really as far as pawn shops are concerned, smart theives tend to remove the serial numbers, and the pawn shop will take any item regaurdless. probibly use the model number on the fingerprinted police ticket instead (which is totally useless). some pawnshops that have the moral grounds to not take expensive items without a serial number, but theese are so fe and far between theyd just take it to another shop. a dumb thief on the other hand will go straight from the crime scene right to the pawn shop. the item will look as if its been freshly ripped out of the dash. knife cut wires and all. most of the time their stealing it renders it non-functional and wouldnt even be taken by the dumbest pawn shop. but when it works its funny to tell them to fingerprint the police ticket and they try like mad to screw it up. of course when they leave the pawnshop 90% of the time they see their dealer next. the sad thing is they do this maybe once or twice a day, every day, usually spending all his earnings on crack, living homeless and forgetting to feed themself in the process. so i wouldnt try to kill em, theyre doing their best already
