Nuke from orbit may be the only sure option?
“Oh well, lesson learned.”
Probably not.
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.
Who is stupid enough to leaver $5,000 of property in the passenger seat of their car?
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.
GPS Trackers, EXPLODING Bags!
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.
Proof that money doesn’t buy smarts.
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?
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.
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