LA: Never Visiting Again.

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I'm down here in LA for a convention and decided to head out to some clubs in town. A year in norcal in my DD with tinted windows but driving 1 hour in LA lands me a ticket. no big deal its a fixit ticket. The big deal is just having my car broken into and my stuff stolen a few hours later luckily I had a bad feeling about the parking area and hid my gps and radar detector stuff in a secret spot. They popped the trunk and stole my skateboard and an expensive bottle of cologne. I wasn't too pissed until I just noticed my skateboard was missing. WTF? I'm so glad I left the laptops in the hotel. It was a semi pro as they used a slimjim or key to get in, but they didn't find my amps or eq's as they are mounted under the trunk liner. My civics been broken into so many times that I disconnected the trunk release for the last few years and just decide two weeks ago to reconnect it. This sucks, Thieves must has some universal honda key. And I was thinking of taking the nsx down here, glad i didn't do that. well guess i gotta call the cops now. - end rant. btw the only clue I figure is the car parked behind me had a sunscreen over the front window and it was 11:30 at night.(non residential area) but when I came back at 2:00 the car was gone. I figure some guys were waiting in that car next to a spot they figure would get filled.
 
quack said:
I'm down here in LA for a convention and decided to head out to some clubs in town. A year in norcal in my DD with tinted windows but driving 1 hour in LA lands me a ticket. no big deal its a fixit ticket. The big deal is just having my car broken into and my stuff stolen a few hours later luckily I had a bad feeling about the parking area and hid my gps and radar detector stuff in a secret spot. They popped the trunk and stole my skateboard and an expensive bottle of cologne. I wasn't too pissed until I just noticed my skateboard was missing. WTF? I'm so glad I left the laptops in the hotel. It was a semi pro as they used a slimjim or key to get in, but they didn't find my amps or eq's as they are mounted under the trunk liner. My civics been broken into so many times that I disconnected the trunk release for the last few years and just decide two weeks ago to reconnect it. This sucks, Thieves must has some universal honda key. And I was thinking of taking the nsx down here, glad i didn't do that. well guess i gotta call the cops now. - end rant. btw the only clue I figure is the car parked behind me had a sunscreen over the front window and it was 11:30 at night.(non residential area) but when I came back at 2:00 the car was gone. I figure some guys were waiting in that car next to a spot they figure would get filled.
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Sorry to hear about your trip and misfortune. Well, at least you didn't have the NSX there. Couldn't agree more, I hate LA. Lived there too long. Get back up here as soon as you can.

Doug
 
Dtrigg said:
Sorry to hear about your trip and misfortune. Well, at least you didn't have the NSX there. Couldn't agree more, I hate LA. Lived there too long. Get back up here as soon as you can.

Doug
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Ha it isn't over yet. I just called the police and one station referred me to another station and that station I had to leave a voice message and supposedly they will call back during normal business hours!?
(The first cop was super helpful but it just wasn't his jurisdiction he said obviously the jurisdiction my car got broken into's cops are all off duty sleeping since they wouldn't answer the phone) Yes Doug I can say now I hate LA, don't know how you stayed so long.
 
quack said:
obviously the jurisdiction my car got broken into's cops are all off duty sleeping since they wouldn't answer the phone
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Aren't they suppose to be 365/24/7?

Travis, sorry for your misunfortunate and let's get your a$$ back here.
 
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Sorry to hear Quack. I know how you feel, personally violated. There is a universal Honda Key out there. Honda manufactured cars have the easiest lock to pick. #1 stolen cars in US. Need an Alarm.
 
I love living in L.A., but there are many sections of the city I refuse to drive my NSX. One of my coworkers had his Integra Type R stolen from a parking lot near a downtown club he was at one night...and before that he was constantly replacing his "A" badge. Most of the times I've headed downtown with my NSX, I parked in a secure lot where I've gotten to know the armed security guard...the only other time I can recall is when I went with the NSX Club to the Convention Center for the L.A. Auto Show.

Heck, there was period of time I stopped commuting in my NSX after it got vandalized in the public parking structure near work (when our office was located on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade). I had coworker whose M3 had all of its wheels stolen in broad daylight on a busy Sunday from an even closer parking structure. The Santa Monica Police didn't seem to care about stolen cars or property from cars.

And the commute on the freeways is horrible. When I do take the NSX, I tend to drive up the coast...often takes about as much time, but without the stress of driving in traffic.

I guess I should say I love living in a suburb of L.A...
 
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Travis, sorry to hear what has happened. I was down there too the last few days and in my DD. The true is there are good and bad places in LA just like the bay area, but since I've never lived there I always feel uneased to leave any valuable stuff in the car or even having the car parked outside. I have to think twice now before taking the NSX down there. Hope you will recover what was stolen.
 
Those keys can be ordered by a towing company and a few body shops... Can't imagine someone selling them for $$$$ :mad:

NSX GT said:
Sorry to hear Quack. I know how you feel, personally violated. There is a universal Honda Key out there. Honda manufactured cars have the easiest lock to pick. #1 stolen cars in US. Need an Alarm.
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Thanks guys. I think i was more pissed last night, as least i'm back home now. Yeah I'll take better precautions next time like not parking in some creepy un populated area. Although it looks fine during the daytime. I think they saw the suction cup window marks to tip them on which cars to bust. I've also decided to put masterlock pad locks on my car doors. That will ward off the mysterious honda key/slim jim or whatever, anyone have a tig welder?
 
LA is a pretty miserable place to live, play or work. There is little point to reporting the crime unless you have serialized property or you need the report for insurance.

Everybody comes to Los Angeles to make money as there isn't much to do here otherwise. The weather is mild enough that you can make good use of marginal space/buildings, a large manual labor pool that turns over quickly and few quality of life distractions. Cheap rents, cheaper labor and nothing else to do but work....

Nobody actually lives here their whole lives: it is a city of refugees. Everybody seems to be from someplace else. You either make it big here or you move on, either after you get beat down or get arrested.
 
Travis,
Sorry to hear about adventures in the land down south. I don't think that is isolated to downtown L.A. I think all metropolitan downtowns will have that, but downtown L.A. is probably at the top of the list.


NSXkkk said:
why do we have so many homeless there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Only make sense. If I was homeless, and want to find a forgiving climate, I'll go to L.A. too. Much more forgiving than the winters in Wisconsin.:wink:
 
High value marginal space = lots of homeless. Great Cardboard Condo developments rise up at night and fall every morning.

The eats at the Midnight Mission are fairly good. There are many SRO operations that provide nice places to stay, gyms and internet.

The only thing they don't provide is spending money for smokes and dope...which is where your car came in handy.

Next time you're downtown, take a drive along 5th/San Julian. Just amazing. I don't think there is anything like it in the Free World.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...624,-118.245038&panoid=V6MIJD17igFJBI4dqrUToA
 
Never lived in LA. Norcal most of my life. My sister lived in LA for two years...She is glad to be back in New York.
 
I just go straight to Disneyland Hotel and don't leave the park at all. One time I went a few blocks away from Disney down Harbor st and went to a "Food 4 Less". Man, talk about ghetto. It's down right dangerous there. The whole neighbor hood outside of the park is not the best.
 
I used to live a few blocks from USC...if you want to see scary, try going a few blocks further away from the campus.

Heck I was living at USC when the '92 riots broke out (technically, I was at a Dodger game when they started). And that wasn't enough to drive me out of L.A.! :eek:
 
ain't dat bad, to be honest. . .

drew said:
Next time you're downtown, take a drive along 5th/San Julian. Just amazing. I don't think there is anything like it in the Free World.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...624,-118.245038&panoid=V6MIJD17igFJBI4dqrUToA

akira3d said:
I used to live a few blocks from USC...if you want to see scary, try going a few blocks further away from the campus.
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QFT regarding 'SC... Olympic Blvd' (I think... near the Coliseum?), next time just map-quest your enemy or in-laws to there if you wish to never see them again! :eek:

Though, Watts/S.Central/Downy-Norwalk/Compton/Inglewood/E.LA are all fun places, too... :D
 
quack said:
My civics been broken into so many times that I disconnected the trunk release for the last few years and just decide two weeks ago to reconnect it.
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As a 56 year resident of LA, I'm curioous where all those other break-ins happened. Are you never going back there either? Ron
 
i hate that place!!!!!
 
Most of you have seen my cars.

Shiny and menacing looking as if it belonged to someone that is up there in organized crime or something dangerous.

I've parked my cars numerous times and watch people gawk, point and admire it.

People from different socio-economic, racial and cultural background.

Just like the way you present yourself in your posture and stature, people will judge you by your car.

That's life.

I've never had my cars messed with in some of the worse neighborhoods.

Driving a Honda is already a theft and cop magnet, especially one that looks like it's a street racer that lives paycheck to paycheck. I'm sure you don't live paycheck to paycheck and no offense, but those thieves don't know you. Whatever assessment they have of the Honda and it's owenrs can't be very respectful.

If you want to have a menacing car that looks like it belongs in the rank of organized crime let me know.

I've given free consulting.
 

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