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Somebody dumb enough to leave a key to their house right next to their house in a city like SF deserves to get burglarized.
by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Somebody dumb enough to leave a key to their house right next to their house in a city like SF deserves to get burglarized.
- maxerickson 9y agoWhat about all the houses with doors that won't stand up to a sledgehammer? Or unbarred windows.
- thesmallestcat 9y agoThere's a big difference between forced and unforced entry.
- abelM 9y agoI wonder, what would be the charge in this situation ?
- vnchr 9y agoBrute forced entry
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- maxerickson 9y agoBeyond the "un", what's the difference in San Francisco?
- thesmallestcat 9y agoQuite a few burglars only do unforced entries.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoUnforced entry and taking a small number of objects from cupboards / filing cabinets / draws / jewellery boxes could go unnoticed for days or weeks.
- DrScump 9y agoGotta love this attitude, which is widely shared by Bay Area media and law enforcement. - "You shouldn't have parked there. " - "You shouldn't have left anything visible in your vehicle." - "You shouldn't have left anything invisible in the trunk, either." As for "key right next to house" how else do you propose letting agents show your property to prospective buyers or tenants? In SF, property crimes don't matter. I once had a road rager shoot at me and blow a window out in my car. SFPD response? "We can't find the round (bullet), so we'll just give you a case number (and no further investigation)." Edit: typo
- Spivak 9y agoWhat do you expect them to do? It wasn't someone you know, it wasn't someone who has a personal motive to kill you, and they don't have any way of determining the owner of the gun. Would you want to bother investing the case where someone in SF shot at a car and no-one was injured. Also, give the agent a key and/or get a key box with a pass code and give that to the agent. There really is no excuse to hide a key on the property these days.
- Semiapies 9y agoThat's a serious pain. :/ Glad you weren't shot, though. (Is "road eager" auto-correct for something?)
- bradgessler 9y ago- "You shouldn't have been driving a car without bullet proof glass" Yeah, this attitude in the Bay Area has also befuddled me too. Its the victims fault.
- sctb 9y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14879325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14879325 and marked it off-topic.