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Are they really breaking into your car just to steal your USB cable or is there other stuff you leave in plain sight?
by cbg0 5y ago
Are they really breaking into your car just to steal your USB cable or is there other stuff you leave in plain sight?
- shepherdjerred 5y agoLightning cables are expensive, and Apple is definitely encouraging car theft by not including them in the box anymore. edit: this was a joke and it got appropriately downvoted. I regret nothing.
- deelowe 5y agoA cable that costs $20 - $30 retail NEW doesn't seem worth risking jail time over.
- jtbayly 5y agoIt's like soap, which is much cheaper. Both are easily sold.
- chooseaname 5y agoYou may be underestimating how significant $20-$30 is to some people. Edit: wording.
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- deelowe 5y agoAre you suggesting a stolen cable brings the same sort of premium as a new one from Apple? Regardless, I'm not suggesting this at all. My point is that there are likely ways to get something worth so little without risking significant jail time.
- progman32 5y agoPeople break into cars to steal pocket change in the cup holder, so a $5 cable isn't outside the realm of what a thief would grab. Especially if they're already in the car.
- coryrc 5y agoThere's no risk of jail for theft in Seattle. https://crosscut.com/2019/10/whats-seattle-doing-solve-its-shoplifting-problem-nothing-really https://crosscut.com/2019/10/whats-seattle-doing-solve-its-s...
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoAnd people wonder why there is so much crime...
- coryrc 5y agoAbout half blame poverty/insufficient government handouts and excuse the theft. About half blame not prosecuting crime. But no one wonders. Everyone "knows".
- knownjorbist 5y agoYou don't need government handouts, you need sane policies that stop making CoL so expensive.
- hansvm 5y agoIt's worth it for someone. I've had people break into my car for 3 quarters and a half ounce of super glue.
- trenning 5y agoMan they're selling stolen $25 bottles of tequila on 3rd Ave. Not even expensive stuff is hot commodity now, especially if you live in a cash world. Most of the stuff the street bazaars sell is straight up junk. A shiny Apple cable is worth it
- mhh__ 5y agoI genuinely think HN's emergent property of discouraging jokes actively encourages this kind of misunderstanding and inability to process ambiguous titles using common sense.
- fragmede 5y agoI'm in San Francisco, so not Seattle, but cars get broken into for the sport of it by this point. A friend's had her window broken and used, gross dog leashes and an old Nokia charger stolen. The lost hours of work to replace the window was the real cost to her dog walking business.
- Karrot_Kream 5y agoJust park with your windows open if there's nothing they can really take. Repairing the window isn't with the cost or the time.
- kevinmgranger 5y agoThat might help in San Francisco, but in Seattle, that's lost hours dealing with a soaked interior.
- Karrot_Kream 5y agoYeah this isn't for rainy or dusty environments for sure.
- ddalex 5y agoIt may be getting soaked in SF too, but with different kind of fluids
- rOOb85 5y agoThanks for the f-shack - Dirty Mike & The Boys
- 1-6 5y agoProblem in San Francisco is, you'll get people sleeping in your car if you do that.
- dugmartin 5y agoDepending on the height of your windows I would think sleeping would be the best thing other people could do to your car.
- SavantIdiot 5y agoMy car was broken into 3pm in the afternooon in Austin last summer. Nothing visible. They emptied the console and glovebox. They stole: * cheap sunglasses * tire pressure gauge * box of bandaids * my car's USER MANUAL, ffs * charging cable They left: * small envelope with $80 cash tucked under the removable console coin holder. * all the coins. So very confused.
- exikyut 5y agoArmchair theory: taking the stereotypical idea of "squirrel on crack" both seriously and literally, maybe people on drugs become like bowerbirds with very, very broken interestingness ranking. All the stuff you mentioned was immediately visible (so no complex problem solving to find it) and would probably look "definitely probably valuable" to a hyped up 5 year old. Aaaaand thennnn whoever did the stealing probably just sold it all to someone else in _exactly the same condition_ (high on whatever) who also considered it valuable enough to make a fair trade to swap it all for $amount of $thing. I'm not sure what the balance is, but it's part-hilarious and part-sad that, if this theory is correct, there's an utterly illogical commodity market being sustained by tweaked-out squirrels with half the attention span of a goldfish, leaves people scratching their heads in its wake, and is so confusingly successful people just don't park in certain places.