The sufferer mentioned his new Honda Accord was stolen in simply two minutes.
WASHINGTON — Lyndon Bilal solely had his Honda Accord Hybrid Sport for six weeks earlier than it was stolen from in entrance of his residence.
Bilal’s Nest digicam caught the deed at 4:18 a.m. Sunday at Martin Luther King AVE Southeast, D.C. It solely took 120 seconds for his automotive to be gone. An apparently unmarked tow truck hooked Bilal’s automotive in such a rush the Honda dropped off the towing mechanism, presumably damaging the automotive, and leaving a streak of oil on the pavement.
However the thief wasn’t giving up. He backed up and hooked to the automobile once more, in the end making off with the automotive.
“This all occurred in lower than two minutes,” Bilal mentioned. “It is positively not the common petty automotive thief.”
Media stories from across the U.S. are documenting how thieves annoyed by more and more efficient anti-theft know-how on excessive finish automobiles at the moment are resorting to tow vans to steal them. Typically the tow vans themselves are stolen, in accordance with the stories.
MPD confirms Bilal has reported the crime and investigators are engaged on the case. They’d no instant touch upon how this specific theft seems to have been carried out.
Bilal put in his Nest digicam underneath a D.C. authorities program that provided rebates in alternate for registering the digicam with police and permitting them entry to the video.
Now, Bilal mentioned it’s time for the funding to repay.
“You understand, it may be stopped,” Bilal mentioned. “We now have the know-how to cease it with all of the cameras in every single place. And I feel they should simply comply with the snake from the tail and get to the pinnacle and lower it off.”
MPD and auto insurers advocate monitoring methods as a further safety measure to problem automotive thieves.
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