Post by tcrashfx on May 11, 2007 6:00:36 GMT -5
Detectives from all across the southeast have been sitting in the classroom at the Hamilton County Sheriff's Annex, learning about how car thieves work. On Thursday, they got to see it first hand.
A team of six men made quick work of a Chevy pick-up; 'quick' being the operative word. In less than six minutes, the once proud pick up is reduced to spare parts; parts that will net the bad guys $1,600 more than the truck would have fetched in one piece.
"I'm amazed at how fast they did it," said Jimmy Carl Ball. He is a former detective, now works for the National Insurance Crime Bureau and usually helps out with the stripping. He is still amazed. "This was all done by hand. Every nut, everything has been taken off by hand. No power tools.
With power tools, "Oh, they could have done it in four minutes," he admits.
A team of six men made quick work of a Chevy pick-up; 'quick' being the operative word. In less than six minutes, the once proud pick up is reduced to spare parts; parts that will net the bad guys $1,600 more than the truck would have fetched in one piece.
"I'm amazed at how fast they did it," said Jimmy Carl Ball. He is a former detective, now works for the National Insurance Crime Bureau and usually helps out with the stripping. He is still amazed. "This was all done by hand. Every nut, everything has been taken off by hand. No power tools.
With power tools, "Oh, they could have done it in four minutes," he admits.