Car Break-ins

innocent x

Others have this in this area? Happened to me twice since last October.

daveb

Subject: Re: Car Break-ins

Innocent X wrote: Others have this in this area? Happened to me twice since last October.

You mind me asking what street?

alex

My car died and my mom gave me her old minivan. So I started keeping all my clothes in the van and driving to work in shorts and changing in the parking lot. Things were going great until somebody stole all my clothes out of the van. That was last summer.

t-fal

yeah, you can't leave anything in your car. that's really only an invitation to a break-in. it sucks to seem like i'm blaming the victims here, but you have to be proactive about doing every thing you can to make your car less of a target.

i am so paranoid about this, i turned into a shrieking harpy when my boyfriend left his blackberry in the cupholder at the jones beach parking lot. probably not a place for major breakins, but why would you risk it?

daveb

Williamsburg was the worst I've ever seen. From what I was told, the Russian Mafia hires the Polish kids to steal cars. I'd wake up in the morning, hit the street and it would be cleaned. All that would be left would be a mess of shattered glass all down the street from where they busted out the windows.

dailyheights

Do you have out-of-state plates?

innocent x

Subject: Re: Car Break-ins

daveb wrote: [quote=Innocent X]Others have this in this area? Happened to me twice since last October.

You mind me asking what street?

Carlton, Prospect Place.

brad

this has happened to me three times over the past year. only one of those times was there anything in the car, and it was just a bag of dirty gym clothes. lucky for me they were company cars that had insurance (three different cars, all looked new with out of state plates), but it seems to be a problem in the area, specifically for me all three were on sterling between underhill and vanderbilt.

quig

Sorry to sound like a nag, but.. Did anyone who had a car broken into file a report with the police?

Like I said before, if you didn't, the crime didn't happen.

anonymous

Alex,
Can you elaborate on your housing status? After reading your post, I the impression that you were living out of your mothers car? I may have to refer you to Jerry. Notoriously known for housing in a caprice

innocent x

quig wrote: Sorry to sound like a nag, but.. Did anyone who had a car broken into file a report with the police?

Like I said before, if you didn't, the crime didn't happen.

I called them and they said I had to come down to the 77th to do anything. They wouldn't come to me.

alex

Anonymous wrote: Alex,
Can you elaborate on your housing status? After reading your post, I the impression that you were living out of your mothers car? I may have to refer you to Jerry. Notoriously known for housing in a caprice

No I live an apt, but I was keeping my work clothes in the van last summer so that I could drive to work in shorts and change in the parking lot No A/C in that thing. It is long gone by now, though.