Been out for a nice drive in the Omega on Saturday, came back home parked up on the driveway went in & looked forward to a nice relaxing evening. Sent my son to get something out the back of my old rusting 92 Astra only to have him say it's gone, even though it looked a nail it was reliable, got me to work everyday & did around 50mpg. Reported it to the police who said they would look into it. Meanwhile decided to jump in the meega with my two sons & a baseball bat & have a look around the area, knowing full well there was no petrol in the car & they wouldn’t get very far. Drove down the road, saw two suspicious people running away from some garages. Had a look down the entrance to the garages & there was the astra. Quickly checked the car and found that they had bent back the top of the driver’s door to get in, and then smashed the entire ignition system to try & get it started. Jumped back in the car to try & find the two people but they were long gone. Phoned the police again to tell them I had found it, and then they turned up 10 min's later. Just had time to take my details before they had to respond to another job.
The worst part of this was the trouble I had getting the car back up the hill to my house, car was out of action, the hill was to steep to push up, the AA said they couldn’t help because it wasn’t a break down (so much for paying them every year) they told me to call my insurance who said they couldn’t arrange recovery because it hadn’t been in an accident, call back Monday during office hours. Nobody I asked had a tow rope and the police told me I needed to get it on my driveway so that it wouldn’t be temptation for others torch it.
The way I managed to get it back in the end was when the scenes of crime officer gave me some advice on how to start it with no ignition the following morning.
Now I have to get in touch with the insurance company on Monday, who I think will just write it off after who knows how long of a wait.
One good thing I suppose is that it was the astra and not the meega
So how was your saturday night :question