Comments on: ‘Lock Your Car’ – Readers Report Multiple Vehicle Burglaries

By: Teresa Davidson

Teresa Davidson — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:05:02 +0000

A little something you men and women might want to know; an insurance agent told me one time that if you don’t lock you’re automobiles where ever you are, they have the right to DENY your claim, especially if you have an alarm system installed on it from the factory. I thought this might wake a few people up and might stop some of these idiots from breaking in. when they break into a locked up auto with an alarm and it goes off they will think twice about the next one. Just my thought on things from Cantonment.

By: danielle

danielle — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:33:20 +0000

MY CAR WAS BR0KEN INT0 SATURDAY NIGHT T00. THEY G0T A LIGHTER AND MY GPS AND THEY WERE VERY SNEAKY AB0UT IT. THEY LEFT THE SIDE D00R SHUT JUST EN0UGH BUT T0 WHERE IT W0ULDNT SLAM AND ALARM THE D0GS.

By: Aggie Mom

Aggie Mom — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:17:29 +0000

Thanks so much for the warning. They tried breaking into our garage and vehicles saturday night, May 11th, on Jacks Branch Rd. I haven’t seen the teenagers that are usually walking up and down Jacks Branch…..I wonder if they now have transportation?…….hmmmmm.

By: cottge hill

cottge hill — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:37:29 +0000

I wish you all good luck with getting your items back. This has been going on for years in Cottage Hill, and yes last week too. My neighbors truck was broken into, and yes it was locked. My car was broken into 3 times last year, and it also was locked. If its an older car they pop the locks, if a newer car they break the window, as the alarm only goes off when the door is opened. Great security system.
My solution was a security system, night vision cameras attached to the house. . They havent been back. . Sad thing my son opened the door to find a fat white boy running across our yard with my work bag, but dropped it to jump into a white older style bronco, Yes a police report was filed. They live in our neighborhood. I have seen the truck, High school kids. Wow ,where are their parents at when they are on their stealing spree at 1 am to 3 am in the morning.I just hope its worth dying for, someone will catch them, and just may have that 45 in hand.

By: Rainer

Rainer — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:09:24 +0000

I stayed on my outside balcony last night with a shot gun. I got the week off. Hummmmm.. I work for mine and I am a perfect shot.

By: cantonment

cantonment — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:26:27 +0000

yea my dogs wouldnt have that. easy fix to a stupid problem

By: haley

haley — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:03:17 +0000

just so you guys know. My purse was stolen out of my car about a week ago from the jacks branch area , and last night they got into our shed … they kicked the door down.. but jokes on them! because there was nothing in there for them to steal! but we still filed a report

By: muscogee89

muscogee89 — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:06:56 +0000

My truck was unlocked and was went through also but i dont leave vaulables in it. I would rather the idiots look in my truck than to bust my windows out and then look. I just hope it wasnt young teens because they will get braver and when they enter a home they may not return, sad but true!

By: Ellie

Ellie — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:49:23 +0000

I was just telling a couple friends, one who is also my neighbor this morning that I thought someone was around my house between 11 and 2 am. Our dog started barking like crazy, I could not get him to stop his barking. (He has never acted like this in the middle of the night.) Naturally, I grabbed my pistol, and turned both porch lights on and that is how they stayed till am. The pistol slept with us, and it will again tonight. I get a call from my neighbor friend about this article, and I think this adds to my suspicion. So blessed to live where we look out for one another. We live around Jacks Branch and 196!

By: Robert S.

Robert S. — Fri, 10 May 2013 00:27:17 +0000

Mom, Dad, Driver Ed Coach, my insurance company for many years have always said “Lock the Vehicle” when you are away from it and DO NOT leave anything in plain sight. Common Sense which ain’t so common anymore.
Had a friend tell me of several thefts from vehicles where people had left windows open, doors unlocked. and purses, computers, cell phones GPS, all sorts of personal information in Plain Sight in the UN–locked vehicle and the thugs took advantage of the opportunity and the ignorance of the victim.
She laughed and said, “Bad as the theft is, the idiots kind of deserve it as all they had to do was lock up the vehicle.” Not one vehicle that was locked was broken into….Stupid is as Stupid Does.