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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"There's nothing they can do about it," said David Gill.. his car has been broken into and plundered so many times he's lost count. ..."There are a lot of people around here who need help," he said. "Sometimes, my car is where they find it."
David, I HOPE you don't procreate.
Maybe the moral of the story is that idiot liberals deserve to be robbed. The rest of us need to figure out how to fight back...
Nothing can be done? What nonsense. Nothing will be done is really correct.
Here's a hat for you, Moonbat.
Hopefully you can manage to hold onto that.
I guess I'm just a dumb old Southern boy, because where I come from even the Democrats don't think like that. I lived in Seattle back when it was more "pioneer" than infested with California refugees, and I'm sorry to see it changed so foolishly and radically. They used to have better sense.
My friend in Seattle says that the city is full of bitter people. He sometimes refers to them as the unwashed masses or the blueberries. A few weeks ago, cars and buses were ramming into each other on his street because the blueberries would not allow salt to be used on the roads to control the snow.
I would get a beater, paint it shiny, make it look like it has gizmos in it like a GPS etc.
Install some permanent dye cannisters under pressure with nozzles around the corners of the vehicles like pop up spray heads, when the perps try a smash and grab the whole area 30’ around the vehicle does a high pressure spray of something like a pink dye.
Or rig it like a James Bond security system like in The Spy that loved me.
Time to keep your pet sidewinder in the glove box.
It's all good.
Neighborhood watch might help.
My ex insisted on leaving her vehicle unlocked on the theory less damage would be done if the thief didn't have to break a window ,and nothing in there was worth stealing anyway.
His political campaigning leaves little time for procreation.
Trunks? Don’t think so. I’ve got a buck that says David owns a Subaru of some sort.
It sounds like your ex was a real winner.
In the part of Maryland where I used to live, on a couple of occasions, I’ve returned to my vehicle after leaving it in a parking lot for several hours, only to find that I had accidentally left it unlocked and everything that I had left in it was still there. (I *did* leave it in a safe place.)
Now, I hit the remote control two or three times to make sure the car is locked. I also try not to leave anything valuable in it.
Aided and abetted by that vicious Quaker Gang from Pennsylvania. /S
Pugest Sound regional problem. Not even churches are safe — several Sundays ago my church 15 miles east of Seattle was hit by a “car prowl” (smash & grab) during a service.
And King County’s finest wouldn’t even bother coming out.
If you get robbed IT'S YOUR FAULT BECAUSE YOU HAVE STUFF!
Last time I looked their governments (state, cities and counties) were voted in. Basically, they are getting what they bought. If they want “CHANGE” they should replace their liberals with office holders that pass laws requiring heavy penalties, investigation of each break in, and arrest and prosecution when they get evidence to support it. Place standards on Public Prosecutors and Judges that require their removal from office when they put the criminal's wellbeing above the victims.
People ordain governments for one reason and that is to protect their society. You are just waisting your taxes if they aren't protecting the law abiding citizens and their property.
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