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Wasn't there a story in the Observer about a year ago about a man whose car had been recovered by police but they'd never notified him? He was stuck with a storage bill in the thousands.
Okay. This is incredible!!! Tell me - does one's car insurance cover such expenses? This just isn't right!!!!
Heck, even if insurance does cover it - it is hell filing the paperwork and then one's insurance goes up after a claim. This is depressing.
I actually had my patio furniture stolen last week Wednesday night. It was stolen at around 11:00 right off my front porch. On Friday night, I received a phone call from a Police Officer, asking me to describe my furniture. Sure enough, he had recovered it, and was in the process of submitting to the DA to have a warrant issued for the thief.
Black FX - so glad you got your furniture back but dern - stealing it right off your porch! How brazen is that!!! Do you now keep a light on every nite? How crazy!!!!!!!
Native Son - sometimes, the universe does turn in a way that we get to see some justice!!! But how scary. Glad you got thru/ it ok.
Black FX - so glad you got your furniture back but dern - stealing it right off your porch! How brazen is that!!! Do you now keep a light on every nite? How crazy!!!!!!!
Yes, we learned the hard way....we keep a light on at night AND I locked the furniture with a small chain....
Yes, we learned the hard way....we keep a light on at night AND I locked the furniture with a small chain....
Did CMPD think this was a matter of someone stealing it to re-sale it - or was it vandalism? (Or did they take it home and put in on their porch!!!!????)
The reason I ask . . . My hubby keeps arguing w/ me about putting some landscaping items up near the street, and my thought is - we are just making it easy for someone to drive by and rip stuff off, i.e. solar lighting, outdoor bistro set, large pots w/ flowers, etc.
Unbelievable as it may sound, my sister had an eight foot ficus tree stolen off her deck while she and her husband sat in the den reading the newspaper.
Dunno, Ani, but I'd be cautious of what you put in the front yard.
We just found out this week that the detectives were able to find one of the guys who broke into my neighbor's home through the fingerprints that they recovered. Apparantly this guy has been in jail a couple of times before for robbery as well. That's what I have such a hard time with, they'll pick him up and he'll probably be back out on the streets, yet again, committing more crimes.
My girlfriend's car was stolen last week, and our experience wasn't so bad, all things considered.
We didn't even realize it was gone until she got a call from the police in the morning telling her they had found it. It was only about a mile from the apartment, so we drove over in my car. The police were there waiting for us, and had her answer some questions while we waited for the crime scene folks to come and take pics and dust for prints. After that we were free to drive it back to the apartment (the only damage being two broken windows).
The one officer did suggest that we have them tow it to their storage yard and have the insurance company deal with it from there. Um yeah, no thanks. If I needed it towed AAA would do it for free, and if it's gonna sit anywhere and wait for insurance folk to look at it, it ain't gonna be somewhere where I'll be billed. This was the only part of the whole thing that really irked me (other than, well, the car being stolen). The way the cop talked about it had my girlfriend convinced that we HAD to have them tow it, and tow it to their yard. I had to explain to her that he was just trying to make some money for the police department, or truly thought he was making a helpful suggestion and simply wasn't very bright.
Oh, and so far, nope - they haven't caught anyone. I don't expect them to.
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