Jill Z over on 42nd and Latona wrote:
Just heard from our tenants that their cars were broken into last night. The locks appeared to have been jimmied through the windows and the contents of the glove boxes were spilled out all over the seats. Neighborhood, beware!
We live just a block away, and when I went out to my garage this morning, I noticed that someone had tried to pry open a locked tool cabinet in our shed sometime over the past couple of days.
I can’t but wonder what the legal implications of rigging a hive of bees inside a toolchest in the shed would be, if someone were to pry open said “toolchest”.
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My car was broken into night before last, too–near 40th & First, in our apartment building carport. Everything pulled out of the glove box, trunk (they got in from inside the back seat), and from under the seats…car was trashed and the doors left open. I love the bee hive idea! Was also trying to figure out how to rig a fake camera and posting a note inside asking the intruder to smile. (Can’t afford a real security camera.) This was the second time at this building that my car’s been broken into. I never leave anything of value in there, but it still ticks me off. Another tenant’s car was stolen completely a few months back, and another one’s locked bike from inside the same carport.
i hope you will contact our local police precinct about these break ins. The police do not ( and cannot) use this blog as a reliable source of information for their records.
Several people wrote in to Wallyhood that the tires on their cars had been screwed but did not call the police to report the incidents. The police do not have records of those tires being deliberately damaged in our neighborhood. When i reported our tires being screwed, the police were surprised to hear others had experienced the same thing in about the same location. They thought mine was an isolated incident.
can you please tell me what you mean by ‘screwed’? Like a screw inserted into the tire?
I had a slow flat which was caused by a nail. As I live near the construction which recently ended I wrote it off as that.
Also, pardon my naviete, but since it is a past action, is it still advisable to report to police and to whem? Which number?
It’s always a good idea to report to the police, the more reports come from a neighborhood the more police attention you get.
911 is now the ONLY number to call. The “non-emergency” number is discontinued so that the 911 dispatcher has a complete record of all calls.
I did not know the non emergency # was discontinued
There are four campers setting up residence on 43rd by the W’ford playfield
Is 911 the appropriate # to call for street parking issues?
I was wondering that too about the “permanent” campers next to the neighborhood Wallingford Playfield over the past couple of months, though last night it seems we’d gone down to one. Anyone know if it’s owned by one of the neighbors in the area?