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Why you need to lock your car doors at night
By adamg on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 8:55am
Libberding reports from Davis Square:
So I'm sitting out on my porch a little while ago (just after midnight) on Henry Avenue, and this group of mid-to-late teens (about 6 or 7 of them) come ambling down the street, trying to break into each car. (Part of me was like, wait, you don't SEE ME sitting here smoking my cigarette and reading my book? WTH?) ...
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If you have a flip video, get it going. Even if they don't steal from any of these cars, they might be involved elsewhere.
I sometimes do this when the local "idiots" (my teen son's term) decide that our dead end street is their best route to party central 20 feet into the woods. I make it loud and clear that they should "smile for the camera" and have a lot of fun hassling them about flip flops (the poison ivy is in full bloom, honey - and then there are the snakes ...) and "packages" they think are concealed "nice trapazoidal brown bag there - gonna share?" and even the weather forecast "that outfit will dry quickly when the thunderstorms reach the area ... you did check the weather, right?".
I only call the authorities if there is too much noise, a fire, or obvious alcohol-related unconscious kids being carried out. It is just fun to clarify that what they are doing really isn't acceptable and that they really aren't fooling anybody. In any case, it is a record of who attended and what they were carrying should it get to a legal matter and "my kid would never/wasn't there/didn't bring ...".
My neighbor has occasionally used sound equipment to totally spook them out once they get good and drunk.
Libberding added that she
Libberding added that she waited until they were out of earshot, and then called the police non-emergency number.
She said that she didn't feel safe with them knowing that she was calling the police.
Some commenter observed that you might not want random pieces of crap to know you called the police if they know where you live.
I'd like to give another
I'd like to give another upvote to the Somerville police.
A few weeks back I was at a friend's house around 10pm when we heard a woman screaming:
"Give me my fuckin' money!"
To which a gentleman replied by referring to her in the most vulgar of terms. Things heated up, so I phoned the police. They were there in under 10 minutes and stayed for the next hour or so.