Posted on 11/26/2021 6:57:45 AM PST by DoodleBob
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (WCCO) — This year, safety is of the essence when you’re driving around town, and in and out of the car while running errands.
Carjackings are up nationwide. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) says beginning in June 2020, the United States experienced a 13% increase in auto thefts. And in Minneapolis, there have been 540 this year — five times the amount in 2019.
The busiest shopping season is underway, and at Mall of America, shoppers are heading into the season with joy, but also with caution.
Maria Dockendorf and Tessia Gebherd have been friends since they were sophomores in high school. Now college students, they met up at Mall of America for a shopping reunion. They both say they keep safety in mind.
“I usually lock my car all the time, like double check, make sure it honks and stuff,” Gebherd said.
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Safety experts say after shopping, go straight to your car while looking at surroundings. Once you get inside, don’t sit and scroll on your phone. Lock the doors and get moving.
The Richfield Police Department offers this simple tip: Keep car keys and house keys on separate rings, so even if someone gets your car, they can’t get in your house.
Police all over the metro say the number-one reason cars are stolen is people leave keys in the car for convenience.
Two other carjacking safety tips from police: At red lights, leave a car space ahead of you in case you need to accelerate fast.
And don’t resist if someone tries to take your car. Your life is not worth it. (emphasis added)
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“And don’t resist if someone tries to take your car. Your life is not worth it.”
And if you with a woman and they try to take more than just your car?
Equivocation!
A "carjacking" is not the same thing as mere "auto theft."
Regards,
They won’t carjack my 82 Rabbit. Who’d want one?
1. Situational awareness. Be aware of your surroundings.
2. Lock the doors as soon as you get in.
3. Have a gun where you can get to it quickly.
Sure! Just let the ferals take whatever they want. Don’t resist with armed lethal force, whatever you do.
Just lie back and enjoy it.
“And don’t resist if someone tries to take your car and any woman who might be in the car with you at the same time. Your life is not worth it.”
There! Satisfied?
Regards,
If someone tries to carjack me, then that person’s life is just not worth anything. Not that it’s much of an issue here in the boonies. Yet...
Given the number listed in the 500s the reporter is referring to carjackings.
There are 500 “car thefts” a week in Sam Fransisco.
Car theft involves stealing something from a car. Carjacking involves stealing the entire car while the car is occupied and implied the threat of force or violence.
I’m surprised the term “carjacking” hasn’t been deemed racist like looting has.
Good catch. The editor missed it.
Didn’t work out for these people:
https://kdvr.com/news/local/deadly-attempted-carjacking-aurora/
https://www.wdtv.com/2021/09/29/woman-dragged-killed-during-carjacking/
I agree except for the part about not resisting. I would emphasize situational awareness, look in your backseat before getting in, lock your doors as soon as you get in, and CARRY YOUR CONCEALED CARRY! It will do you no good locked in the glovebox.
My manual trans is a good protection. If they don’t know how to drive it, they can’t take it!
Appendix carry...
We don’t know why *you* have one and we wish you’d get that heap off the road so you’ll stop holding up traffic. :P
Anyone who looks at me...and sees me walk...knows immediately that I’m not a kid. And I drive a car that’s certainly no Rolls Royce but just as certainly is no Kia. The thought of being carjacked *has* crossed my mind but I never drive anywhere but middle class and upper class areas.
If they’re not from the US, they will likely know how to drive a manual. Security through obscurity is not security.
“And don’t resist if someone tries to take your car. Your life is not worth it.”
Their life is worth it.
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We recently had a spate of carjackings in upper class areas in Dallas.
Nowhere is safe.
“Out of the car, muffinlicker”
Me: “It’s a 2009”
“OK, I’ll try the car behind you”
What about when you have yous two kids strapped down in the backseat?
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