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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
04/07/09

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Is this guy realted to the guy who put the 911 dispatcher on hold so he could sell some drugs? [blog.cleveland.com]
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OMG! Ponies!
04/07/09

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Also, who steals car radios nowadays?! I mean really?

Most cars come with a decent enough car stereo from the manufacturer that there is little demand for aftermarket radios. Gone are the days of cheap 2-speaker AM/FM cassette decks. And there is certainly not enough demand for aftermarket radios any more for a black market of aftermarket car radios.

Don't steal stuff you can't fence afterwards.
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Shikestarr
04/07/09

@OMG! Ponies!: I wish the guys who have broken into my cars and stolen three head units over the last 10 years agreed with your point.
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Skeetz
04/07/09

@OMG! Ponies!: A good after market radio with a USB port could get you at least 25-50 bucks.. at 25 bucks that's a couple forties and enough crack for 3 days.. and possibly a hand job.

.. that's what I hear anyway..
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
04/07/09

@Skeetz: Depends what day of the month it is. I speak as someone who always noticed my car got broken into towards the end of the month in Newark, NJ.
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OMG! Ponies!
04/07/09

@Shikestarr: NPR Morning Edition had a piece on this last week. The program centered on a theft unit working out of one of the precincts in DC.

[www.npr.org]

The police detective in charge of the unit had been working the car radio beat for well over a decade and said that it was virtually a dead crime simply because, after auto makers put in good radios, people stopped buying aftermarket radios. Without the demand for aftermarket radios fell, the crime fell.
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OMG! Ponies!
04/07/09

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The iPhone hates dumbphones. But it hates dumb people even more.
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Kev50027
04/07/09

@OMG! Ponies!: It says it was a Cricket phone. Does Cricket carry the iPhone?
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OMG! Ponies!
04/07/09

@Kev50027: Sorry. Too much Gizmodo. I see "cellphone" and I read "iPhone". It's like the old Tootsie Roll jingle.
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Kaiser-Machead
04/07/09

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The Jiminy Cricket app, now on sale.
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