My car was broken into!!

[dolphinrescuegirl]

Thursday night my DH and I got home and I thought he locked the doors of the car. Well he thought I did and it was left unlocked. When I went to get my digital camera out of the car it wasn't there and then I noticed all my CD's (60-70) were gone!! He also tried to take my state inspection sticker off as well! Of course he only got half of it. What I thought odd though was he left my rayban ($70) sunglasses there. I had outgrown about half the CD's but the other half were my favorites! And the camera, I was tired of it and wanted a new one anyway. I am upset that the lost kitty pictures were on that camera as i was going to make missing pictures. I can always go back to the vet to get more but still... I feel like my privacy was invaded!! Someone went through my stuff!

I had been having premonitions that I was going to get a brand new camera because every time I thought of my camera, I thought of the kind I wanted. And then on the night it was stolen I dreamed that I broke my camera and got the new one. Thanks for letting me vent!

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

Sorry, I was looking for sympathy.

 

[Serena]

I'm sorry. That sucks.

 

[Poohnatic]

I only see two views, and one is you for posting it. It's a saturday night, St. Patty's Day-so viewing and posting is going to be slow.

sorry your car got broken into. Not fun. I lost a camera and a keyboard because I friend was stupid enough not to lock my car door once. It was one of the rare occasions that I didn't park my car in driveway at the back of the house.

 

[doxdogy]

Sorry this happened to you. Mine was broken into a few years ago. Thankfully nothing expensive was stolen. Just my one dollar pair of gloves from Target and some cheap sunglasses.

 

[I Love Pluto]

My sympathies to you. This happened to me in December. It feels bad, and you do feel invaded. Time will help.

 

[Rachie0507]

That happened to DH a couple of years ago. It was in July and the bad guys took a leather coat (that shows you how often DH cleans his car ). He probably wouldn't have noticed except they also took a book bag and left in in the road and a neighbor found it and brought it back to us. I was so upset that someone would invade our privacy like this. We made a police report, but of course nothing ever came of it.

I'm sorry this happened to you dolphinrescuegirl

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

Sorry this happened to you. Mine was broken into a few years ago. Thankfully nothing expensive was stolen. Just my one dollar pair of gloves from Target and some cheap sunglasses.

The bad thing is my car was broken into a few years ago too. That time the doors were locked and they broke a window. That time they stole my CD's and the aftermarket stereo. I had just replaced a couple of CD's that were stolen at that time just a couple of months ago!! I guess I'm not destined to own those CD's!

 

[Bust*A*Stitch]

The bad thing is my car was broken into a few years ago too. That time the doors were locked and they broke a window. That time they stole my CD's and the aftermarket stereo. I had just replaced a couple of CD's that were stolen at that time just a couple of months ago!! I guess I'm not destined to own those CD's!

Thats exactly why I went totaly mp3. I refused to re-buy cd's after my collection walked off with the carpet installers.

 

[agnes!]

Thats exactly why I went totaly mp3. I refused to re-buy cd's after my collection walked off with the carpet installers.

agnes!

 

[JR6ooo4]

Yep, my satelite radio was stolen from my truck the weekend after our office was broken into...
sucks to be us,
Mikeeee

 

[PhotobearSam]

That is awful. I had my car broken into at least 4 times when I had my shadow. Once I walked to my car and found someone getting in it. I said "Hey, that's my car" He said "Oh I guess I should leave it"

I called 911 and they caught the boys. One got nothing and the other got 7 days after the judge said he should be hard.

It is awful to feel like that. I hope that you can put it behind you. My DH suggests getting a flashing red light that makes it look like you have an alarm. It does work.

 

[babytrees]

Yikes that stinks!!!

 

[MelanieC]

That really stinks. People can really suck sometimes. Sorry this happened to you.

 

[dis ms.]

OP, I know how you feel...and then some!

About four years ago, DH and I both parked our cars in the driveway overnight. The next morning, he went out the door heading to work and, a few seconds later, came back in the bedroom. He said, "Your car is gone!"

Both of our cars were locked, but they pried open one of his windows. They stole a bunch of CDs and his Chewy Sprees candy from his car. They also rifled through his glove compartment and that's when they hit the jackpot. DH had a spare key to my car in there. So, the crook(s) stole my car! I felt so violated--especially since it was in my own driveway.

They found the car a few days later. When it was returned to me, I was inspecting it for damage and I found a receipt for cigarettes purchased at a nearby store. Neither DH or I smoke, and the receipt was dated during the time the car was gone. Since it was a CC transaction, the cops were able to trace it to the buyer. The store even had the guy on video purchasing the cigarettes. Well, since there were no witnesses to the car theft, and no concrete proof that the cigarette buyer was in the car , the cops didn't pursue it. I was especially mad because they elected not to fingerprint the interior of DH's car. If they had, they may have been able to prove that guy was in the car.

Oops! Sorry for the tirade. It still ticks me off, can you tell?

OP,

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

Thanks for all the replies. After reading some of the experiences here, I don't feel nearly as bad. I used to have a blinking red light in my old car and nobody went near it. I will have to go find one somewhere.

 

[Cool-Beans]

My car was broken into just the other night, parked at a friend's house. And it was locked.

I keep a couple pop holders filled with change and they took that. They also took my CDs and the CD holder and some gum. And they took some Chinese money out of the glove box, which they left open.

But they didn't break a window and left the Mickey Mouse floor mats, so I wasn't too upset. It did kind of piss me off, though.

 

[jmskinner]

I've had two instances with cars getting broken into.

Once, while in high school right after Christmas, I went in my friends house for 10 minutes and came out to find my car door open about an inch. Obviously to keep it from making any noise. Took my tapes (this happened a long time ago), my friends Christmas present, and my purse with a $100 bill I had received for Christmas. Tried to get the radio, but that didn't work. A truck kept driving around when me and my friend was standing out front waiting on the cops. I had called my Dad and when he got there, the truck came by one more time and then left. Obviously that was the culprit. Explained this to the cop that came and he came back after I made the report and said he spotted a truck that might be the one I saw. So he puts us in the back of the police car (thank goodness that is my one and only time in the back of a police car) to look at the truck he found. It wasn't it. He said a detective would call me. A week later I spotted the truck and wrote the license plate down, but no detective ever called me so I figured they would never do anything about it.

Another time we had parked my husbands car in the driveway and someone broke into it. The police found some of his CD's when they caught the kids. They obviously had no appreciation for country and they looked like they had used them for frisbee's. The sad part was they had also broke into the home of a disabled man.

I never heard if the kids were prosecuted, doesnt' surprise me though, one of them was a cops son!

Hope no one had a garage door opener in their cars that were broken into. That is always my worst fear. Luckily my truck has the blinking light and the garage door opener is built in. If I leave my truck in the driveway, I make sure the door from the house to the garage is locked, just to be safe.

 

[dis ms.]

Hope no one had a garage door opener in their cars that were broken into. That is always my worst fear. Luckily my truck has the blinking light and the garage door opener is built in. If I leave my truck in the driveway, I make sure the door from the house to the garage is locked, just to be safe.

Before the thief (or thieves) stole my car, they were nice enough to remove my garage door opener and put it on the passenger seat of DH's car. That was the one teensy, tiny bright spot in the whole ordeal.

 

[PghLybrt]

OP, I know how you feel...and then some!

About four years ago, DH and I both parked our cars in the driveway overnight. The next morning, he went out the door heading to work and, a few seconds later, came back in the bedroom. He said, "Your car is gone!"

Both of our cars were locked, but they pried open one of his windows. They stole a bunch of CDs and his Chewy Sprees candy from his car. They also rifled through his glove compartment and that's when they hit the jackpot. DH had a spare key to my car in there. So, the crook(s) stole my car! I felt so violated--especially since it was in my own driveway.

They found the car a few days later. When it was returned to me, I was inspecting it for damage and I found a receipt for cigarettes purchased at a nearby store. Neither DH or I smoke, and the receipt was dated during the time the car was gone. Since it was a CC transaction, the cops were able to trace it to the buyer. The store even had the guy on video purchasing the cigarettes. Well, since there were no witnesses to the car theft, and no concrete proof that the cigarette buyer was in the car , the cops didn't pursue it. I was especially mad because they elected not to fingerprint the interior of DH's car. If they had, they may have been able to prove that guy was in the car.

Oops! Sorry for the tirade. It still ticks me off, can you tell?

OP,

I would be mad that they did not pursue it also! I guess when we look at the grand picture they do have other more important things to do, but still! I had mine broken into in my driveway also. I will not even being to tell you how stupid I was and what I had left in the car…lets just say I left for vacation in 2 days and I had just went to the bank……anyway the local cop first accused me of doing it myself, a coworker or my girlfriend! Then he asked why I locked my car. If I had not locked it my window would not have been broken!!! I could not believe it. He just kept saying nothing like that had happened in town for 10 years. I find out later that a week prior a whole block of cars in town had their tires slashed, and another had similar thefts. I could not believe that a policeman would lie to me!

As you can tell I am still mad too! And it has been2 years……..