some kid took a game from me and prolly sold it so he could get some pot or something. People are just stupid in this country.

My little sister’s prized Christmas present, a portable DVD player, was stolen a few weeks after she got it from our car during a family get-together. Worse, we’re fairly certain it’s one of our cousins who did it.

got stolen out of my gf’s car. It was on old convertible and someone actually cut a hole in the top to get in.

and took a 12-pack of Snapple.

Just.

(Not that there was anything else there of value. But why take the Snapple? Isn’t it sort of conspicuous?)

someone bashed in my right rear taillight to see if i ad a sensitivity alarm on my truck(i dont). then they stole my spare. i mean wtf is that? neither one of those items are cheap to replace. be thankful all you lost was video games. but i will agree, what kind of loser steals video games?

is that it could just be some dumb delinquent kids breaking into cars for kicks.

I find it sad that you would blame the victim of a crime for being stupid enough to leave valuable stuff in a locked car. It’s people like you who feel that victims bring crimes upon themselves by leaving objects in places that could be broken into. I’ve lived in several different parts of the country and I always remember fondly an area in the Midwest where people could leave their cars and homes unlocked without worrying about someone stealing their possesions. I now live in Chicago, where I’ve learned to be very wary of any stranger and take every precaution to avoid theft. My apartment doesn’t have A/C because I don’t to take the risk of putting a window unit in my basement level apartment and have someone push it in and rob me. I’ve also had my car broken into when it was in a city impound (which by the way, nothing was taken because there was nothing of any value in it).
I find it very sad that I’ve had to adapt to this line of thinking and wish that people could trust each other. Obviously that’s not the case. But to blame the victim for having the audacity to have something of value in their car, which was then stolen, is ridiculous.

To John: I’m sorry that happened. I know how crappy it feels to have stuff stolen from you and I hope they catch those jerk offs. Oh, and ignore idiots like Dim.

I used to park my car in a bad part of Philly and it would get broken into all the time—I never left anything in it, so I never really lost anything.

I usually just covered the broken back window with a trash bag until I could afford to get it fixed. But one time, I went to get the car and found that, despite having nothing but a trash bag over the curb-side rear window, some crackhead had thrown a cinder block through the front driver-side window, just to find out that no, I don’t keep any change in the change compartment or ashtray (both of which I left open anyway).

Someone broke into my truck while my wife was giving birth to our daughter a few years ago. They stole cash from her purse and a Weight Watchers Welcome packet. WTF on thr weight watchers thing. I found that pretty odd.

If it helps, you can deduct the cost of the stolen items on next year’s Schedule A as an itemized deduction. It’s a casualty loss.

I’ll chime in and say I’ve also been a victim of break-in / theft. As everyone has been saying, it leaves you feeling totally and completely violated.

I lived in a half of a side by side duplex, in which the neighbor got evicted. He was pissed, and a lowlife, and I came home New Year’s morning at 3am (it was New Years) to find $2300 (the amount of the insurance check) of merchandise missing from my home, which included my entire 200+ DVD collection. I now have an alarm system. The bottom line, unfortunately, is that you need alarm systems at the minimum. A car alarm can be added for a little over $100, a home alarm monitoring system is about $30 a month in my area. These are small fees, and will reduce your insurance to almost make up for them, relative to the loss you could have.

Sorry Mr and Mrs Sickles, as well as JR.

You know it was someone who does not know much about XM radio. Good luck trying to use it. And if he tried to sell it, well it wouldn’t work for the next party either. With your Radio ID, XM can find out who next tries to activate it.

I usually put things in the trunk, like others have stated, but many times I have forgotten and usually I remember while sitting at the ball game and its the 5th inning… the game can’t get over quick enough, yet all ballgames get over too soon… strange feeling, wanting the game to end so I can get to my car but also not wanting it to end because its a ball game…

Don’t apply logic to it, John. A friend of mine had his car broken into. The guy also left his faceplate in with his car radio (this is in downtown Philadelphia) and I kept telling him it was an open invitation. Sure enough, someone decided to finally break in. But the hilarious part was that the guy only stole the faceplate, not the radio itself. What kind of idiot does that?

Truth is, they’ll take anything they can get their hands on. I leave absolutely nothing in my car because I know cars can get broken into easy enough. One guy broke into my car, couldn’t find anything, popped the hood, and stole MY DOUGHNUT (in older Subaru’s, the spare is stored on top of the engine). What kind of idiot steals a car DOUGHNUT????

I have a friend who in college had his car window smashed in and all someone took was the change he had in the cup holder. The funny part was it was a junk car and the doors were unlocked. The next day, my friend put a sign in the window that said “its unlocked” so atleast the next douchebag wouldn’t break a window for a few quarters.

Had my pickup broken into while at work (in fenced employee parking lot) by breaking out side window. I had nothing of value – they even eschewed taking my stereo because it was such a pos. Just rifled through my glove box and ashtray. The person who owned the vehicle next to me, though, had just spent 600 bucks installing a new stereo system that day, and only got to listen to it from the stereo shop to work before it was stolen. Anyway, I stopped locking my truck after that.

I still remember this incident, and find it really puzzling (to add to slick’s comment of people stealing weird things)...

As a seven year old, I had my favorite Searworld hat stolen when it was hanging on my stroller, during a break on our family Orlando vacation. who would, in their right minds, steal a kid’s hat off a stroller?

In the city, I saw a black large sedan with a busted window with a guy next to it assessing the situation… I struck a conversation with the guy and to told me that a Laptop was stolen. Then I said that this car looks like a cop car and he said it is….
Wow… even Cop cars are not safe…

Back when I was in eighth grade, someone broke into our house and made off with about $10K worth of stuff. The upshot, at least for me, was that even though they swiped the SNES and Genesis, they left all the games that weren’t out (so, all the games), as well as the NES. Suckers. ;)