Mini broken into

Parked in a high school parking lot on Saturday. City track meet going on. My wife gets back to the car to find the driver's side window smashed on the '04 mini and she is missing her book bag and other items totalling around $1k (iPod, cell phone, etc.).

I drive down there and find out they tried prying out the passanger window and in doing so cracked the windshield pillar garnish. Glass all over the inside of the car.

Cops arrive 1-1/2 hours later and dust for prints. Meanwhile someone notices a 240 Volvo the next aisle over has also been been broken into with the rear window busted. It was a student's car and her purse and iPod are also gone.

Some of our stuff is found about 12 miles away in some bushes 2 days later. Cops really not that interested.

Total cost for repairs to the mini : $515.08 + the cost of a new phone. Stupid fools evidently didn't know how to open the glove compartment where a digital camera was stored.

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grinder
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Sorry to hear about the damage to the min, but if you're dumb enough to leave anything of value in your car then you deserve everything that you get. Sucks - but its the only way people learn.......

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Biffa Bacon

"Biffa Bacon" wrote in news:KTsQd.361$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net:

It's a bit harsh to say that anyone "deserves" to be punished for not being cautious. We may not live in a perfect world, but if we always assume that everyone else is out to get us then the world is going to be that much less friendly, and indeed lonelier. And that is probably not in the spirit of MINI/Mini-ness. I guess you probably didn't mean it that way, it's probably just the accidental turn of a phrase.

I hope the OP's repairs end up as good as new! Glad he got some belongings back -- my last car break-in lost me my favorite 1970's-era Spear's Games Travel Scrable (with score sheets my parents had played) in a 1980's-era Atari bag, and I never saw either again. Although that was probably 15 years ago...

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dw in Palatine

I agree. I told my wife if she wants to leave anything of value in the car in the future to please leave the doors unlocked so at least they wouldn't damage the car when they stole things.

BTW, I take if from your response you are not married.

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grinder

Until Angelina Jolie gives me the call I'm waiting for ..... nope !

;-)

Cheerz - Brownz "Rucsac - Cheaper and more effective than a car alarm."

Reply to
Biffa Bacon

There you go Grinder. When mom and dad pays for your car, your stereo, iPod, cell phone etc, it's easy to lurk these groups and give immature and irresponsible comments. Gosh, I can't wait for him to flame me. In the mean time........

04 MCS, it reinstalled some lead into a 61 year old pencil.

Gunny

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Gunny

Bought and paid for myself thank you very much oap ;-)

Hard work, but rewarding......

Thanks, but no thanks ..... I'm mature enough to not raise to flame baits, and clever enought to not leave valuables in my MCS.

Warmest Regards - Brownz

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someone.not

"clever enought" heh - moxyoron...... ;-)

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Biffa Bacon

My profound apologies Biffa. That kind of reply was totally out of character for me. Maybe male monopause!?!

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Gunny

Well at least the police turned up, when my car was done over a coupe of years ago (smashed rear window and damaged the C pillar then destroyed the dash to remove the radio) all the police bothered to do was give a crime number over the phone so I could claim on the insurance.

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Depresion

Well at least they dusted the car for prints. When my mother's car was broken into all the cars on the block were broken into as well. Yes they smashed the passenger side window, got into the glove compartment and got the little transistor radio that probably doesn't have a high value - just sentimental because it used to belong to my father.

The cop that came and checked it ut said the same thing happened up and down the street and said that there was probably nothing that they could do. Cost to replace the window @$150 plus the aggravation of having to clean up the mess. We drove around with the broken glass for about a month before it was fixed.

I think about that now everytime I see someone driving that has a placard or plastic bag taped to their window.

Rose

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"How in the heck did I ever get talked into this?"

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Rose

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