Is this what's coming? Massive crime increase?

[pastypirate]

I'm not a doom monger by any stretch but I'm so so shocked by this. I work in a public sector role in a city centre office. We have permits for a multi story a few hundred yards away which is a public council car park. It's the car park for the city theatre and is heavily used day abs night.

My colleague returned to her car yesterday within office hours to find the exhaust has been sawn off and her catalytic converters and sone lamb sensor thing had been removed and stolen. It's a an 04 plate very generic hatch back little car.

The car was park on street level right by the exit barriers and this all happened in daylight. Opposite the car park and that floor specifically there is a row of offices and a restaurant where people sit outside. It's very public and along a main thoroughfare.

My friend is very shaken and very broke now. But my point is - is this kind of crime about to rocker due to cost of living crisis??

Catalytic converter theft certainly isn't new.

We had ours stolen many years ago.

I believe you can get something to attach to them that makes it harder.

I don't think anyone in my part of London manages to hang onto a catalytic converter for longer than about 5 minutes. They're one of the top things that get pinched.

Not sure this can be blamed on the cost of living. Crime also increases on hot days and high pollution days. Just tell your friend not to get a bike instead if she’s particularly sensitive about theft 😬