Pictures of how the car was found the day after Christmas
Little old lady car with 60,000 original miles. Ran like a top.
Posted on 12/26/2006 11:43:46 PM PST by BJungNan
Yesterday, Christmas day, our son's car was stolen around 5:30 p.m. as it was parked in front of our house. Christmas morning his girl friend's car was got stolen while parked in front of her house in Palm Springs, and also yesterday a friend's new Volvo in DHS had its tail lights bashed out with some rocks and his neighbor's van window was bashed out with the same rock.
I hope your Christmas day was a little better than mine and that of all those affected by the Christmas day vandalism spree.
But it is not all happening on Christmas. It is rampant in our town. Lately, I have noticed windows of downtown businesses on Palm Drive being shot out and now just boarded up (who can blame the owner for leaving them that way and not replacing the windows). A store front on Pierson was set on fire recently in an act of senseless vandalism.
Little old lady car with 60,000 original miles. Ran like a top.
That is sad
I would suggest some local neighborhood watches get into action and cruise with the cops (if allowed). After you make a dozen arrests for stuff like this in a month...the punks start to realize that their turf is not completely safe. They have little alternate except to cut the stupidity. To do this around Xmas time...its pure teenage stuff...bunch of 16 year old punks with no family life.
It was probably someone your son and his girlfriend know.
It does sound like your community needs a new police chief.
Looking at the photos, it doesn't look the car has an obvious parting out which makes me think someone took the car for a "joyride."
Just a thought.
Sorry to hear about the car thefts and vandalism.
Our son's car was stolen earlier this year...we never saw it as the insurance company said (after recovering in *gasp* Santa Ana)...that it was totalled, senselessly, like yours.
I'm so sorry...I know the anger you feel.
That's sad and rotten. Thank goodness it wasn't a human being treated like that, but still, you feel pretty darn violated.
I live in Pittsburgh. There is a street on the way to my school with maybe twenty cars parked on it. One morning, as I was walking by, I noticed that every front and rear windshield on all the cars on the street had been smashed. Rumor was that a hooligan was using a bowling to do all the damage.
Maybe they were just putting it out of its misery.
You need to forget any attempt at humor on this one.
It's just a "thing." I save my sympathy for people. If all you lose in this life are "things" and/or "stuff," then you're doing pretty good.
Can't help but wonder if this could be in retaliation for all the political attacks posted on the author's website.
A bummer of a holiday on that level, at lest! There is nothing worse than being ripped off!
hahaha
I am very sorry for your troubles. I don't know why people have to be so rotten and on a holiday at that. I hope things get better for your son, his girlfriend, your friend and your town.... I think I would go to a town meeting and demand more police patrols and maybe start a neighborhood watch group.... Maybe some video cameras facing your cars might help too. Good luck and keep calling your mayor and police.... Maybe get the local newspapers to do stories on all this vandalism, but make sure your name is kept out of it so nothing more happens to your family.
That 'thing' was someone's well maintained vehicle, and this kind of sickness moving into one's neighborhood is no laughing matter. It's a serious problem of wanton vandalism, and it sounds like you don't have a clue. There is nothing funny about this stuff unless you inured. Have you become habituated to this sensless destruction of other people's property? Or, as I suggested, do you have no sense of propriety?
That really wasn't a very nice comment. How would you feel if someone did that to your car, your house or maybe smashed you up like that thinking to put you out of your misery? Sorry I have little sense of humor when it comes to people destroying other people's belongings. Would you like a comment like yours if it happened to you?
If I had to live in a big city and put up with all the crap, I would have shot someone by now. These punks know they will get away with this stuff, or get off easy if they do get caught.
I've lost "stuff" to theft and vandalism. And I've lost friends/loved ones to disease and violence. In my experience, losing the people is far worse and puts losing the stuff in perspective. I never mourn the loss of stuff.
My friend's wife's car was stolen this year for joyriding purposes. Sorry to see the criminals got you, too. Hope that it didn't spoil your holidays too much. Hang in there.
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