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m car theft costs canadians about 375 million a vear in oremiu a utomobile za theft is l iof t e n thought of as a minor crime but in reality its a serious problem in our society lets dispel some of the more common myths around this growing problem myth 1 only sports cars or deluxe models are stolen who would want a two or three- yearold ordi nary car authorities report that the most popular makes are the most likely stolen and the least likely to be recovered ordi nary sedans are the backbone of the lucrative stolen used parts market and therefore are the least fre quently recov ered myth 2 car theft is not real ly a big issue and everything is usually cov ered by insur ance anyway in canada thieves steal a vehicle every five and a quar ter minutes and a vehicle is bro- ken into every 30 seconds auto theft is a crime that everyone pays for especially when premiums are due said d e b o r a h blewett an auto insurance expert with the gooperators car theft costs canadian consumers about 375 mil lion a year in insurance pre miums for unre- covered vehi cles damage to vehicles that are stolen and later recovered and items stolen from vehicles myth 3 canada has a much lower auto theft rate than the united states when it comes to theft of insured cars the canadian rate exceeds the american rate by more than two to one there is no doubt that orga nized crime rings are involved in the auto theft market which presents very low risk for thieves and gener ates spectacular profits myth 4 cars are mostly stolen for joyrides and are usually found intact very quickly statistics show that 60 per cent of the time authorities find the stolen vehicle within two to 10 days the state of the recovered car depends on what the thieves used them for they are rarely aban doned intact in 1991 nearly 37500 vehicles were stolen and not recovered while automobile theft is an urban phenomena what happens to your car depends on where you live in canada for example a car stolen in que bec is quite likely to end up in pieces in a chop shop the vehicles are dis mantled and the parts sold for much more than the whole car may have been worth a car stolen in alberta would more likely be taken on a joy ride and recovered myth 5 i dont park in dark alleys or unsupervised parking lots so im not at risk for having my car stolen your place of residence ranks as the number one spot where thieves are most likely to strike followed by shopping centres most people are not as sympathetic to automobile theft victims as they are to victims of burglary because they are viewed as non violent crimes automobile thefts hardly cause a ripple usually the victim is not injured and if they are insured they will be reimbursed and everything will be back to normal but the reality includes the emo tional upset of victims and the loss of irreplaceable personal belong ings tips for preventing theft several automobile manufactur ers are introducing features designed to reduce the incidence of vehicle theft 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