Someone smashed the window of my truck, as it was parked at the train station, and stole a GPS. I have grown too much trusting in people, I think, and did not expect this sort of thing to happen, plus this used to be a "nice area", so I did not hide my GPS.
I guess, a lesson learned.
No, that is the true violence of someone breaking into your home or vehicle. One never feels as secure again. But some libtard judge would likely view it as a petty crime if the criminal is apprehended.
Wes
Unless it was the libtard's vehicle that was broken into.
And then what happened?
i
We can dream...
Similar thing happened to some guys my mother knows. They went climbing somewhere remote, but left some gear and bikes in their van. When they returned, the gear had been stolen. So the next week they did the same, but hid near the van. Nothing happened, so they did it the week after, and the guys broke into the van again, so they grabbed them and took them to the police.
Sorry to hear your story.
Chris
I was hoping for a better ending.....
First they went to jail, then they went to wherever dirty marines go. I think we called it the brig. They stayed there while waiting for courts martial.
Likely Joe Blow bought it for a twenty and no pawn shop is involved but if it goes online I bet you find it. Some druggie likely grabbed it.
Drug addicts. War on drugs is a failure. Criminalize use, de-criminalize possession, take the money out of if. Seriously, if I never snort a bit of cocain and I have a key in my house, leave me alone. Get me for a moving violation (serious) and I'm high, fry me.
No but I'd like to have the same watching my driveway. You get a clue on this please share. Net cams I like tend to be 600 bucks or more.
Wes
Canada isn't much different from the US in terms of crime rates. A conservative newspaper here in Canada has a columnist named Lorrie Goldstein, who makes some really good points. Here's today's article, from
Today let's take a break from the BS we're being fed about global warming to examine the BS we're being fed about crime statistics.
Specifically, about how "low" they are today compared to the past, how anyone who believes otherwise is paranoid and how the best way to make the crime rate even lower is to go even softer on criminals than we already are.
First, let's examine what the crime rate actually is compared to years ago, as opposed to what we've been told it is.
Here are some figures you probably didn't see widely quoted in the media earlier this month when Statistics Canada released its 2007 data on falling Canadian crime rates.
- First, violent crime is up 320% since 1962, when modern records first started being kept.
- Second, property crime, which many victims don't even bother to report anymore, is nonetheless up 75%.
- Third, the overall crime rate is up 152%.
What, you say? You've been told, ad nauseam, by soft-on-crime politicians, media, criminal lawyers and prisoners' rights groups that crime has been going down for years?
You've been told people who think as you do -- that our streets aren't as safe as they used to be -- are suffering from paranoid delusions fuelled by right-wing politicians and irresponsible media?
Okay, let's look at the actual numbers from Statistics Canada.
Canada has been keeping uniform crime statistics since 1962.
- In that year, there were 221 reported violent crimes per 100,000 population. Last year there were 930 -- a 320% increase in the crime rate compared to 1962.
- There were 1,891 property crimes per 100,000 population in 1962,
3,320 in 2007, a 75% increase.- The overall crime rate was 2,771 incidents per 100,000 people in
1962, 6,984 last year, a 152% increase.Any graph that accurately tracks crime rates shows a steep increase throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, peaking around 1991, then falling relatively slowly ever since.
The key word is slowly. While it's true the crime rate has been decreasing since 1991, it has never returned to anywhere near the far lower rates of 45 years ago, particularly for violent crime, the category law-abiding people most care about.
No one knows why the crime rate peaked around 1991, not just in Canada, but the U.S.
Some argue it was due to the gradual aging of the giant baby boomer generation, particularly young males who, as a group, commit most crime. Another controversial theory cites the increasing availability of abortions, meaning fewer unwanted, neglected children.
Whatever happened, the hug-a-thug crowd today uses the relatively small post-1991 drop in the crime rate to argue that since crime is going down, we don't need to toughen laws or impose stiffer sentences. In fact, they say, we should do the reverse.
Nonsense. One could just as easily argue the skyrocketing crime rate we experienced throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to levels which essentially still exist today for violent crime, was the result of the soft-on-crime attitude of both federal Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments.
REHABILITATING OFFENDERS
That attitude was best summed up in a 1971 speech to Parliament by then Liberal solicitor-general Jean-Pierre Goyer. Complaining about the high costs of keeping criminals incarcerated, he said: "The present situation results from the fact that (the) protection of society has received more emphasis than the rehabilitation of inmates. Consequently, we have decided from now on to stress the rehabilitation of offenders, rather than the protection of society."
Yes, you read that right.
Remember it the next time someone from the hug-a-thug crowd tries to tell you the crime rate is down.
Even if I was the meanest guy in the world, I still was away from the truck.
Hope so. I hide stuff inside the car, and lock it all the time. Remnants of living in Las Vegas for many years. Now I live in a town of 1500. But
80% of the crime here and in surrounding small towns within the state is drug related. Grab something that's worth $250 and go trade it for a $10 rock. I want to leave a sign in the window:If you are thinking of breaking into this vehicle, just call me at ***-**** and I'll just give you twenty bucks.
Your trouble is that you're a nice guy. Someone who's mind wouldn't even think of doing such a deed. Alas, the world has a lot of not so nice guys. And gals. Still a lot of good people around, but a lot of riffraff, too.
Steve
That has to be better than Dailyville.
Wes
People are better, too. I do not live in Chicago however.
Do you have a brand of that camera? Anything that I can get started with?
i
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Iggy, I use a cheap no-name ethernet camera, and some motion-sensing freeware I got from an Australian site.
The computer doesn't have to be in the area at risk. I monitor my cameras in my barn from my house, via a short-haul wireless link.
LLoyd
Well, in my case the truck would be away from home.
There are actually some interesting developments in this story.
I use a game camera with good results. I get pictures of anything that moves within the field of view. Have been using it to watch my farm gate for some time and am pleased with the results. Make sure you enclose it in a steel box so it can't be stolen easily. Even if damaged the picture of the perp will be on the chip.
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If you are in a remote area, how hard is it to carry a shovel? ;)
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