JohnD Posted January 14, 2008 Report Posted January 14, 2008 That stuff makes me so angry. My wife had her purse stolen from her vehicle in our driveway. We got some stuff back, as the thief left a trail down our street. I guess as they went through it they tossed what they didn't want on the ground and dumped the purse in the dumpster behind a resteraunt at the end of my street. Sorry to hear you got ripped off, Clay and though, I'm glad you got some of your stuff back I really hope they catch the scumbags that did it. It's such a cowardly thing. Makes me angry. My sister got a voicemail today from a detective asking something about her credit cards... She's freaking out cause she doesn't have any and can't seem to get in touch wit the detective. John Quote (rdb):God looked down at the world, and said "See, right there in Witchita, next to the railroad tracks, I didn't put enough dandelions".
Members CitizenKate Posted January 14, 2008 Members Report Posted January 14, 2008 That will help avoid losing anything you really care about, but the police told me something interesting... that thieves are more interested in cars that have stuff sitting in the seats, whether they can tell it's something valuable or not, and avoid cars with nothing sitting in the seats. Of course, that makes sense (... duh!), but my car was pretty cluttered when it got broken into (I had all the usual stuff that you bring along on a trip - jacket, thermos... and my bowling ball, which I kept forgetting to bring in the house - whew! - apparently they weren't bowlers, do ya think? I could just see the thieves trying to lug that thing down the street with sirens going off everywhere - ha!) So one way to reduce the odds of even getting your car broken into (which is expensive, even if nothing gets stolen), is to not keep anything in your car, whether it's valuable or not. Kate I never leave anything I care about in the car. Quote
Contributing Member TwinOaks Posted January 14, 2008 Contributing Member Report Posted January 14, 2008 (edited) Take copies of the police report(s) to your bank(s). When my wife's purse was stolen, I called the cops and made a report. To the banks the next day, where we were able to prove, with the report, that the $400 dollars charged at gas stations wasn't done by us. The scary thing is that almost half of the fraudulent charges on the two cards were done within 30 min of the theft's time frame ( we narrowed it down to about a 15-20 minute window). And yes, it had been left in the car. CYA very well. +1 Kate, on keeping nothing in it. About 15 years ago my sis' car was burlarized. They never broke the window either- instead, they pried the window frame away from the body of the car and just reached in to unlock it. All the crooks got was some costume jewelry. It took a totally new door to fix the damage. Now, personally, I like the idea of bait and switch...in a boobytrap-ish sort of way, but I hear that can lead to all sorts of legal problems. Edited January 14, 2008 by TwinOaks Quote Mike DeLoach Esse Quam Videri (Be rather than Seem) "Don't learn the tricks of the trade.....Learn the trade." "Teach what you know......Learn what you don't." LEATHER ARTISAN'S DIGITAL GUILD on Facebook.
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