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Three guys with pit bull sought for ransacking unlocked cars in West Roxbury
By adamg on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 12:28pm
District E-5 reports it doesn't take much to steal stuff out of cars in West Roxbury: Between 3 and 10 a.m. on Tuesday, police received reports that 12 unlocked cars were ransacked on Iona Street, Sunset Hill Road, Hollywood Road and Centre Street.
On arrival officers did not observe any damage to the motor vehicles. They observed that the doors were ajar, some trunks open, and the interior in some cars rummaged through. Every one of the vehicles was left unlocked and items such as GPS systems, cell phones, iPod’s, and loose change were reported stolen.
Afterwards, neighbors told police they'd seen "three suspicious Hispanic males dressed in dark clothing wandering around the neighborhood with a pit-bull." However, nobody called police at the time.
District E-5 advises residents that if they see suspicious guys in dark clothes wandering around streets that nobody normally walks on late at night, they should dial 911. Also, District E-5 wishes to remind residents to ALWAYS LOCK their cars.
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I wish to remind District E-5
...that maybe, just maybe, the cars were locked originally? This is about as intelligent as them walking into the scene of a burglary and automatically assuming that because the door was unlocked when they got there, that it was unlocked before the crime. Except that Bumping has existed for years, and most residential locks are trivial to pick the old fashioned way.
There are many ways to get into a car without the keys. Slimjims- for example, not everyone has a factory alarm that would be set off by the lock being popped. Some factory alarm remotes are trivial to clone. Etc.
District E-5 advises residents that if they see suspicious guys in dark clothes wandering around streets that nobody normally walks on late at night, they should dial 911.
I hope there aren't any Harvard professors in the neighborhood.
I wish to remind Brett ...
That this is West Roxbury we're talking about - people there do sometimes forget it's not 1955 anymore. See this interview with the captain at E-5, who says his own wife doesn't lock her car, which drives him nuts.
WHOOP WHOOP, Logical Fallacy Police, pull your argument over sir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence#An...
No, he doesn't prove the case
And I don't even know if he actually lives in West Roxbury. However, sir, I not only live next to West Roxbury, I have two rather close family members (why, hello there, Nancy and kidlet) who spend significant amounts of time in West Roxbury (and who probably know more people in West Roxbury than Roslindal). Which means I spend fair amounts of time there. And so I speak from personal knowledge that, in fact, many people in West Roxbury still live as if it's 1955. Not everybody lives in Brighton or Fenway and automatically locks their cars (or even their back doors). I bet you if you rattled car doors on your average Saturday in the Roche Bros. parking lot, you'd find an amazingly high number of unlocked vehicles (not that I'd recommend it - you never know when the guy pulling up next to you as you try that is one of the cops who lives in the neighborhood).
Hey Brett.
This is to remind you that a good percentage of these cars in fact did have their car doors unlocked. And you can shove your logical fallacy theories up your backside because I've actually written and read thousands of these reports. Some car thieves smash windows, very few use slimjims, and most check for unlocked doors. In neighborhoods like West Roxbury, Moss Hill, and other surburban locations where houses have driveways behind shrubery, a lot people leave their cars unlocked. E-5 just wanted to remind those people to lock their cars next time.
Go read the actual reports or call over there before you spout your limited real world knowledge on the internet.
aren't you supposed to be working some overtime?
For a cop, you sure have a lot of free time.
I'm on overtime right now.
The city pays me to read UHUB at $95 an hour.
I lol'd
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Victims?
While I can certainly say that all you have said here is possible, I'm guessing the police are doing very little assuming here. What almost assuredly happened is that the victims contacted the police to say "hey, someone broke into my car last night and stole x,y and z." Then the police sent someone out to take a report, which involved asking the car owners, "hey was the car locked?" to which the victims themselves said "no." Then the police wrote reports, and, finally, put out the message to the public about remembering to lock your car.
Usual Suspect (Artist's Rendering)
Same basic area where the cheap hooker was allegedly found
Of course, it's almost in Roslindale, so there you go.
And I wish to remind Brett, my contrarian friend
that the police did not mention that the car doors were forced open (i.e. they were originally locked). So methinks the article is correct, that for some reason some people in West Roxbury like to leave their cars unlocked AND store valuable stuff inside that says "steal me. steal me!"
Go figure.
Personally prefer not to hassle with fixing a broken window
Once, in San Francisco, I left the car locked and someone broke the window to ransack it. Big hassle.
So usually my car is unlocked with nothing valuable or important in it. A couple summers ago, 3 guys were ransacked unlocked cars on my street (in WR). Mine got ransacked, but I didn't lose anything. Better than a neighbor who left her GPS holder in sight, in her locked car a couple years before that and had her window broken.