Posted on 05/20/2016 8:51:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Bay Area has one of the nation’s highest rates of car thefts, according to the FBI.
Her friends jokingly call it “Boomerang.” Maika Nicholson’s car has been stolen four times, but has also returned four times.
“I always come out to make sure it’s there because often times it’s not,” Nicholson said, about her ’97 Honda Civic. “It’s been stolen in San Francisco three times and probably been broken into three or four times, I would say – I can’t even keep count anymore.”
This week, her car came back for the fourth time. San Francisco Police found it less than a mile from her Noe Valley Home.
“The first time, I was pretty upset. Now, it’s just kind of funny to me,” said Nicholson, who has even tracked the car down herself using an app on her smartphone. The third time it was stolen, the thieves dumped it a couple blocks away, without any damage.
According to SFPD’s Carlos Manfredi, they could be stealing the car for two reasons: “simply to joyride in it, drive around town, tear up the car, do donuts, stuff like that;” or use it to commit crimes.
The Bay Area has one of the nation’s highest rates of car thefts, according to the FBI. This is especially true in San Francisco, where more than 1,300 cars have been stolen so far this year.
“Those are easy cars to make. All you need is a fork,” Manfredi said, explaining thieve usually target older models because they’re easy to break into.
Nicholson has a club on her steering wheel to deter thieves; however, officers have recommended she get a new car with a smart key, if she does not want it stolen a fifth time.
For her, though, it’s not easy to trade in an old friend.
“It’s funny because it just keeps coming back to me, so I have a little bit of a weird attachment to it,” Nicholson said.
With the impossibility of finding a parking place in San Francisco, maybe the smart thing to do is steal a parked car.
This article is intended to be to have a cutesy endearing theme but I don’t find it funny at all.
All I can think about is the steady dilution of property rights.
Mexico is full of hard-working people but the country is more often it’s because creative or hard working people know that their wealth will simply be stolen or confiscated and so the country Stays poor.
I don’t think we should be condoning Thievery.
She lives in Noe Valley, 3 blocks away from the Mission District, which features the highest concentration of Mexicans in San Francisco and probably in the whole Bay Area.
this article is basically about the inability for the scummy Mexican people to respect the private property of other people.
the Mission district is also packed full of tuberculosis for exactly the same reasons.
I hear that Honda’s are one of the most stolen cars all over the country.
Got to love that buzzing Fart Pipe and all the "Tye R" decals. Maybe not so much the slammed suspension and 6' tall wing........
“Nobuddy steels Foardz”
Not a new phenomenon. I was born and raised in the Mission District of SF. I watched as more and more Mexicans moved into the area, which used to be Irish/German/Italian etc. Some of these Mexican neighbors became my friends. Some of them I quickly distanced myself from them.
For instance, a next-door neighbor my age who stole another neighbor's car from across the street. Him and his brother would try to get me into shoplifting with them, and tried to stuff items in my pockets. I would have none of that, and stopped hanging around with them. One brother ended up a dead teen with his throat cut just up the street in a drug deal gone bad. My mom had her Chevy stolen three times within two years, recovered each time. One of those times she saw the Mexican thief pulling out of the parking spot with her car, and she and my sister tried to block him; big mistake as he almost ran them over.
My mom also got mugged several times in the Mission. That's when we left for the suburbs. Things got worse in SF over the next few decades, but now with an influx of other races (whites and asians) things are greatly improving. I'm not moving back, however, a bit too crowded for me and I like the peninsula where I can easily park (and not get robbed).
Mexico is the 14th wealthiest country in the world.
Yes, but the weather is an even better reason to leave...
Toyota camry is the number 1 stolen car nationally.
That depends on personal taste, but I am somewhat in agreement. The Mission District is one of the better districts weather-wise, as it's mostly sunny and the surrounding hills block and confine the fog to the Sunset District and Marina Districts. Then again, when there is heavy overcast, the entire city is cold including the Mission. Lots of people like the natural air-conditioning effect (which I don't care for). The Peninsula is much sunnier and warmer and I like it. Plus my garden does better with more sun. Despite the stereotypes of SF, there are a lot of positive reasons people live there, that outweigh the obvious negatives. Biggest negative citywide is lack of parking and lots of traffic. Biggest plus are the vibrant commercial and entertainment venues citywide. The negatives of gays and homeless are confined to a few districts, easily avoided.
A former co-worker moved to San Francisco. He actually wanted to go there and live in the city..... He has no parking lot, no garage. He has to park his car on the street next to the $2,400 a month apartment he shares with 2 others as he cannot afford to live there by himself. What a wonderful decision. Oh BTW he takes the bus to work because he wants to save the environment. 30mins to get there vs 10mins by car. Another great decision. He is also a liberal so there is that. That lady should move. The former co-worker is to dumb to.
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