3 ms·
I grew up on the east coast. My inclination has always been: don't leave valuables in cars, especially not visibly so. Keep your stuff in sight and typically
by asveikau 7y ago
I grew up on the east coast. My inclination has always been: don't leave valuables in cars, especially not visibly so. Keep your stuff in sight and typically on your person. Here in SF, I often see people leave laptops on tables as they go to coffee shop bathrooms and I think, "wow, that person is crazy". (Even though I have never seen their laptops be stolen.) And it wasn't SF that did that to me.
Where are people from that they don't feel they have to be vigilant of opportunistic property crime? I disagree that it doesn't happen everywhere, just that the amount or frequency varies with the place.
- hhjjkkll 7y agoI live by a similar mindset, but I do not think it should be like this. It feels like shit, that I have to think of other humans with such a distrust and fear. I'm very envious of homogenous cultures like Japan where you can leave a bike unlocked outside of a store you're shopping at without it being stolen within 10 minutes.
- masonic 7y agoBlaming the victims is insulting. Cars are broken into without even without any valuables in view. There is a common technique for breaking into Teslas, for example, such that the rear side window is broken to gain immediate access to the trunk release. Teslas get broken into on sheer speculation.
- asveikau 7y agoI was not blaming victims. I am saying people take precautions wherever they live, it is most certainly not just SF as the parent claimed. For you to call that victim blaming is ... Rather insulting. > Cars are broken into without even without any valuables in view I live in San Francisco, you think I don't know this?