SFist: Smash-and-Grabs Slowed

overheardinmyhead

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:23:34 -0800

Upper Market in the Castro. Several friends have had their cars broken into there. One finally got so sick of it (his car was broken into three times during the course of a month) that he donated his vehicle to KQED and now uses Zipcar. I walk down Harrison or Bryant everyday on my way into work. There's always broken glass on the sidewalks and gutters. I also see a number of cars with notes on their windows that read: ATTENTION! THERE NEVER HAS BEEN, NOR WILL THERE EVER BE, ANYTHING OF VALUE IN THIS CAR. PLEASE DO NOT BREAK THE WINDOWS Not sure how effective that is but I haven't seen any of their windows busted out... yet.

deadbrother

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:14:28 -0800

bla bla bla. don't own a car?

jt

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:36:06 -0800

When I used to live on Buchanan at Haight I had to contend with 4 smash n grabs in a 2 month window. So shitty, and I always kept my car empty. After the second smashy smashy my glove box was busted, always hung open with nothing inside and not a week later was robbed again! And I drive a not-at-all fancy Corolla. I lived in Oakland for 6 years and never once had a break in. Although I was robbed at gunpoint...

jwb

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:27:13 -0800

Sangfroid826: incredibly, this does not always work. Some crack-addled dumbass once broke into my car which contained nothing of value whatsoever. He broke the window even though the doors were left unlocked (it's a convertible) and stole the owner's manual, of all things. The best part is, through some incredible happenstance, the guy was busted by the Pacifica police in possession of said manual imprinted with the VIN of my car, and they returned it to me. The guy did a couple weeks in jail for this bone-headed move.

mariconsoy

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:44:50 -0800

Is it inhumane to keep a live cobra in your glove compartment?

zig

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:03:41 -0800

Living in SF for a long time in bad areas this hasn't happened to me I can't for the life of me understand why people park nice cars on the street. My relatives who work bluecollar jobs in SF or Oakland, often with work yards in bad areas, always have the ghetto hoop ride for street parking. Maybe throw on a Spanish radio station sticker or a KMEL jams on it and like the above mentioned throw some trash on the floor. Criminals will think your local and poor and leave it I am happy to report that recently after some shit bag climbed in my window while someone was home the SFPD took that very seriously and actually caught the perp with prints

es

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:48:35 -0800

Yup, I live south of market near whole foods. In the past few months three family members who came to visit have had their windows smashed. Total pain.

sangfroid826

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:55:37 -0800

Doesn't anyone know the rules? Either: 1) Litter your seats with trash or 2) Keep your seats immaculate and 3) Always leave the glove compartment open and empty.

makfan

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:31:32 -0800

There is always a lot of broken glass on 4th St near Whole Foods.

bluecanary

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:16:08 -0800

Bah. Focusing on smash and grabs? What a waste of time/resources.

cwiggum

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:02:30 -0800

I work on Ritch street where the club 330 Ritch is. I swear I come to work every morning and there's a fresh pile of broken glass everywhere. All over this area near the ball park in south of market is just terrible for smash and grabs.

fizzandpop

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:01:05 -0800

But that Fugazi bloke getting his stuff stolen is still funny.

sfbs

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:59:47 -0800

Under the trees on Pierce between Hayes and Fell...always glass on the street. I am down 2 windows, though I am only out a couple dead bootleg tapes and a radar detector that probably hasn't worked since the 80s. Must be hippies boosting my car...hope they enjoy that sick help/slip/frank.

redseca2

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:46:17 -0800

I saw a pretty Audi on Octavia this morning sitting in a light dusting of broken glass.... I wish they had narrowed that list done to what parts of those streets are bad. Most of them cross the entire city from good parts to bad. It is also weird they leave out the spots, under the elevated freeways and so on, where people abandon cars to be stripped.

autojack

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:21:59 -0800

I'm glad to see that 100% of posts to SFist continue the trend of including the single-word sentence, "Which?" It makes the tone sound oh-so ditzy. Which? Hot.