The best hiding place for thieves (at least in San Francisco) seems to be behind curtains and sunshades/screens. I have tinted windows in my VW Fox Wagon and had a (foil-type) sunshade. It was the perfect place for the thieves to go through my belongings without being seen. This happened while I was in a house in St. Francis Woods (which is a very expensive part of San Francisco) for a mere 35 minutes. Mind you, this was on Junipero Serra which has 200,000 vehicles passing daily. These guys must have been pros though. They got in and took all the valuables including my in-dash stereo without damaging anything else. They even locked up after themselves. Oh yeah, they took all my CD's except my business partner's copy of Madonna's rendition of Evita which they stomped & crushed on the floor. Was that a message? Called the cops. SFPD's response, "Sir, we get 80 of these calls per shift. There are three shifts. Would you just please call your insurance company? Here's your police report number..." Cute, eh? Ben San Francisco |
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