So this new years and every other day of the year remember those simple tips so thieves don’t have the chance to make your new years a bad one. The most frequently stolen car in 2012 was the Honda Accord and the value of stolen cars was more than 4-billion dollars.
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AutoMaidan has become a pain in the neck for officials, with columns of protesters’ cars picketing the homes of Yanukovych officials.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau said over 2,000 vehicles were reported stolen on New Year’s Day in 2012, with Labor Day and New Year’s Eve following close behind. Here are some ways to make sure you’re protected while ringing in 2014. While most people wouldn’t think about getting their car stolen on New Year’s let alone any other day of the year it can happen, but there doesn’t seem to be a spike on that particular day here in Southwest Oklahoma.
ELGIN, Okla_While most of us will be ringing in the New Year by celebrating or beginning work our New Year’s resolutions, some people will be spending it in a negative way. According to the Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner, thieves like to spend their New Year’s Day stealing cars. New Year’s Day is the most popular holiday for auto thefts in the nation.
As if social hierarchy wasn’t enough, we are divided into what I call the ‘car-archy’. The bigger the car and its protocol, the more leverage one has to break traffic rules and cause others trouble. A red or green licence number plate gives one the licence to treat others as second-rate citizens. In my eyes, no one is a VIP (Very Important Person). Only humanity is a VIP (Very Important Phenomenon). And nothing as inanimate as a vehicle number plate should subdue it.
See, here’s the problem. Had the car owners been respectful and simply said the one-syllable magic word ‘sorry’ for causing us inconvenience, I wouldn’t be writing this piece right now. Norman Rockwell’s painting, “The Golden Rule”, tells us to ‘Do unto others as you would have others do unto you’. How often do we follow what is rightly called the golden rule? We whine over the prevalence of injustice, but do we stand united to fight it?