geeogree : It's a good thing that you don't keep anything of value to lucky you, but still it's kinda scary that there is someone going around and breaking into things in your area because what if he had a gun or something that's a scary thought

EX Palen :

Wait, they stole a side mirror? I don't understand the logic behind criminal minds sometimes.

That sucks man. My car was broken into a few months ago and I'm pretty sure the doors were unlocked as well. I had to think about it at the time because I always lock my doors and I could've sworn I did it the day before it happened. And my car is always outside because we have a one car garage but two vehicles ( a Honda CRV and Accord ) so one of them ( the Accord ) has to stay outside and it's basically mandatory to lock your doors when your car is outside ( no matter what town you reside in ).

I was coming home from the store in the CRV and as I pull into the garage I noticed that the driver door to the Accord was opened slightly and I instantly knew that some intruder had gone in there. The window wasn't broken, the door wasn't damaged at all, and then I thought "Why isn't the car alarm going off?" ( assuming that I had locked the doors, which I always do ). So, I tested out the car alarm thinking that maybe somehow it was defective or broken, but... no, it was still working. When I entered the Accord, there all kinds of items scattered on the front seat of the car ( items like pens from the console, papers from the glove box, etc. ) but luckily I had nothing of extreme value in there at the time, however, there was one item that was stolen. It was an organizer that fits onto the sun visor, in which it had multiple pockets with zippers that I stored my insurance card and registration in. The invader left the insurance card and registration on the passenger seat and took off with the organizer. It's a cheap thing really, no more than $5 and I don't even remember where we got that from. I'm just glad that they didn't take the radio, which is easily detachable with the push of a button. But I guess they were looking for something a little more materialistic like cash or a wallet of some kind. Not sure who could have done something so childish.

A few years back, this would be unheard of because our neighborhood was really friendly and there was virtually no crime at all. But ever since the renters started showing up more and more over the past few months, there has been a significant increase in the crime rate from stealing rims to house shootings. I don't know who could have done this but I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of the renters around our residence.

I don't want anyone to get the idea that I'm making light or anything, but I can't really resist pointing out how odd the title of the thread looks on the board.

geeogree : unfortunately this seems to be a problem everywhere although I don,t own a car I always read in the news off and on about vehicles being broken into in fact sometimes they even go down streets and break people,s car windows because for some reason they think it,s fun but it,s always the victims of these senseless crimes who end up paying and because there is no private insurance where I live anytime a person has there car window smashed they have to pay a $300.00 deductible to have there window replaced it,s all run by a government owned business you have to pay insurance to put your vehicle on the road but whenever something like this happens they don,t give you anything back

m0ssb3rg935 : I love this. Seriously! I hadn't even noticed and it's been showing up for me for a while now.

Seriously awesome!

When I owned a car, it was attempted break in once (my car had an alarm), but I still installed a camera (with night vision) that hooked to an old tv with a CD recorder. I think it cost me like $50 for the cam and $50ish for the CD recorder. Turns out the town I grew up in is getting pretty worse with those kind of crimes and the Police are posting rewards for info.

I can try to look for a cam during my spare tome if you want to take that route.