PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Becky (My pronouns are Assigned/By/God) on February 14, 2022, 12:29:01 PM
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Guy on NextDoor this morning complaining that his wallet (with credit cards!) was stolen out of his truck (parked on the street) last night.
Sympathy level: 0
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It's a terrible country.
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Guy on NextDoor this morning complaining that his wallet (with credit cards!) was stolen out of his truck (parked on the street) last night.
Sympathy level: 0
The sympathy score goes into negative territory if he left the car doors unlocked on top of leaving valuables in a car on the street.
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Not that I’m perfect. But I knew a gal who was helping a co-worker move. She tossed her purse down in some corner and then raised the drama flag when it disappeared.
In such a setting, my purse would be at home and my car keys, driver’s license and a few bucks would be secured on my person.
I just feel so frustrated when people don’t think.
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Both my Mother and my sister had their purses stolen from a grocery cart in the store. They put their purse in the child seat and left it there, even when they walked away from the cart to find something. I still see women do that all the time.
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Not that I’m perfect. But I knew a gal who was helping a co-worker move. She tossed her purse down in some corner and then raised the drama flag when it disappeared.
In such a setting, my purse would be at home and my car keys, driver’s license and a few bucks would be secured on my person.
I just feel so frustrated when people don’t think.
We live in an urban neighborhood, and these crimes of opportunity happen all of the time. Idiots leave something valuable on the sidewalk or porch, or leave the car doors unlocked with valuables inside. One particular genius two houses up was upset when his car was stolen. Why was it stolen? His wife left it unlocked and they keep the spare key in the glove box.
I mean who the hell does that, keep a spare car key in the glove box? Locked or unlocked, that's dumb, but they did get the car back.
Our teen daughter's car is parked outside, and I have the same ritual every night before I go to bed. I pick up the spare remote, walk to the door, look out the window, hit the lock button, and watch the lights flash. Yeah, she should lock it, but I come behind to be sure.
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My purse stays on my body at all times. I never, ever, leave it in the grocery cart.
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Okay I’m gonna tell on my sister. She lives in an urban area very close to “downtown”, so close you could hear the riots all night the summer of 2020. A couple of weeks ago, she left the car on, idling, forgot about it, went inside, went to bed, slept all night, woke up the next day, some time in the afternoon went outside and found the car still idling away, doors all unlocked.
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The parents of one of our daughter’s more … erstwhile friends always were bemoaning their daughter’s nighttime escapades in their van. She was 14. More than once the cops brought her home.
Did any of that keep the parents from leaving the keys to the van hanging on a hook in the kitchen? No.
We kept our vehicle keys very well secured during this time. No midnight rides.
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Okay I’m gonna tell on my sister. She lives in an urban area very close to “downtown”, so close you could hear the riots all night the summer of 2020. A couple of weeks ago, she left the car on, idling, forgot about it, went inside, went to bed, slept all night, woke up the next day, some time in the afternoon went outside and found the car still idling away, doors all unlocked.
Did she get in it, drive to the store, and buy a lottery ticket?
Or, was the car THAT crappy that nobody wanted to take it?
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Wow. I guess in Idaho people respect private property. I see purses in shopping carts all the time - no one touches them. Once I dropped an envelope with $700 cash at the deli counter. I discovered that when I got home. Went back to the store and someone took it to the customer service counter. I go inside the post office and leave the car running, unlocked. My BIL from Chicago told me if I did that there, there's no way my car would be there when I walked out.
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Okay I’m gonna tell on my sister. She lives in an urban area very close to “downtown”, so close you could hear the riots all night the summer of 2020. A couple of weeks ago, she left the car on, idling, forgot about it, went inside, went to bed, slept all night, woke up the next day, some time in the afternoon went outside and found the car still idling away, doors all unlocked.
The rest of the story:
It's an AMC Gremlin
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Did she get in it, drive to the store, and buy a lottery ticket?
Or, was the car THAT crappy that nobody wanted to take it?
Haha! Toyota Camry 2006 I think. Value between $3000 and $4000.
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The rest of the story:
It's an AMC Gremlin
Ha. I was a delivery boy for a pharmacy when I was 16. The car was a Gremlin. I’m not sure the tires lasted a full year. Lol
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I live on a street with one way in and out about 2 blocks long. During the last snow storm a neighbor left his new white Toyota Camry in the street even though the city says during snow 'emergency' to NOT park in the street. It was a near blizzard with blowing snow and the snow plow cut the drivers side open from stem to stern like a can opener. Not sure but I think that totaled it. Nobody around here is feeling sorry for him, he's also the type of guy who borrows tools and never returns them.
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Haha, I remember an episode of Bob and Ray when a guy called in all excited because he’d put his new Gremlin on blocks in a garage for years, thinking it would be super valuable one day. Asked how much they though it would be worth. After they stopped laughing, Bob and Ray advised him to start driving it.
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I live on a street with one way in and out about 2 blocks long. During the last snow storm a neighbor left his new white Toyota Camry in the street even though the city says during snow 'emergency' to NOT park in the street. It was a near blizzard with blowing snow and the snow plow cut the drivers side open from stem to stern like a can opener. Not sure but I think that totaled it. Nobody around here is feeling sorry for him, he's also the type of guy who borrows tools and never returns them.
Heck, he's the one that needs to be sliced open from stem to stern.