My neighbour’s old dark green Mondeo Estate was stolen at 5.09 this morning. His doorbell camera apparently got a good look at the thieves but nobody was recognisable.
The car is about twenty years old, on the cusp of ULEZ, what is the value there?
Why steal it?
To commit a crime?
Used as a pool car for scag criminals/drug runners. Easy to steal, drive it until the fuel runs out, torch it. …. then steal the next one.
I reckon it’ll be used for crime, joy riding etc plus I guess it was easy to break in to.
We’ve got something dodgy going on in our road, undesirables turning up ‘buying’ dodgy cars from one house, most cars over 20 years old. Where he gets them from, who knows? It has been reported.
Estate car , it’s a fair size for transporting bodies rolled up in carpets to the local flyover that’s being constructed…..oh maybe I watch too many movies 
Picked up from some of the ex police officers I used to work with In no particular order :-
For a laugh.
Joy riding.
To make an appearance on one of those police chase cop shows.
Drugs running.
Parts.
To sell on abroad.
Apparently it’s only worth a couple of hundred and now only does a few thousand miles a year on trips to the tip or the builders merchant.
That low use was why he didn’t bother changing it ten years ago! It owed him nothing.
But the hassle of finding a rust-free something long enough to carry 8x4 sheets or several bags of compost and a lawnmower, AND that was going to last as well for as little cost was too much to think about.
It’s never the easiest trying to ascertain the rational behind the ‘thinking’ of thick scum.
The car was spotted yesterday about five miles away, and two young men in it arrested. Apparently they are “known.” It and they are now being “processed.”
We’re told they were seen (recognisably) by several door-bell cameras along the main road, coming into the drives of the houses and trying car door handles.
That afternoon, my neighbour had been chatting in the garden with a friend and being distracted made the mistake of leaving his keys in the car!!!
So that evening it was a soft target.
Moral: NEVER LEAVE KEYS IN OR NEAR THE CAR!
He shouldn’t be a soft target.
If I saw someone’s keys in the car, I wouldn’t steal the car. I’m sure that goes for 99% of people too. It can be done if one is not a low life bit of scum.