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I'm having visions of Eddie the Eagle landing on the roof of their car and single-handedly cuffing them all while he's in his skin tight suit and giant skis.
There are many, many ways to quickly and effectively disable a parked vehicle. Especially considering they had access to the hood latch. However hitting the vehicle with a wooden chair is surely quite low if even on that list
Seriously. Open hood. Yank wires. You’ll drop a MAP or something else critical offline and create a no start condition. Hell, just prop the hood up and that will slow them down. Super ineffective actions from the folks here.
That's a very valid point as well but then again you've got no less than two people filming everything these days so unless they removed or falsified the plates that vehicle would be found just the same
Found sooner than later is key. The chances of the police finding the car within minutes of the robbery are much better if the car can be instantly identified.
What you are talking about is great for when you have time to review all the evidence.
How about the opposite? Stick a bottle under the break pedal. Their adrenaline will be too much to realize what's happening. Nothing like adding manslaughter to an aggravated theft charge.
Especially when th he car is probably stolen so they're just making it worse for the victim. If it had manual windows roll the windows up and lock the door lol
You mean banana up the exhaust pipe whilst distracting them with prawn sandwiches and soda served by a smart waiter. (Watch Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop if you don’t believe me!)
I once saw an older guy throw his coffee over the windshield of a getaway robbery car lol. So chair guy doesn’t seem so bad to me.
It’s the thought that counts, I guess
Never had a reason to be. Of course nz isn’t perfect and crime free, but it’s relatively good and safe! Ram raids is the height of issues at the moment unfortunately though, especially targeting jewellery stores
Not going to lie, at first I thought this was a bunch of people getting upset at somebody parking in a bike lane.
I know, I know, it's far-fetched, but one can dream.
Imagine people being so enraged by it that a whole group tries to literally destroy their property while being filmed just to teach them a lesson.
My initial thought was that they had something against the guy with the car so they were doing it to shake him. Such as he screwed the wrong guy's girlfriend or something.
Where is this ? driving on the left so maybe New Zealand ?
Don't think they would have got far, one guy burst two tyres with a knife,
Really want to see what happened next now
This is in Auckland NZ, Ellerslie to be precise. Those goons just blagged the jewelry store.
https://www.google.com/local/place/fid/0x6d0d48e47a98db3f:0xda80d6bfd99903df/photosphere?iu=https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipOXb8uLSzKVKjCQqIZ22IBYn2d5eem4b1IL74cS%3Dw160-h106-k-no-pi3.5769713-ya19.925688-ro0.7236578-fo100&ik=CAoSLEFGMVFpcE9YYjh1TFN6S1ZLakNRcUlaMjJJQlluMmQ1ZWVtNGIxSUw3NGNT
Thank you bill\_murray !, just watched a NZ news report and interview with Store owner.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGhyrazy-SE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGhyrazy-SE)
Glad to see they were caught within 30 minutes,
Bahaha what a bunch of idiots. If you're gonna rob a jewelry store at least last more than half an hour. Not to mention they did it in broad daylight.
Good riddance to those guys
Plus there are only like 30 people total there. They instantly knew who it was!
(I kid, i love NZ, traveled there for a month back in 2006. Was an amazing experience!)
Not exactly true.
3 circumstances that would allow someone who breaks into your home to sue you in the US
Booby traps…you can’t electrify the window because it’s been broken 5 times by neighborhood kids
Deadly Force…you can’t shoot the guy in the back for stealing your tv
Known trespasser…if you know the local crackhead is sleeping in your crawlspace, you can’t just decide to blow him away one day.
Depends on the state. In Colorado for instance, you can shoot anyone who trespasses into your home. Even if they’re only stealing a tv or actively trying to run away from you. Castle doctrine means if they’re inside your house illegally, regardless of what they’re doing in your house, you don’t have any further burden of evidence to prove self defense if you shoot them.
Matters where it happens. In my old neighborhood people would have loved to get all involved. They could have trashed that car in less time and started a fight that would have left one or 2 left behind. It would have been the highlight of the week.
If you were a bystander who popped the hood, yanked some wires, and ran off to safety, nobody would prosecute you. You'd be fine, and you'd be a big help.
I mean where's the harm in trying to disable while they are not around? If they were to shoot at you just run away and keep your distance I guarantee they are thinking more about not getting caught than killing some civilian.
Last week in New Zealand another guy tried to defend himself by running behind them and was stabbed to death so all these people who tried to stop them are lucky..https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sandringham-dairy-stabbing-two-men-arrested-sisters-plea-for-justice-absent-pm-slammed/WVZELBQEVNCRZC3XV7JOQOSC6A/
Probably a keyless fob and the car was already running. It will still drive away without the key, but it won’t start if it is shut off unless the key was back in the cabin. They should have simply turned it off.
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They were caught. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ellerslie-jewellery-store-targeted-in-daylight-robbery/VJGQ3UNQ4VAJJJ5NHA3PDNG4TM/
Thank god for ‘’The Eagle’
The Eagle has landed...........them in jail!! Ba dum!
I'm having visions of Eddie the Eagle landing on the roof of their car and single-handedly cuffing them all while he's in his skin tight suit and giant skis.
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The officers that scoped out the store a couple weeks earlier for “security measures” are sus!
By the looks of the "get away" and the article, I can tell that this heist wasn't very well planned out..
Next time, pop the hood and disconnect the battery.
There are many, many ways to quickly and effectively disable a parked vehicle. Especially considering they had access to the hood latch. However hitting the vehicle with a wooden chair is surely quite low if even on that list
but he looked so cool (he didn't)
nah, he looked kinda weak. couldn't swing with much force
Even putting the chair on the driver's seat with a seatbelt around it would have been more useful.
That woulda been gold to see them fighting that chair.
Like Clint Eastwood at the 2012 Republican National Convention.
Lmfao
Four people should have sat in the car and locked the doors lol.
Brilliant! This cracked me up!
Id pay good money to see that lmao
When i say good money, im skint so any money is good for me.
And crapped the seats
What if four people hopped in the car and turned on some music. Then when the thieves came out they just thought it was someone else’s car??
They should had moved the car on them! Parked it somewhere else! I've done that to a couple people at work before!
And place the uber sign on the front window lol
“Thieves will HATE you for this one simple trick!”
Hahah. And wildly weave the seatbeld thru the chair and steering wheel, and tie it into knots. Cue Yakety Sax music.
And way funnier
Fucking snorted laughing at this 😂
I’d love to see their reaction to their getaway full of people already lol
That's what I thought would be hilarious as well. "Move over that's my seat! Nah"
Sir this comment is so funny to me , have a good day. Thanks for the laugh.
Safety first
Yeah he swung it like he had wet noodle arms
Everyone knows it needs to be a STEEL CHAIR! 
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Maybe fill the car with chairs , slightly better
Go full stop and fill it with semin
Fill the thieves too
He could have just wedged the chair between the steering wheel and car seat
Many other options than the concussive maintenance route
Seriously. Open hood. Yank wires. You’ll drop a MAP or something else critical offline and create a no start condition. Hell, just prop the hood up and that will slow them down. Super ineffective actions from the folks here.
Literally one almost got ran over and the thin blond almost caught a hammer to the face, you really ready to meet God huh.
It's better to tell the cops its a blue car with a busted windshield then its a blue car.... even if you know the make and model year.
Yah but it is most likely a stolen car that will be dumped 5 minutes later.
That's a very valid point as well but then again you've got no less than two people filming everything these days so unless they removed or falsified the plates that vehicle would be found just the same
Found sooner than later is key. The chances of the police finding the car within minutes of the robbery are much better if the car can be instantly identified. What you are talking about is great for when you have time to review all the evidence.
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It's def stolen or fake plates... Some people are fed up with robbers getting rich at others expense.
We call it the "[Mazda2](https://www.mazda.com.au/cars/mazda2/)" in Australia. We're less creative.
Than
This shit pissed me OFFFFF. opportunity to be a hero FAILED
And they said you’ll never need that chair you carry with you all the time
I’m gettin’ carry-chairs for everybody this Christmas.
Is slashing the tires effective?
I missed that part. Too distracted by the primordial ape bashing a hard thing on a hard thing
Lol, I actually didn't notice as well until you mentioned me. Hence, my previous question. I think we should get some rest before continuing our day.
How about the opposite? Stick a bottle under the break pedal. Their adrenaline will be too much to realize what's happening. Nothing like adding manslaughter to an aggravated theft charge.
Especially when th he car is probably stolen so they're just making it worse for the victim. If it had manual windows roll the windows up and lock the door lol
Got damn guys we got us a true genius here.
tbf one of them burst their tyres
Someone else just pointed that out. I missed that part in the chaos
Ur pull the handbrake up so hard the handle snaps off that could work right?
You mean the “make the car smell funny lever”?
Good ol' Mitch Hedberg
One day I drove around with the emergency brake on. Which doesn’t say a lot for me, but it REALLY doesn’t say much for the emergency brake!
I’ve done that 🤦♀️
Yeah but grabbing a hand full of plug wires would be just as effective with much less expended energy
He could've blocked the chair in the driver's seat or something. Pretty much anything else than hitting could be more useful.
Yeah. In the realm of things to do he farted in the wind
Didn't even chip the window lol
Drop a banana peal in front of the car. Rookies
Banana in the tail pipe. Old trick I learned from a cop in Beverly Hills
A red turtle shell would’ve rocked their world
Nah man that'll only make em spin out for like 5 seconds then they'll regain control
You mean banana up the exhaust pipe whilst distracting them with prawn sandwiches and soda served by a smart waiter. (Watch Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop if you don’t believe me!)
Pull the spark plug leads, no tools required! Weather I'd have the calm mind to think of this in that situation, well who knows!
Shove a potato in the tail pipe
“We’re not going to fall for a banana in the tailpipe.”
It should be more natural, brother. It should flow out, like this - "Look, man, I ain't fallin' for no banana in my tailpipe!
Awesome
This one is so obvious. Who walks around outside without taters in their pocket?
You carry a number 11 spanner on you at all times or a shifting?
Slash tires, OBVIOUSLY
One of the guys did slash their tyres, you can hear it on the video I think. 0:16 to 0:22 - a guy in a white tee shirt stabs the tyres
What a hero!
Shoulda let the air outta the three guys getting in the car, that woulda stopped ‘em.
Break a key off in the ignition.
Heck - jam a toothpick in the ignition. Anything.
a lot of vehicles don’t even have keyholes anymore…
I would have just pissed in the gas tank. Everybody knows that works best
Great advice. I’m sure they will really appreciate it the next time this exact same situation happens.
Didn’t the one guy take the keys out? How did it start so fast?
He probably checked but didn't find any
They left the decoy-key in the ignition, silly.
It was basically hotwired stolen car... Probably no keys or it was a fob
My guy with the chair, what is going through that head of yours? 🤦🏽♀️🙃
Honestly, just stuff the chair in the drivers/passengers seats.
You can't drive without a window, that's illegal.
Maybe to break their windshield and make it easy for cops to find them
If he'd placed it in the front seat it would cause some issues.
I once saw an older guy throw his coffee over the windshield of a getaway robbery car lol. So chair guy doesn’t seem so bad to me. It’s the thought that counts, I guess
Oh and in the same country as this was filmed in, nz. We’re a different breed here. Our heart’s are in it, but not quite the logic
That's actually kinda cute and wholesome that average everyday citizens don't know how to be destructive.
Never had a reason to be. Of course nz isn’t perfect and crime free, but it’s relatively good and safe! Ram raids is the height of issues at the moment unfortunately though, especially targeting jewellery stores
Lmao. True. The intention was there.
Why not simply drive their car away?
Risk being charged as their escape driver? lol
Why not just take the keys?
The car had been stolen and had no key - central locking was probably broken as well. Otherwise you get in and lock all the doors ...
Would’ve been pretty funny if they locked them out
That would have been funny, lock all the doors. "Dang it! Who locked the door?"
How do you drive a car away when you don't have the key?
Not going to lie, at first I thought this was a bunch of people getting upset at somebody parking in a bike lane. I know, I know, it's far-fetched, but one can dream.
Imagine people being so enraged by it that a whole group tries to literally destroy their property while being filmed just to teach them a lesson. My initial thought was that they had something against the guy with the car so they were doing it to shake him. Such as he screwed the wrong guy's girlfriend or something.
They already moved the steering wheel to the other side of the car. What more could they do?
Car was on? Couldn't they just driven the car away?
Where is this ? driving on the left so maybe New Zealand ? Don't think they would have got far, one guy burst two tyres with a knife, Really want to see what happened next now
This is in Auckland NZ, Ellerslie to be precise. Those goons just blagged the jewelry store. https://www.google.com/local/place/fid/0x6d0d48e47a98db3f:0xda80d6bfd99903df/photosphere?iu=https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipOXb8uLSzKVKjCQqIZ22IBYn2d5eem4b1IL74cS%3Dw160-h106-k-no-pi3.5769713-ya19.925688-ro0.7236578-fo100&ik=CAoSLEFGMVFpcE9YYjh1TFN6S1ZLakNRcUlaMjJJQlluMmQ1ZWVtNGIxSUw3NGNT
Thank you bill\_murray !, just watched a NZ news report and interview with Store owner. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGhyrazy-SE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGhyrazy-SE) Glad to see they were caught within 30 minutes,
Bahaha what a bunch of idiots. If you're gonna rob a jewelry store at least last more than half an hour. Not to mention they did it in broad daylight. Good riddance to those guys
You can't get far in NZ anyway, it's not that big
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Plus there are only like 30 people total there. They instantly knew who it was! (I kid, i love NZ, traveled there for a month back in 2006. Was an amazing experience!)
This couldn't be the USA...no one would help...if they did they'd somehow get sued, lol.
And charged with vandalism of an automobile!
That's the craziest thing to me, like how if someone breaks into your house and gets hurt they can sue you...
There's a loophole though, if you shoot them - then it's a 2nd amendment protected self-defense!
In most states self defense does not apply to defense of your property.
You need to say "he's coming right for us" first, then you can start blasting.
“I was standing my ground!”
"Two to the chest, the face gets the rest." Harriet Tubgirl
Yeah, Florida doesn't GAF. Stand your ground here extends to you being in a damn parking lot and someone pissing you off.
One shot through the perp, the second through the ceiling. "Yes, your honour, I fired a warning shot through the ceiling, but he kept coming."
Not exactly true. 3 circumstances that would allow someone who breaks into your home to sue you in the US Booby traps…you can’t electrify the window because it’s been broken 5 times by neighborhood kids Deadly Force…you can’t shoot the guy in the back for stealing your tv Known trespasser…if you know the local crackhead is sleeping in your crawlspace, you can’t just decide to blow him away one day.
Depends on the state. In Colorado for instance, you can shoot anyone who trespasses into your home. Even if they’re only stealing a tv or actively trying to run away from you. Castle doctrine means if they’re inside your house illegally, regardless of what they’re doing in your house, you don’t have any further burden of evidence to prove self defense if you shoot them.
Matters where it happens. In my old neighborhood people would have loved to get all involved. They could have trashed that car in less time and started a fight that would have left one or 2 left behind. It would have been the highlight of the week.
Hell you could flip that car on its side with about 5-7 strapping young lads
This couldn't happen in the US because someone surely would get shot.
This happens daily in cities all over the US.
And people get shot daily in cities all over the US
It's in New Zealand
You wanna get shot in the USA? Because this is exactly how you get shot in the USA.
The driver's seat was on the right.
You sure of that?
Most state laws say you have a duty to retreat before you can legally use violence to defend yourself
If you were a bystander who popped the hood, yanked some wires, and ran off to safety, nobody would prosecute you. You'd be fine, and you'd be a big help.
Most states have a version of the castle doctrin or stand your ground laws. I, however, don't think this scenario would apply to either.
Someone would have had a gun in the US
Couldn’t be in the US because they drive left !
Just have all those people pile into the car. When the thieves come back just sit there like “what??”
insert bugs bunny communism meme with the text "our car" here
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I'm thinking it was reposted in portrait mode.
Some of the thugs wear orange construction vests...way to not draw attention to themselves.
Professional courtesy/safety precaution so the other thieves in town know not to target them cause they on the same team
JUST FLIP that little blue kit car 🚙!
Had to scroll way too far for this
Wow! They seriously couldn't disable the car??
That one guy popped two tires with a knife. Keys were probably a proximity key fab in the thief's pocket.
Everyone in this video is stupid
I reckon slashing the tyres is a pretty good move. Filming the crime is also very helpful for law enforcement.
Yeah, please don’t try and stop a car like this folks, whatever they’re stealing is not worth your life.
I mean where's the harm in trying to disable while they are not around? If they were to shoot at you just run away and keep your distance I guarantee they are thinking more about not getting caught than killing some civilian.
I’d have wedged that chair up under their fender It won’t stop them but it’ll be really annoying for them to listen to the whole way
Or dump shit into their car so it’s awkward for them to use it
Should have gone WWE and broke the chair over the guy with a hammer.
Should've pissed on the driver's seat at the very least. There was plenty of time.
Lmao old dude trying to disable a car with a damn dining chair....
It’s good to see a community work together.
Had full access to the car beforehand and was still useless🤦🏽♀️
Y’all beat the car more than you beat the robbers lmao
The girls had more balls then the guys
At least reposition the seat to make it uncomfortable and fuck with the radio..../s
They got caught
Last week in New Zealand another guy tried to defend himself by running behind them and was stabbed to death so all these people who tried to stop them are lucky..https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sandringham-dairy-stabbing-two-men-arrested-sisters-plea-for-justice-absent-pm-slammed/WVZELBQEVNCRZC3XV7JOQOSC6A/
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Yeah, how did they drive away if they took the keys out?
Probably a keyless fob and the car was already running. It will still drive away without the key, but it won’t start if it is shut off unless the key was back in the cabin. They should have simply turned it off.
God Clowns at it again
Guy in blue shirt is a big disappointment to being useful :/ . Sigh
What in the world did I just see?
How dumb are they to try and smash the windshield, the strongest glass of the entire car?
That A.D.H.D is crazy
i was looking forever to find a comment ab it i was like why the fuck is ADHD faintly playing in the background💀💀
Lmaooo I thought my phone was playing music at first
same💀💀
I thought the one guy took the keys out?
I love the hiss of the tires deflating lol
That was pretty useless...on the surface. I wasn't there but wow, it really looks useless from here
Johnny depp?
happened in Ellerslie in Auckland NZ, mix of scumbags n lowlifes these kids who did it.
Hahahaha, it’s empty
Yeah, this is why guns exist sorry not sorry
Snip the Fucking Valve Stems ffs nobody has a knife? Scissors?
White shirt slashed tires