However, there are some vehicles that are more popular with thieves than others. The Texas Auto Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority has released the following list of the most popular cars stolen in Texas in 2011. They got their figures from the Texas Department of Public Safety (commonly called the Highway Patrol). If you own one of these, you might want to take extra care.
1. Ford pickup
2. Chevrolet pickup
3. Dodge pickup
4. Honda Civic
5. Chevrolet Tahoe
6. Honda Accord
7. GMC pickup
8. Chevrolet Impala
9. Toyota Camry
10. Ford Taurus
Once I was driving through West Texas and pulled off of I-10 into one of those little towns alongside it, the kind where I-10 bypassed Main Street and you get off at one end of Main Street and get back onto I-10 at the other end of Main Street. So it's a Saturday evening in West Texas. It felt like I was in a friggin' canyon, all I could see on any side of my tiny Kia was the slab side of a pickup truck or the grill of a pickup truck or the tailgate of a pickup truck as every shitkicker from a hundred miles around came to town to parade up and down Main Street in their pickup truck because, apparently, cruising Main Street in their pickup truck is their idea of a fun Saturday Night.
ReplyDeleteWhy am I not surprised that the top three vehicles stolen in Texas are all pickup trucks? I doubt there's even any cars out there TO steal -- just pick up trucks!