Catalytic Converter Thefts in (not so) Pleasant Hill

5 Toyota's hit in 24 hours in one of the better Bay Area cities:

http://claycord.com/2011/06/06/alert-five-catalytic-converter-thefts-in-24-hours-in-pleasant-hill/

As a Tacoma and 4Runner owner this is unsettling.

 

wow my pops lives in martinez with a taco

 

chris4x4 had this little problem buttoned up a couple years back with his own creation of a welded converter shield. He's a busy man nowadays but I would like to see his invention in production so folks can get it. Seems we definately need this now.

 

Looks like California's "no used cats" law has failed, at least on cat theft.

Bad news--your cat may get Sawzalled off

Good news--you can buy it back for only slightly less than a new or approved one, but you might have to go to Arizona to do so.

 

yep i live in livermore and I've been hearing about this a lot in the past two years... my neighbor got his cut out when my taco wasn't there THANK GOD. Just don't park your truck all alone in a bad area, stay near your truck

 

i coat the under side of my car with dog shit sure dont want to be the one crawling down there cutting while shit falling in his face and or mouth lol jk

 

petaluma too. n rohnert park but no paper ever wrote up about it. press says petaluma guys were caught.

http://petaluma.patch.com/articles/two-men-arrested-for-thefts-of-catalytic-converters

edit: found this after

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110506/NEWS/110509643

 

wrap razor wire around the cat? lol

 

i live pretty much in pleasant hill..i'm gonna stay frosty.

 

I live in Concord, yeah I saw that one the news, there isn't anything now that some tweek won't try to steal around here.

 

My buddys got stolen out from under his 4 runner in the Safeway parking lot while he was working. It was like mid day when it happened

 

It has been happening all over the bay area for a good 2 years now, the news just recently covered it because of the amount stolen in that area in one night.

Some of the stuff I see here makes me sick, it's seems so animalistic sometimes.

 

I worked at a place up off Taylor Blvd and some tweeks cut open a live 220 volt circuit to pull a 100 feet of wire out of the ground, jeesh. In the Oakland to hayward to fremont area there have been hundreds of thefts of water service backflows, I took a two inch backflow in once for recycling and got like 85 bucks for it. As the economy gets worse and the price for scrap goes up all kinds of stuff gets ripped off.

 

I am wrapping barbwire around my cat.

 

PETA may have a problem with you wrapping pets in barbed wire

 

the Bay got too many thieves. around my area, they steal tailgates

 

get some skids!

 

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pretty cool, but $150 for the standard model?

 

Yeah, but the cats cost what, 10 times more? My concern would be listening to those cables jostling around under there making noises while driving.