Jimny was broken into - need advice

You Could get a dummy obd port for the ford's you unclipped the original and plugged the dummy in then tucked it up as far as possible then clipped the dummy back in place so the scum bag would get power but nothing else, I know I had one on my Focus St, but had two attempts at the front door on separate occasions one being Christmas day a couple of years ago, but from my outdoor CCTV you can see them looking through the letter box and coming face to face with a cross lab staff who doesn't like being woke up early hence they left swiftly
I'm lucky that my Jimny came with a Thatcham 1 alarm, immobiliser and sensors on the inside.

Not a car related case, but this reminds me of a story when an anti theft protection effort went too far in my country.

There was a guy who was living abroad in Switzerland ( = rich) and his house in his own country was regularly burgled as it was usually vacant. Many other such houses were regularly burgled in the area. No measure to identify or catch the thieves was successful as they were in cooperation with the local police.

So he got fed up with it and booby trapped the entrance door with mines and explosives - I mean the real deal which is used for destruction of infantry forces during a war. It was an illegal war surplus leftover from the Yugoslav wars. He was a commando during the war.

Soon enough, he scored a quadruple kill - the booby trap blasted no less than four thieves to high heavens at once, along with the entrance room in his house. One of them was a high ranking police officer or his brother, can't remember. The owner was chased down by Interpol, but it turned out that the house burgling effectively ceased after that ... he wiped them all out with one single move.

Brilliant! Best thing for those scum - pity it would have been such a quick end to them in my opinion :evil:

Scum like that are a waste of oxygen

I hope I don't need to remind anyone that the use of deadly force to protect personal property is not to be condoned either here on this forum or more generally in the wider world.


I'm not saying scumbags need an easy ride but equally vigilante justice is not the future.

Oh sorry - did I [strike]say[/strike] write that out loud?

Yes you're quite right. Lambert. I don't condone it either but in this instance what was done was done and no doubt the geezer that wiped out this particular group of detestables has had to pay his penance.
Its a similar story to that farmer Tony Martin who, frustrated by the apparent innaction of the police, ended a thiefs carreer with a shotgun for repeatedly breaking into his sheds. Completely wrong I agree, although I can't lose sleep over it, and would rather be satisfied in the knowledge that they'll simply live long and very unhappy lives instead.
Tony Martin didn't get away with it and served three years of a five-year sentence, proving that fighting crime with crime might be effective but isn't right and doesnt pay

I remember as a kid being told that violence solves nothing.....completely wrong of course.... it solves everything!