Posted on 03/06/2024 12:45:45 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Unnerved residents of America’s wealthiest town are volunteering to have their multi-million homes burglarized as part of a new police sting operation, after a spate of break-ins.
Lavishly leafy Atherton, California — home to NBA superstar Stephen Curry and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt — has seen ten residential burglaries so far this year, prompting local cops to launch a new “bait home” initiative.
The average property in Atherton –– roughly 35 miles south of San Francisco — runs more than $7 million, making it the priciest zip code in the country and well ahead of second-place Miami Beach.
Atherton Police Commander Dan Larsen told The Post this week several residents have already gamely volunteered to have their residences used to lure unsuspecting crooks.
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several residents have already gamely volunteered to have their residences used to lure unsuspecting crooks.
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If I had some nefarious going ons that I needed to build a cover story for, I might volunteer.
Doesn’t advertising this sort of defeat the purpose?
Sounds like a sting. Isn’t that illegal? Entrapment?
I guess millionaires can get away with stuff.
Smart deterrance. They can pretend the police are in their homes protecting it, you just don’t know when.
I’m sure the article is in English. Illegals can’t read English.
So the police WILL do something about theft.
If you’re rich enough.
Police protection for me but not for thee.
The average property in Atherton –– roughly 35 miles south of San Francisco — runs more than $7 million, making it the priciest zip code in the country and well ahead of second-place Miami Beach.
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Seems to me uber rich millionaires can (and should) hire their own private security.
But this is California. Maybe there’s a law against this?
Entrapment is a complete defense to a criminal charge, on the theory that "Government agents may not originate a criminal design, implant in an innocent person's mind the disposition to commit a criminal act, and then induce commission of the crime so that the Government may prosecute." Jacobson v.
Doesn't sound like entrapment.
Curry is a class 1 Ahole.
My friend lived in a big blue city, where cars parked on the street would often get broken into
People resorted to leaving cars unlocked, or putting signs on windows “no valuables inside car.”
This person I knew left such a note inside his windshield
He woke up one morning to find a cheeky thug had smashed his window, and also left a note “....just checking.”
-PJ
Whutta laff
Atherton is across the highway from East Palo Alto which is basically a gang town that views its neighbors as hunting grounds.
It’s where they keep “the help”. Slowly gentrifying, but still way cheaper. And the rich folks be likin to have the po peeple nearby so they can have some virtue validation. Which, of course, is backfiring on them.
Zuckerpunk is the largest land owner there as he bought 5 houses around him as a buffer zone. Maybe he should just buy East PA and turn it into a Bentley parking lot.
The vote Democrat. They should open their underutilized homes to migrants.
I wondered who Steph Curry is.
Thought Stephanie might be a beautiful woman.
So I googled her.
I am so dissappointed.
Does that mean their electric walls will have to be turned off and their 24/7 security team will have to stand down. I find it hard to believe that people that make that much money and put it into likely in execess of 10 billion dollars after they furnish it, would leave it wide open for any fool to see they are gone on a trip and get into their property and steal. This means one of two things, either they have no conception of money due to making too much, or they are dumber than dirt about life.
wy69
That’s funny
LOL
What happens in the event that there is some sort of racial imbalance in those apprehended? This could backfire.
I don’t really watch the show on a regular basis but those Super Bowl episodes were great.
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