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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was told many years ago that carjackers took cars to commit other crimes, and I don't believe that's true in the majority. I believe carjackers in DC  mainly do it, for fun, and other crimes are incidental.

I lived in a part of the city where the teenagers did this, then abandoned the cars in my alley. Three times, the teenagers set the cars on fire before running off. It was terrifying, hearing cars explode, but I also came face to face with them, and they were only just kids.

I haven't been carjacked, but I crossed paths with a group of 3 young (like 14, 15 years old) carjackers just before they did the deed around the corner a few minutes later. They were armed, according to police. If this happened to you, you would be terrified, especially because they are just kids and you don't know what they might do with their child brains and trigger finger.

The worst stories are: they carjacked a car with a baby/child still in it, or the woman who was carjacked with her baby, begging him to let her out.

It's the terror and the trauma, not the loss of the car.[/quote]

Oh yeah, I don’t think anyone is confused about this. The reason carjacking is so much more serious than car theft is the risk of the situation and the trauma to the victim even if it goes “smoothly.” That’s why it comes with much higher sentences, etc. [/quote]

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