Has your car ever been burglarized?

[hardboiled]

So on my block, people have been getting burglarized often. I got cds stolen w/ my once favorite Fat Boy Slim cd, another person got their laptop stolen, another their gas card, and of course the robber is so stingy they steal the toll money in those little compartments that are ment for little trinkets...

But lately I think I found out who's doing it. If you saw my other post on this site regarding not sleeping, you know I'm up till 4-5AM... I noticed this car comes by at 2:15AM or after and slowly drives up every two houses and stops... I hear the car door slam and someone get out and get back in very quicky afterwards... One night, I heard a car alarm down the street partially go on and turn off abruptly.

So one last night I followed the car with my camcorder in hand.. I followed them to these apartments near my house and parked but I couldn't get a damn closeup on their license plate!! So I called the cops 2 nights in a row after seeing the car again and again. One cop was kinda apathetic like "yeah it happens (meaning car burglaries), just lock your doors." That kinda pissed me off and made me feel even more helpless than I felt b4...

So people will just get robbed? The cops can't do anything about it? It makes me want to become a superhero. Put on some tights and whoop some criminal ass!!!! It also makes me want to keep on staying up late and formulate a plan to catch them...

How do you guys feel after being burglarized? and have you ever been in the position to almost catch the people doing it? What did you do?
Any ideas on what I can do?

[RSL]

About six years ago someone got into my car (I stupidly didn't have it locked) and attempted to steal my CD player. All they accomplished was ripping off the face of it (it wasn't supposed to be detatchable.) Then they took my CDs.

There was no way for me to know who did it, so I never even reported it. There would have been nothing that the cops could have done I would imagine.

[StarChild]

my car has never been broken into (and now that I say that...) but one of my good friends has had her car broken into three times.

[Freya]

I've never had it happen to me. I'm surprised more poepl in my town dont have that problem. NO ONE locks thier doors. You can get into anyones car.

[eestlinc]

someone keyed my car once, and someone else walked across the hood leaving a bunch of dents another time, but never been broken into at least.

[jaytek13]

Yes I have. Except I think it was someone I know. They stole my radio and my amp, and my radio really wasn't worth anything, but I had like a $400 amp. I assume it was someone I knew since I believe that to be the reason they broke into my car in the first place.

As far as doing something about it if you catch them in the act, I wouldn't recommend it. You never know what they are carrying with them, and your attempt to save a few cd's could cost you your life. You have to assume the worst of the deamenor of these people.

And car alarms? Useless... People immediately assume someone was just to close and simply turn them off without a thought. And rightly so, since they do go off often for no real reason. If your willing to run out and check on your car every time it goes of, I'd get one, but most people aren't. It'd be nice if they had ones that went off if a window was broken or something, instead of just when someone comes in close proximety (maybe they do?) but oh well.

[Meat Puppet]

The last car I had got stolen from my driveway. I'm such an idiot.

[Miriel]

I can't imagine that anyone would want to burglarize a beat up 96 Camry with bird crap all over it.

[eestlinc]

yea, nobody seems to want to burglarize a 95 corrola with dents in the hood.

[Necronopticous]

My friend got his Evangelion DVD box set stolen from the backseat of my car when we were in a friend's house. Another time my car got broken into in my apartment parking lot while I was asleep. The contents of my glove compartment were strewn across the carseats but I didn't have anything of value in there. Come to think of it, I think they did steal a few McDonalds Monopoly Game stamps that I had in my center divider. Sucks.

Get this, both of those times I was still driving a beat up '94 Geo Metro!

[jaytek13]

My friend got his Evangelion DVD box set stolen from the backseat of my car when we were in a friend's house. Another time my car got broken into in my apartment parking lot while I was asleep. The contents of my glove compartment were strewn across the carseats but I didn't have anything of value in there. Come to think of it, I think they did steal a few McDonalds Monopoly Game stamps that I had in my center divider. Sucks.

Get this, both of those times I was still driving a beat up '94 Geo Metro!

Yea, it doesn't really matter to them. If you have a high crime rate in your area for car break-ins, then chances are your car will become a victim...

Your best bet to avoid this? Don't leave anything you would consider valuable on your seats, including your cd's (and that especially includes your little pocket wallet cd thing, I dunno what their called lol). Most of the time, if they aren't intending to steal your vehicle, if they don't immediately see anything in the car worth something, they will pass it over.

[eestlinc]

i live in a high risk area for vehicle break-ins but i never leave anything out that looks worth taking. plus most people who live at my complex have much nicer cars than me. One guy had all four chrome wheels stolen off his Escalade. They left it on blocks in our parking deck. I laughed.

[Miriel]

It vaguely relates to the topic of this thread, but my bike was stolen sometime in the past two weeks. Isn't that sad? I think it's sad. I liked my bike, it had a basket.

[jaytek13]

It vaguely relates to the topic of this thread, but my bike was stolen sometime in the past two weeks. Isn't that sad? I think it's sad. I liked my bike, it had a basket.

Well, I lol'd, but i'm drunk, so don't be proud.

[hardboiled]

Wow... an Escalade left on just bricks for its chrome wheels, Mcdonalds Monopoly Stamps (hope it wasn't Boardwalk), and someone got their car stolen.. Wow that's a full low to high spectrum of stolen goods.. I guess some people will steal anything... Also, too bad about that Evangelion series being stolen, damn hardcore anime lovers... Maybe next time leave a Evangelion dvd box in your car w/ the doors unlocked but leave some crap dvd in place of it like "Project Ako" that horrible movie "Better Luck Tommorrow."