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When it comes to small-scale crime like this, the smartest thing is typically not to do it at all. So the people who do it will generally not be very smart.
by wat10000 11mo ago
When it comes to small-scale crime like this, the smartest thing is typically not to do it at all. So the people who do it will generally not be very smart.
- Supermancho 11mo agoIndeed, 8:30p is no different from 2p or 10a for the act. It's most likely a matter of happenstance. It happened to be the warmest time of the day (even though it was evening). Maybe the thinking was someone was home to help them find the valuables, maybe not. > 8:30p seems like a dumb time for a home robbery. The assertion that there is some optimization for some specific imagined motivation, is literal fantasy.
- foobarian 11mo agoIn this day and age who robs homes any more? You'd be liable to get paid to take a bunch of junk away instead
- randycupertino 11mo agoWhen BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) came to Pleasanton CA my fox-news brainwashed racist aunt and uncle and their neighbors where legitimately convinced black people from Oakland were going to come take BART out from Oakland and steal their TVs. And this was back in the day of the giant bulky heavy-backed rear-projection TVs. I was like... first of all they drive cars now and second of all who is going to take BART to come rob you and third of all who would want to carry this stupid heavy thing!! And if they were going to take your 150lb TV they would need a truck and a dolly, not take public transit to do so. Pleasanton remained safe and bland despite allowing evil public transit.
- 1-more 11mo ago> who would want to carry this stupid heavy thing BART service started in Pleasanton in 1997. In 1992 or 1993 I had a glass CRT TV stolen during a burglary at our house in exurban Connecticut. There's no reason to claim that TV theft is some myth. It was a crime that did in fact happen.
- olyjohn 11mo agoUmmm... Something tells me they didn't take the train to come steal your TV.
- 1-more 11mo agothe did not, no. That's why I did not address that part of the comment, only the part claiming that no miscreant would want to carry a heavy TV.
- randycupertino 11mo agoThe spirit of my comment is that they wouldn't take public transit to come steal TVs because nobody would intentionally schlep a giant stolen tv via public transit, they most likely would use cars.
- 1-more 11mo agoyeah it turns out everyone else read the end of that sentence one way and I went the other. Although the image of a train car full of straphanger burglars with a tube TV between their legs, reading a newspaper folded into 1/8ths with their free hands is kind of funny. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304608 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304608
- acdha 11mo agoDid the thief take transit, though? We had a similar NIMBY argument in the area where some totally-not-racist people said thieves were going to bike from a predominantly black neighborhood 15 miles away to steal TVs, and it was so blatantly wrong that the local chief of police noted that the burglars they catch use stolen trucks or SUVs for the cargo capacity.
- stevenwoo 11mo agoThe little but wealthy town of Los Altos Hills next to Palo Alto had Flock come in and install their camera surveillance after a string of burglaries and one or two home invasion style robberies, it's a mostly rural/suburban area. Believe it or not there are also still folks who come from cultures where they do not believe in banks in the USA, so there is a lot of cash and gold in those people's homes.
- Eisenstein 11mo ago> small-scale crime like this You mean murder?
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- watwut 11mo agoI would point out that when it comes to these, right, far right and fascists win the numbers. And right now, it is far right who is having genocidal rhetorics.
- nec4b 11mo agoWhich far right or fascist ruler came close to what Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot did in terms of numbers?
- IAmBroom 11mo agoWhich of those three that you named are killing people "right now"?
- baggy_trough 11mo agoThankfully they are all dead, but not before killing high tens of millions. What "far right" ruler is killing millions right now?
- mothballed 11mo agoI might catch some flack for calling Putin right wing, but he's definitely further right than any of the major killing events I can think of that have happened in modern times. He's certainly way further right than Hitler, who took control of the capital and the means of production and relegated capitalists to basically being token pieces who produced what and when the Nazis order largely at the price Nazis ordered on behalf of the "German people" in a totally "non-socialist" socialist party that just happened to practice the core tenants of socialism when it came to economics.