Watch: Pro auto burglars score $5K in seconds from car in Fulton River District

CWB Chicago ^ | 24 Jan 2021 | CWB

[DUMBGRUNT]

It takes him just eight seconds to pry out her passenger side window. A couple more seconds to grab bags containing at least $5,000 worth of property from her front seat. And less than 30 seconds total.

“It was definitely an organized crew,” the victim’s girlfriend told us Saturday.

“You can tell from that video it’s not the first time he did it.”

“I thought having it on video, they would wanna see if it’s anyone they’re looking for,” he said Sunday. “Apparent not. Oh well, lesson learned.”

[DUMBGRUNT]

The locals have been sending recon patrols far beyond their traditional AO. Now they are doing recon in force of once-safe areas.

Nuke from orbit may be the only sure option?

[moovova]

“Oh well, lesson learned.”

Probably not.

[Don W]

That dude was GOOD at his chosen vocation. A pity that kind of talent is wasted on criminal activity rather than things beneficial to himself and others.

[Yo-Yo]

Who is stupid enough to leaver $5,000 of property in the passenger seat of their car?

[cuban leaf]

I remember in the U-District in Seattle, in the late 90’s I parked my car on a nice day I parked my car on the street with the window rolled down. The street had light foot traffic. I left my “free” black vinyl “computer bag” on the passenger side street with nothing in it. I came back and it was gone. Some neighborhoods are just higher risk than others.

[eyeamok]

GPS Trackers, EXPLODING Bags!

[FamiliarFace]

There are not two men sitting in the Jeep that pulls up. Just one, and once he has the car parked, he slides over and gets out the passenger door. I think the guy feeding the parking meter has scoped out the cars near the meter, so is in cahoots with the Jeep driver/thief. Meter man told the other that there was a large purse/bag in the front seat of the car that was broken in to.

[NWFree]

Proof that money doesn’t buy smarts.

[rlmorel]

On the positive side, I did notice he was wearing his mask.

Oh, that wasn’t to protect himself or others from communicable diseases?

My bad.

An observation: the car stopped right behind the vehicle, and the guy went right to the vehicle as if he knew what was in it. He didn’t appear to walk from car to car, looking in the windows. He seemed to know exactly what was in the front seat of that car.

I am going to guess the person went to something like an Apple store, bought a bunch of high end stuff, and was shadowed.

Or was tipped off in some way.

In any case-leaving it all on the front seat? Not even putting it in the back under a tonneau cover or something like that?

Just silly.

OTOH, leaving that on the front seat?

[rlmorel]

That could be. I was wondering the mechanism myself, you might be right. Someone might well be walking up and down the street looking at cars, that kind of thing.

[rlmorel]

I was so impressed with that guy who built the glitterbomb fake UPS package to catch thieves. My favorite aspect was the additional stinkbomb functionality that sprayed the scent of dog crap. Brilliant.

The guy was apparently a Lefty who had been working for NASA, and did a great job of designing it, but made two fatal errors that made him a victim of Leftism:

He didn’t screen his video of thieves and exclude people of color, and he made the mistake of “staging” a piece of video using a person of color (who was apparently quite willing to do it...likely someone who had been victimized by someone and didn’t care what color they were)

Well, they went after him and he was fired. Hoisted on his own petard of Leftism, which was too bad because the device was brilliantly executed!

[DUMBGRUNT]

“My favorite aspect was the additional stinkbomb functionality that sprayed the scent of dog crap. Brilliant.”

Butyric acid has an extreme odor, may be useful for such projects.
So I have heard.

[fireman15]

Who is stupid enough to leaver $5,000 of property in the passenger seat of their car?

We'd be lucky to get $3000 out of our twenty year old mini-van even if we included the contents. It is currently filthy from the nasty weather we have had. Last summer my wife was sitting with the side door open feeding our dog some of her potato chips while she was waiting for me to come out of Home Depot. A guy came over to her, handed her $20 and said, "buy that dog some decent food" and then ran off. She was speechless and didn't understand what had happened. He thought that we were homeless. We actually own two homes and an airplane.

We still don't leave valuables in plain view when we park one of our vehicles. Judging from the video, the car broken into was a BMW X5 worth approximately $50,000 depending on the year. It's a thief magnet.

[1Old Pro]

That M X5 is worth north of 70k new.

[whitney69]

Not too bad.

When I was a kid, there was a cop in a township of over 100k people in a city in the Central Valley of California that found a guy under a car in the outside lane of a used car lot, and asked him what he was doing. The guy said he had been thrown out of his apartment and had to sleep somewhere. Cop told him to move on and left to cover a 6 block area checking some of the doors but really driving alleys.

When he got back less than 30 minutes later, the guy was gone. But so was the engine in the car. Pros can take your backside off you while you are facing them and you won’t know the difference.

wy69

[fireman15]

I was so impressed with that guy who built the glitterbomb fake UPS package to catch thieves.

I am a whole lot meaner than you... I actually prefer the bait bike videos. You can't leave anything laying around our neighborhood and expect it to be there for more than a few minutes.

https://youtu.be/xHvPf_xdXEQ?t=62

[fireman15]

That M X5 is worth north of 70k new.

It looks like it is a couple years old.

[fireman15]

Sorry messed up my html... Bike bait video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHvPf_xdXEQ

[Right Wing Assault]

In college, a guy where I worked drove his new Corvette (about 1970) to work to show off. Later in the day, he parked it in front of a little store in the city. A few minutes later, no Corvette. Never recovered.

Keep a beater for the city.

[fireman15]

The thing that amazes me the most is that the thieves were driving a newish looking Volvo SUV... those things cost a fortune as well.