the super ironic thing is that he has a utec and it has a security feature like that of revo,apr,giac that will not let the car start when its enabled, but he didnt have it enabled...he is now kicking himself in the a$$ for it lol

so far he has heard nothing about it so hopefully something will pop up in the next week or two. thanks for all the bumpage guys!