US car thieves floored by manual gearbox
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Stick shift dummies Two US would-be car thieves failed dismally to make off with a Honda Accord after discovering it had a mysterious manual gearbox, RTÃ reports.â¦
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Bike lock maker Kryptonite scrambled Friday to deal with the damage done to both its locks and its reputation by a ballpoint pen, as retailers swept the locks from their shelves and watched
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BAGHDAD -- Kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their central Baghdad villa at dawn yesterday, in a bold raid that could further limit the mobility of foreigners in the Iraqi capital.
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This is not only a story about which cars are most often stolen, but why thieves love certain models. The 2002-03 model Cadillac Escalade EXT, a luxury pickup, and the 2002-03 model Nissan Maxima, a midsize
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Retail ATM giant Triton says it will take service manuals off its website and warn owners of 145,000 cash machines not to use factory-set codes. A software patch is coming, too. In 27B Stroke 6.
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By Melissa Manware, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 17--It all started when someone stole her five-year-old Hyundai Elantra.   She was mad because the thief totaled it and she didn't have comprehensive insurance.
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LIMA, Ohio -- A six-cylinder engine rolls down the conveyer belt and stops in front of Bo Huenke every 28 seconds. He attaches a metal pipe, twists in four screws with hands that suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome and finishes just in time to stretch his back before the next engine arrives. His...
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Four members of gang that stole dozens of luxury vehicles sentenced to up to six years each
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Â· Robbers had targeted security van deliveryÂ·  Complaints commission to investigate incident
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By JOHN BRANTON  A thief used a 14-year-old SUV to smash his way into a convenience store in the Rose Village neighborhood and a Minnehaha computer shop over the weekend, police said.
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Thieves who broke into a delivery truck in a parking lot in south-western Sweden made off with about 150 000 pairs - or about three tons - of low-cost reading glasses, reports said on Wednesday.
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A briefcase containing toxic chemicals has been stolen from a car in South Wales.
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The Cadillac Escalade EXT, a &#36;53,000 chrome-trimmed luxury pickup with leather bucket seats, a seven-speaker stereo system with satellite radio and a global tracking system, is the vehicle most targeted by thieves, a study by the insurance industry found.
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The slumping housing industry, already hitting Americans hard in two areas - escalating adjustable-rate mortgages because of the credit crisis and decreased borrowing power due to declining home values - is now sending tremors through the automotive industry.
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Pvt. Jeremiah Jensen, on leave from Iraq, had his car stolen at gunpoint just days before Christmas. Pfc. Robert Ruiz was injured by a booby trap in Iraq a few days after Christmas last year.
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Two teenage car thieves drove a stolen   car on Wednesday without being stopped onto the U.S. military   base that commands much of the war on terror, triggering an   investigation into the security breach, police and military   officials said.
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MILWAUKEE - A thief found out the hard way that robbing a woman isn't the best way to capture her heart. Two men robbed a U-Haul store around 3 p.m. Sunday, taking an unspecified amount of cash, according the store's owner.