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Satisfying car prowl
30Oct2006 Filed under: JournalishTwo weeks ago, Dre and my car was prowled while we ate dinner in Columbia City. The prowlers got my ipod and our car stereo face (just the face), which I’d stupidly left in the unlocked glove compartment. I replaced both items (the ipod was on the fritz anyway) and life went on.
Tonight we met some friends for dinner in that same neighborhood. Being smart this time, I took the brand new stereo face and ipod with me. When we got back to our car after dinner, we found it had been prowled again in the exact same way — BUT I HAD OUTSMARTED THE PROWLER AND LEFT THEM NOTHING TO TAKE!
HA!!
I was so deeply satisfied I can’t even tell you. Go ahead: paw through the napkins and trail mix in my glove compartment! Be my guest: there’s nothing to steal! HA! Perhaps next time I go to eat in Columbia City, I will leave a note that says “Sorry, fuckers” in the glove compartment.
Oh, and as for how they got in the car, they’re either coming in through the hatchback (which I always forget to lock) or they’re picking the passenger-side lock, which has been picked before and perhaps is more defective than we knew. Who cares: there’s nothing for them to steal because now I am smart and bring my shit with me. HA!
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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lily
October 31st, 2006 at 6:19 am
HAH! THOSE BITCHES! FOILED AGAIN!
(i am happy for you!)
michelle
October 31st, 2006 at 7:39 am
yay for you. i’m glad you foiled the foilers! i hate those petty thieves. i had my house broken into last year (300+ CDs stolen; luckily that was all) and it was unnerving to say the least. BUT… i did have a satisfying car prowl on queen anne a few years back. one summer, they got my stereo (i always forgot to take the face inside), but left their screwdriver. but a few weeks later the car was “broken into” (i’d left the window cracked, duh) but there was no stereo for them to take. all they got were the pennies in my change well. ha!
chasmyn
October 31st, 2006 at 9:56 am
Excellent!
joe
October 31st, 2006 at 11:48 am
You should buy an old CD case (or something else hollow and valueable) and fill it with dog poop, so when they open it up, they’ll get poop on their hands or floor!
Maggie
November 1st, 2006 at 7:04 am
Way to go! Yes, if you end up parking in that area again I agree you should leave them a nice note. Can you imagine how you would have felt if you HADN’T taken those items with you this time?
brodie
November 1st, 2006 at 10:54 am
you are doing the right thing by not leaving valuables in your car. just leave it unlocked, this will save you further costs associated with breakage due to theives’ use of their tool of choice - a ’slim jim’. this device is less than 5 seconds to open any car , but in the hands of an amateur can cause damage to the internal bits of your car door. easier just to leave it open if you think its likely to happen a lot.
http://www.lockpickshop.com/p-AKSJ.html