ORIGINAL: Mudgy

sorry dude,
but you just can't help but notice that these days a life of petty crime gets punished with a holiday, the victim's lives are scarred most every day.

PS sorry for your loss I have had thousands of dollars in rc cars stolen from me in the past. Including my 100% custom machined crawler (this was before the crawler craze) which was estamated 12K took me over 2 years to build it and had a conley engine in it.

WOW!! I am very sorry to here that Troopermanaic, but may I ask for some pictures?

ORIGINAL: Troopermanaic

I dont think I have any but my friends at work might have them. They loved it and we used to take it out on break time =]. I built that thing from tempered metal which was impossible to break, the chassis was basic though like you would see in a every day crawler but bigger also I got a conley engine off of ebay for $5000 which was a 1/8th scale v8 which actually worked. The tires were actually golf kart tires =]. If anyone ever see's it I would like to send me a email at [email protected] The easiest way you can tell is if my initials are engraved on the chassis on the back end.~P.M

BTW I am planning on building another one I will keep everone posted because I plan on makeing a few and then selling them to make lots o money . I have access to a 3d printer now so prototypeing will be easy.

ORIGINAL: jtnktz

I have been looking at this for a while. I still cannot get over the fact of this. I used to live in CA my self. Moved to California 2 years ago. What beach were you at? Go to the police department and give it your best shot. You have nothing to loose. Tell them it's worth enough money to buy their car (Don't you'll piss 'em off but you get my point). Another thing you could do is put up a trap. I think that may be your best bet. Simply be bashing and put an R/C on the top of a vehicle. Put cameras around it and keep people on a look out. Either 2 things happened. You were targeted or some kid said, "Oooo those things are cool". In order to see it he could have been on a routine route. If that were me I would be looking non-stop at you guys driving those R/Cs if I never seen one. I say put up a trap and go from there. Make them something they cannot refuse. I would also go to all the hobby shops. There are MANY hobby shops. I would try to fax every hobby store in Northern California. Look around, some lifeguard stands have cameras. Actually most do. Go to the Lifeguard center (Depending on the beach) and ask them if they have a tape you can watch on this date at this time. It all depends where you were. If only you were on Venice beach, you would have the car 1 hour after it was stolen (Traffic, cameras and mucho cops). I would do anything in my power to get that thing back.

Now to everyone's views on stealing. It's wrong. I do not care of your situation. I do not care if you are poor. There is a reason why you are poor. Now granted some people cannot go to college. There are some that are just plain out stupid. But that does NOT give you the right to steal other people's property. If it is not yours simply don't touch it. Not only that but come on man, carma is going to come bite you in the ass and make you regret it. If you said that that guy may have had the right to steal (I don't mean to judge) than you need some respect for other people and yourself. To the people that were saying you should not have left it sitting there. We should NOT have to worry about are stuff being stolen because it is sitting in plain sight. I do not when all of a sudden it was OK to steal something when it is just sitting there. IT'S NOT OK. This hole situation pisses me off. The reason why: When I was 6 I used to race Go-Carts. For Christmas my dad bought me all the parts we needed to blue print the engine. Well after presents were all open we went to go install it. We went out to the garage and all 4 of my carts were stolen. The garage was bent in half. I lost about 7-8k dollars in carts. Only 1 of them were a race cart thank god (not cheap about 1.5k). I got to race it twice. 1st time I got black flagged because I ran into someone on purpose and 2nd I got 1st place and my cart was the slowest and less modified (still brand new). The rest of them were fun carts and so on. Still the point is PEOPLE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEIR BELONGINGS BEING STOLEN.

Now granted in a perfect world things will not get stolen. We all know things are going to get stolen. We all have to watch out for those idiots that decide to do something destructive and stupid. Thank god that technology is evolving to have a safer world. But as good technology evolves so will bad ones. As an example, computer viruses. Countless numbers of viruses are blocked, prevented, repaired, and destroyed a day. But at the same time viruses are also being created, developed and evolving. This is just how things work. I just hope it doesn't get into paypal cause then a lot of people are screwed. There is no way to prevent it. But it cannot hurt to reduce it. Things should be taken in to bigger hands. People that steal (most of the time) will only get a slap on a wrist and maybe a fine. This needs to be changed so they will not do it again.

Overall, in no way is stealing right. It is simply wrong. End of story. No if, ands or buts. I hope that you get this back Brice.

Brice for your next prototype may I suggest this:
http://www.lojack.com/
It is not expensive nor is it cheap. But it will make sure no idiots do anything stupid. These things come in very small packages. I have one in my camaro. It's about the size of a flash drive and could easily be put in a 1/5 car of that size. Maybe inside the engine or something.

P.S. The car looks amazing. I wish I could learn to do that. Mind PMing me how you do it? I plan on my career in something like engineering.

ORIGINAL: Foxy

By agreement with Brice, I'm letting this slide now. The thread will remain, if anyone hears anything, but I think we can all agree 6 months down the line, that's unlikely. And besides, the insurance has now paid up. Good luck with the next project Brice.

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