To wish people would just stop?

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Got a spate of car crime going on. No different to other places I guess?
Men walking round in the night trying car doors etc. A couple of cars have been stolen. Some have been rifled through.

Police have been informed naturally.
It's too much. People are starting to feel like the crims have taken over.
What is wrong with people?

Life is hard enough. They are just making people's lives harder they are now having to worry about their cars overnight?
Why don't they give a toss?
Can't people even have a car now? 😡

We also have a faraday pouch, dead cheap on eBay, 2.99 or something. You do need to replace them every few months tho as it wears off. I tested my phone in it and there was no signal, it was like my phone was off.
Or you can put keys in a metal tin as it will do the same thing.
They use a box equipment thing to get your signal.

I don’t understand what you mean by too much freedom. People being able to leave their homes is too much freedom?! What’s the alternative?

@BallerinaRadio the culprits are stealing to order. Land Rovers round here mainly.

Yeah that sentence stood out for me too. I don't really understand what too much freedom means.

We had a spate of car crime in our area last year (South East). People suck.

This is what this country is now. A third world hellhole.

But hey, if you want the police, you could try misgendering someone on social media and police will be around before you can say pronouns.

They’re only cars. Try reading up on what happens in “third world hellholes” maybe

This.

DS was mugged recently and the parent tracking app showed where the phone was (i.e. mugger's address). But police can't use that as evidence. So even though it was so bloody obviously who committed the crime, they couldn't just knock on the door and arrest him. They had to waste resources scrolling through CCTV and putting out alerts in the hope he's arrested in future and flagged to link to our case.

Not the individual police officers fault. They're at the mercy of ridiculous layers of red tape.

Low bar?

My colleagues aunty found that criminals had tipped her car on it's side and taken the catalytic converter from her car, if they break in they may damage it, having to sort insurance is a pain and costs us all - some just like to vandalise cars - and having these pricks crawling round your drive/house etc at night would make me feel uneasy.

Welcome to Post-Brexit Britain.
Get used to this because this is the new normal.

I've lived in the same area for 16 years now, DP even longer. Rented then bought. It was never somewhere you might describe as lovely but it's going down hill.

Shops down the street often get shoplifters. I saw someone steal all the sausages rolls packed up on display in Greggs. He was very fast.

The barbers down the road just posted to say they had been broken into overnight. Shutters and a window destroyed for the sake of petty cash and some now void gift vouchers.

One night I forgot to lock my car too and someone had been through it. Unfortunately they didn't take all the wrappers DS leaves in there, but they did nab a few quid I had in the centre console.

Good post. Dosent help not many police around today either.

How would they like it done to them??

People who take from others need to die in a fire.

Faraday pouches need to be replaced every few months?! I didn't know that :(

I'm not sure exactly how long they need replacing but I had been using one for around a year and tested it with my phone the other week due to another car getting robbed on our estate and my phone rang which meant it had a signal. I only knew to check because i saw someone say it online so I checked mine.
Ordered a new one on eBay for under £4.

@Shinyandnew1 just did a google search, it is indeed every few months. Does say you can use a aluminium tin or line something with aluminium foil to put keys in.

We’re in a very tame quiet residential street and just had a spate of this

This is happening in our neighborhood and at this point I’m more frustrated with my neighbors than the thieves. None of the thieves break windows or even hot wire cars. They only steal belongings from cars left unlocked and steal cars where the keys are left inside. Some of my neighbors even go out and.start theirs cars running to “warm up” and go back inside, leaving the car ready for someone to jump in and drive away.

We are in a semi-rural area. The only reason the thieves are here is because residents have decided it’s so safe that nothing needs to be locked. They might as well be leaving cash lying on the pavement and getting upset people pick it up

What's so great about these keyless cars? Is it really worth the theft risk? I find it quite easy to turn a key in the ignition - you'd have to be really lazy to think that was hard work - am I missing something?

I've had to box my car in next to a wall with my other car. Pain in the arse when I need to go out!

i had scumbags try my front door to get the keys before realising I had a camera. I keep the key in a metal biscuit tin as well now

Our local village has got it sussed. Two skanky druggies from the local town broke into an elderly ladies house, all caught on the ring doorbell. Couple of big hefty farmers tracked them down. I wouldn't imagine they will go robbing again.

This keeps happening round here.

Perhaps we need to build some more prisons and increase the number of police.

And of course social clubs because apparently that fixes everything.

They do it because they're not afraid. Vigilante justice is going to be a consequence of this lawlessness. Then there will be different gangs of yobs to worry about.