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Message: [QUOTE="alphasigko, post: 4036821, member: 8154"] Two months ago my neighbor surprised some thieves under my 2002 F-150 sawing the exhaust pipe to steal the Cat Converters. It was parked on the street in front of my front yard. He gets up at 4 am every day and heard the saw cutting noise. They got one Cat and were in the process of sawing one of the pipes to the other one. They bolted as fast as possible before he could get a good view of the license plate on their F-150. The sheriff deputies came within minutes, and advised that there had been a rash of Cat thievery in the general area (SE Denver), with the Prius and F-150s being the main targets. While talking to the deputies, I concluded that there is nothing to be done aside from just reporting the theft to both the police and the insurance company. Unfortunately, no personal action (retaliatory violence) is allowed; nor would firing a pistol shot into the air be tolerated (one would be charged with unlawful discharge of a weapon). So, one just needs to suck it up and pay the $500 or $1,000 deductible, and hope they do not come back around again a 2nd or 3rd time. Sadly, these types of crimes will just continue or escalate as long as there is a failure to properly arrest, prosecute and imprison the thieves. [/QUOTE]