[STOLEN] C7 Corvette Swiped from a Toyota Dealership by Thief Using an Electronic Device

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[STOLEN] C7 Corvette Swiped from a Toyota Dealership by Thief Using an Electronic Device


C7 Corvettes are often called computers on wheels.

Now that high-tech technology that make them so popular to enthusiasts is also making the cars vulnerable to thieves, including one man recently captured on video using a device in his hand to help steal an Arctic White 2019 Corvette coupe from a Toyota dealership in Florida.

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office released surveillance video from Dec. 15 that shows the thief first trying to use the device to open the $75,000 Corvette at the dealership in Stuart. When that strategy fails, he then breaks the window, climbs in, and apparently uses the same device to crank the car and drive away.

This was the first time a theft like this has been captured on video, according to Chief Deputy John Budensiek.

“Looking back at some of our other high-end cars that were stolen, this very well may have happened,” he says. “We just didn’t have a video of it taking place where we can see exactly how they did it.”

[STOLEN] C7 Corvette Swiped from a Toyota Dealership by Thief Using an Electronic Device


Budensiek suspects a crew of traveling organized criminals are targeting keyless entry vehicles, noting the latest theft of the Corvette took less than three minutes.

“It’s extremely alarming how fast criminals are able to come in there, use this program, get in the vehicle and drive off,” he says.

To try to prevent such a problem, Budensiek suggests being proactive by hiding an inexpensive tracker inside the car because thieves can sometimes disable the OnStar GPS, as the crook did in this case.

He asks anyone with information about the theft of the Corvette to contact the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

The YouTube video doesn’t allow embedding, so check out the video showing the theft of this Corvette as well as the comments from the deputy sheriff in Martin County.


Source:
WPTV

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  3. “Budensiek suspects a crew of traveling organized criminals”
    A lot of these hundreds of thousands illegal invaders coming over our southern border aren’t here to clean your toilets or mow your grass.

  4. Hopefully someone will invent an electronic device to completely to prevent this kind of the theft by disconnecting the vehicle from any intrusion,such as disconnecting the battery from the vehicle electrical systems with only the owner can activate by a regular key and slot somewhere out of sight on the vehicle and be totally mechanical not electrical,like a battery quick disconnect switch!!!

  8. I remember decades ago, an audio store advertised an automotive anti-theft system they sold that ‘couldn’t be cracked’. If you did manage to defeat it, you could have the car. Tons of advertising the challenge. Being an RF engineer, I figured I could ‘sniff’ the airwaves and capture the RF signature of the remote, then use it to enter and start the car (this was before ‘rolling codes’). Easy-peasy.

    But reading the fine print of the giveaway, that wasn’t allowed. So apparently the ‘couldn’t be cracked’ system wasn’t as secure as they advertised.

  9. A good reason to have a physical kill switch hidden somewhere in the car. I have come out of the store to see a suspicipus character hanging around my vette who got back in his truck and drove off once he saw me coming to the car.

  10. Hidden killswitch. If you can get the car to start or the electrics to work then it isn’t moving

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