Fuck you, catalytic converter thieves, for stealing the cat from my kid's 16 year old Prius.
My kid who has been unemployed for 6 months, and now the car is essentially totaled, because a new cat costs 70% the current value of the vehicle.
Fuck you for turning his old-but-reliable vehicle into junk, when he can't afford to buy even a shitty beater to replace it.
What on earth is with all the Prius cat thefts? It seems like it suddenly started happening everywhere. Who is buying these mountains of stolen catalytic converters?!
@FreedomATX I wish I knew where they were selling them. *TONS* of them being stolen in Portland - which is also the Prius capital of the world.
Prius apparently targeted because they're easy to remove, and because Prius is a hybrid, they're "fresher" than pure-ICE vehicles.
Yeah, we bought this Prius new in 2004 (when the now-classic-Prius-design first launched,) it's the car he learned to drive in. He's had it for 2 years now since we upgraded.