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Sure, I concur that teens don't use flatbed tow trucks. But if as a society, the default has become that your car will be stolen then the society has collapsed. It's more like a bunch of competing warlords, with the most prominent one being the local government.
Yes, that's an accurate description of much of Milwaukee.
I hacked my car
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Also Washington DC. I love my city, but it's not a great place to be a car.
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>At the end of the criminals will just use a flatbed tow truck to steal the vehicle if it is worth enough. Working-class teenagers in Milwaukee do not use flatbed tow trucks to steal cars. >The "immobilizers" you're referring to are the bane of my existence from my perspective. Instead of getting cheap $5 copies of my keys made, I have to pay something like $120 to Ford to get copies made. Ask anyone in Milwaukee who…
Sure, I concur that teens don't use flatbed tow trucks. But if as a society, the default has become that your car will be stolen then the society has collapsed. It's more like a bunch of competing warlords, with the most prominent one being the local government.
I live in Washington DC. There's so much car-related crime that that's exactly what we expect. Cars are getting harder to hotwire, so now people just carjack to get a car.