Posted on 01/04/2009 7:43:18 AM PST by NCjim
Tempted to leave that new GPS system in your car? Think you can get away with stashing your laptop behind the seat or your iPod in the glove box?
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You might as well just leave them on the hood of your car with a "For Free" sign attached. At least you'd save yourself the cost of replacing a shattered car-door window, according to police, insurance agents, glass-repair experts and the legions of folks who've found themselves victims of Seattle's most oft-reported crime — the car prowl.
A two-week snapshot of criminal incidents reported to the Seattle Police Department shows that car prowls, in which windows are smashed and valuables grabbed, are by far the city's most frequently reported crime and that no neighborhood is immune.
In the last two weeks of November, for example, more than 370 car prowls were reported within the city limits, according to SPD statistics.
Experts agree, however, that those numbers represent just the tip of the iceberg, as most people — especially those who have been victimized more than once — don't report the damage and thefts to police or their insurance company.
Why bother, they say.
"There's nothing they can do about it," said David Gill, who lives in the Maple Leaf neighborhood and said his car has been broken into and plundered so many times he's lost count.
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A man who lives in a big house on Federal Avenue East near Volunteer Park and has been a car-prowl victim several times said he tries to remember to bring everything he values inside with him at the end of the day.
Nevertheless, he's philosophical about the thefts he can't prevent.
"There are a lot of people around here who need help," he said. "Sometimes, my car is where they find it."
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They need help buying crack. Some people deserve to be ripped off.
I need a big screen TV. Just leave the front door open.
And there's half the problem in a nutshell- these people are thieves, and attitudes like that- making excuses for them- is part of the problem.
It isn't "neediness"-- it's greediness.
This is the result of a “no consequences society” the liberals have made.
> “There are a lot of people around here who need help,” he said. “Sometimes, my car is where they find it.”
The words of an Enabler. Ought to go to gaol with the perp when caught.
LOL, the guy can’t even learn from getting mugged.
Prowl...sounds so innocent, so tame. How about breaking and entering to sell on Ebay for money to buy crack.
Those blasted Amish.
Perhaps if a few of the perps are shot the crime rate will decline?
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In NYC most of the scumbags that did this were crack addicts. they came in all colors.
FGS! Don’t these people have a trunk with a lock on their cars? If they are stupid enough to leave valuables in plain view, it looks to me like they don’t have a lot to complain about when their car is vandalized and their stuff is stolen.
I dunno, but considering the location and the crime, I suspect white trash.
I always called people who needed help and just helped themselves THIEVES.
Silly me.
Absolutely. Shoot to kill. And be sure that the very first thing you tell police is that the punk was screaming how he was going to kill your whole family and you were scared to death. Trial prep, in case some scumbag liberal DA wants to impress his cocktail party circuit.
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