In a message dated 8/27/00 10:58:02 PM, mark_hb@hotmail.com writes:

<< You need to keep a severed hand on your front seat - that might keep them
out - who would want to associate themselves with a serial killer crime
scene just to get a radio...
 >>

Mark,
Somehow this seems to fit.  I once knew a fellow who had spent more than a
few years working in one of the Arab countries.  There, according to him, a
thief is punished by cutting off his right hand.  He went on to say that the
punishment is especially severe because the natives eat with their right
hands and clean themselves with their lefts; flatware and toilet paper
generally are not used.  When he told me this, I mentioned that such an
extreme penalty must make for a low rate of theft.  He said no, just really
good thieves.
Rich