This past week I have heard and read of numerous articles about the increase of stealing/theft.
I was talking to a friend about this and she was telling me a story about a brand new car being stolen from a car dealership. A guy walked in with a hoodie on (hood up) and a mask on; both things very common nowadays. Sat down and talked to a new sales guy about how he was on the fence about which car he wanted to buy. One being sold by this dealership, the other another make from another company.
The first thing you are asked for is your drivers license. He said he had forgotten his license and didn't want to test drive the car. He was very knowledgeable and he just wanted to see inside of the car as he wanted to know about the "rev's". To do that though you have to turn the car on. The sales guy got in the passenger seat while the guy was in the drivers seat. The guy then asked some questions about how certain things worked and the sales guy got out of the car and walked round to the drivers side to show him what was what.
You can guess what happened.........yep drove off into the sunset never to been seen again!!
A local town had five Dodge Ram pick-ups stolen in one night, 2021/222 models. Made hubby buy one of those clubs to put on his steering wheel, my car is always parked in the garage. The police reckons that's as good as anything, as the thieves have to work harder to steal them, so they walk away and find another one to steal. It's becoming such a common occurrence all these car thefts, police just can't keep up with it.
A local store has had to install more security measures to try and prevent people stealing food. Read an article where one man said he goes through the self check out all the time. Pays for the cheaper foods but "forgets to scan" all the foods he cannot afford. He can't afford rent, utilities and food. So he doesn't feel bad doing this.
Son worked part time in a grocery store back in the day. Every Christmas he said folk would switch tags on the turkeys, getting a huge turkey for the price of a small one. It boggled my mind that someone would think to do that?
As I said to my friend, we find this all fascinating, as to how these people think of more and more ways to steal things; as we were all brought up not to steal, so wouldn't have a clue how to do these things?
Is it as bad where you live?
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I fear it will only get worse. As prices continued to skyrocket more and more people will do what the man said he does
I don’t blame them one bit. If we have to do their jobs we deserve some compensation I’d say
I think it's getting bad like this, everywhere. This administration has certainly dropped the ball!
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Donna
Some people are just plain crooks but other people are desperate. If you can't afford food and there is no access to food banks in the area you can understand it even though it's wrong. Seems like catalytic convertors are 'the thing' to steal too and, of course, entire cars. An item on the news the other day said to be sure to never leave your car keys near your front door because now they have some sort of scanning device that they can beam off your key fob and start your car. Better to keep your keys well away from the car.
Unfortunately, theft is bad here too. It’s A sad sign of the times when food is so high that people think nothing of stealing it.
It doesn't seem to be. Mostly small stuff -- leaving cars unlocked outside at night, for example. But nothing big. At least, we never hear about it.
Stealing food to me is different than these guys stealing cars. But yes a car has been stolen off my street, mine along with our neighbour's cars were rifled through. And it continues to go on and on
My small North Yorkshire village rarely experiences theft. There are, however, gangs that target local farms usually for quad bikes or livestock and our local pub's CCTV picked up 3 strangers in their car park at 5am recently walking off with an empty plastic barrel! Where theft is rife, however, is in the spa attached to the hotel gym I use. Customers visiting for spa days think nothing of taking home towels and robes, not to mention hairdryers and now even toilet paper! So much has been lost this way that security tags are being fixed to the towels.
Not really sure how much theft is happening here, but if someone is stealing food I am pretty sure it is because they can't feed their family. Here the Salvation Army runs the food bank here and they only allow people to use it once a month.... Not really catering to families at all.
God bless.
Some years back I had my car stolen. I needed my car to get to work as a visiting nurse. We had a kerfuffle with our insurance company over that because we had a second car. It was a right pain.
I just got a credit card bill-somehow it had been hacked $1200.00 of charges—Uber eats and insta cart from other cities, it was a card we had a spend limit on for security. The bank didnt notify us but canceled the card, Not a great experience,
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