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    Cool Gotta love it when forums work together

    A guy in Canada is selling his 1991 Nissan Skyline, when some dude shows up and asks to take it for a test drive, leaving his drivers licence as insurance. He doesn't come back, clearly stealing the car, and the police check the licence and it's fake.

    Guy is obviously bummed out, and posts on a car forum with some pictures of the car, asking people to keep an eye out for it.

    Incredibly, someone spots the car at a local mall, chases after them and takes a photo of the thief!


    As more people join the witchhunt, someone finds him and follows him back to his house where he parks the car and goes inside. They upload the location to google maps:
    http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q= 800+Raynard+Crescent+Se+Calgary&sll=49.891235,-97.15369& amp; amp;sspn=38.876412,75.234375&ie=UTF8&ll=51.04474,-11 3.992081&spn=0.009214,0.018368&t=h&z=16&iwlo c=addr&output=html

    From his home address, they manage to track down his facebook profile! From that they get his real name and work location.
    http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1133512488

    Several of the forum members drive to the guy's house at 2:30am and eventually manage to box the car in, calling the cops who come and arrest him. Full footage is filmed of his arrest and uploaded to Youtube:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T-kZ7pk1NU

    The rightful owner picks his car up, checks inside and finds 22 dollars and the guys wigger hat, which he promptly puts up for sale on Ebay!
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=33022 3754897

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    That is awesome, the power of car forums strike again.

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    quality

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    Quality on one hand, Awful on the other

    id of give him a shoeing whilst i was there too

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    OMG!!! I was considering Canada, looks like they have their own chav problems.

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    Good to see that fool got caught!! And i hope he find's a nice sugar daddy in jail!!

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    Maybe we could track down Nutrons home and take a photo of his rear end when he`s not looking !!!


    Thats a cracking story !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bainie View Post
    Maybe we could track down Nutrons home and take a photo of his rear end when he`s not looking !!!


    Thats a cracking story !!!
    bainie that dont sound right

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    Excellent story - never underestimate the power of a whole lot of like-minded, and determined, people to track down an individual.
    Quote Originally Posted by coylo5 View Post
    bainie that dont sound right
    lol, I was just thinking the same - especially if you isolate a few words...
    Quote Originally Posted by Bainie View Post
    Maybe we could track down Nutrons home and take a photo of his rear end when he`s not looking !!!


    Thats a cracking story !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gregg View Post
    Quality on one hand, Awful on the other

    id of give him a shoeing whilst i was there too
    Pardon the pun?


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