Re: How to tell if your car is stolen

Posted by Goose on October 18, 2021 at 17:45:01 from (166.181.87.65):

In Reply to: How to tell if your car is stolen posted by 37 chief on October 18, 2021 at 13:57:33:

It wasn't my vehicle, but when I was a GM salesman we had a used pickup stolen.

We had this squirrel in Lincoln detailing our used vehicles, and we decided we weren't going to have him do any more work for us, for various reasons. He had a GMC 3/4 ton pickup with a nice above cab shell of ours that he was working on. After he'd had it a couple days, our Sales Manager and someone else were in Lincoln on other business but decided to swing past the guy's shop. If the pickup was done, they'd bring it back and we wouldn't give him any more work.

They went past the guy's shop and found it locked up with a note on the door from the landlord that he'd changed to locks and the guy would have to bring the rent current before he had access again. The Sales Manager (Doug) and the other fellow looked in a window and it was obvious all of the guy's detailing supplies and equipment were gone, plus no sign of our pickup.

Doug called the guy's wife and asked her if she knew where he was. She said she'd been looking for him for a couple of days, too. We had no choice but to report the vehicle as stolen.

This was in March. We heard no more about it until early in December Doug got a call from a police officer in Phoenix, Arizona. They had the guy locked up on a DUI charge, and the officer wanted to know if it was OK for the guy to be driving that pickup in Phoenix with our dealer plate on it. Apparently the VIN of the vehicle had fallen through the cracks and hadn't gotten reported to the national data base of stolen vehicle, but the Phoenix officer was following his professional instincts. Doug told the officer, Hell no it's not OK for him to be driving that pickup in Phoenix. We've been looking for that SOB since March.

An hour later, the guy tried calling Doug collect from the jail in Phoenix. When the operator asked Doug if he'd accept the charges, Doug told her, I can't think of one reason on this Earth why I would want to talk to that guy.

But, the insurance had already paid us for the pickup and the guy was locked up in Phoenix, so at that point it was between him, the law, and the insurance company. We heard no more about it.

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