I don't know whether it's the nice weather or schools being out for the summer or what, but all of a sudden cars are being broken into all over the area. I recently downloaded the Nextdoor app, a relatively new app which centers around your own neighborhood and lets locals share things or ask questions. Often the daily posts are about a lost dog or recommendations for plumbers, or things for sale. This is not unlike Facebook pages specific to a local community, except that it is confined to neighborhood borders.
As I was reading this site last night I learned many people woke up on Thursday morning and found their cars broken into Wednesday night. Several cars on the blocks behind us and several more on the blocks just ahead of us were hit. Most cars had been locked, but that didn't stop the bad guys who screw drivered one car, broke windows on others and generally ransacked the inside of cars.
Some cars were parked on the street, others under a carport or on a driveway. The most frequent advice given by others was to leave nothing in the car and leave it unlocked so that no damage could be done. Others took issue with the unlocked advice because some bad guys know how to hot wire a car.
I don't know what the answer is, this seems to be the time of year when this sort of thing happens in a big way. But reading the updates from neighbors just before I went to bed last night, made me go outside and check to see that we had nothing in our cars which would interest a thief. I had nothing in mine, but Dale did so I brought that stuff inside and left his books in the car. I doubted anyone looking for valuables would have been interested in theological text books. Not that they aren't costly and important, but still.
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