I'm with you, Don - I can not sleep when my Harley is outside a motel even though I know starting it will wake the dead - but it's an uneasy feeling knowing that someone could get it on a trailer and cart it off. I have been known to park it in a ground floor room with a thick layer of newspaper under the engine to protect the carpet in the very unlikely event of a drip of oil..

Looks like this story has a semi-happy ending with the trailer and cars being found intact- hope they find this guys truck as well.

Most large city police forces just don't have the manpower to dedicate to a crime like this (especially Detroit) where violent crimes are happening on a daily basis. The answer, of course, is apprehend the punks in swift and very deliberate manner with severe public punishment that removes the reproductive components of their anatomy - but that's not likely to happen.