Posted on 03/26/2024 4:51:57 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
With car thefts at an all-time high in Toronto, some people are resorting to installing retractable bollards in their driveways — vertical posts to physically prevent their vehicles from being stolen.
According to the Toronto Police Service’s major crimes indicators dashboard, car thefts increased by 25.4 per cent in 2022. Insp. Paul Rinkoff described it as a “dramatic surge” in the city’s auto theft crisis over the past few years, with the number of vehicles stolen this year already skyrocketing.
“When you compare 2020 to 2023, we saw an increase of 54 per cent in relation to auto theft,” he told the National Post. “That means 9,795 vehicles stolen in 2022 and 12,170 vehicles stolen in 2023. From the beginning of March, when compared to last year, we’re seeing a 114 per cent increase with 1,495 cars already stolen in 2024.”
Amid the crisis, people are looking for more ways to prevent car thefts, with bollards becoming an increasingly popular option.
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I put mine in my garage. It seems easier.
From Wikipedia...
... Lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, who appeared with Mortimer, recalled the professor saying that early English translations of the Bible used "bollocks" to refer to testicles, this being replaced by the word "stones" in the King James Version of the Bible, at which point Rotten handed Robertson a note saying, "Don't worry. If we lose the case, we'll retitle the album Never Mind the Stones, Here's the Sex Pistols"...
When we are traveling, using motels, I pull the starter fuse on my Expedition when I park it overnight. Put it in my pocket for safekeeping. Truck may get ransacked, but it will still be where I parked it when I return to it.
Are they assuming that car thieves are too dumb to drive around their bollards?
In Canada theives were breaking into homes to get keys to steal peoples cars.
The Canadian solution was to tell people to leave their key fobs outside their door and people would not break in to get your car keys.
I kid you not.
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