Tire Thieves

**exdetroiter** · June-04-09, 12:21 PM

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/19645542/detail.html

This has been going on for quite sometime in my former neighborhood near Marygrove college. I wonder what has causes the low-life thieves to branch out.

**SWMAP** · June-04-09, 12:41 PM

Two Junes ago I woke up to a funny squeaking sound outside on the street. After several squeaks I got up and went to look out to find that someone had my car up on tire jacks and was taking off the street-side tires. I keep a set of my car keys on a hook by my bedroon window and I set off the car alarm. Also, my house alarm. The guy melted away into the night.

Next day I went to a tire store and bought two different sets of car locks and had them installed. Each tire now has two locks, each different. The likliehood of a tire thief having all the sets he would need is small.

Nothing further.

**MikeM** · June-04-09, 01:21 PM

A friend had his tires stolen from his car in the gated parking lot of the Leland Lofts between noon and 3 pm about two weeks ago. That was the third of fouth car to be hit there in the past month, all during daylight hours.

**rjk** · June-04-09, 01:56 PM

About a year ago I saw a wheel fly off a woman's car in the Gratiot/8 Mile area.
I ended up chasing the wheel down and it turned out that all her lug nuts were taken off her wheels. It appears that she interrupted a wheel thief before he got the job done.

gravitymachine · June-04-09, 02:05 PM

must be hard to take just the tires

**EastsideAl** · June-04-09, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by SWMAP

Each tire now has two locks, each different. The likliehood of a tire thief having all the sets he would need is small.

My mother had someone just cut the lug studs right off to get around her tire locks.

**izzyindetroit** · June-04-09, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by gravitymachine

must be hard to take just the tires

Yeah no kidding.

You would think the news would get it right, wheels are not tires.

DetroitDad · June-04-09, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by exdetroiter

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/19645542/detail.html

This has been going on for quite sometime in my former neighborhood near Marygrove college. I wonder what has causes the low-life thieves to branch out.

It's more than likely at least one of these thiefs could be from Madison Heights.