Comments on: Sweet and Sad City Signs both from 9th St, NW

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:25:00 +0000

I like that idea. Maybe a bear trap would work too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:12:36 +0000

A friend told me once to put broken bottles under my seats, so when they reach under there they get all cut up. I never did it (haven’t had car broken into since I moved uptown) but there you have it.

By: victoria

victoria — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:08:00 +0000

Have never been broken into since I started keeping live snakes in my car.

By: JMW

JMW — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:09:48 +0000

Isnt this the joke where the perp leaves a note in the car saying, “Just Checking.”

By: BP

BP — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:17:25 +0000

You shouldn’t assume that the perp can read!

By: PG

PG — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:43:55 +0000

That happened to me a few years ago, on Bunker Hill Road, NE. The car was locked, but I didn’t have the Club on the steering wheel.

Nothing was stolen from it (there was nothing in it to steal.) but I had to pay a $250 deductible for repairs when it was recovered.

By: Drewlove

Drewlove — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:41:08 +0000

I never locked my Jeep hard top but that didn’t stop some jerk from smashing the back window to steal my dash radio (who would even buy that?).

By: J.Con.

J.Con. — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:33:32 +0000

Someone’s gonna break into the car to steal that sign.

By: sean

sean — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:43:40 +0000

i once bought a car from a girl that lived on 16th and u. she had her windows broken so many times that she decided to keep the car unlocked. she put a sign in the window saying “Doors are unlocked”, and people still broke the windows. so she sold it to me because of the hassle.

By: JodiHeights

JodiHeights — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:36:50 +0000

When I lived in Cleveland, my apartment was broken into twice, exactly a month apart.
Totally ransacked it the first time, but didn’t take anything of value.
Even though I had a computer, iPods, cameras, snowboard, DVD player, etc.
Second time, they broke in the front door, and only opened a couple of closets & threw a shoebox on my bed (this time was worse because it made no sense and since the front door was wide open, the dogs got outside and were running around confused).

Point: I also put signs up in my apartment windows. They were a little more threatening though.