Badge stolen last night. CCTV. Would you let it go?

[alexqts]

Came out this morning to find that front badge on my UrS4 had been nicked. Quickly went upstairs and reviewed the CCTV and found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NA6roz3-T0

Would you let it go? I am sure as kids we all did stuff wrong but it doesn't stop me feeling very angry. I have put the video on a few local facebook groups but have not gone to the police as I suspect nothing will be done.

I am more interested in getting the badge back, although that's unlikely to happen. As we all know it's not really the value, more the principle of the matter.

Any advice from someone who has suffered similar?

[Colesy]

Little **** bag...

I've got a grill with a tatty badge on somewhere if you need a replacement.

[alexqts]

Little **** bag...

I've got a grill with a tatty badge on somewhere if you need a replacement.

Cheers mate. The badge was tatty and I do have another replacement as it happens, didn't want to put it on because I thought it would get taken.

I do like the way he studies the badge like "what the hell is that??"

Think I will turn the car around, or leave the badge off - putting it on when I drive it

[Audi J]

At least the kid had enough about him to recognise an original S4 badge

[Nj]

I'd leave a note on the bonnet addressed to the thief saying he has been captured on CCTV stealing the badge so please return it and you won't take it any further. Maybe add a printed screenshot from the video. That way you might get the badge back if he passes regularly and he may even get a bit of a scare.

[Error404]

Find him and kick the **** out of him, then take his teeth.

[Nj]

Find him and kick the **** out of him, then take his teeth.

haha. yeah. there's always that option.
Try my suggestion and when you're confident you've got your guy just take an angle grinder to his bike and cut it in half. that'd teach him... unless the bike is nicked too... hmm.

[jameswkr]

Hmm, I live in Addlestone too and a few years ago caught some low life kid chucking stones at my 90E quattro. I gave him some verbal and nothing further happened ( apparently he was a "hard man" at the local school ).

As to your badge, I would wire the replacement into the mains......

[jameswkr]

But Njs response is a good idea too.

[Cottis]

Find him and kick the **** out of him, then take his teeth.

This will work and would be the option I would go for. At the very least, it would stop him from doing the same to someone else.

I hate stuff like this. I was a kid once. Sure, I catapulted stones at glass bottles, had a fascination with magnifying glasses and the sun and also experimented with petrol and matches. At no point did I do any of this stuff on other people property or in a way that would cause damage to someone else stuff. There is a difference between being a kid and being a thieving little prick.

[alexqts]

As to your badge, I would wire the replacement into the mains......

That was my first thought...

I'd leave a note on the bonnet addressed to the thief saying he has been captured on CCTV stealing the badge so please return it and you won't take it any further. Maybe add a printed screenshot from the video. That way you might get the badge back if he passes regularly and he may even get a bit of a scare.

And that was my second...

[alexqts]

Hmm, I live in Addlestone too and a few years ago caught some low life kid chucking stones at my 90E quattro. I gave him some verbal and nothing further happened ( apparently he was a "hard man" at the local school ).

As to your badge, I would wire the replacement into the mains......

Just noticed you are in Addlestone. I'm on Church Road almost opposite the pub. You got an S2 at the moment? Not seen one around... Sure I have seen a 90 5pot with exhaust a few times though..

[90quattrocoupe]

I just love that the people walking by didn't say anything to him, when they obviously saw what he was doing. They are as bad as he is.

Greg W.

[Vorsprung durch Technik]

At least the kid had enough about him to recognise an original S4 badge

His mum and Dad probably smoke 40 a day each and swig back alcohol of some sort!

[UrS4boy]

Any advice from someone who has suffered similar?

If you make a big deal out this and get the kid nicked, he or his little ratshit mates will come by in the middle of the night some night with hoodies or balacavas on and trash the sh*t out of your car in retaliation, costing you insurance deductables and future increased premiums.

So let it go.

Turning the car around and nosing it into the parking spot will just expose the rear badge which they will pry off with a screw driver, scratching your paint.

Buy a new front badge but don't put it on. They'll just steal it again.

Life.