I think this is from one of the owners of La Taza:
La Taza was broken into for the 2nd time in a week last night (Sunday night). Did anybody see ANYTHING sunday evening and into the night/morning? i know that you all are concerned with the neighborhood and this has been devastating for all in Belmont.
The prior break in. Suggestion for La Taza: Get better locks!
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The Tuffy mobile was broken into on Sunday night as well, not too far away from The Taza. Nothing was taken, but the glove compartment got a good ‘going through’ in an attempt to find my iPod (hidden elsewhere). But, I also realized I left my car unlocked, so does that count as ‘breaking in’?
@1: !!!!!!!!!!
Seriously. I’m having a tough run of it this last week or so. Lock your cars!
i bet it was stanley.
La Taza, eh? Its probably just professional musicians trying to get paid, because you know, they are professionals and have equipment and stuff.
@ 1
i’ve had two ipods stolen so far—one locked in a between-the seats compartment, and one in an empty closed ashtray. one broad daylight, the other smashed my window. bastards can listen to my sweater-pop collection until their eyes bug out.
when the popos came to ‘the scene’ they said just to not bother ever locking my car in charlottesville—there are apparently roving youth gangs who steal and sell ipods (untraceable and sold hand-to-hand, not to pawnshops), and the cops seemed to be saying that they’d smash windows whether they see an ipod or not, and that replacing an ipod is typically cheaper than replacing a car window.
nice roll-over/bend-over to crime attitude. they said you can also usually spot the potential thieves because they carry a macdonald’s bag with a big rock in it, and that’s what they use to smash car windows.
@5
not sure your garden-variety B&E Man (sorry, that’s sexist–B&E PERSON)
would know what to do with that fancy-ass 1200-button sound-mixer you’ve got there, BYo.
I wish someone would steal my ipod. It would give me an excuse to upgrade. . .
Regarding B&E in Cville. . .I concur with just leaving the car door unlocked. . .
About 8 weeks ago. . .I had one of my many blonde moments. . .forgot to turn off my GPS and left it suction-cupped to the windshield. . .the gleaming blue light must have been like some sort of honing beacon to the Belmont B&E Mafia. . .b/c when i came out the next morning. . .my driver window was shattered. . .GPS. . .gone. . .contents of center console. . .gone. . .
Seriously annoying. . .would have been much better off leaving the car unlocked with a sign taped to the window. . .”Super Spectacular GPS inside. Please help yourself!!!”
i bet it was stanley.
Man. I stole, like, a thmillion burritos. These burritos are so effing good.
/hi police people; i’m kidding, okay? cool.
Wow. they must have thought it was an IPOD. can’t imagine what use a GPS would be to 15 year-olds who can’t drive anyhow.
was just thinking how annoyed they must have been to get my 30MB, 25 days’ worth, of sunshiney/upbeat sweater-pop, but how much more crime-deterrant it would have been if they’d swiped Shen’s IPOD full of excrutiating unlistenable French and Canadien Rock&Roll and House-music…. those shrill frogs wailing out distorted american copy-cat rhythms over accordians and breton penny-whistles…
is it racist or class-ist or age-ist to assume that street-gangs aren’t clubber/rave french and don’t like bubblegum-pop?
@11: Actually, it’s a baseless and pernicious indictment of the universally-agreed-upon likable character of bubblegum pop. But you’re just stirring the pot, methinks, so, you know, whatever.
a year ago i was leaving my old car unlocked with the key in the ignition (it was stuck there) hoping someone would steal IT, but no such luck. not even in belmont.
I think those guys in the white tee-shirts were
humming Tiffany’s cover of “I Think We’re Alone Now”
as they kicked the living shit out of me on Water Street.
“Try to get away into the night
As I put my arms around you and i struggle through the fight….
I think we’re alone now….”
do you think the break-in folks knew there might be alcohol there…in a bar…
or were they after the tasty anchovy-stuffed olives and fresh baked-goods
or perhaps elements of decor.
inquiring minds want to know which brands/kinds of alcohol they thought worth taking.
@6 …. one cannot leave something in “…. an empty closed ashtray”. It is either empty or has contents.
Whoah. Floozy has gone all quantum master on us.
/schrodinger’s ashtray?
Month? Bruce Lee? Christ. Just call me Sybil.
I can has anti psychotics?
the ashtray being empty [of, implicit, ashes], one was able to leave something in it [then, implicit] close it.
consider, e.g., the biblical barren womb bearing fruit.
You should just leave your car unlocked. If they want somethin’ in your car, they will just throw a rock through your window. Also, do not ever leave your iPod or other ’spensive toys in your car. In the downtown Ridge street to Belmont area right now, someone has been going around looking in cars specifically for these gadgets and they do not carry a rock but use whatever they can find nearby to break your window to get in and take it. This has happened in broad daylight.Then they resell it through Cville’s black market.
I leave an ipod nano in my car in belmont every single night. come and get it suckers!
/an idiot
@23 – I see a new iPod in my futch…
@22
I love how C’Ville now has a black market. Any self-respecting cosmopolitan city has a seemy underbelly.
i leave my commuter beater unlocked all the time, usually with a window down. the most valuable thing in the durn car is the glass. i’m kind of with orchid, however, @13, in that i wish someone would steal it. it’s insured.
used to leave the doors unlocked on my ‘77 MGB cause the vinyl top cost more than whatever stereo it had in it at the time. hated to think someone would slash it to get in.
I love how C’Ville now has a black market
Just out of curiosity, when has any place with humans in it NOT had a black market of some sort?
/you can get anything you want at alice’s restaurant (excepting alice).
i thought Reid’s had been here forever?
/aisle seat please
*crickets chirping*
yeah, that may have been too much even for this crowd.
just for the record, folks, as uncalled for as that was, it was indeed meant in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
glad you said that—i was dropping my racquet and sauntering over to 26 World’s court for net-talk.
yeah, don’t worry, my handbasket has plenty of room.
@28 – you presented us with Fugu to cut up and eat as sushi. One missed step: certain death.
@33 Ed Zachary.
Oh lord. Bait bait bait!
not really, just can’t believe it’s only Wednesday. I’ll stop now, I promise.
carry on folks, there’s nothing to see here.
not really, just can’t believe it’s only Wednesday.
Ah but, wednesday is such a lovely night for a sweet slice of disco pie! Especially this wednesday!
/i know, i know… you will all be at the cdc, which is afraid it will catch teh gay if it comes to escafé. its cool, me and the mo’s will be rockin the shop anyway.
@37 sorry, won’t be at either. will be at class, learning the basics of Developmental Psychology. Yay for Learning!
/would rather be pounding pints at the cafeteria…it’s been WAAAAY too long since i’ve been in a classroom.
//didn’t really leave, sorry, but i am now.
@6 – I just jumped a bum carrying a mcdonald’s bag hanging out near my car. wiley bastard put up a fight, but was only carrying a half eaten mcrib from the spring and some mouthwash. they’re getting smarter, trying to throw us off the trail…
@ 13 my mom and i used to do that with our old thunderbird – as awesome as that car was, no one ever took us up on the offer. not even at the airport.
@ 37 i’ve missed you. will you be cafeteria-ing on friday? i give you high-five, maybe?
/you have no idea how dulcius ex asperis has gotten me through the past two weeks
//my TMI, let me show you it again!
@25 – not only does C-ville now have a black market, we now have a White House/Black Market…what’s the diff???
I’m baaaack!
…I mean, other than ya can’t buy t.p., yo