Comment on There Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’

casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Oneeightnine@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’d be personal theft. The police have already signaled they couldn’t give less of a shit about that.

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• kool_newt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is for Hyundais an Kias mostly tho right? And it’s due to them refusing to fix a major flaw making theft trivially easy. Something like that, here’s a link I’m too lazy to read but looks related.

  iihs.org/…/hyundais-kias-are-easy-targets-amid-bo…

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  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And it’s not in the UK, as the cars were sold with immobilisers here.

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    • kool_newt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah

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• byroon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there? Genuinely asking as I’ve not heard of that

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  • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s been fairly bad in north London for the past couple of years. Seems to have been particularly bad these last few months tbh.

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