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I don't even own a car, but I've lately developed a profound hatred for those who break into cars (but don't steal the cars)via the window.

Such a malicious, petty crime that causes a great deal of annoyance and expense to an average person, while rarely netting more than a handful of change and a CD or two.

Do they know what the glass costs? I really want to patrol the night and pound these people with a crowbar.

― andy --, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

>I don't even own a car, but I've lately developed a profound hatred for those who break into cars (but don't steal the cars)via the window.

Such a malicious, petty crime that causes a great deal of annoyance and expense to an average person, while rarely netting more than a handful of change and a CD or two.

Do they know what the glass costs? I really want to patrol the night and pound these people with a crowbar. <

$50 in CDs (after visiting the nearest pawn shop) is a solid take for some people. Better pay per minute than having a real job, and if you take so many drugs that operating in a working enviroment (or really, society as a whole) simply isn't for you, its a good option to make money.

Of course, if someone breaks into my car, I'd still like to find them, run them down with my automobile, then back up over them, run them over again, and repeat such 3-4 more times.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Apparently cars get broken into at a ridiculous rate on my block. Local owners have complained that the police are always there when it's time for a ticket but never when there's someone taking a crowbar to your driver's side window. One guy even left the radio niche empty after a break-in, thinking he'd be safe since there were CLEARLY no electronics installed, but they broke the window again ANYWAY. Petty & infuriating.

Then again, someone who grew up here said that back in the day he had a friend who turned to drugs & who, for pocket money, used to just stroll down the street and bash in every window to steal cassette tapes, then put a blanket out on Flatbush Avenue & resell them. Said every once in a while you'd come across your own albums but nothing you could do about it.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I am smug with the knowledge that even if someone broke into my car, all the cd's are either burnt or so scratched that they'd get nought for them if they tried to sell them. As for pocket change, there's never more than about 80 cents in there.

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but you'd still have to replace the window.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

My ex left the cardboard in her little backdoor window so they would know that nothing of value was inside. Still somebody broke in and stole a copy of People and a scrunchy.

― andy --, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Said every once in a while you'd come across your own albums but nothing you could do about it.

Yeah. Crackheads selling cassettes off a blanket in the street are pretty untouchable.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

My car got broken into at work, but they didn't steal anything. I had my cellphone in the car, but they didn't take it.

Mall security was kind of dumb "do you want us to call the police"

Insurance covered the broken glass, and they didn't even ask for a police report!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but you'd still have to replace the window.

-- Laurel

Yes, but i'd know that they didn't get anything worthwhile out of their stupidity.

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

I am smug with the knowledge that even if someone broke into my car, all the cd's are either burnt or so scratched that they'd get nought for them if they tried to sell them.

Ha, 'cause people never buy bootleg cd-r's, Kate.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

roll your windows down

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

the greatest hits of the Bait Car program of the Vancouver Police

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

a friend that lives around the corner from me gets broken into once or twice every month. he leaves absolutely nothing in his car and it's even kind of a clunker. i told him that the money he spends on getting his window fixed every month could be used to pay for a parking spot in a garage.

― Jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Why is that that every single car (without fail) I've seen with The Club installed on it has been a shitbox that is at least 15 years old? I mean, really, who's going to steal you '95 Cutlass Sierra?

― qpә (EDB), Saturday, 23 July 2011 22:59 (fourteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DqxwR6S1L._SL500_AA280_.jpg

― jay r?tard (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 23 July 2011 23:09 (fourteen years ago)

No that you mention it, whenever I walk into the bank tellers do seem to look at me like I'm the one that robbed the place.

Seriously though, this is a phenomenon that has riddled and fascinated me for some time.

― qpә (EDB), Sunday, 24 July 2011 00:37 (fourteen years ago)

maybe people with less to their name have a better reason to want to keep it safe

― iatee, Sunday, 24 July 2011 00:45 (fourteen years ago)

if you do not but a club on your cutlass sierra I will steal that shit at the first possible opportunity

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 24 July 2011 00:52 (fourteen years ago)

are you the one who smashed the window of my hyundai twelve years ago and took $1.86 in loose change but left the mixtapes?

― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 24 July 2011 00:58 (fourteen years ago)

Yes. I dubbed copies of the mixtapes before fleeing the scene

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 24 July 2011 00:59 (fourteen years ago)

shit now someone has copies of "driving mix for ex-girlfriend who hated it anyway no. 3"

― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 24 July 2011 01:03 (fourteen years ago)

I've noticed some pretty advanced new clubs lately, wonder why The Club didn't get it right in the first place

― dayo, Sunday, 24 July 2011 02:32 (fourteen years ago)

if you do not but a club on your cutlass sierra I will steal that shit at the first possible opportunity
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, July 23, 2011 8:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Some shitboxes have hidden charms. A friend of mine had a rusted-out 1977 Olds that got stolen after he'd only had it a few months. It turned out that year/model was one of the most stolen cars ever because it had a lot of places to hide drugs.

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 24 July 2011 02:37 (fourteen years ago)

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