Sounds Familiar
That sounds ever so familiar. I had a friend here in Oceanside CA, that had come out one morning to find the entire front clip of his 95 Z28 had been stolen during the night while it was raining.
After a police report was filed and the insurance was all said and done on it, low and behold, these jokers tried the exact same thing again a while later. Only this time it wasn't raining and he was up, heard something and looked out and saw these guys jacking with his car.
He ran out of the house and chased one of them, caught him and literally beat the crap out of him. Drag his butt back to his house, called the cops and the individual was arrested on the spot.
Apparently this guy was part of a big theft ring here in O-side targeting military members and what have you. Later on the rest of the theifs were arrested and my friend was given an award by the City and a job offer with the Oceanside Police Department....
But, the first thing out of my mouth was...your lucky he didn't have a gun!