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Does placing a 'no valuables inside' sign in a car window deter break-ins?
sfgate.com ^

Posted on 10/20/2017 7:58:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Does placing a 'no valuables inside' sign in a car window deter break-ins?

Car burglaries are at epidemic levels in San Francisco

By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE Updated 9:18 am, Friday, October 20, 2017

In San Francisco, where no automobile parked on the street is immune from glass-smashing thieves, some people have taken to posting signs on car windows announcing that there are no valuables inside.

The hope, of course, is that a thief will read the notice and decide: "Huh. No valuables in this one.I guess I'll break into some other car."

On Tuesday, a Reddit user posted a photo of such a sign and posed the question "Do you think it works?" to the Reddit community. A lively debate ensued.

"Sounds a lot like something that someone with valuables in their car would say," wrote a skeptical Maddox83a.

But iamthewaffler disagreed, citing personal experience.

"It's strong signaling that works VERY well," the commenter wrote. "The intended victim for thefts from cars are people who are from out of town, other "safer" parts of SF, etc who don't know that certain areas are very prone to car break-ins. If you have bothered to print out a sign and put it in your window, that shows you know exactly what neighborhood you're in and the chances of anything valuable being in your car are extremely low.

"These are crimes of opportunity, and if you simply let the would-be thief know that you're from this part of town and aware of the danger, they'll pass right by.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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So much for civil society...........
1 posted on 10/20/2017 7:58:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Putting a sign in the window just attracts the attention of a would-be thief.


2 posted on 10/20/2017 8:00:23 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Sub-Driver

That's if they can read...

That's if they can read English...

3 posted on 10/20/2017 8:00:27 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
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To: txnativegop

Bingo!


4 posted on 10/20/2017 8:01:05 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Most of the people doing this don’t read English, are the signs in Spanish too?


5 posted on 10/20/2017 8:01:54 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Sub-Driver

To a Least Common Denominator (LCD) Citizen or non citizen, it will only confuse and spark action.


6 posted on 10/20/2017 8:02:04 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Sub-Driver

NO! They steal the entire Car!


7 posted on 10/20/2017 8:02:23 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: Sub-Driver
About as effective as....

"And, if you order by mail, don't worry - it's shipped in a plain brown wrapper with the words "Not P@nis Cream" stamped all over it in big red letters."
8 posted on 10/20/2017 8:03:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sub-Driver

Same kind of mentality as a gun-free zone.


9 posted on 10/20/2017 8:03:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
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To: Sub-Driver

no hay objetos de valor dentro


10 posted on 10/20/2017 8:04:13 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Sub-Driver

I was visiting the Japanese Tea Garden and the de Young Art collection at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco the day before Christmas Eve last year. On the main street, in front the Japanese Tea Garden at noon, just off the Martin Luther a fellow on a bike drove up and smashed out the rear window of a new Mini Cooper and stole what packages he could grab in front of hundreds. Not a care in the world.


11 posted on 10/20/2017 8:06:36 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Trashy rust bucket does.


12 posted on 10/20/2017 8:08:32 PM PDT by the_daug
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If things are that bad in San Francisco, probably better to just leave your doors unlocked. Of course, this being San Fransisco, there's a good chance one of the Bay Area's finer denizens would open your car door and take a sh*t on the front seat.

I'm reminded of my poor brother who chose to buy the dirt-cheapest $49 POS receiver he could find just to have something to listen to and a thief still smashed his window and destroyed his dashboard stealing it.

13 posted on 10/20/2017 8:08:44 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Sub-Driver

No, but a live Wolverine inside the Car might do the trick.


14 posted on 10/20/2017 8:08:46 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.Does the Government)
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To: Sub-Driver

Put a sign saying the vehicle is not a valuables sanctuary, but that if youbreak in, you WILL be deported after 10 yr @ Gitmo’.


15 posted on 10/20/2017 8:09:22 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Sub-Driver

Stealing your piece of mind is valuable to some of a certain persuasion.


16 posted on 10/20/2017 8:10:29 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: King Moonracer

Wrong peace, dope.


17 posted on 10/20/2017 8:11:42 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Sub-Driver

The good news is, they won’t break into it. The bad news is, they’ll set it on fire to show who’s boss.


18 posted on 10/20/2017 8:12:24 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Sub-Driver

I was in the city last weekend, and put a hand scrawled sign... Bait car... Street thugs will know that a bait car is watched. I parked in the body strewn area by Mr. Holmes Bake house ( locals know where Im talking about) Car was brand new and not touched.


19 posted on 10/20/2017 8:12:37 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: Drew68

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Frisco has been a lowlife town for about 50 years.
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20 posted on 10/20/2017 8:14:01 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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