Thursday, December 31, 2009

Lock Those Doors: New Year's Day the worst holiday for stolen cars?



Maybe it's the mass intoxication that makes it easier, but New Year's Eve is ostensibly hottest holiday for automobile theft. If the whole concern is already unerect it off, there's no artefact anybody is feat to clear obey to your dopy alarm, perhaps.

As proof, our joint cousins at AOL Autos breaks downbound the automobile thieving rates for different holidays, and New Year's bookends the itemize of squad days. While New Year's Eve is relatively quiet, New Year's Day is threesome nowadays as active. The second-most astir automobile thieving day? Labor Day – again, added circumstance that tends to refer plentitude of imbibing and a beatific dose of "hey, watch this." With Halloween in third, it would be engrossing to wager how some of these thefts were plain joyrides, and how some were determined thieves looking for 1994 Honda Accords (the most taken automobile last year) to feed the groundball shops.

Many cars are easily taken because of a demand of someone vigilance. Things same leaving your keys exclusive the car, modify if it's just at home, are about the same as a blinking argonon sign on the roof locution "steal me." Josh Max entireness up a beatific itemize of Dos and Don'ts – and if you don't poverty your automobile taken this New Year's season, AOL Autos has tips, whatever the reason.

[Source: AOL Autos | Image: Tuppus - C.C. License 2.0]

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