I remember driving through Washington, DC one night to a friend's house. On the way there I saw a car (don't remember the make or model) sitting on the side of the road, broken down or out of gas. On the way home 3-4 hours later I passed the car going the other direction and it had been picked clean. I mean CLEAN! There was only the shell left. I think the windshield might have even been gone!

I guess if you run out of gas or break down in the nation's capitol, you'd better leave an armed guard to watch your car if you expect it to be there when you get back. Oh, wait, I forgot. Guns are outlawed in the District. . . .

New York City is supposed to be really bad.
 

So much so, that people there put cardboard signs in the car stating: "NO RADIO"



............which has led to the following:


A crashed window, and ANOTHER sign, put there by the auto burglars:


1. "Just checking".....:D


and


2. "GET ONE!!!":D

Ha ha ha! I've seen those signs on cars. My cousin's husbad used to leave the windows rolled down in his Jaguar (they lived in DC and he parked it on the street). When I asked why he did that, he said it was so the windows didn't get broken out by theives. Niiice!

Heh, only when it's -20 and we're up north. We haven't gotten that cold lately.

People who live up north bring their batteries indoors on cold nights.

I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but I can't belive you would leave your SEC outside while have only room for the Subi. If It would have been me and I only had room for one car it would have been the Mercedes! To each his own though. I hope you don't take offense, but this shocked me.

"I grew up in a tough part of town. The kids I went to school with all grew up to become either killers . . . or priests. No middle of the road, man."
( -- Bill Cosby)

As for my current neighborhood, it's okay, but about a year ago there was a shooting at the drive-up window of a Burger King a mile from my house. It happened about 15 minutes before I was to leave for work. I used to go running that way. Needless to say, I don't take that route any more.

The shootings here (Noo Awlins) have mostly been of drug dealers, drug customers, and gang members in the areas where they "stay." However, I heard somebody fired some rounds and wounded some people in the 100 block of Bourbon, in the French Quarter, on the day before Mardi Gras.

I keep wondering if I'm due to stop a bullet this year -- either one made by Remington, or one (a hurricane) made by Mother Nature.
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I have a friend, lives in a nice neighborhood, who wanted to get rid of an old but still servicable bicycle. He put it out in the front yard with a "Free" sign on it. It remained there untouched for days. Then he changed the sign to "$25". The bike disappeared.

I did the same thing with an old ping pong table. I put a notice on the bulletin board at work offering it for free. One week later - no takers. After my friend told me his story, I changed the notice to read "$25.00". I got a call the next day and the guy picked it up shortly thereafter. I still let him have it for free.

Pretty good.



All my neighbors are pretty cool. I live in what was a gated community, but the city made us take down out gate....



I can leave my car unlocked, and I doubt anyone will mess with it, but just to be safe, I still lock it.

I ALWAYS lock my car. This is the big city, leaving it unlocked just asks for trouble.

A fellow I used to know had the drive shaft stolen from his Bronco. He as able to put it in 4WD and got it to the mechanics and had another one put in.

well pretty good up to about a few weeks ago. i live in monrovia, ca and there was a murder 2 blks away. seems rival mexican and black gangs decided to war it up. been going on for 10 or so years, they say. only lived here for 3 years now.

now wheres a berkeley peacenik to mediate a truce between our gangs?!? :P

I leave my keys in at night. Never lock it at work, etc.. Maybe I need to find a bad neighborhood. Nah, I'll keep to the sticks.

We have a house with 11 acres in WV, and we live in an apartment in Northern Virginia during the week. Got tired of commuting and my wife like Northern Virginia . I been working to my 280CE on weekends, I put my tools in my toobox in back of my truck which has a camper I then took a Chain locked to bumper and wrapped that around the handle for rear camper window. This is house is to quote the locals " in a RICH neighborhood". Well last weekend I found out that someone had hacksawed through my camper handle and took all my tools and a set of 14in blunts that were given to me. What really pissed me off is that all my special Hazet wrenches were in my tool box and I know the Hoilgan's have no Idea what they are worth. This weekend I am going to local pawn shops to see if I can buy back my tools. :mad: P.S. I have my benz unlocked They have the radio don't want to replace window.

I use to have a condo in Manassas and one day my nieghbor could not start her Honda. It so happen that theives stole her ECU. They took it from her underdash/console and put everything back even locked the car so you could not tell it had even been touched.

Sorry you got robbed. That is a bummer!

but.....

Leaving valuables in a camper is like a thief magnet!

In the locked trunk of your car is much better....harder to get into and less likely to attract the crows.

A chain on the camper was like a sign, IMHO, saying "I have something in here worth stealing!!!!!!"

Sorry, I am not trying to make you feel worse.

Tom W