So I walk out to my truck to warm it up and I notice my passenger side door was unlocked. As I get closer I notice that my driver's side door was unlocked as well. When I get next to my truck, the first thing I look at is the dashboard and lo and behold...my cd player is gone and everything that was in my glovebox is on the floor.<
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Man, that sucks. I remember once when I first had my child my car was
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Sorry ,this happened to you Kuervoh, same thing happened to my son a few years ago around this time of year. The cop that handled my son's complaint said that the low lifes were doing their Christmas shopping. I think he was trying to be funny about it but hell it wouldn't surprize me one bit if it wasn't true.<
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My neighbors had their car parked on the street. Its like a 90 toyota. One morning I come home from work and they had the rear window busted out the driver window busted out and the windshield looked like somebody took a bat to it.<
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It really upset me... My neighbors are sweet, nice helpful people. The mother is like 90 something and the guy is pushing 70. What a shitty thing to do to people on a fixed income who never mess with anybody.<
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I live in naples italy, crime like that is huge here, what i do is don't keep anything valuable in my truck, and keep the doors unlocked(god knows where you get windows for a s-10 here). I've had people go through my truck 2 times in my 2 years here, both within 2 weeks, my landlord is connected i think, i guess who isn't in the area i live, and the first time everything from my glove box was stacked neatly on the seat, 2nd time everything was stacked neatly and there was a 200 liter book of gas coupons there, that weren't mine. Seems like someone had to make good on the
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Just be thankful you don't live in Surrey, BC, where the police have been using Bait Cars to try and deal with the dubious honour of having the highest rate of car theft per capita in North America.<
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You must be from NS or Newfoundland or something Dar, here in Toronto if you left $100 on your front lawn people would take it and then come to the door to mug you for more.<
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Sucks man I had it happen to me a couple years ago.<
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I was thinking of getting a CD player for my Voyager minivan, but, you have convinced me to stick with my factory installed FM radio.<
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I bet if we started hanging thieves we wouldn't have this problem. The world is over populated anyways, might as well get rid of the bad apples. <i></i>

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In High School I had a removeable face head unit and it was stolen anyway.... they
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My friend's sister was a hardcore junkie at the time (parents totally clueless). She has since turned herself around but I wondered at the time if it was her drug buddies and she tipped them off. (It was
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eak in looked like it was on a timer: they started trying to punch out the lock on the passenger side door, failed, then sucessfully punched out the lock on the drivers side. They rifled through all the papers in the car (including insurance and the like) but only made away with loose change. It's such a fucking pain in the ass, and inconvenicence having the get all the locks etc replaced after only loosing about 3 dollars in dimes.<
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Oh and forgot to mention I went through a police road check on the way home after the
eak in and I had a cop turn and say to me, "Welcome to Victoria." as he waved me through. The second cop took out his flashlight and investigated the damage and gave me the information i needed to get my case number rolling for the insurance. I was in shock having a cop laugh at something, although very minor, is still outside of a normal police check.<
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oke the door lock, but the hatchback was unlocked. They stole motor oil, jumper cables, a folding camp chair, my Carhartt jacket, some loose tools, and tried to steal my son's toddler seat but couldn't get it out of the car. All total, it was about what my deductible was.<
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I think it's time to clean out my car.... Nothing of *real* value inside, don't have a cd player or anything. But I do have a big box of books I keep putting off
inging into the apartment because it's too heavy for me and some odds and ends from a halloween costume. I would have thought those things would be safe considering they aren't worth anything but now I see it doesn't matter... thanks for the lesson <i></i>

Had my IPOD stolen 2 weeks after I got it from my school...which happens to be one of the richest in the country. I swear to god, there are more cleptomaniacs out there than you'd think, because no one needs the money here and yet we have a ridiculously huge theft problem. <i></i>