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How many cars use the CLUB on your block? — Brooklynian

How many cars use the CLUB on your block?

How many parked cars have the CLUB or something like it on the wheel on your block?

I counted 16 just walking a block and a half to the grocery store (on washington ave and crown st)

Comments

  • hmmm. . . you don't say?
  • The only time I've ever seen the club being used to stop theft is when I saw a car owner beating a would-be theif with it.
  • I'm sort of against the club in theory. I feel like it encourages a would-be thief to steel someone else's car, whereas lo-jack (if used by just a few) will discourage all car theft because the thief isn't sure that it's there and thus won't risk stealing any car.

    At least in theory...
  • the club encourages car theft? :?
  • I dont know about the club, but every ratty-ass car on my block has an alarm that goes off at 2:00am.....
  • marie wrote: the club encourages car theft? :?
    Let's say it "re-directs" car theft away from a car with the club and to another car.
  • Medusa wrote: [quote=marie]the club encourages car theft? :?
    Let's say it "re-directs" car theft away from a car with the club and to another car.
    You could say that about locking your doors as well.
  • Carnivore wrote: [quote=Medusa][quote=marie]the club encourages car theft? :?
    Let's say it "re-directs" car theft away from a car with the club and to another car.
    You could say that about locking your doors as well.
    You could. I was making the distinction between a type of theft deterrent that redirects crime as opposed to one (like lo-jack) that really discourages it by increasing the risk of getting caught. The lo-jack idea makes everyone's car safer because the thief doesn't know who's car has it.
  • what about

    locking doors vs not locking doors.

    i always hear people say "i don't lock the doors because its more expensive to replace a broken window/canvas top than whatever is stolen"

    do you lock?
  • Anotherdayinbkln wrote: what about

    locking doors vs not locking doors.

    i always hear people say "i don't lock the doors because its more expensive to replace a broken window/canvas top than whatever is stolen"

    do you lock?
    my brother follows it. he somes dont even bother locking my car and his house doors.
  • SevenOneEighty wrote: I dont know about the club, but every ratty-ass car on my block has an alarm that goes off at 2:00am.....
    Car alarms are bad enough, but car alarms on crappy cars are the worst.

    There should be some kind of threshold below which you're not allowed to get a car alarm.

    If your model car hasn't been stolen in the past 20 years, you can't get a car alarm.

    If no one in their right mind would take your car, FOR FREE, you can't get a car alarm.

    If the car alarm cost more than the value of the car, you can't get a car alarm.
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