Sorry for your loss & your trouble, BUT...
Welcome to America 2017...
We all need to lock Everything Everytime & Everywhere...
It's not the 1950's any longer...
We're just lucky this thread isn't locked
-John
Sorry for your loss & your trouble, BUT...
Welcome to America 2017...
We all need to lock Everything Everytime & Everywhere...
It's not the 1950's any longer...
Sorry for your loss & your trouble, BUT...
Welcome to America 2017...
We all need to lock Everything Everytime & Everywhere...
It's not the 1950's any longer...
What area of Carroll are you in where this happened? ThanksLittle excitement yesterday. We were getting ready to visit a family member in the hospital on Sunday when my wife couldn't find her purse. We looked in the car and all around the house but couldn't come up with it. I figured, it's got to be around somewhere, so we went to the hospital thinking we would just tear the house apart when we got back.
Low and behold, when we got home, I noticed something odd in my car. Center storage compartment pulled open and CDs/junk spread around.... uh-oh.
Sure enough, someone had ransacked all three of the vehicles parked in the driveway (probably late Saturday night). We found a spot in the neighbor's yard where they crouched behind their wood pile and dumped some of the contents of my wife's purse. She lost her wallet, cash, cards, and cellphone, but they didn't take anything of value from my truck or car... looks like they were moving fast because they left some things of value behind.
Deputy Sheriff who came out to investigate said that they have been getting a rash of these thefts lately across Westminster, Manchester, Hampstead, etc. He confirmed that many folks, like us, don't bother locking their vehicles when they are at home, because... well, it's Carroll County. But it clearly isn't the same Carroll County that it was a decade ago. We live in a pretty rural area and are a good 100 yards off the road, but that didn't seem to bother them.
So... yes, we were stupid. My wife should not have left her purse in her vehicle, and we both should have locked the cars.... we will be altering our behaviors there, but I wanted to pass this along to our neighbors who can learn from our mistakes. The days of not locking up are gone. Thieves are everywhere and they suck.
locks are for honest people.
What area of Carroll are you in where this happened? Thanks
locks are for honest people.
Laws, locks and fences... keeping honest people honest since the dawn of civilization.
I still don't lock all the time. Here's why.
This has happened to us, in the heart of MoCo, Gaithersburg/Laytonsville area, several times over the past 15 years. It started out with them just entering unlocked vehicles to them unlocking locked vehicles. Nothing is secure anymore.
In the 50s, what kind of valuable could of been left in cars. Cars getting broken into just proves, there is a huge drug problem in our society and people have far too much junk that they leave everywhere. Keep your car interior clean, and have nothing valuable laying inside an empty car, and hopefully the a$$Os will skip to the next car.
Now a days, its easier to break into cars. back in my days, "slim Jim" or something like that to break into cars. Now they have that bag with pump, that you can buy off of ebay. open locked doors very easily. My friend has one, but he keeps it in his trunk????
Here's another BIG hint...don't leave keys to your wife's vehicle in your vehicle's glove box and vice versa. A large amount of vehicles are stolen this way.
Also with all the keyless ignitions make sure the keys are kept far enough away from the vehicle where the car wont start. We tested this in our house where the wife keeps her keys. There's no where in the driveway the car would start.