Vehicle broken into and nothing stolen?!?!

[oldgringo]

...I loathe thieves and sincerely wish that it was legal (even just barely) to set bobby-traps for the rotten pieces of .....

I'm almost looking forward to the day the doc tells me I have 6 months to live...I haz planz.

[TheNumberSix]

I had my honda accord stolen from infront of my house back in 2000. The loss of the car was annoying but not catastrophic. The most annoying thing is that the goblins got two pairs of pants, a suit, and a sportcoat. They did get my GARMIN GPSMap76 but almost all of the contents had no retail value but huge replacement costs. Arrrghhh

[rbinhood]

I don't want to rub salt in the wound, but the lesson is, don't leave anything of value in the car, or in plain view. There are too many opportunist sh*theads in the world who think they can take whatever they see.

[JaxHiker]

When I was deployed with the Navy my truck was at a fellow shipmate's house. His wife would start it every once in a while for me. Two weeks before we came home someone broke in and completely removed and stole the back window, stereo, bag style cell phone (if you remember those ) and misc other stuff. I always wonder if I'll get back from the trail to find it's happened again but so far I've managed to avoid it. Glad you kept all your gear.

[Cjreynol]

Precisely why I don't lock my '95 Blazer, nor do I leave anything in it of value. The cost of the window repair exceeds the value of anything in the car.

^Same here, most I ever stand to lose is a few bucks in change

[NewtonGT]

we are lucky that theives areant hammock fans or they would have seen the value there

[SoundMan]

Every time I leave my car at a trail head i hope it is there when i come back.

Good for you the big ticket items didn't disappear!

Raystown is awesome- My family car camps and boats there many times a summer- great place!

[JayS]

Sorry for your loss (the window & faith in fellow man) but thankful for your "kept" (all your gear). The thieves probably felt the camping gear would be too hard to fence and/or too identifiable.

[Jsaults]

Maybe I am mellowing with age........

My insurance covers glass breakage as a zero deductable item, so no real cost to me (other than the car wash vacuum for the shards).

What is really painful is that I now realize that I own nothing hip enough to be worth stealing! I am over the hill! A geezer!

But there is another possibility: My car has a simple alarm system, including glass breakage. I am hypothesyzing that my car was the last to be broken in to, and when the alarm went off they grabbed the duffel and ran. The contents were strewn down the lot in the direction of the exit.

Next thing you know I will discover that I am not in the demographic that advertizers consider important........Say what? Too old for that as well???? Dang. Even Madison Avenue disses me.....

Jim

[TFC Rick]

I'm almost looking forward to the day the doc tells me I have 6 months to live...I haz planz.

Once again you achieve rockstar status with me.

Get 'em Dave!!