Sounds about right tillyman, Mainly they park it up somewhere quiet for a period of time to see if it has a tracker fitted. Often if it has you’d get it back or like in your case the traffic warden’s probally put the plate into the system to check and it’s come back as stolen, as it would most likely of, if they’d parked it on a main road and a police car passed it with anpr.
Right now there does seem to be a different breed of blazen criminals about from those of the past, that don’t care about human life and come masked, tooled up, mob handed and just force entry. That’s the most dangerous situation, the police seem to or can do very little about house burglaries now or these sort of crimes. Which have even their own name now Hanoi burglary. A ‘Hanoi burglary’ describes a crime in which burglars break into a house to steal car keys. The term is named after the first police operation launched to tackle the problem.
Pretty muchin the same way as these moped gangs or those that target cash machines or ram raid shops, with cars they stole, they lawless.
How anyone would feel after, if you was asleep and woken by someone in your bedroom threating you, where’s the keys and the trauma of it all. It’s bad enough them just being in your home. My kids are upstairs also. It may even be as you come home and just entering the house and they pounce, could be anywhere nowadays, i have seen quite a few videos on youtube, scary stuff.Not trying to scare anyone but sometimes sometimes actions we take to protect stuff puts us in more danger.
Someone on the forum had their car stolen recently, off their driveway if i remember. Could of even been towed it away that happens also, best outcome imo, is no one is hurt.
Is very little one can do really if your targeted and it’s becoming more an more common. So my view is if they gonna target you, may as well just make it easy for them and less dangerous for yourself and those you love that there at the time, It does happen and is it really worth the risk for a car that’s insured and being on the scheme you don’t even own.
I am not saying you should leave the keys in plain view as then that might attract opportunist crime But if someone is determined taking the key upstairs ain’t gonna stop them.