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Comment on SUV stolen from Toronto driveway shows up 50 days later — AirTags tracked vehicle from Canada to Middle East, offering glimpse into shipping routes used by car thieves

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ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

They’d absolutely write it off, the shipping would pale in comparison to the effort to clear all the foreign paperwork and then get it back into Canada. And as the owner, you’d want it replaced because you have no idea what’s been done to it in the several months it would take to get it back.

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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Apparently the shipping wasn’t too much for the thieves. Wonder why they bother stealing a vehicle from Canada and not somewhere closer to where it was going to end up.

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- ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Maybe because the truck is free for the thieves and costs money for the insurance company? And if you want to pick apples, you go where the apples are. There are very few Yukon or Yukon size vehicles outside of NA.
  
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- dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The Canadian government subsidizes their shipping at the expense of tax payers.
  
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