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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 11:50 AM   #1
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Thumbs down Thieves follow stolen sat nav to driver's home

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Police are urging motorists not to leave their journey home programmed into their satellite navigation systems.
The warning came after thieves stole a sat nav from a car at Alton Towers theme park and used the device to find the owner's house in Shropshire.
They then stole a £20,000 Saab convertible from the driveway.
'Home' search

Detective Sergeant Chris Walsh, from West Mercia Constabulary, said: 'If your car is then broken into, particularly if you have an in-built sat nav as part of the dashboard, all the offenders have to do is search for 'home' or similar and it will take them right to the door of your empty residence.
'In this case, the sat nav took them straight to the door of the victim's house and they then stole a £20,000 convertible from the driveway. The vehicle was later recovered.'
Police said it was not enough simply to hide sat navs in the glove compartment or under a seat - drivers should take them out of the car altogether when parking.
'If you must have a setting saved to get you home, only ever put your town in to get you back to familiar territory. Don't use the postcode,' Mr Walsh added.


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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 11:53 AM   #2 (permalink)
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There was a feature about this on BBC's The Real Hustle. They fooled a guy into believing they were valet parking his car and then they used the sat nav to find his home address. They also had his house keys attached to the car keys.


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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 12:03 PM   #3 (permalink)
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My dads satnav has its home address set to the dead centre of town. Hopefully if they did follow it they would be picked up on all the CCTV.
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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 12:04 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Set home as the local police station.
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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 12:16 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Quote: Originally Posted by Paul Mullett (original)
Set home as the local police station.

LOL-Very good, bet they would mess themselves when pulling in to the drive!
Simple way around this is not to leave the Sat nav in ya car, especially in Alton towers car park?!

I think they would need a lesson on how to work out the Factory Nav!
Is there a Home feature on that, as I have never used it...

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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 12:19 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Set home as the local police station.

i could if we still had one

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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 12:21 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hat (original)
i could if we still had one

The british governmet for you, are you still lucky enough to have a local hospital too?!

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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 12:22 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Well if they steal my map I havent scribled my home address on it so I should be ok my A to Z would be usefull if they wanted to rob McDonald's Resteraunts..

Sounds like an Urban Myth at first but totally plausable when you think about it.
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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 12:24 PM   #9 (permalink)
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My house doesn't even appear on my sat nav, not that I use it that much, so no hope there!
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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 12:46 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hat (original)
i could if we still had one

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The british governmet for you, are you still lucky enough to have a local hospital too?!


I thought that only happened in N Ireland

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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 01:40 PM   #11 (permalink)
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The advice to never leave your sat nav in the car and to never leave your home address in the sat nav seems well meaning, but ill thought out Why?

1. If everyone removes their sat navs and walks around with them this may improve car crime figures at the expense of an increase in muggings.

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2. If a car theif used my sat nav to get to my home address, he/she would probably find someone still at home anyway....

I'll remove my home address from mine (I can see some sense in that), but I don't really want to be a target for a mugging...


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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 02:22 PM   #12 (permalink)
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In typical redneck fashion, my home is alarmed and surveiled...
And we're aloud to shoot our muggers on this side of the pond. You should try it; it's very gratifying.

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Put your sat nav in your boot if it's incovenient to carry it (a lot safer than the glove box even if it locks) and wipe the marks of the window. The only reason someone will target a car with no sat nav on display is if they see the tell tale marks on the window.

I have a key ring, supplied by the local police, that rubs marks of the window.

It was acceptable in the 80's
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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 02:37 PM   #14 (permalink)
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In typical redneck fashion, my home is alarmed and surveiled...
And we're aloud to shoot our muggers on this side of the pond. You should try it; it's very gratifying.

Yeah, it's pretty much open-season down here in the South, too. Wild West shootouts in the streets on the way to work and such...

I said a grande latte, damit!.....blam! blam! blam!

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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 02:39 PM   #15 (permalink)
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and wipe the marks of the window. The only reason someone will target a car with no sat nav on display is if they see the tell tale marks on the window.

Or a very clean section when the rest is a little grubby (tell tale sign it's being cleaned of sat nav marks).
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Very hard to get in the MINI boot as well isn't it, park ya car up, put sat nav in the boot or carry it. Also leave your glove box open so they can see whats inside (if anything)

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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 03:26 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Glove box? You have a glove box? Show off. Perhaps the "basic" early MINIs are actually more secure than you think. Nowhere to keep your junk, and I doubt it's worth breaking in for a packet of wet wipes!
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I had my work car broken into a few months ago

They smashed the side window and stole a completely worthless mobile phone, but couldn't reach the satnav under the seat. The police said that the theives knew that the alarm wouldn't go off unless a door was opened, so they smashed the glass and took anything that they can reach through the open window. You could see that they'd tried to reach it as the rear view mirror had been knocked out of place, but the b**s***ds still failed to get it

Total value of haul: £0 Amount of agro to me: Huge

I certainly leave nothing of any value on display anymore.


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Old Aug 23rd, 2007, 04:35 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Mine is set as someone elses house near by

what the local pub

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