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Message started by B Family on 12/27/09 at 7:51pm

Title: Car broken into - items stolen
Post by B Family on 12/27/09 at 7:51pm

Last night, 12/26, between 10 pm and 6am items were stolen from our car in our driveway. We live in Shades Crest Estates off of Alford Avenue. New GPS, my toddler's DVD player, DVDs and CDs were stolen. I hate that this is happening again in the area. When reporting it to the police they did say that they thought the suspects in the earlier robberies had been bonded out of jail (he was not certain).

I am just so frustrated to know that someone was walking in our carport while we were in the house. They were apparently in a hurry because they left the car door open...and they left about $50 in rolled coins from my son's piggy bank in the bend of the passenger seat --- I ran out of time to go into the bank last week.
Needless to say, motion detection lights were installed this afternoon!!
Wonderful way for my husband to have to spend his Christmas Lowe's gift card!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS

Title: Re: Car broken into - items stolen
Post by Bamafan501 on 12/28/09 at 4:13am

Just curious, where your car doors locked?

Title: Re: Car broken into - items stolen
Post by BluffParkWriter on 12/28/09 at 10:20am

Quote:

motion detection lights were installed this afternoon!!

very good idea!

Title: Re: Car broken into - items stolen
Post by B Family on 12/28/09 at 6:06pm

My doors were not locked. We had been in and out of the car all day and forgot to lock them after the last time. My doors are usually locked, even in my driveway.
Regardless, no one deserves to have this happen to them.

Title: Re: Car broken into - items stolen
Post by pekaboo on 12/28/09 at 6:56pm

was this the reason why a cop car was in the middle of the intersection a little ways down from the shell station that night?

Title: Re: Car broken into - items stolen
Post by B Family on 12/28/09 at 8:01pm

No, we didn't realize anything was wrong until our neighbors came over to tell us that the car door was open Sunday morning.

Unfortunately, we just realized that the key fob (clicker) to my husband's car WAS in my console. I can only assume that the thieves were planning on a repeat performance.

The hits keep coming!!!!

Title: Re: Car broken into - items stolen
Post by bpresident on 12/28/09 at 9:19pm

B Family wrote:

First, you're right. Nobody deserves to have this happen. Unfortunately, there are still low-lifes who don't care what others deserve. Many times these thugs live in our neighborhood. Other times they come up from the bottom of the mountain. Either way, they are here and we have to adjust our lives in order to protect ourselves and our property from them. I've purchased the motion sensor lights. I check my car doors every night to make sure they're locked (being slightly OCD doesn't hurt either when it comes to that...). All because of what I've read on this forum.

They're here and we have to fight them in the best way we can, from taking that extra step to make life harder for them, to organizing our neighbors to be our extra set of eyes.

Sorry this happened to you. Welcome to the forum.

Title: Re: Car broken into - items stolen
Post by appleblossom on 12/29/09 at 8:02am

B Family,
I understand what you are going through.. the guy that got in my car in June is still incarcerated at a work release facility in Montgomery. He will be released 1/1/10 after serving 6 months of a 1 year and a day sentence, which is wrong on so many levels. I have noticed a U-Haul backed up to their door lately and hope they will move before or just after he is released.
Oh, and security lights didn't work in my case.. they just helped him see what he was getting out of the car - but the security camera was the clencher.

You aren't the only one that forgets to lock the car... it just happens.