Sorry to hear that your car got boosted, I hope you find it all in one piece and not stripped. Hmm...seems like cars are getting boosted regularly on GMU. If I get accepted there and I transfer down, I may have to forgo getting rims and instead upgrade my security system.

If it makes you feel any better, GMU is not the only place where Hondas/Acuras are getting boosted regularly. Up here in Columbia, they are getting boosted left and right. I live in the middle to upper middle class part of Columbia, and stock Hondas and Acuras of all makes are getting taken off of my street weekly. Somebody tried to boost the WRX one morning, but I was watching both of my cousin's dogs, in addition to the dog I have. The second the person approached the car, all three dogs (A Collie, a Pure-Bred Jack Russell, and an Austrailian Dingo) went off and were trying to get out the door. I ran to the door as my dad backed me up with a gun, swung it open and let the dogs loose, but the guy was already up the street. So far, so good it seems since that incident. And as far as the cops know, MS-13 hasn't put root into Columbia yet.

But the problem that the cops have, at least in my area, is that there are too many roads. Where I am at there are freeways coming together from every direction, so give the guy 15 minutes going at hi-speed, and he could be on the DC Beltway, or on the Baltimore Beltway, or on I-70 halfway to Frederick, or pulling into the docks in downtown Baltimore. Because of all these roads, the cops can't really corner the guy in unless they setup a checkpoint at each end of my road, which they aren't going to do.

With GMU though, there is more flexibility. They could do what UMD does at College Park (if they don't already), which is at the entrances after 11:30pm they setup checkpoints and get IDs of all vehicles entering campus. But again, that doesn't solve the problem completely because cars are still getting stolen off of College Park.

Best way to combat theft is to get a good security system and to constantly move your car around. Never leave your car sitting in one spot for a long amount of time. If you can, vary your schedule so that you don't have a reliable pattern that somebody could hold you to. Also, park your car by your dorm window if you can, preferably close enough so that you can hear the alarm go off. Most car thieves are lazy, so if you make it really tough to boost your car, they will move on usually, unless you got something that no other car has that they want. Then, there really isn't any way to stop them if they want it bad enough.