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Master car thief profiled in Time (Aug. 16) nabbed...
...question, Heart and Souls is a cry movie in every stitch of its elaborate plot. In 1959 four strangers -- a working mother (Alfre Woodard), a petty thief (Tom Sizemore), a waitress in love (Kyra Sedgwick) and a timid opera singer (Charles Grodin) -- board a San Francisco bus and die when the driver swerves to avoid a car. In that car, at that moment, a woman gives birth to a boy, Thomas; and in his body the spirits of the four dead passengers are trapped. Today the ghosts have learned that Thomas (Robert Downey Jr.) can perform one act for each...
...auto model makes no difference in the cases where the thief is after the driver's belongings more than the car. "The consensus would be that carjacking is a crime of opportunity," says Charlie J. Parsons, special agent in charge of the Los Angeles office of the FBI. "Most of them occur within 15 seconds, and it's not a situation where the perpetrator stakes out the victim for several days and plans the crime. They're standing on a street corner, and there's someone with the windows down, and they're vulnerable, and bam! -- it happens...
...about a quarter of stolen cars end up in chop shops, where they are taken apart and resold for as much as triple their value whole. Two skilled choppers with power tools can cut up a car from hood to trunk in three minutes. The demand is huge: a thief can steal a $10,000 Nissan Sentra, strip it and sell the parts for $20,000 to $25,000. While luxury cars are always tempting, among the most popular cars to steal, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, are: the Pontiac Firebird, Chevrolet Camaro, Mitsubishi Starion, Toyota...