Rash of east end thefts from vehicles continues overnight
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 by: SooToday.com Staff
CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE
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The police service received 10 calls regarding thefts from motor vehicles overnight.
The vehicles targeted were all located in the city’s east end.
Items removed from the vehicles included wallets, passports, a red tackle box, electrical engineering text books, Addidas sunglasses, I-pods, digital camera and loose change.
A motor vehicle was also stolen overnight from the east end of the city.
Taken was a 2002 Ford Explorer, grey in colour with Ontario plate BAJS 580.
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Wheels17 10/23/2012 5:21:00 PM ReportWhere about's were the vehicle thefts in the east end? This story didn't provide that information.
Tom_Bom 10/23/2012 6:28:20 PM ReportI can't recall in recent memory, so much thievery happening in our city. It's quite bizarre.
geterdun 10/23/2012 6:32:06 PM ReportGoverment cut backs ,,,,,,,,,,its going to get way worse...........
Tom_Bom 10/23/2012 6:38:05 PM ReportStephen Harper is putting all this money into privatized super prisons... What he forgot about was keeping citizens safe and actually getting the true criminals INTO the prisons.
Instead we squander all of the money on the war on drugs. Sootoday posts propaganda ads cloaked as news articles to watch out for local grow ops and call in if you see anything suspicious... and thats all fine and dandy, but the governments focus is on locking up pot smokers instead of going after the really dangerous people, and that's backwards to me. I'm sorry.
We need to shift our focus away from victimless crimes like pot smokers, and concentrate on the criminals who actually take from people and disrupt peoples lives.
Moonshiner 10/23/2012 6:47:52 PM ReportCar alarms are a great solution,if one goes off all the nieghborhood wakes up!
Tender34 10/23/2012 6:53:54 PM ReportI had my vehicle broken into a few years ago, along with about 100 other vehicles that night. The police weren't prepared to do anything about it, so I did. I asked the kids around the neighbourhood if they heard anything. After about a week, the culprits had been bragging and I had all their names. I supplied the names to the police along with stolen items that I found in the ditch around the corner. They took my rear view mirror and left it in the ditch !!! They were all minors and the police did NOTHING !!! 100+ cars that night and they did nothing. The Young Offenders Act seriously needs to be revised. There used to be consequences for that type of behavior. Now they literally have a license to steal.
sbjef 10/23/2012 6:58:34 PM ReportI am so tired of seeing comments on here with regards to how the government is to blame for everything. I know that times are tough right now, but there are also a lot of programs in our city that are reaching out to help those in need such as welfare, soup kitchen, WIC..just to name a few. Here is a concept, why don't these individuals make a decision to take the moral high road instead of resorting to crime when they hit a financial rough patch???? People need to take responsibility for their own actions and stop their whining and bitching about how it is everyone else's fault.
Bad Dawg 10/23/2012 7:08:25 PM ReportThey are getting into my neck of the woods. Won't be the first time I hold some punk waiting for cops and listening to him cry with tears and snot running down his face. Begging for me to let him go.... it makes me laugh and some neighbors bake me cookies too!!
Prrrrrrr 10/23/2012 7:11:45 PM Reportlmao @ Bad Dawg
KMF61MCF 10/23/2012 7:26:10 PM ReportWe had our Vechile damaged in our driveway. When we got in the Vechile in the morning the roof was caved in. The foot prints were still there all muddy they stomped the roof. We brought the vechile to the Police station the officer was very rude when we asked what could be done we asked if finger prints could be done and take a picture of the foot imprints. The Officer said " look this isnt CSI we dont do that there is nothing we can do" So we had to pay our deductable and have the damage fixed there was $7000.00 damage done they had to cut the entire roof off and install a new one. Sad young adults would just do damage for cheap thrills they know nothing will get done.
geterdun 10/23/2012 7:32:45 PM Reportsbjef: ........LOL......
its because they are brought up that way......its the parents fault...
moem 10/23/2012 7:47:38 PM ReportSbjef,
The programs you mention don't actually do a lot! How much is welfare? Wic is for women and the soup kitchen isn't enough are there any others you can think of bc the ones you mention don't help deal with addictions....didn't say if windows were smashed maybe doors need to be locked as a precaution, good lighting, talk to your neighbors, the police can't be everywhere and to the person who thought that police would take photos of the footprint it's true it's not csi, that kind of forensic work is expensive and for what to track the shoe down to walmart? Even if they catch the person the likelihood of you getting the money back is slim so you still have to go through insurance
Tom_Bom 10/23/2012 8:07:04 PM Reportsbjef, Welfare and all the social programs in the world won't turn a bad person into a good person.
The government is partially to blame in my opinion because it just turns a blind eye to actual crimes and decide to focus on menial victimless ones.
the coach 10/23/2012 8:19:19 PM ReportYes it is true, where are the parents of these little morons. And if the city council had any brains in their heads, along with the mayor, they would improvise a curfue for these little snot faced bozos.
I chased four of them out of my backyard when I lived up on Brien Ave. They were quicker than my Louisville. Never saw them again. In fact I never seen any kids wandering the street for the rest of the summer. Sometimes a little of the vigilante in us goes a long way. So if you decide to get brave and come into my yard at night be prepared.
Brianne 10/23/2012 8:32:18 PM Report" we asked if finger prints could be done and take a picture of the foot imprints. The Officer said " look this isnt CSI we dont do that there is nothing we can do"
Exactly ! That's why they are doing it. Its got nothing to do with no money, poor starving people......... it's all a game, and they are winning. They are getting their 15 minutes of fame in the news.
Until people start taking the law into their own hands and confront the mischieveous little devils,from doing what they are doing, then maybe it will calm down. But for now, it's a free ride for them, it's still warm out at night so easy to get around. IF you are that worried about it, stop leaving personal items in your vehicle, police have warned against that time and time again. If they see nothing, then there is nothng for them to waste their time on searching your vehicle.
Working Man 10/23/2012 8:35:54 PM ReportKMF,
Really? They actually said that? Well, the sault(and I didn't capitalize that on purpose) doesn't have any forensic science courses, but you would still think that they would have forensic scientists here!!! If they don't have the knowledge or technology to take finger-prints, then this city is a complete joke.....
KMF61MCF 10/23/2012 9:10:47 PM ReportYes the Officer said that to us. Well i figured they could get a finger print see if it was someone with a record that matched but No just made made us feel real stupid for even reporting this crime of Vandilism to them and wasting there precious time.But we did report everything to our Insurance Company and had the repair done. But that is not the point. A neighbour had his valve stems cut and the door handle off his vechile pried off. He didnt bother reporting it to the Police after what we went threw like he said whats the point.
Zarm27 10/23/2012 10:27:06 PM ReportThere is also something people should be aware, it also takes citizens to make some effort. I don't mean staying up and being paranoid, just during the day you take notice of what goes on around you. An example, today there was a suspicious person (in my eyes), I took notice of what he was wearing since I never seen him around before, if something happens in the area that involves a similar description I could add to it with my own. I wish I lived in a country like it was back in the day where you could leave your vehicle unlocked, but those days are gone. Most addicts for example do not work, they live off the government, and their "job" is finding their next fix, community programs just compound the problem. So addict "X" just spends all day scrounging for change, be it busking, looking for unlocked cars, saving money by taking advantage of the soup kitchen, etc. There needs to be stricter guidelines for the current problem, there's people that have no fixed address, yet still receive funding from the government, maybe do drug tests on applicants/recipients, if a person commits a crime make them not able to apply for assistance. Sure crime would go up, but they'd be forced to move, and yeah there's no excuse for allowing this injustice to continue. Also, yeah I'm one of those guys that doesn't give a f*ck, and if someone broke in they'd be unable to regret it.
moem 10/23/2012 10:52:51 PM ReportPeople with no address get street allowance maybe they should drug test everyone on the public purse including people who work in the public sector! Your solution is ridiculous bevause forcing them to move makes them someone else's problem, there are people with addictions in all walks of life there are rich drunks that beat their wives and kids and they cost us money too!! The government peddles alcohol on people and then complains when they have to pay for it by way of social programs, the oxy problem was by and large a product of bad doctors and a govt system of checks and balances that clearly doesn't work? Did the folks in OHIP billing not notice that some doctors had an entire patient loads receiving narcotics? I had a client who never ever took his oxy yet once a month his Script was filled for 100 which he sold for 60-80 bucks a pop, there is no simple solution bit whining and name calling and talking big about what you'd do is not the answer that's for sure, all the people on here with secure lives and jobs should ask themselves what they would do if they lost their jobs I have many clients on the system who used to be employed, who used to have security but then in a blink of an eye it was gone not everyone on the system is a lazy good for nothing person who never worked, and I can't even count the number of them who are over 65 and on the street even though they worked most of their lives and paid taxes, some of them fought in the war to give us all freedom and this is how they are treated, one was arrested for shoplifting bread and some canned cat food and you know what he doesn't have a cat
Zarm27 10/23/2012 11:44:08 PM ReportA lot of companies do require drug testing, and if you were to research, down in the states there's been mandatory drug testing for even a bag boy if it's a large chain. Drugs are a problem, and the way we're handling it is wrong, my suggestion of not allowing a free handout to a group of people abusing a system is just. There you are defending everyone where I did not single out everyone aside from those commiting the abuse. So seriously, maybe instead of looking for things to justify your trolling on a sites comments, stick to the issue which is crime, it's being caused and I suggested my opinion on how it could be solved, you have done nothing, much like the current situation, thanks.
jojoe71 10/24/2012 12:08:34 AM ReportI have no sympathy for fools who leave their wallets in a vehicle. Not to mention their passports. We'll always have these low life bottom feeder scumbags so we should always take precautions to keep our valuables out of our vehicles and keep our homes locked when we are out.
moem 10/24/2012 12:47:37 AM ReportZarm27 I didn't say companies I said public purse that means tax payer jobs, I don't troll I read articles and give my opinion and I gave my opinion, I actually do a lot to try and make change, your solution was nothing short of ridiculous and would never actually happen so maybe focus on a solution that could work rather than some over zealous remark that suggested we try and push the problem out of the Soo, we've been doing that long enough... Go to Toronto and ask homeless addicts where they are from a large majority are from northern Ontario and the east coast so the old days of giving people on welfare a bus ticket to TO contributed to the problem and since most of the tax dollars spent on the people you refer to are provincial and federal dollars not municipal so whether they live here or somewhere else guess who's paying for it
moem 10/24/2012 1:14:50 AM ReportAnd I don't need to look up stats in the states I live here, in the states you can carry guns and you can shoot people if they enter your home, clearly they have different laws, then again if an intruder in the states falls on your faulty stairs they can sue so go figure,,,, and if you do want to refer to stats it bolsters your argument if you post them yourself, I highly doubt many of the union heads would concede to having drug testing in the public sector ( the ones we negotiate with won't ) Wonder why that is.....I have photos of a mailman on a city bus drinking a beer with his letter bag full of beer at 2pm, so addicts are everywhere and your hard earned tax dollars pay him to drink in public on the job,., no wonder things get "lost" in the mail
Tom_Bom 10/24/2012 4:45:27 AM Reportlol @ drug testing poor people for their welfare checks. Yeah, that won't incite a complete riot.
Zarm27 10/24/2012 5:51:54 AM ReportSo, recognizing that there's a problem yet you still would not do a thing to change it and instead would allow it to continue and have tax payers support an addiction. Nice, and yeah I think it's even more ridiculous that everyone can acknowledge that there's an epidemic in this town, yet no one is willing to take steps to correct it. So you're right, with 10% in this town being on social assistance, as it was mentioned by another it would cause a riot. So maybe we can just look the other way and ignore the problem and tell ourselves we're doing the right thing by saving a criminals freedom.
steelworker 10/24/2012 6:36:35 AM Report...leave 'em laying in a pool of their own rotten blood.
thesharr 10/24/2012 7:42:12 AM ReportWelfare increases won't be enough,these kids are addicted to booze and drugs and expensive toys they can't afford.I forgot to mention lazy,don't want to finish high school so no one will hire them,and their criminal record doesn't help.
Snowdon 10/24/2012 8:27:01 AM ReportAttack those on welfare with no proof. Classy once again.
Sootoday commenters become The Sun News Network.
speed7 10/24/2012 11:39:53 AM ReportI didnt have my vehicle stolen but my passenger door smashed into mirror broken . Hit and run. Cost me 500 dollars for the deductible. Cop says it was the people accross the street in the apartment builing. Backing out not watching when exiting. As to the thefts this is getting very bad. A guy tries to abduct a young girl on second line and now grand theft auto. Wow the sault is going to potts these days.
speed7 10/24/2012 12:11:05 PM Reportsbjef I do agree with you there are alot of things out there to help the homeless. Councilling, soup kitchen, ect, But the agencies dont help anyone. My cousin who is hearing disabled as been through most of them and let me tell you all they do is pocket governement cash and they make promises they never keep. Trust me on that one. The government needs to keep audits on where the cash is going and follow up on what jobs if any the agency successfully provided for these people. If they just did that you would see them smarten up quick. There is nothing worse than taking government money and leaving the disadvantaged empty handed. Pretty sick.
Tom_Bom 10/24/2012 2:20:29 PM ReportHas anyone ever been so far to think that the people on welfare do drugs to escape the misery of poverty?
I'm not defending drug use, but if you were in a situation where you only got 500 bucks a month, what would you do? I know i'd get drunk. Who doesn't seek that escapism under extremely stressful and desolate circumstances?
I've had friends on welfare, but happily took them out grocery shopping in spite of knowing of their unhealthy habits. Maybe I'm just a caring person, I don't know.
Then, when the tables were turned and I had lost my job and was on welfare for a short time (didn't have enough hours banked for EI), I had that kindness returned to me.
We all need to stop taking whatever chance we can to demonize the poor looking at them as freeloaders, and instead care for each other as human beings. The Jobs just aren't there in this city. I feel privileged just to have one again myself.
Back on topic, someone mentioned rigging a camera to your house if you can afford it, and this is actually a great idea. I have a friend who employed this method, he had a camera on his front balcony and a camera in the back after having being broken into and robbed. Well needless to say the next time the thieves came back for round 2, the cleverly stashed cameras that were set up to automatically upload what they catch to another location, got their faces. This lead to their arrest.
I don't know what the local bylaws are on putting video surveillance outside your home so look into that first, unless someone here already knows whats involved?
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