Posted on 10/20/2017 7:58:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Does placing a 'no valuables inside' sign in a car window deter break-ins?
Car burglaries are at epidemic levels in San Francisco
By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE Updated 9:18 am, Friday, October 20, 2017
In San Francisco, where no automobile parked on the street is immune from glass-smashing thieves, some people have taken to posting signs on car windows announcing that there are no valuables inside.
The hope, of course, is that a thief will read the notice and decide: "Huh. No valuables in this one.I guess I'll break into some other car."
On Tuesday, a Reddit user posted a photo of such a sign and posed the question "Do you think it works?" to the Reddit community. A lively debate ensued.
"Sounds a lot like something that someone with valuables in their car would say," wrote a skeptical Maddox83a.
But iamthewaffler disagreed, citing personal experience.
"It's strong signaling that works VERY well," the commenter wrote. "The intended victim for thefts from cars are people who are from out of town, other "safer" parts of SF, etc who don't know that certain areas are very prone to car break-ins. If you have bothered to print out a sign and put it in your window, that shows you know exactly what neighborhood you're in and the chances of anything valuable being in your car are extremely low.
"These are crimes of opportunity, and if you simply let the would-be thief know that you're from this part of town and aware of the danger, they'll pass right by.
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Putting a sign in the window just attracts the attention of a would-be thief.
That's if they can read English...
Bingo!
Most of the people doing this don’t read English, are the signs in Spanish too?
To a Least Common Denominator (LCD) Citizen or non citizen, it will only confuse and spark action.
NO! They steal the entire Car!
Same kind of mentality as a gun-free zone.
no hay objetos de valor dentro
I was visiting the Japanese Tea Garden and the de Young Art collection at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco the day before Christmas Eve last year. On the main street, in front the Japanese Tea Garden at noon, just off the Martin Luther a fellow on a bike drove up and smashed out the rear window of a new Mini Cooper and stole what packages he could grab in front of hundreds. Not a care in the world.
Trashy rust bucket does.
I'm reminded of my poor brother who chose to buy the dirt-cheapest $49 POS receiver he could find just to have something to listen to and a thief still smashed his window and destroyed his dashboard stealing it.
No, but a live Wolverine inside the Car might do the trick.
Put a sign saying the vehicle is not a valuables sanctuary, but that if youbreak in, you WILL be deported after 10 yr @ Gitmo’.
Stealing your piece of mind is valuable to some of a certain persuasion.
Wrong peace, dope.
The good news is, they won’t break into it. The bad news is, they’ll set it on fire to show who’s boss.
I was in the city last weekend, and put a hand scrawled sign... Bait car... Street thugs will know that a bait car is watched. I parked in the body strewn area by Mr. Holmes Bake house ( locals know where Im talking about) Car was brand new and not touched.
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Frisco has been a lowlife town for about 50 years.
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