From a reliable birdie…
Don’t know if this is blog worthy, but maybe something to share with friends to see if we can get the word out. The news stations are reporting “a string” of car thefts around town this weekend. The police spokesperson didn’t seem to give them an accurate picture of what happened. Cars were vandalized and stolen along Park Street and into the Greenbriar neighborhood. FIFTY would be a conservative estimate of the number of cars damaged. I have heard a few numbers, all higher than that.
Related links:
http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=10569999
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/news/headlines/48736147.html
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Tagged as: car, Charlottesville, Crime, Police, statistics, vandalism
More smash and grab crime here than other big Cities I’ve lived in.
I agree. These incidents are so common that anytime I see a GPS in someone’s dashboard, I have a cynical thought about it not being there when they come back.
I talked to someone who said there were actually more “open and grabs” than “smash and grabs” last weekend in those neighborhoods (though both of those are theft from cars and might be recorded the same way). People are kidding themselves about where they live and are leaving their cars unlocked on their streets and in their driveways.
Lock your doors. Don’t leave iPods, GPS units, and other valuables in the car. It’s common sense.
Or leave booby traps. The jerk who broke into my unlocked car only got a handful of sticky change and the poisn-ivy contaminated blanket in my trunk. Haha!
If it’s unlocked….was it really broken into? Sucks balls either way, darling.
agree. i was victim of three smash-n-grab car thefts, none of which seem to have appeared on crime reports when they happened (i was checking around to see if there had been other proximate ones). in each case the responding officer was awesome, but said this sort of thing has always been very common, was done by a known group of teens (ones on Main Street, that is—not sure about more recent), that none of the stuff would ever appear in pawn shops, and that it was best to just not leave anything in a car (unless trunk, because they tend to be in a hurry) and NOT LOCK a car—they’d get nothing and you wouldn’t get your windows smashed.
Is it true they did a smash and grab on your convertible and the roof was down at the time?
my jeep had no doors and a bikini-top only, and they smashed the center console open (it was empty and wasn’t locked), only to steal an ipod shuffle out of the open ashtray and a pipe and cavendish tobacco in a leather pouch out of the glove-compartment (which had no door). then my beamer, unlocked, they smashed the window and stole an ipod.
not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
not the sharpest knives in the drawer
says the guy who left an ipod in his car after already having one stolen form him previously
well, yes, there’s that. but what smash-n-grab man wants 20MB of sweater-pop from a 20 yr-old bmw with a stuffed osprey glued to the dashboard?
I would’ve grabbed the taxonomied raptor…if only for the novelty of it all.
i think i failed to taxonomize the taxidermied raptor.
It was pandion haliaetus carolinensis, methinks.
haha…god’s thumbs, my brain was so fried yesterday. taxidermy…not taxonomy.
/what kind of northerner am I? we race outhouses in the dead of winter and opening day is a school holiday.