Most Stolen Vehicle Models by State

[Rara Avis]

Most Stolen Vehicles:
States A - L
http://money.aol.com/insurance/auto/...icles-by-state
Most Stolen Vehicles:
States M - O
http://money.aol.com/insurance/auto/...les-by-state-2
Most Stolen Vehicles:
States P - W
http://money.aol.com/insurance/auto/...les-by-state-3

 

[MrJimi]

Paul, the links did not work for me. I own a Harley Davidson and the way to keep the Harley is to put a Honda cover on it
No offense to Honda owners
I did find this one
America's Most Stolen - MSN Autos
Jim

 

[Rara Avis]

They must have moved...
Most Stolen Vehicles by State - AOL Money & Finance

 

[dbdartman]

I'm ALMOST surprised by the results, comparing how the imports & domestics rate by state, but then again, I'm not.

 

[tallyho8]

I wonder if anyone keeps records of how many UNINSURED vehicles are stolen. I bet the percentage of stolen uninsured vehicles is much lower than the percentage of insured ones.

Somehow, in this area, it seems like everyone who gets laid off and has just bought a new vehicle has it stolen from them and burned on a deserted street not too far away.

I'm sure there are many cases of uninsured vehicles being stolen, it's just that I have never heard of any of them.

 

[cp1969]

I wonder if anyone keeps records of how many UNINSURED vehicles are stolen. I bet the percentage of stolen uninsured vehicles is much lower than the percentage of insured ones.

Somehow, in this area, it seems like everyone who gets laid off and has just bought a new vehicle has it stolen from them and burned on a deserted street not too far away.

I'm sure there are many cases of uninsured vehicles being stolen, it's just that I have never heard of any of them.

Well, one would hope the cops would have records for all stolen vehicles. Surely if The Dude turned in the theft of his Torino to the cops, others do, too. They had 'leads' on who did it, you know.

I would agree that a sizeable percentage of vehicle thefts originate with the owner.

Insurance fraud is a victimless crime....it doesn't cost anybody, does it?

 

[Bird]

I own a Harley Davidson and the way to keep the Harley is to put a Honda cover on it

You know many years ago most police departments got away from Harley because you couldn't get parts for them. My Honda dealer, 20 years ago, told me that Harley dealers didn't have to stock parts because the kind of people who ride Harleys don't buy parts, they steal them.

 

[davitk]

You know many years ago most police departments got away from Harley because you couldn't get parts for them. My Honda dealer, 20 years ago, told me that Harley dealers didn't have to stock parts because the kind of people who ride Harleys don't buy parts, they steal them.

hehehehe

 

[MrJimi]

You know many years ago most police departments got away from Harley because you couldn't get parts for them. My Honda dealer, 20 years ago, told me that Harley dealers didn't have to stock parts because the kind of people who ride Harley's don't buy parts, they steal them.

Shame on you Bird, ( just kidding )I am a proud owner of a 100th anniversary Harley and I do have all my receipts for it and all the parts I/we bought for it
Jim

 

[Bird]

Jim, I guess one of the biggest Harley dealers anywhere in this area is on I-35E about a half mile from my house. I know they advertise having riding lessons, and every Saturday, I don't know what kind of meetings they have, but they sure have a crowd around that place on Saturdays. And nearly any day, they have large numbers of bikes parked outside on display.

You know this is just a little town, but about a year ago they hired two new officers, trained them to be motorcycle officers, and got two black Harleys for police bikes. I know Harleys have good resale value, and I don't know how many miles a year the police here will put on the bikes, but to get the city council to approve that program they told the council that after one year, they could trade for new bikes at no cost, and the officers' salaries would be more than paid for by traffic fines. I do occasionally see one of the motorcycles on the street, but it's only very rarely so I don't know how the program is going.

When I was rookie in recruit school and the chaplain visited the class (29 recruits), he asked how many of them wanted to be motorcycle officers. Probably 8 or 10 raised their hands. Then the chaplain said he always got to know the motorcycle officers better than any of the others because he visited them in the hospital so often.

 

[MrJimi]

Bird, I would like for you to go to your local Harley shop on a Saturday morning and just look around and swap stories and tell us about the great time you had with lots of pictures, we/I would like that and I/we know that you would also
Go for it Bird
Jim

 

[Bird]

Jim, I've intended to do that for a long time, but it seems that Saturdays have been my busiest days this year. The only reason I haven't been helping my son-in-law on that old house remodeling today is because of this lousy head cold. It would have been interesting to see what was around there at the Harley dealer today though, because our temperature has stayed between 40 and 43 all day, with frequent off and on very light rain showers; just enough to keep everything wet and so far a grand total of about .3" in my gauge.

 

[cp1969]

One of my cousins was a cop in Kansas City, MO. He was on motorcycles for a while. I remember him telling a story of being an escort for a Presidential motorcade (had to have been Johnson or Nixon) from the airport to downtown, which is a good 15 miles or so. He said they had to stop traffic, wait for the motorcade to pass, then play leapfrog at 100+ mph to get to the front to do it again. Sounds like fun except is was in the dead of winter. Said he's never been so cold as on that day.

 

[MrJimi]

One of my cousins was a cop in Kansas City, MO. He was on motorcycles for a while. I remember him telling a story of being an escort for a Presidential motorcade (had to have been Johnson or Nixon) from the airport to downtown, which is a good 15 miles or so. He said they had to stop traffic, wait for the motorcade to pass, then play leapfrog at 100+ mph to get to the front to do it again. Sounds like fun except is was in the dead of winter. Said he's never been so cold as on that day.

our Florida cops do the same thing except it's heaps warmer here, the leap frog thing at funerals thing
and Bird, take some very precious time and visit your local Harley shop, and that goes for all the rest of you.. Go for it and enjoy
Just make sure you don't come home and say
Honey, guess what we just bought !
Jim

 

[Bird]

One of my cousins was a cop in Kansas City, MO. He was on motorcycles for a while. I remember him telling a story of being an escort for a Presidential motorcade (had to have been Johnson or Nixon) from the airport to downtown, which is a good 15 miles or so. He said they had to stop traffic, wait for the motorcade to pass, then play leapfrog at 100+ mph to get to the front to do it again. Sounds like fun except is was in the dead of winter. Said he's never been so cold as on that day.

My memory may be a little faulty, but haven't there been two motorcycle officers killed escorting the current President Bush? One in Hawaii, and I forgot where the other one was.

And yes, funeral escorts have the same problems.

In 1972, I was in Milwaukee and visited first the machine shop where Harley was making the parts and then the assembly plant where they were building the bikes. Of course I was traveling by bus in a large group of officers, all of whom were attending the Northwestern University Traffic Institute, and the Milwaukee police had motorcycle escorts for the bus. I was surprised to see they were still using the hand shift motorcycles, and even more surprised to see they had a reverse gear (Dallas changed to the foot shift in 1966 or 67). So I asked the officer about that and he said that was because they used them year round. I said, "So do we, what's that got to do with it?" It seems they put sidecars on in the winter; something we never did in Dallas.