Car break in

Last week we were working very hard to prepare for the country fair, so we didn't use the car much. Joni parked it at Wednesday, and unfortunately outside the view of a security camera. So when we returned to the car, it's front looked strangely deformed.

Then I noticed this: In the beginning I was a bit weirded out, but then we realized why the car wouldn't respond to Joni's electronic signal to unlock. Look a little closer and you can see, the cars radio is missing and it's very messy in there:

Actually we were on our way to National Taipei University, but since we had to ask the police come and help us out, we went there pretty late.

Actually the door was still open. It's lucky the thief only cared about the car radio. It was not really cheap though, and since he made a lot of damage just to get into the car, Joni had to use a lot of money to get it fixed. Respectless scum.
But he did leave the danish flags and folders from Denmarks Representative Office that we had left in the car. He only took Joni's credit card which was in a room connected to the radio.

It's not really hard to break into a car it seems. You can just open up the front a bit and cut over the power cables without much effort. It probably wont even trigger the alarm when you do it, because the front cover is usually not connected to the alarm. After that, you can do anything you want with the car but drive it. The car battery is the only energy supply. Not really a smart way to protect the car I think. The only effect the alarm has now is that your car will have more damage you have to repair, because the thief must also mess up the front cover to get in.

So the damage was somewhere around 120.000 NT$. Plus we used so much time on it and had to carry a lot of heavy stuff around and call for help from David this day and Sunday when the fair was on. The thief probably made 20.000 or 40.000 NT$ on the black market. I hope he gets a cancer.