Unless you are enjoying a Fast and Furious flick on the couch, in real life, you rarely hear about car thieves stealing a bunch of vehicles from the same owner.
Yet this happened in the Canadian city of Calgary where some very slick bandits made off with not one, not two but a dozen (!) brand new vehicles from a local Nissan dealership.
The Calgary police said that the thieves broke in the Sunridge Nissan dealership on Sunday , July 24, and stole the keys from 20 different models including sedans, SUVs and trucks, but managed to drive away with "only" 12 vehicles.
"During that break and enter we had 20 keys taken. A subsequent inventory of the vehicles on the lot revealed 12 vehicles were missing," Staff Sergeant Patrick Ochitwa told the local media.
It is estimated that value of the stolen vehicles is somewhere around CA$361,000. According to the local police, all 12 models have been flagged and cannot be registered.
If you're wondering what kind of cars the thieves managed to steal, check out the list below:
- 2011 Nissan Titan (White)
- 2011 Nissan Pathfinder (White)
- 2011 Nissan Titan (White)
- 2011 Nissan Titan (White)
- 2011 Nissan Titan (White)
- 2011 Nissan Frontier (Silver)
- 2012 Nissan Altima (Black)
- 2012 Nissan Altima (Black)
- 2012 Nissan Altima (Brown)
- 2011 Nissan Titan (Black)
- 2011 Nissan Rogue (Dark Grey)
- 2011 Nissan Rogue (White)
Story Source: CTV via VWvortex
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Couple decades ago I worked for Corvette resto place near Vancouver BC. Every long (3 day) weekend car or two and pile parts got stolen. Worse was when 5 Corvettes, 1 was a custom built white ZR1 convertible and 69 Camaro & 67 Chevy Chevelle convertible, both had big blogs, were stolen. Making long story short. Shop didn't have an alarm, but day after they installed it and collected insurance money. Nothing fishy (wink, wink)
More like "Gone in 60 seconds" than "Fast & Furious".
When I worked at a dealership one of the things we did to prevent this kind of thing from happening was to install a kill switch underneath the dashboard on every new car that came in. Just a $1.50 switch form RadioShack spliced into the ignition hot line is one of the best security measures you can ever taken on your car. Just drill a hole and put a little flip switch in a hard to see out-of-the-way spot that's easy to reach.
Every once in awhile high dollar vehicles like a Mazda RX 7 or Jeep came back with their ignitions punched out, but the guy couldn't make off with the car because he didn't realize the wire wasn't hot. I always told my customers to flip that switch off whenever they parked their car in a bad area.
Those trucks are like gold in the third world, probably already in shipping containers in the hold of a ship on there way there now.
haha dumb thieves only stole the uglest cars they could find.
They went to a nissan dealership and thats what they took not a 370z or GTR. Not even a damn maxima
Good thing Calgary has world class helicopter police (first in Canada).
at first I thought is said "sick thieves" and I had a visual of bunch of sneezing low-lifes with runny noses and diarrhea stealing cars
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