Make Sure you lock your cars

Just wanted to remind everyone to make sure you lock your cars, esp Massapequa Park residents.

I must have forgotten to lock mine and someone went in it last night. Thank God nothing was stolen, but my console was left open, my ID Card and Reg was on my front seat with my glove box left open, and everything that wa sin my back seat was thrown on the floor.

So take precaution and lock your doors.

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from experience...they will just break the windows.

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Happened to a few cars on my block a while ago.

To the PP - they only went into the cars that were unlocked... no broken windows. I'm in the same area.

Thanks OP.

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Both of my cars are configured to lock the doors automatically about a minute after I leave the car.

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That stinks that that happened to you!! Thanks for the reminder

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happened on my block too (holbrook) dh forgot to lock his doors and had his gps stolen along with some money...

same thing happened to my neighbor a few weeks later but she had nothing stolen - just ransacked.

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That happened to me early this year - also in Massapequa Park. Same thing - just everything thrown around the car and some change taken.

I felt so violated and grossed out that some nasty criminal had their hands on my DD's car seat!

All the police said was that it has been happeneing alot and just make sure to lock the car doors.

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Posted by BellaBoo

Posted by Beth

Posted by alli3131

from experience...they will just break the windows.

mine too....I lost about $2500 worth of stuff...plus a window and fresh tint

in the rain of course

Was the stuff just sitting on the seat? I can see a thief breaking a window to get something that they can see. Doesn't make sense to me for a thief to go through the trouble of breaking a window just to look around. Then again, I'm not a thief.

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Posted by alli3131

Posted by BellaBoo

Posted by Beth

Posted by alli3131

from experience...they will just break the windows.

mine too....I lost about $2500 worth of stuff...plus a window and fresh tint

in the rain of course

Was the stuff just sitting on the seat? I can see a thief breaking a window to get something that they can see. Doesn't make sense to me for a thief to go through the trouble of breaking a window just to look around. Then again, I'm not a thief.

Ive had my car broken into multiple times over the years and it happens both ways....things in the open windows broken...things away windows broken. If they want in they will get in whether the car is locked or not.

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The other annoying thing is that DH and I are very vigilant about locking our cars and double check. The TWO times we forgot someone went into our cars...which means they must come around more often than we think.

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Happened to me in Huntington.
Nothing was taken. I have a travel DVD player attached to headrest. Good luck money all over the car, very expensive stroller in trunk. And nothing was touched. Just moved around.
We called police. Luckily we have security cameras and got it all on video! It wa three teenagers/ early twenties. Cops said they look for unlocked cars. And are looking for gps systems and iPods and such.
Another house a few blocks away also got them on camera.
I always triple check the doors are locked !

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Posted by BellaBoo

Posted by Beth

Posted by alli3131

from experience...they will just break the windows.

mine too....I lost about $2500 worth of stuff...plus a window and fresh tint

in the rain of course

Was the stuff just sitting on the seat? I can see a thief breaking a window to get something that they can see. Doesn't make sense to me for a thief to go through the trouble of breaking a window just to look around. Then again, I'm not a thief.

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My car alarm goes off automatically when you open my door - locked or not.

Anyway of setting your alarms to do the same? They see the unlocked door (No need to break a window) and they think it's an easy job and then the alarm scares the crap outta them....

Would be fun to have a big dog sleeping in ur back seat when they try to rob you too LoL

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It's going on in South Amityville as well. I don't understand why these people can't just get jobs like the rest of us. I don't bust my a$$ just for some loser who doesn't feel like working or contributing to society just to steal what I worked hard for. Unreal. You want an ipod? Go get a job then buy it for yourself. You want money to fuel your drug habit? Drugs are bad but I don't care what you do to your body as long as you aren't driving... go work at McDonald's to buy your crack instead of stealing other peoples stuff.

Message edited 12/14/2011 7:44:48 PM.

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Happened to DHs car 2 times within a few day (we are in oceanside). His car was definetly locked! somehow they got in. Didnt take anything but his lock for rims and some Car wash tokens. He had to change his rim locks

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This is not meant to knock anyone who has been robbed at all but I don't understand, why would you leave valuables in your car instead of bringing them with you (into your office or home)?

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Posted by headoverheels

This is not meant to knock anyone who has been robbed at all but I don't understand, why would you leave valuables in your car instead of bringing them with you (into your office or home)?

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Posted by 2boys4me

Posted by headoverheels

This is not meant to knock anyone who has been robbed at all but I don't understand, why would you leave valuables in your car instead of bringing them with you (into your office or home)?

We don't, I'm just angry that it happens to anyone who does. I mean, yah maybe they shouldn't be keeping that stuff in the their car but that doesn't mean that people should be going around taking it KWIM?

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Posted by headoverheels

This is not meant to knock anyone who has been robbed at all but I don't understand, why would you leave valuables in your car instead of bringing them with you (into your office or home)?

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My mom said that when I was a baby someone smashed in their car window to take their tape deck out (LOL) and used my baby sock that was in the backseat to wipe of the blood on their hand and left it in the car. My mom said that she was physically ill after seeing that, knowing that someone violated us like that, went through our stuff and then used a baby sock to wipe their nasty blood off with. So even if they didn't take anything from PP cars and just went through it, I could see how you would be skeeved out just knowing that a stranger was looking around in your stuff. Puke.

Also, just goes to show that no neighborhood is "safe" I grew up in Massapequa Park and every single one of my friends, ALL of them, had their bikes stolen either out of their backyard or out of their locked shed in their backyard. My moms car was stolen in front of our house in the middle of the night and someone slashed everyones tires on the block this one time. We live in South Amityville, a really safe and nice neighborhood and when we lived in our previous apartment here the lock on the door was broken and our landlord had the nerve to say, "oh who locks their doors here anyway, it's safe here" ok but where do the criminals go to steal....the bad neighborhoods or the good or "rich" neighborhoods where people have the money to get the "good" stuff? Even DH's friend who is cop said the same thing, they go to where they will get the good stuff to sell.