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Follow you to your car (because you're on the rich end of town), hit you with the crescent wrench, take your stuff.

by surge 10y ago

freehunter 10y ago
Yup. Expensive zip code means a car with expensive stuff inside of it, and a papers that show a house full of expensive stuff that has no one home right now (because the rich owner is out shopping).
- rimliu 10y ago
  How would you know that this house is not full of family members of the owner? And has this scenario actually happen to anyone? Because I think burglars have better means to be sure which house and when to rob.
  - c22 10y ago
    Just get a job as a ticketing agent at the airport, you know when people are going on vacation, you know when they're coming back, and most of them show you a driver's license with their address on it when asked for ID.
- cortesoft 10y ago
  Wouldn't it be easier (and less error prone) to just wait in the parking lot for a fancy car to pull in?
- vkou 10y ago
  Why not just drive out to the expensive zip code, and rob the first house that looks empty? Why rob the guy who just bought a thing at the store you're at? What makes him a better target then his neighbor? Or any random house in the area? Who actually burgles when they know people are home? Are you really surrounded by thieves and killers, and the only thing keeping you safe is that they don't know that you live in a rich part of town? They know where the rich part of town is... Right?
  - kbenson 10y ago
    > Why not just drive out to the expensive zip code, and rob the first house that looks empty? Presumably because police presence is less, or at least busy, in the less expensive zip code. There isn't just more crime in less affluent areas, it's rampant! > Are you really surrounded by thieves and killers, and the only thing keeping you safe is that they don't know that you live in a rich part of town? According to the news, yes, but even that expensive part of town is just a "you won't believe where" teaser away from being right next to you! In all seriousness, as rational as you consider yourself, it's still an uphill battle against the signals we are bombarded with telling us about all the crime and suffering around us. Humans are great at finding and internalizing patterns from signals, and the pattern here isn't hard to see; the world is getting scarier and scarier every year. Doesn't matter if its true or not, that's still how it feels.
ryandrake 10y ago
Pretty far fetched. And he doesn't need your zip code if they are intent on robbing you. I dunno--I shop at Harbor Freight in Hayward all the time and it's never once crossed my mind that anyone there is up to no good, or that anyone but the cashier cares about my zip code. Standard parking lot situational awareness that you'd apply anywhere will keep you from being robbed. EDIT: I applaud the general paranoia, but I think it's just misplaced. You have more to worry from HF aggregating your P.I. than some guy behind you buying tools for his third job.
- et-al 10y ago
  To follow this thought, most people know just handful of zip codes (if even their own), so if you drop "94303" in front of me, dollar signs are not going to appear in my eyes because it's Palo Alto, CA (multi-million dollar tiny homes for those not in the Bay Area). Yes, nowadays people can type that into their phones and find the corresponding neighborhood, but really? Most criminals steal what they can see, not what they think might be there from a zipcode. They're better off just driving to a nice neighborhood and casing the houses whose owners are away. Of course maybe there are people following you around slowly acquiring your PII so they can steal your identity and drain your 401k.
  - seanp2k2 10y ago
    The best part about Palo Alto is how bad East Palo Alto is. It's like a joke on all the suckers who bought houses there.
WillyOnWheels 10y ago
I find it easier to hang out under cars with a few syringes of infected blood and inject it into the ankles of passersby. Especially at malls.
sbov 10y ago
As opposed to seeing your rich person car when they park in the same parking lot?

Follow you to your car (because you're on the rich end of town), hit you with the crescent wrench, take your stuff.

by surge 10y ago

Follow you to your car (because you're on the rich end of town), hit you with the crescent wrench, take your stuff.

Yup. Expensive zip code means a car with expensive stuff inside of it, and a papers that show a house full of expensive stuff that has no one home right now (because the rich owner is out shopping).

rimliu 10y ago
How would you know that this house is not full of family members of the owner? And has this scenario actually happen to anyone? Because I think burglars have better means to be sure which house and when to rob.
- c22 10y ago
  Just get a job as a ticketing agent at the airport, you know when people are going on vacation, you know when they're coming back, and most of them show you a driver's license with their address on it when asked for ID.
cortesoft 10y ago
Wouldn't it be easier (and less error prone) to just wait in the parking lot for a fancy car to pull in?
vkou 10y ago
Why not just drive out to the expensive zip code, and rob the first house that looks empty? Why rob the guy who just bought a thing at the store you're at? What makes him a better target then his neighbor? Or any random house in the area? Who actually burgles when they know people are home? Are you really surrounded by thieves and killers, and the only thing keeping you safe is that they don't know that you live in a rich part of town? They know where the rich part of town is... Right?
- kbenson 10y ago
  > Why not just drive out to the expensive zip code, and rob the first house that looks empty? Presumably because police presence is less, or at least busy, in the less expensive zip code. There isn't just more crime in less affluent areas, it's rampant! > Are you really surrounded by thieves and killers, and the only thing keeping you safe is that they don't know that you live in a rich part of town? According to the news, yes, but even that expensive part of town is just a "you won't believe where" teaser away from being right next to you! In all seriousness, as rational as you consider yourself, it's still an uphill battle against the signals we are bombarded with telling us about all the crime and suffering around us. Humans are great at finding and internalizing patterns from signals, and the pattern here isn't hard to see; the world is getting scarier and scarier every year. Doesn't matter if its true or not, that's still how it feels.

ryandrake 10y ago

Pretty far fetched. And he doesn't need your zip code if they are intent on robbing you. I dunno--I shop at Harbor Freight in Hayward all the time and it's never once crossed my mind that anyone there is up to no good, or that anyone but the cashier cares about my zip code. Standard parking lot situational awareness that you'd apply anywhere will keep you from being robbed. EDIT: I applaud the general paranoia, but I think it's just misplaced. You have more to worry from HF aggregating your P.I. than some guy behind you buying tools for his third job.

et-al 10y ago
To follow this thought, most people know just handful of zip codes (if even their own), so if you drop "94303" in front of me, dollar signs are not going to appear in my eyes because it's Palo Alto, CA (multi-million dollar tiny homes for those not in the Bay Area). Yes, nowadays people can type that into their phones and find the corresponding neighborhood, but really? Most criminals steal what they can see, not what they think might be there from a zipcode. They're better off just driving to a nice neighborhood and casing the houses whose owners are away. Of course maybe there are people following you around slowly acquiring your PII so they can steal your identity and drain your 401k.
- seanp2k2 10y ago
  The best part about Palo Alto is how bad East Palo Alto is. It's like a joke on all the suckers who bought houses there.

WillyOnWheels 10y ago

I find it easier to hang out under cars with a few syringes of infected blood and inject it into the ankles of passersby. Especially at malls.

sbov 10y ago

As opposed to seeing your rich person car when they park in the same parking lot?