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There was a thread about that around here some place recently.
As it turns out, they're ending up on box cars and being shipped overseas for resale.
Definitely don't want your vehicle stolen in Canada, though. Sheesh. The cops just let em have it up there.
While off-topic as it relates to the specific story in the OP, I'll share it here since it's relevant in scope to the more widespread issue of vehicle theft, and particularly since the Canadian wonder boy likes to tell us all why he thinks we should be doing things down here how they like to do things up there...
SUV stolen from Toronto driveway shows up 50 days later — and 11,000 km away
''When a Toronto man looked out at his driveway on a holiday Monday last August and saw his SUV was gone — the second one to be stolen that year — he said one thought came to his mind: Not again.
''Andrew received a picture taken from inside a police car, parked near two containers sitting on a railcar. "It's definitely in one of those containers," the officer said in a series of text messages viewed by CBC News. But the York officer said they didn't "have the authority to open the containers." Instead, they directed Andrew to the railway's private police service.
Andrew said CPKC police didn't respond to the scene that night and the train carrying his truck took off soon after. "That's the pinnacle of the frustration," Andrew told CBC, "knowing that it's still here, but it's about to disappear."
By Aug. 11, one of the AirTags was pinging from a rail yard in Smiths Falls, in eastern Ontario, then three days later from the Port of Montreal.
Again, Andrew said he alerted local police, but watched helplessly as the AirTag went offline for nearly a month. It surfaced again on Sep. 6, an ocean away, at one of Europe's largest shipping ports in Antwerp, Belgium.
Then, on Sep. 26, the tracker — and the SUV — showed up at a port near Dubai, some 11,000 kilometres from Toronto.
Andrew's father, a retired lawyer, had taken on the case in his spare time and spent hours researching how to get the vehicle back. The family hired a private investigator in the U.A.E. who found the vehicle in a used car lot. He sent Andrew pictures of the Yukon parked next to other GMC and Chevrolet trucks for sale.''
As a matter of fact, I think I'd read something about the Canadian authorities sending out a memo to the citizenry directing them to keep their car keys readliy accesiible to car theives shoud they show at their house to help themselves to their shit.
That's the kind of dipshittery they're dealing with up there, so...yeah...keep that mindset up there, please, thanks in advance.
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