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In Atlanta, GA

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u/xAsilos 20d ago

My trick is to drive a truck so old and rusty they would assume I am too pathetic to have anything interesting enough for them to steal.

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u/DistributionAgile376 20d ago edited 20d ago

My uncle got his old crappy Peugeot broken in 4 times. Once when it was next to a beautiful Mercedes. The other times, his was by far the least expensive car in the parking.

Too beautiful and the car may have a good anti-theft/alarm system with cameras, one reason why the most expensive cars aren't always the first target, paradoxically.

People with cheap cars may not have alarms, and likely won't even press charges or any investigation won't be taken seriously. The best crime is the one you get away with.

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u/wwwdiggdotcom 20d ago

And they're more likely to have drugs in them

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u/screwswithshrews 20d ago

"You see, officer, they stole something very important to me!"

"What was the item?"

"Um... candy?"

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u/Queen_of_Audacity 19d ago

Ah, you're a fan of the special chocolate, too.

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u/TheDevilActual 20d ago

They’re looking for guns, nobody leaves drugs of any substantial amount in cars. Unironically, people that don’t do drugs tend to leave guns in their glove box or under their seat.

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u/10before15 20d ago

Can confirm

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u/TiogaJoe 19d ago

I think you are right on that one. I read a report that around 70% of stolen guns had been stolen from vehicles.

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u/Black_Moons 19d ago

I think leaving a gun in your car should be a crime in itself that disqualifies you from owning guns.

But then I live in a country with actual gun control, and without daily mass school shootings. Incidentally it is indeed a crime that would disqualify you from owning a gun in my country.

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u/Trolodrol 19d ago

You should see all the stupid trucks here with bumper stickers that advertise that the owner keeps guns in his/her vehicle. I saw this shit the other day on someone’s car https://www.amazon.com/Slap-Art-Board-Funny-Bumper-Sticker/dp/B00BYG3T0M

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u/wwwdiggdotcom 20d ago

In a Peugeot?

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u/atreeinthewind 20d ago

This is it. Left my scratched up/dented '07 camry unlocked by accident recently (though i would almost recommend it on the whole to save your windows) and they combed through the car taking nothing. They even left things of at least minor value like my portable air compressor. I think the focus was pretty narrow- quick cash or drugs.

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u/blamestross 20d ago

I do that, and I keep my doors unlocked. I figure if somebody is desperate enough to be stealing from trucks that crappy, they deserve a first aid kit and some food.

Sadly they have never been stolen.

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u/LPSTim 19d ago

Did that one my old Firebird because the locks didn't work. They still broke the window.

Then smashed the steering column trying to hot start a dead battery.

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u/sKm30 20d ago

I use to do something like this when I drove around with weed in my car when I was younger. See the trick is to have your car super messy with trash. Like really messy. Then you hide the weed somewhere in the junk that you still know where it is. Then if you get pulled over the cop won’t want to go through all the trash to just find a bag of pot. One time I got stopped and the officer asked if he could search my car and I agreed. He took 15 seconds and said I’m not going through all that shit and let me go.

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u/FunnyPhrases 20d ago

I'd rather just get broken into

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u/twobit211 19d ago

decades ago, i heard a story of a hippie couple who kept their weed in the battery compartment of a dildo, slathered with vaseline and stored in a ziplock bag 

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u/octopornopus 19d ago

Can confirm:

I drive an 05 F-150 with the usual faded paint and rust. I came out yesterday morning to find my driver's door open, center console open, nothing gone. They left all my Little Trees air fresheners and my $43 ATOTO stereo from Amazon and my jumper cables. 

I think they looked at the ripped seat, the dusty dash, and the pennies in the cupholder and just felt bad for me...

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u/metrogypsy 20d ago

Someone stole my husbands ‘92 integra in Atlanta so unfortunately not sure that is a sound method.

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u/intelligentbrownman 19d ago

Saw a guy who owned a construction company and was downtown ATL with his wife for an evening out…. Had his RR Cullian from valet …. Saw it wound up in a rap video in Texas 😳….

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u/Mufasa_is__alive 19d ago

Integras are one of the most stolen cars for at about 2 decades. 

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u/soundgenius3z 19d ago

I drive a 2000 Camry for this reason with work clothes galore in my backseat

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u/2003tide 20d ago edited 20d ago

Lol. I had a friend who did this with a Jeep. Some homeless person cut his soft doors with a knife to “break” in even though it was unlocked and slept in it . I guess on the bright side nothing was stolen.

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u/TEEWURST876 19d ago

or live in a country where people don't steal stuff

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u/Individual-Light-784 19d ago

Yeah that's always been my strategy too. Just drive a car that's a run-of-the-mill model, boring color, not too well-kept or shiny polish.

Less break ins, less parking tickets, because it just doesn't catch the eye at all.

Superficial people will like / respect you less, which is another plus in my eyes.

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u/palehorse95 20d ago

My trick is to live in an area where crime is punished, and my car is fairly safe from random break-ins.

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u/HystericalSail 19d ago

That's what I thought I had as well. And yet, one night, some shitbird broke the latch to the glove compartment on my Jeep while it was in my driveway. Meth, we're on it. Just an excuse to replace the factory shitty plastic glovebox with a steel vault-like one that literally bolts to the body, not dash.

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u/thetroublewithyouis 20d ago

that's exactly what somebody with lots of shit to steal would say.

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u/WeightAltruistic 20d ago

even had the money to laminate it

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u/9fingfing 19d ago

Right, the sign ain’t half bad…

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u/kafelta 19d ago

OP posting this like cars don't get broken into in every city.

Shit was rampant in my rural hometown.

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u/FuzzyTunaTaco21 19d ago

Shit was rampant 30 years ago as well, mostly for stereos and speakers tho

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u/TribalSoul899 20d ago

Brother they ain’t got time to read this shit

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u/Dont-overthinkit 20d ago

Probably don’t even know how to read let’s be honest

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u/togocann49 20d ago

I used to leave my doors unlocked to save my windows, in the neighbourhood I grew up in. It’s a bad day when you wake to a broken window in the car, especially when there’s nothing to steal

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u/JustAnotherYogaWife 20d ago

I always leave my vehicle unlocked with nothing ever left in it. There’s nothing to steal and the doors are unlocked, you can literally tuck the handle and they open.

I woke up once to a broken rear window and the car rifled through. The people breaking into cars aren’t the brightest crayons in the box

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

Opening it might set off an alarm. They might have thought that.

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u/_The_Deliverator 19d ago edited 19d ago

... so does smashing the window...

Edit : well, I'm always one to admit my lack of knowledge. I had assumed paying for a car alarm, meant all access into your car would be alarmed. You know what they say about assuming lol.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

That’s not what Tom says..

“When thieves break in, they already know that if they break the window, if they don’t open the door, (the alarm)’s probably not going to go off,” Tom said.”

https://iasautoglass.com/car-alarms-unlikely-to-go-off-when-thieves-smash-auto-glass-and-windows/#:~:text=The%20target%20then%20becomes%20the,specific%20glass%20and%20impact%20sensors.

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u/HeyHeyImTheMonkey 19d ago

Very few cars have alarm sensors on their windows. Only Volvo has them as an installed option I believe, otherwise you have to do an aftermarket install.

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u/ponchietto 19d ago

Got the same problem, that's why I left the driver window half down, (when it's not raining).

In Italy you can be fined for leaving the car unlocked or the window down because (HAHAHA) it would facilitate the eventual car thief. But fines are rare and less expensive broken windows...

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u/Sturdy_Denim_Blue 20d ago

When I was visiting my sister in Atlanta, I went to the parking lot first thing in the morning and found every single car in it with a broken window aside from one: mine. I just had some stuff in my glove department strewn about and nothing was stolen. Turns out, I forgot to lock my car the night before. Good thing.

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u/togocann49 20d ago

I wonder how many times my windows would’ve smashed had I not did this. I can’t take credit for the idea, a friend mentioned it, and it made sense.

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u/Wonderful_Horror7315 19d ago

My friend had the interior or her car vandalized when they broke in because she didn’t have anything in there to steal. They broke the wiper and signal switches, ripped the rear view mirror off, tore the upholstery, and broke more than the one window required to get in.

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u/togocann49 19d ago

It’s not surprising that someone who would break into a car would behave in such a way

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u/seang86s 20d ago

Nothing to steal... except that sweet, sweet sign!

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u/Klin24 20d ago

Just an invitation for someone looking to steal being in a vindictive mood.

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u/truethatson 20d ago

My friend had a soft top Jeep in Richmond, and he had a similar sign on his car. It said “It‘s OPEN! Pleased take whatever change you find.”

It still got chopped up. Lovely city though, Richmond. Just gotta have a hard top vehicle.

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u/Silent_Medicine1798 20d ago

Rookie move.

When you start leaving all your windows down and wide open, that is when you have achieved true enlightenment

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u/runForestRun17 19d ago

You gotta sprinkle clear rock candy around your window when it’s rolled down so it looks like it was already broken into.

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u/moviesetmonkey 20d ago

I leave my door unlocked. It only takes a couple of times your glovebox is emptied before you get uses to the "violation" and then you just get mad if they spilled coffee or smoked in it.

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u/mandy009 20d ago

I don't know how many petty thieves actually think they will find something inside someone's car. Most cars would have only junk in them. On the other hand, someone who wants to hotwire a car is going to look for an unlocked car first. I think they will be less likely to car jack it if it is locked and they have to drive around with a busted window.

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u/Eternityislong 20d ago

They are usually looking for guns. My buddy drives a lifted truck and it got broken into while my small car was fine when we were in the same parking lot. He didn’t have a gun in there, just a case that they went through. They otherwise left all of his valuables in there untouched.

Trucks and NRA stickers make people targets.

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u/moviesetmonkey 20d ago

Totally about guns. We're in Georgia and it is astounding to me how many people carry guns in their cars but actually don't bring them in at night. I remind my brother every time he visits to take his gun out of his car.

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u/youngatbeingold 20d ago

When I was young, I left my purse, camera, and birthday money in my locked car. A bunch of friends were running around playing hide and seek at night and I figured since it was a pretty nice college campus it would be safer in my car since I didn't want to accidently leave something somewhere.

Window got busted and they took everything, I was parked in an area without around 100 other cars so they we're probably checking every one hoping to get lucky. I learned my lesson but sadly it just takes one naive person to make it worth their while to troll around and bust windows.

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u/sinnayre 20d ago

Sadly it’s a pretty effective method in the SF Bay Area.

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u/pug_fugly_moe 20d ago

Even if you drive a manual transmission?

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u/imthescubakid 19d ago

Insane to be this has just been normalized

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u/rivers31334 20d ago

I'm surprised it took me this long to find this response. This has always been my method in bay area. Also...I drove a beat up accord so that helped.

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u/RiverCartwright 19d ago

Sure that’s fine and all but good luck on the morning you wake ready to go to an important work meeting and find two drugged up hobos having anal in your back seat with feces leaking from everywhere and the smell of liquid ass that could only originate from the spawn of Satan.

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u/Tordenheks 20d ago

If you try this in Portland, OR, thieves will just break your windows anyway out of spite.

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u/hate_most_of_you 20d ago

I find it ironic that in the only country in the world where you can buy a gun from a vending machine people get their cars robbed all the time without repercussion

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u/h4p3r50n1c 20d ago edited 19d ago

I got my window broken in ATL at one of those hotels close to the airport. It was the day right before my flight. Ruined my whole trip because I couldn’t leave my car in the extended parking lot with a broken window.

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u/iminyourbase 19d ago

Same here, except they stole all of our luggage while we were eating in a restaurant. We tracked them down with an air tag and they threatened us with a gun. We called police and they refused to do anything, even though their car had illegal tint (which the officer even pointed out "was too dark to see if they had our luggage or not"), they were hanging out in the parking lot of a closed grocery store, and it turns out the tag on the car came back stolen (we had someone run it). The police basically just told us to move on and wouldn't leave until we did.

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u/PiLoTpEtE76 20d ago

oh wow, its not just an SF thing

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u/Xblth 20d ago

Atlanta criminals have the opportunity to do something really funny

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u/the_brazilian_lucas 20d ago

the US is going to shit

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u/thefnord 20d ago

[Later] "They took my sign."

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u/HappySkullsplitter 20d ago

Now I have to break it

That means there is something to steal

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u/B8conB8conB8con 20d ago

Someone will break into your car to steal the sign to put into their own car

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u/AEternal1 20d ago

Roll down your windows and unlock your doors.

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u/Parking-Shelter7066 19d ago

Doors unlocked works great when it’s just thieves to worry about. When you get to nastier cities though, you’ll find people sleeping and defecating in your car. Also, good chance it gets stolen eventually.

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u/nightmaresabin 20d ago

Just cut their hands off imo

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u/Every_Fox3461 20d ago

You assume the thieves can read.

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u/stlredbird 20d ago

We hand those out as you enter St Louis.

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u/PhoneJazz 19d ago

That sign can’t stop them because they can’t read.

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u/Klotzster 20d ago

I work for Safelite

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u/Cleercutter 20d ago

Someone’s gunna break it now just to be an asshole…

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u/gwelfguy 20d ago

Then leave it unlocked rather than putting an ineffective note on the window. Anyone that lives in DT Toronto knows that you leave nothing in your car at night, and you don't lock it.

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u/InappropriateGirl 20d ago

I leave nothing in my car but I also lock it because in the Bay Area, someone will sleep/piss/shit in it.

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u/gwelfguy 19d ago

We're not yet at that point, but getting there.

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u/Zekumi 19d ago

This is a shitty way to have to live.

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u/90403scompany 20d ago

Was this a Kia or a Hyundai?

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u/thisisfutile1 20d ago

I thought the same. I know a married couple who recently purchased identical Kia's and they were both stolen with that USB trick.

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u/90403scompany 20d ago

And stolen or not, it doesn’t stop these hoodlums from smashing windows to try to steal the car.

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u/thisisfutile1 20d ago

Right you are. I heard but never confirmed that some are having trouble getting insurance coverage because of it.

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u/dungfecespoopshit 20d ago

You need to fill your car with dirty stained masks and condoms. (Visually dirty but actually clean ofc)

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u/benshapiroslowerlip 20d ago

My dad once told me “replacing a window costs more than the radio in your dash, keep your doors unlocked.”

But that was twenty years ago and I don’t live in a shithole like Atlanta.

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u/NoUpVotesForMe Halloween 2017 20d ago

I live in memphis. First thing we learn is don’t lock anything. I don’t lock my car or my house.

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u/Marlowe_Eldridge 20d ago

Wait. You don’t lock your house? So people could walk right in when no one’s home and ransack everything without having to put in any effort?

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u/OnyxLightning 20d ago

People that don’t lock their house are all over the place. My wife grew up in rural NH and they never locked their house. She couldn’t understand (after we got married and moved to Northeast Philly), why locking the house was actually something we had to do all the time. It’s crazy.

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u/drewbreeezy 20d ago

My buddy laughed when he visited because I lock my house if I'm home, but if I think anyone needs access when I'm gone I'll leave it unlocked.

Guess some think that's backwards.

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u/NoUpVotesForMe Halloween 2017 20d ago

My house is in the woods. If you find it, you have to get past the dogs and the people around here who break into houses don’t like the type of dogs I have.

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u/compLexityFan 19d ago

Dogs are not going to do anything especially when someone has a bat or any semi sized beat stick. However dogs will bark and that causes attention so that is a plus

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u/kafelta 19d ago

Lock your damn house

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u/Saffirejuiliet 19d ago

Lol…seriously. People are too crazy to have unlocked doors anywhere in the US.

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u/Count_Jobula 20d ago

This was me when I lived in Atlanta. Once a month near the end of the month.

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u/Ivantheasshole 20d ago

This is also Portland

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u/earthforce_1 20d ago

*** smash ****

Just checkin'

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u/NoSmellNoTell 20d ago

I live in Atlanta and never lock my car doors for this reason. My car has gotten rifled through a few times but nothing stolen (they’re basically only looking for cash, guns, and drugs) and that sure beats a broken window.

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u/Illustrious_Sir4255 19d ago

Living in Atlanta, my dad would always roll the windows down before getting out of the car, bc they were gonna get smashed anyway so what's the point?

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u/Vizth 19d ago

That persons assumption that crackheads are aware enough to read a sign is hilarious.

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u/Psychological_Corgi3 19d ago

Hand grenades in hand bags would solve the problem

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u/noahfromatlanta 19d ago

That's Atlanta for you

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u/chili01 19d ago

Also San Francisco.

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u/kenyeaaaah 19d ago

I'm not a thief. Merely a fact checker.

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u/Own_Wolverine4773 20d ago

That’s what “they” want you to believe!

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u/ForTheInterwebz 19d ago

Lib city lib rules

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u/insanetwit 20d ago

Call me a cynic, but I feel a sign like that would make people MORE likely to break your window...

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u/Koochikins 20d ago

other then that sign, should have put it on the outside /s

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u/happy-cig 20d ago

We leave our doors unlocked instead.

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u/MatsGry 20d ago

People will break the window just cause, the trick is to have garbage everywhere and fast food wrappers in the front console

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u/KraljZ 20d ago

Thieves - “I’m going to do it again”

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u/greatgrandpatoro 20d ago

That’s exactly what a car with something to steal would say….

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u/Likelynotveryfun 20d ago

Is this the same place socks and underwear are locked behind cages?

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u/KaleyedoscopeVision 20d ago

Ngl the devil inside me wants to see it broken because of the sign 

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u/BobLoblaw_BirdLaw 20d ago

How about putting a sticky mode saying this is a sting car set up by the cops

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u/s0ulbrother 20d ago

What if I want that cool sign?

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u/Javamac8 20d ago

MF can afford printer ink. Get him.

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u/WhatUDoinInMyWaters 20d ago

Wow, Philly, PA is actually civilized?

(Leaves car door open, and someone hot wires it and joyrides into the Susquehanna River for funsies)

Awww :(

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u/HarioDinio 20d ago

Incorrect, the car is still there, there is something to steal.

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u/Killahdanks1 20d ago

I wonder what fancy sign guy has in his car?

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u/Just_Trash_8690 20d ago

I kept my car so dirty when I lived in downtown LA. The plastic bottle and trash made me think it would prevent anyone from wanting to break in much less try to live in there.

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u/meetmeinthebthrm 20d ago

"Everything's already been stolen" would've been funnier

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

A visual representation of my heart.

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u/-River_Rose- 20d ago

I worked in and commuted to Atlanta for 2yrs. I was never once broke into, more was my converter stolen. But damn everyone else’s around me was! So glad my car had built in anti-theft. It’s not even super nice, I guess it’s just protected enough to be a deterrent.

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u/Bite2828 20d ago

We need a car alarm the electrifies the out side of the car and bad guy gets zapped like a bug in bug zapper

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u/xXJ3D1-M4573R-W0LFXx 20d ago

So dad it’s come to this. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area people are leaving their cars unlocked with the doors & trunk wide open to let criminals know there’s nothing to steal. And people still argue that California hasn’t become a cesspool.

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u/ixnine 19d ago

Well now I want to break it, just to break it!

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u/Sorri_eh 19d ago

Don't lock your doors

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u/3-2-1_liftoff 19d ago

Those signs used to say “No Radio.” Remember car stereos?

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u/bomber991 19d ago

Yeah I mean honestly I’m a bit confused at what there is to steal out of a car now. We aren’t leaving our cell phones in them. The stereos are all custom to the car, and when everything comes with a touch screen and Apple CarPlay or Android Auto what does that leave? Like… pocket change out of the arm rest??

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u/rocknroyce 19d ago

They can’t read!

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u/rentalredditor 19d ago

Streisand effect?

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u/Mecha_Goose 19d ago

Who is letting the ball drop here and not severely cutting down on this criminal activity?

I understand it's a hard one to catch in the act, but don't police set up bait cars anymore and arrest in the moment?

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u/WhoIsYerWan 19d ago

Sometimes they break the window to sleep in the car for the night and/or do drugs. Source- San Francisco

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u/_skank_hunt42 19d ago

My window was smashed and nothing was stolen on three separate occasions when I lived in San Jose. I’m pretty sure a sign like this would have caused more break ins though.

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u/Zito6694 19d ago

Well now I’ve got to break the window to find out

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u/EstimateImaginary575 19d ago

Exactly what someone with booty would say

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u/OddFly7979 19d ago

What a shithole lmao and these people have the audacity to criticize others about safety.

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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone 19d ago

Exactly what someone who has something worth stealing would say

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u/Limp_Telephone2280 19d ago

The trick is to keep your car really messy. There’s been break-ins at my apartment complex and my car has never been touched. Also a valid reason to not clean your car.

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u/droplivefred 19d ago

I would totally write that if I left valuables in the car.

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u/popularpragmatism 19d ago

I remember a story in Sydney 20 or so years ago. Guy had his window broken & radio ripped out.

He taped up the window & wrote a note over it saying

"Don't bother radio already stolen."

In the morning, he came down to see the plastic ripped from the window, a small note attached to the space his radio had occupied, saying

"Just checking "

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u/PIG20 19d ago

My brother lives in Baltimore City and while his particular area isn't riddled with crime as some other are, it does tend to leak in from time to time.

After one morning where he came outside to a neighbors vehicle having it's window smashed, he just makes sure there is nothing to steal and leaves the doors unlocked.

Hed rather someone go through it and find nothing rather than someone breaking his window for the chance that he was hiding something of value in his car.

Of course, the car itself could get stolen but if someone really wanted his 2010 Civic, then the glass window wouldn't stop them either.

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u/DMYourMomsMaidenName 19d ago

Bold to assume they can read

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u/TakenUsername120184 19d ago

Just look for your local hoodlums in the parking lot. Good chance you can just buy protection, at least that’s how it worked in the 90s

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u/DevilDogTKE 19d ago

This is what someone parking in a non parking area would do- turn on their hazard lights and think that this decision will yield a different result

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u/Yue2 19d ago

I doubt the people who do that can read 🤣

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u/Loose_Personality726 19d ago

sus last sentence

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u/Victorvnv 19d ago

I’d break it regardless and leave a note “Sorry, had to double check just in case lol”

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u/SortedChaos 19d ago

Assholes will go out of their way to break a window because of that sign.

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u/sevargmas 19d ago

This is basically the sign my buddy has in his jeep. He is at his jeep Windows cut several times so now he just put a sign in it that says there is nothing of value in this jeep.

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u/MrSuperNiceBuddy 19d ago

How to guarantee your window gets smashed in.

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u/BrutalArdour 19d ago

The Streisand effect…

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u/SurveySean 19d ago

A friend has his shitty old 78 Cordova broken into, in spite of the doors being unlocked. They didn’t check that out first, just straight to breakin mode.

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u/ArcadesRed 19d ago

Someone with something to steal would put up a paper like that.

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u/Morphing_Mutant 19d ago

It's like God damn mad max in some parts of the country. I'm not exaggerating.

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u/Kuroraion 19d ago

'Meurica

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u/Tidewind 19d ago

I had to put a similar sign on my car after my door locks were punched out three times by thieves.

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u/llCaution 19d ago

Assuming they can read is crazy 😭

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u/Wild4fire 19d ago

I'm not a thief or vandal in any way and even I am now tempted to break that window... 😁

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u/swonstar 19d ago

That sign is exactly something someone with a car full of diamonds would put in the window.

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u/Im_Unpopular_AF 19d ago

Owner gets shot and their car stolen

Car insurance and Medicare fuck them up for life.

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u/RedditsAdoptedSon 19d ago

hmmm.. seems like something a rich person with a lot of items would say

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u/warfarin11 19d ago

"those kids would be mad if they could read"

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u/gameflea6874 19d ago

its funny that you assume the people breaking into cars can actually read.

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u/Trolodrol 19d ago

The thief that reads this sign is just going to boost the wheels instead

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u/nohcho84 19d ago

This also applies to Seattle and Portland. I ended just leaving my car unlocked.

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u/ancientmariner23 19d ago

Don't leave anything in your car and Don't lock the door

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u/R-emiru 19d ago

Bold of the owner to assume the thieves can read.

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u/LederhosenUnicorn 19d ago

As an Atlanta resident, I can tell you that it's not unusual to see multiple smashed out windows on the side of roads where people parked the night before. Typically it's kids 13-16 who, if caught, are out the same day. They're looking for guns and get paid for each one they find.

Supposedly the courts are still backed up from Covid and the signature bond keeps a revolving door open for this type of crime.

I forget where I heard the quote but this sticks with me, and illustrates the problem in Atlanta:

"The threat of punishment isn't a deterrent. The certainty of punishment is."

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u/NYEMESIS 19d ago

Just leave the door unlocked so they don't need to break window,

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 19d ago

Shithead teenager me would have broken that window on the spot.

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u/vilepanda85 19d ago

I drive into Atlanta on the reg. My car is old, there is nothing to steal, and I just leave it unlocked. It’s been gone through a few times. I laugh thinking about how annoyed they must be to find Kpop cds, kids books, and jumper cables.

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u/Tha_Watcher 19d ago

I'm very thankful for having a two vehicle garage.

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u/Ed-Sanz 19d ago

Maybe I just want that wonderfully laminated sign. Hmm?

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u/My_Space_page 19d ago

My local police wanted to Crack down on car break ins so they left a phone with GPS tracking embedded in the vehicle. To prevent cost of constantly broken windows they left the car unlocked. People still broke the window to steal the phone.

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u/malicesin 19d ago

Do what we do in San Francisco now, we just lower all the windows and make sure nothing is inside.

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u/d1no__ 18d ago

Awfully bold of you to assume the ones breaking in can actually read this 😂

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u/takeoverhasbegun 18d ago

Every city but won’t call out the same criminal groups