I hope this funny story helps your morale
My car was stolen on 1/1/03, the cop who found it came to my house to bring me on the place where the thieves were arrested in order to get my car back. he look towards my shelf, he spotted the takatoku VF1S, blikned his eyes (actually he almost cried) and said:
"Hei ma questo รจ il teschio uno di robotech! che figata lo adoravo quando ero piccolo dove ne trovo uno?"
Translated:
"Hey this is the skull leader! from robotech! cool i loved it when i was a kid. Where i can find one?"
Than i proudly showed to him to my reissue collection and told him where he could find one.
Sadly i started crying when i saw that they have bend the door frame to open it.
The cop explained to me how they started my car (by breaking start key cylinder) ,since the start keyhole was broken the cop explained me me how to start the car whitout the key and I've "stolen" my own car to get home.
PS
In october 03 i bought a car that starts only with the right key (that contains a chip recognized by the engine electronics) if someone wants to steal it, he must change all the engine electronics. But even with such device i look troubled for a couple of seconds every time that I park my car!