car got rummaged through

[Rÿcher]

this morning my wife got in the car to go to work but it wouldn't turn over. The battery was dead. I guess she saw that the door was open a tad which left the inner dome light on and since I was the last one to drive it, she thought I was the one to leave the door open. I thought it was kind of suspicious because me being me, I know the difference between the sound of a car door closing and a car door partially closing and I always go back when I hear it partially close.

anyway, she got a ride from her father and called me from her work to apologize to me because she saw some stuff from one of the door compartments strewn out on one of the seats that either one of us clearly didn't do. We came to the conclusion that someone had gotten into the cat, rummaged around looking for valuables and didn't close the door all the way for fear of being heard.

Nothing was missing that we can ascertain.

I called the police. An officer came out. Told me that over the course of a year, there have been about a hundred vehicular break-ins and intrusions in the city and that he'll write up a report.

figures, only a month to go before we get an alarm/remote starter.

 

[Canadave]

I had this happen to me, once, too. I make a point of not leaving much of value in a parked car, so nothing of mine got stolen, but unfortunately a friend of mine left his iPod in my car without me knowing that night, and it got taken. It sucks, but these things happen, I guess.

 

[Ward Fowler]

This happened to me as well, But it was my own fool fault. I was in college and not living on the best side of town. Some of my friends and I went to a softball game. After the game I dropped them off and went home. I didn't realize that one of my friends left a rear door unlocked. So someone stole 500 cds out of my car. Nearly my whole collection. I was pretty pissed.

 

[Trekker4747]

Silly me, I always lock my car doors.

 

[Ward Fowler]

Yeah, I do too. My friends on the other hand....

 

[Trekker4747]

And I mean I always lock them. If I'm pumping gas and need to run into the C-Store to get something I'll have them locked (even though the car will always be eye-shot) or if I'm running into the bank or, hell, even my mailbox. They're locked.

It baffles me people will do things like leave their doors unlocked or even their windows down.

Once a co-worker told me he needed to go outside and roll the windows up in his car because it was starting to rain.

Dude? Why the hell did you park your car and come in here to work an 8-hour shift but leave your windows rolled down on your car? What the hell? And people who leave the tops down on convertables.

I mean, Chirst, people take some responsibility and use some common sense!

You're just asking for bad things to happen to you when you do stuff like this.

 

[Ward Fowler]

I agree. I'm a pretty fastidious person myself. It seems insane to me to be so irresponsible that you leave doors unlocked or especially windows down. However, the friend of mine who left the door unlocked is notoriously irresponsible and lazy. However, the responsibility belongs to me since I was the last one out of the car. I checked the front doors but not the back doors and I didn't have power locks. Fortunately, my insurance covered the theft of my cd's, so it worked out well for me in the end.

 

[Rÿcher]

yeah, we live in a pretty suburban to rural area so we didn't think it was really necessary to lock the doors. Lesson learned, I guess.

We better start locking the front door while we're at it.

 

[K'riq Sa]

yeah I don't lock my car or windows either...


but do you see where I live?......

I would see someone or at least hear them.....








k'riq

 

[Finn]

^That's Hollywood?

 

[Trekker4747]

^That's Hollywood?

The housing boom really hasn't hit them yet.

 

[NCC1968]

^That's Hollywood?

Doesn't look like my area

 

[Kestra]

I can't imagine not locking my car door. Or the front door. The car itself is valuable but I always carry so much junk around in the car that I can't imagine they'd even be able to find anything valuable inside to steal.

 

[sithlord]

I had my car broken into twice. Car door was locked AND in an underground garage WITH cameras in both instances (so much for security.) The funny part is that the first instance I caught the bastard in the act! Don't know who was more scared during that confrontation, me or him!

 

[jamestyler]

The first time it happened to my car I wasn't terribly surprised. It was a piece of crap I bought that should have been junked. It was so bad the passenger door fell off on the way to Sheffield one time.

They took the CD player and the officer that dealt with us just said ; if he hadn't found that, he would have kept on going. Not too comforting at fist as if that was the case, considering we only left the car for a few minutes, we might have caught him.

Things did look up though when I realised by not searching the car he missed two very large bottles of Jack Daniels.

Things didn't seem so bad after that.

 

[Trekker4747]

Fortunately, my insurance covered the theft of my cd's, so it worked out well for me in the end.

That *is* pretty lucky.

My brother had his car broken into when he was in highschool and his CD player/changer and CDs stolen. The insurance company said they could not be replaced because the CDs and player weren't "part of the car" and thus not covered. He would've needed a rider on his policy to cover any objects inside of the car, like media. How the player/changer isn't "part of the car" is beyond me.

 

[Krieg1981]

I had someone break into my car, and steal the plastic molding piece around my climate controls on the dash. I had to go out to the junkyard to procure a new one. Who the fuck does that?

 

[Ward Fowler]

Fortunately, my insurance covered the theft of my cd's, so it worked out well for me in the end.

That *is* pretty lucky.

My brother had his car broken into when he was in highschool and his CD player/changer and CDs stolen. The insurance company said they could not be replaced because the CDs and player weren't "part of the car" and thus not covered. He would've needed a rider on his policy to cover any objects inside of the car, like media. How the player/changer isn't "part of the car" is beyond me.

My insurance company said the same thing. However, the insurance was in my dad's name (I was in college at the time) and his homeowners insurance was with the same company. For some reason the cd's weren't covered under the auto insurance but were covered under homeowners.

 

[Trekker4747]

I had someone break into my car, and steal the plastic molding piece around my climate controls on the dash. I had to go out to the junkyard to procure a new one. Who the fuck does that?

Clearly somone who lost THEIRS and didn't feel like going to the junkyard.