Stolen Redeye Dallas

Well, got a call from Sirius Guardian yesterday afternoon saying they had a ping from the car in Gaines County (near border with New Mexico) and had alerted sheriff. Got all excited and called the sheriff and they were great people and had already sent a deputy out to the coordinates. They told me they'd call me back asap.

So, got all excited and waited. About an hour later they called and told me deputy didn't find anything. They were very nice and apologetic. I asked if they could put a be on the lookout out and they said Irving Police would have to do it since it was stolen there which bummed me out even more because it showed how little Irving Police had done so far as they hadn't even done that.

Hopefully Sirius can get another ping...

Now if you're in the Western part of the state around Midland/Odessa/Carlsbad please keep the lookout. I guess the thugs went on a pretty good joyride there from Dallas.

Thanks all.

Hi Folks, well time for final update unfortunately.

It will be final as 14 days has passed and Sirius Guardian will not track it any longer than 14 days even though I asked and they did receive a signal 2 days ago from it. So, I guess all hope lost.

What made things even worse is I was able to get the nice lady to give me the entire tracking summary and what they reported to police. Basically,
30 May -- Grand Prairie
2 Jun -- Midland
2 Jun -- Odessa
6 Jun -- Denver City

They say they contacted police in each of those locations, but I guess police did nothing. Even worse is that Sirius Guardian only called me on 1 of those so I only had the opportunity to help motivate the police once on 2 June. She said they don't like to share all the info with the customers. I cannot understand what they are afraid of sharing with the people whose vehicles are stolen and who paid for the service.

So, in summary, Sirius Guardian was just about worthless so do not expect it to help you if your car is stolen and appears the police at the other 3 cities were not interested or able to find it when they were notified.

I'd suggest you do everything you can to prevent these cars from being stolen because it is obviously very easy for them to be and no one is going to help you find it.

If anyone is in west TX and see a smoke show Redeye please check it out for me. Last 4 of VIN is 7539.

Thanks all.

Well, folks, here's the latest. Got a call two Sunday mornings ago at 1:30am from Irving Police the car had been "recovered" in Charleston, Missouri and to call the police station there. So, called them around 9am and spoke to a great officer who proceeded to tell me this wild story about how my car had become airborne and crashed into a tree and two houses and was beyond totaled. Then, just by crazy coincidence we were taking our family vacation drive North and Charleston, MO was on the way so decided to stop and see it on Tuesday. Met their police chief who was awesome and told us even more of the story. They had gone to pull over a group of Challys/Chargers doing donuts and burnouts downtown and when they came up to mine it took off. The officer didn't try to pursue them but they ran anyway (maybe because the car was stolen...). From their estimates, the car was doing 120mph when it went airborne and flew for over 103ft before landing, losing control, hitting a tree, then two houses. Not only did it total the car, but also totaled the houses. Of course, most unfortunate thing was they never caught the thugs as they were somehow able to escape after landing. Here are some pics...

It lost the wheel when it landed completely snapping the control arms and they told me it bottomed out when it landed so bad it ripped the entire oil pan and everything off bottom of engine, so it's likely toast. Definitely a total loss.

FYI--it had been tracked all though West Texas (Midland/Odessa/etc) and then somehow made it North to SE Missouri.