Posted on 07/09/2025 7:04:39 PM PDT by simpson96
A Toronto police officer suggested that residents leave their car keys by the front door to avoid a home invasion, seemingly to let criminals steal their vehicle if they break in, leave and avoid injuries.
The Toronto Police Service issued a statement Wednesday confirming that an officer made the remarks at a recent community meeting.
The officer suggested “that people leave the keys to their vehicle in a faraday bag by the front door,” the statement said.
“While well meaning, there are also other ways to prevent auto theft motivated home invasions,” it continued.
Faraday bags block signal-duplicating devices used to replicate key fobs which criminals can use to steal vehicles.
In Toronto, home invasions and break-ins for auto thefts rose 400 per cent last year, the Toronto Police Service said.
At an Etobicoke community meeting, Const. Marco Ricciardi is heard saying, “To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door.”
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“They’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else,” he said, which CityNews first reported.
“A lot of them that they’re arresting have guns on them and they’re not toy guns, they’re real guns. They’re loaded.”
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Canadians need to ADJUST to their “new arrivals’ that they DEMANDED be let in (to prove they’re not racist, like they US is).
IDIOCRACY...
I Have Never Heard Any So Stupid
In My Life !
I’m in Arizona so My options Are Many
But Canada Falling to This depth is Bmore.
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I just don’t know anymore.
Actually never thought of that. Kinda like baiting bears with doughnuts under the tree blind. Easier to shoot that way.
The officer suggested “that people leave the keys to their vehicle in a faraday bag by the front door,” the statement said.
Faraday bags block signal-duplicating devices used to replicate key fobs which criminals can use to steal vehicles.
Wait, what? You want me to make it more difficult to steal my car via electronic means so that only thugs willing to break open the door can get my car?
How could you misspell Canaduh?
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil for my brother Glock, sweet sweet sister AR, our cousin AR-10 and Big Daddy 12 gauge walk by my side. My bedside collection.
I will not instigate violence and will try to avoid it. The best gunfight is the one that does not happen. If violence comes to me I will use every skill I have to kill you if it is a legal shoot. I have been shooting 65 years and am good, but my eyes are not what they were in the past. Good optics take care of that.
I love Texas and my governor Abbott. Texas and Abbott have my back, not the criminals back as in California.
The pansy Canadians giving advice on how to be a weak, pathetic, looser in life.
Americans can shoot the bastards and make the world a better place.
😆
How weak and disgusting.
Back at you. I hope I never have to defend my house against intruders, but if someone gets in, I will ruin their day.
Either that or tell the criminals “Well. Since I won’t have time to unlock the gun cabinet, unlock the safety locks on the gun, unlock another cabinet where the ammo is stored, in order to defend myself in MY OWN HOME!, help yourselves to my guns” and point to their locations.
"Why did Delta Airlines stop serving vanilla ice cream on the meal flights to Canada?" Because too many Canadians complained that the strong vanilla flavor hurt their mouths
I hit 18 a year before they changed it to 19. Then drank until they raised it to 21, so neither of the 2 age raises affected me. Had I been born a year later, it would sucked.
Lol, use the car keys as bait... then blamo.
In California do people still leave the rear lift gate open on the back of their SUV’s so thieves wont smash the windows to look for valuables?
:)
+1.
This article makes it clear why Canada doesn’t have a Babylon Bee.
Satire can’t compete with reality.
How about the police and judiciary do their jobs and protect the people and arrest and prosecute the criminals?
In Canada it’s 19. But with the exception of drunk driving it’s vigorously ignored.
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