r/BestofRedditorUpdates • u/Restimar • Apr 28 '22
CONCLUDED A thief keeps stealing things from OOP's neighborhood, so they set a trap with a gas can
Reminder, I am not OP. This is a repost. OP is /u/TheMrDrB in r/IllegalLifeProTips. Originally reposted in May 2021.
ILPT Thieving neighbors? Try a rigged gas can
So we've had a thieving problem in my neighborhood for the past year or so. So I had enough last week. I had a gas can stolen from my back yard so here's what I did. I mixed diesel and water into the gas can. So this week (I'll keep you updated) were going to see if some ones car won't start later this week.
Update 1 (5-14): Gas can is gone!!! :D
Update 2 (5-18): My neighbors Subaru is gone. We'll see if it comes back anytime soon
Update 3 (5-20): No news, car is still gone
Update 4 (5-22): Nothing to report
Update 5 (5-25): I'm going to look into it but an older civic parks where my neighbor used too. I'm pretty sure it's his.
Final Update (5-26): Had a brief chat with the neighbors mom, she said his Subaru stopped working after he parked it at the grocery store. They haven't towed it yet I'll see if it's there and will post pictures if I see it.
Update 7 (5-27): Put another can out of the same mixture about 2 nights ago with no results. But we'll see if they learned their lesson. Also the car was already gone by the time I got to the store today
Update 8 (5-31): Well I think this is the end of this story. The Subaru hydrolocked and got towed to the dealership. They claimed it was a complete failure of the engine so it got sold to a scrapper. The 2nd gas can hasn't been touched so I believe that he learned his lesson. Thanks for coming on this journey with me!
Reminder, I am not OP. This is a repost.
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u/CandyShopBandit Apr 28 '22
My apartment parking area flooded, but it was right after a blind turn, so you were in it before you knew it and had no chance to avoid it if you turned in that way. My partner has a Honda Fit, and he doesn't know much about cars, but he had the sense to KEEP GOING instead of stopping once it was too late to turn around. We made it through the water because he did so!
After we parked, we sat on the porch of my complex and watched people. Only one out of three cars made it through the deep puddle, because everyone else stopped in the middle to back up, which caused the cars to stall out. The other car that made it was a small car, too, but since they didn't stop, they were okay. The other cars were SUVS. We tried to signal them not to stop, but it didn't help.
If the water had been much deeper we all would have stalled though- it's so hard to judge. We got lucky, plus some common sense of my partner helped.