Drive it Like you Stole it!
And you sure did… drove it like you stole it that is!
Seemed these inventive criminals from the wellington area, picked a night when the rugby was on in Wellington and plenty of cars parked at the stations found a car (ours) and broke the window, hot wired the 1998 Nissan and zoomed off.
Now if I was a car thief I guess I would go for something a little up market, perhaps a sporty model… but still each to your own and after all it was only their first theft of the weekend – they must have realised they had ‘stolen themselves a little short’ so after driving to the Hutt Valley (there will be some who will be saying where else? Not me of course), they then dumped our car (broken window, wires ripped out to hot wire, transmission now damaged) and straight away stole a builders work ute with all their tools. In fact they did it so quickly they didn’t even bother turning off the Nissian! Police found it still running. seemed like it might be good news that it was still running – except it was so damaged – and not worth much to start with the insurance wrote it off.
So here’s how insurance works – less excess. less depreciation = $900
What can you buy for $900 – not a lot.
It was full of the soccer clubs training balls (about 20), goal keepers uniform, gloves, cones etc. All gone.
Life is NOT tickety boo.
