prospect place car-window smashing

Let me get this straight. You actually witnessed a man busting multiple car windows, then tried to solve the matter with a "super soaker", which then gave this guy a prime opportunity to escape. Amazingly, you then post on a board wanting credit for "trying"?

It seems like you were more concerned with the welfare of this criminal than the cars of your neighbors. I'm sure that they are ever so grateful for your quick and intelligent thinking.

Keep up the good work. With people like you, I'm sure that the crime rate in Prospect Heights will plummet in no time.

Subject: Re: prospect place car-window smashing

withachaser wrote: late last night (sunday night -- 230am), i was succombing to my insomnia at the laptop in my living room, which faces the street, when i heard weird noises outside. these noises were so muffled, they barely roused the dog. when i looked out my window (prospect b/t vandy and under, midblock), i saw a guy busting car windows right in front of my house. he had something wrapped in cloth, which buffered the sound of the windows shattering. i wasn't sure what to do, given the high-alert status of nypd on the eve of the parade and their notoriety in the profiling department. i ended up cutting the lights in my apartment and tried to get him with my super-soaker out the window to make him stop in the moment, while on the phone with 911. i don't think i was sufficiently ammunized to get the range i needed, but he definitely heard the water and moved on. i made a report. i hated giving the description, for above-noted reasons.

i know he got at least 5 cars on the block. sorry if one was yours, but i did try.

btw, my car has been hit several times on this block and on park place. try not to leave ANYTHING, even if of little value, visible in your car.


:roll:

dont be afraid to discribe the person. thats a fact of life to discribed a person by ethicity etc.. would make iding the person faster. not being racist or anything but by not saying makes you look like a racist.

armchair, what do you mean by "afraid to describe the person"? Did you ask withachaser for a description of the guy?

ugh. Anyone know if cars on Plaza St. East around St. Johns and Butler were hit? It doesn't occur to me to check my car for crap like this. :roll:

ugh. I just got a call from a woman who said my window was smashed (she saw my tel# on a pc of paper I keep in there for street-cleaning days). Anyone know where I can get it fixed ASAP? I have 2 little kids with me and this is going to be a nightmare!

I haven't looked at the car yet except from my window but doesn't look like anything was taken.

Subject: car window smashing a neighbourhood sport

I was walking my pit early one morning (dawn, still dark) last year and I actually witnessed the culprit smashing a side window of a parked car with an aluminum baseball bat, at Grand Army Plaza and St Johns.

The kid is familiar to me and my grown son, but I've always hated his guts because he has such a stupid snotnose attitude (the stupid flip up urkel glasses don't help). Like, look at me, I'm the baddest and craziest. He had the loudest mini rocket bike when we were plagued by them a couple years back. yes he's black and lives on st johns, just a teenager.

When I saw him and his pack of bored cronies smash the car window I was not surprised because of this kid's penchant for attention-whoring behaviour. I'm sure he's not the only one engaging in these acts, but if it goes on being unpunished, these little morons will continue to do it.

I called the police when I got home from walking the dog, and they seemed supremely uninterested, even though I saw where the kid walked in his building with his farking aluminum bat. I would have liked this kid to have been made to pay for the window he broke so casually, but it seems like picayune stuff like that doesn't matter to the 77. I don't own a car, but the "broken window" syndrome does contribute to the sense of incivility, even if the car is swiftly removed. The piles of green glass remain behind.

OP should have egged the perpetrator.

Subject: Re: car window smashing a neighbourhood sport

rockhound wrote: I was walking my pit early one morning (dawn, still dark) last year and I actually witnessed the culprit smashing a side window of a parked car with an aluminum baseball bat, at Grand Army Plaza and St Johns...

I called the police when I got home from walking the dog, and they seemed supremely uninterested, even though I saw where the kid walked in his building with his farking aluminum bat. I would have liked this kid to have been made to pay for the window he broke so casually, but it seems like picayune stuff like that doesn't matter to the 77.

This is amazing, particularly since in Red Hook they are now citing people for "crimes" that amount to little more than spitting on the sidewalk in a "Quality of Life" court of sorts.

It's sad that the 77th doesn't deem it necessary to act on this incident, since (a) it would likely make him think twice before he commits more serious crimes, which he almost inevitably will do now, and (b) it would have had a ripple effect through the gang of kids that look up to him.

A smashing took place outside our bldg too (Park btw Flatbush & Vandy, closer to Vandy). Our car was parked 2 cars away, and not smashed. I felt bad for the smashed folks since it rained all afternoon, but unfortunately it didn't occur to me until the evening to call the cops to give them the license plate # so they could contact the owners. Anyone done this before? Would the cops help out in such a situation? Could cover up the window myself but don't want to tamper with s.o. else's car...

This morning on my way to work I saw a car with the window busted out (seriously). Glass everywhere, and the owner had taped a piece of plastic over the empty space.

If someone called the cops, I sure hope that they treated the perpetrator with utmost respect. After all, the car window should be of no concern when the safety of a criminal is at stake.

Man, if only I'd had my "super soaker".

BigGuy wrote:

Depends on if they're union members. If so, 5 bucks isn't going to cut it. $7.50 minimum.

Teamster crackheads. And it's probably double time on weekends & holidays, with two contractually mandated 15-minute breaks every day.

If only. I don't suppose you read the Freakonomics chapter on why drug dealers still live with their moms?

since you have a super soaker. next time put color dye in it. so when you soak him. cops would be able to pick him out.

King without a crown wrote: The fact that you would not call the police

....

what part of:

withachaser wrote: 1) i called 911, first.

2)i was standing at my window, on the phone with police

do you not comprehend, KWaC?

yeesh.

In the spirit of Dan Savage's DTMFA (dump the motherfucker already), I'd like to propose a Brooklynianism: LTRA. Learn to read, already.

Okay, not that funny - someone with more coffee in their system needs to help me out.

what part of:

alafairnadia wrote:
what part of:

[quote=withachaser]1) i called 911, first.

2)i was standing at my window, on the phone with police

do you not comprehend, KWaC?

yeesh.
do you not comprehend, KWaC?

yeesh.

Subject: don't worry just a bunch of meanies here

i like the dye in the supersoaker idea.

Subject: Re: don't worry just a bunch of meanies here

apollonia666 wrote: [quote=nodirection]i like the dye in the supersoaker idea.

It's a cute idea, but not very practical or realistic. You're either going to have to be lightning-fast in dumping dye into your supersoaker the moment you see something going on outside, or you're going to have to keep a dye-filled supersoaker at the ready at all times, thus rendering it useless for your daily supersoaking needs.

and can you imagine the fine spray of dye that will come back at you? and how f'd up your screen will get? ugh. no thank you.