Car burglary

[MikeSofaer]

This morning I went down to my car to go to work and noticed that the contents of the glove box were strewn all about the passenger seat. I couldn't tell if anything was missing, everything I knew to look for was still there. Registration, manual, proof of insurance, etc. I popped the trunk, and didn't see my climbing bag, but otherwise nothing missing, I thought my climbing bag might be in my apartment.

So I get back to my apartment, no climbing bag. Back out to my car. I notice that where I previously had a pair of Asolo hiking boots, I now have a single Asolo hiking boot.

So, I'm not sure what's going on here. My climbing bag had a harness, tape, a chalk bag, 2 ATCs and a pair of climbing shoes. My extra harness, right next to the climbing bag, wasn't stolen.

So, what happened here?

[Glenn]

Probably a low-level fighter-thief grinding for free exp. Grabbed the boot for the plus endurance, couldn't wear it because of class restrictions, forgot to clear it out of inventory before taking off.

[Lunch of Kong]

A homeless person with a conscious needed a shoe and just took what he/she needed.

[Ephraim]

I suspect it was the Glove Stealing Cat (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_on_re_us/feline_felon;_ylt=ApVagTQadwZhm.aCLC6XptKs0NUE;_yl u=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-), moving up a step on the larceny scale.

[wildpokerman]

Id theft, in my neighborhood there were several break ins where they just took papers out of the glove box.

Shoe though was probably just to piss you off.

Check your credit report carefully and subscribe to a good credit monitering service.

[Robert Sharp]

Probably a low-level fighter-thief grinding for free exp. Grabbed the boot for the plus endurance, couldn't wear it because of class restrictions, forgot to clear it out of inventory before taking off.

That was pretty damned funny. thanks!

That's odd though. Maybe he snagged what he could carry in one armload and just ran.

[fire]

I suggest you leave the other boot on the trunk of your car with a note.

"You forgot this, asshole."

[MikeSofaer]

Id theft, in my neighborhood there were several break ins where they just took papers out of the glove box.

Shoe though was probably just to piss you off.

Check your credit report carefully and subscribe to a good credit monitering service.Why ransack the car and make it so obvious, then? Besides, I didn't think SSN was on car registration.

[Lunch of Kong]

I don't know if this is at all related, but my girlfriend found a pair of Gucci sandals near a dumpster the other day, and she took them home, washed them, and claimed them as her own.

[Bill Dungsroman]

Dude, just hit the local trails and look for a one-legged hiker.

[Nellie]

Buy a gun.

[Robert Sharp]

Buy a gun.

Best advice so far!

Whenever I see someone near my car, I assume the worst. I don't even try to talk to the person. I just shoot to kill. Get 'em before they can get you!

[Flowers]

Face it, you committed a murder and the cops know it, but they can't prove it, so some hardnosed detective that doesn't always play by the book broke into your car to get the proof he needed to tie you to the DiSalvo case.

[claybob]

On the mean streets of America's Finest City no one knows what happens in the wee hours. Das boot is stolen, lives are disrupted, and then there is nothing left but the postin'.

[Odysseus]

Maybe the theft is a feint, so you don't notice they cut your brakes.

[JoshV]

It was done by your rival so that you wouldn't win that climbing tournament the next day and you wouldn't be able to get the hot girl and would have to settle for the sweet girl next door instead.

[ElGuapo]

Asshole story time. Back in college a friend and I had a bad week, drank a bit one night and decided to steal a car and go joyriding. So we go to this huge parking lot and just start trying to open doors. Door's locked, move on. Door's unlocked, get in. We looked around the stuff in the car but didn't take anything. Out of three cars, we figured out how to hotwire exactly none.

Damage amounted to a slightly broken lower dash on one car. Then we sobered up, realized what assholes we were being, and went home.

So sometimes people just do dumb things. You can't account for the random stupidity of people.

You can go ahead and judge, it was an ass thing to do.

Hey, what's the dumbest/most destructive/most criminal thing you've done when you were young, dumb, and full of . . . . pip and vinegar?

[Old Man Gravy]

I was a competitive athlete when I was young and dumb, so pip was definitely out.

Now that I'm old and curmudgeonly, I feel that one of the things we can definitely learn from middle eastern societies is the appropriate way to deal with those who commit property crimes.

[noun]

Inexperienced and desperate thief looking for quick things (s)he could easily sell to finance the drug habit. Probably was frightened of being caught the entire time and bolted ASAP, hence the illogical results.

[MikeSofaer]

This morning as I left the parking lot I found my other boot 5 spaces down from mine.

I looked for my climbing bag, but it remains stolen.

I have in the past left my iPod in my car, not that night, and I think not anymore, at least until I get a car with an alarm, and possibly a flamethrower.

[fire]

Congratulations on the reunification of the right boot with the left! I commend you on this progress! Keep us posted on the outcome of the climbing stuff. We sit poised and ready to listen.

[MikeSofaer]

Congratulations on the reunification of the right boot with the left! I commend you on this progress! Keep us posted on the outcome of the climbing stuff. We sit poised and ready to listen.Thank you, I am happy, and so far the boots are happy. They did not realize how useless they are apart until it happened, and are relieved to be back together. I am also glad that you are poised and listening! I rely heavily on the people who read this thread to be interested in the subject matter, and if people were to read it just to mock me I would not like that.

[Bill Dungsroman]

Mike: "No wait...I found my bag, too! And haha, I'd forgotten but I'd gone and looked for that Red Hot Chili Peppers CD during my little soiree the other night. I was kind of drunk and rummaged pretty hurriedly. Oh well!"

[shift6]

Someone needs to set up a blog.

[MikeSofaer]

Someone needs to set up a blog.You can get to my blog, if you are feeling masochistic, via the nav bar at the top of my homepage, linked in my profile. I don't recommend it, it's dull.

[fire]

The August issue of Wired (http://www.wired.com) suggests someone could have used a jiggle key to get into the vehicle. They were looking for the valet key which many motorists never remove from being wedged in their car manuals, in the glove box.

[Lunch of Kong]

My vehicle came not only with a valet key, but with a credit card-sized bit of plastic that had the outline of the key cut in it. I think it's so that when muggers take my wallet, they can also take my car and leave me stranded in Compton.