Carjack

Lucas looked about him furtively. The carpark was quiet, deserted actually, and this was among a few of the cars that were parked at this deck. It was little wonder---that deck was the second deck above all the season parking lots, and was therefore used mostly by visitors and acted as the overflow area for the season ticket holders. But that suited him fine. It was less suspicious to be near a car among three or four than to be found near a single solitary vehicle all on its own.

Seeing no one nearby and making sure that there were no surveillance cameras (for some reason those were targetted only at the walkways, which meant that Lucas just had to walk through the car barriers to avoid being seen), he quickly pulled out a jammer from his pocket and switched it to detection mode. The device quietly displayed the power spectrum of the current radio frequencies and Lucas slowly tuned it along to discover the call back frequency of the key fob for the car. There was a quiet flashing of the red light on the device when the appropriate frequency was found. Delighted, Lucas quickly pressed the ``deactivate'' button. A series of silent pulses were sent along the carrier frequency and the next thing he knew, the car had responded as though a normal key fob had been used.

Smiling to himself, Lucas quickly removed his cap and shirt, swapping them out for another T-shirt from within his backpack. Then, removing the new cover backpack, he stuffed everything else into it, including the original backpack. That was his way of defeating the surveillance system.

He got into the car and looked at the dashboard. It was as he had expected, an ignition button system as opposed to a key-based one. It was starting to get easy and for once Lucas was glad of the prevalence of new technology for cars---they made his work so much easier once the initial technological costs were paid for.

He pressed the ignition button, and the engine woke up with a roar. Lucas smiled to himself again. He closed the door to the driver's seat and put on his seat belt before taxi-ing the car out of the lot and across the deck and down the ramps to the exit.

Yet another haul for him.

(Based on an exercise generated by WriteThis - 07-May-2014 00:46:53)