My prescription sunnies are a pair of moderately expensive Raybans. The OP’s situation is one I have been worrying about for years. Not because it would break my bank as such, but more because of the stress levels it would invoke to know, as the OP says, that something particularly valueable to me but of no worth to someone else will be tossed by them once they learn that.
Good rant, too. 8.5 I reckon. There’s something almost poetic about “May misery and ill-luck dog you till your dying day…” I like the alliteration.
Thanks, glad you like it. You got my point exactly, Princhester. My sunnies were a nice pair. They may have been Raybans, I don’t recall, but they were designer frames. Really cool. It was just a small luxury I had allowed myself, after having put it off for years, trying to get by with the car visor, or those stupid, clunky, ugly clip-on things. I only use them to drive, but I drive a lot, and my eyes are sensitive to glare. If this low-life had stolen my change for beer, my coat for warmth, or the jumper cables to pawn for crack money, I wouldn’t have been this pissed off. What makes me pissed is that they will be trashed. :mad:
I called Lenscrafters in hopes of getting a replacement mailed to me, but it seems that because they are more than two years old, I have to go take an eye exam to get new ones. So that’s another bite out of the Xmas gift fund this year.
That’s why I keep nothing of value in my car, and also leave the door unlocked- that way I don’t get a broken window every few months when someone rifles through the homemade 70’s soft rock CD’s and taco bell packets to determine there is nothing of value inside.
I’m not sure if it’s a municipal thing, or if it’s in the provincial highway code. When I was a clerk at City Hall, part of my job was to go through the paid tickets and put them in numerical order. There was a list of things the police officer could check off as the reason for the ticket: speeding, parking near a hydrant, missing a stop sign, etc. There was also “other” where he’d write in what you did. Several times, I saw “doors left unlocked” written in there, with nothing else checked off. It was a $42 ticket.
I don’t have time today to research it and give you a cite, but I’ll see what I can do over the weekend, if you really need one.
Guy I used to work with claimed that one time someone busted a window in his car to steal a pack of cigarettes that wes laying on the dash. Well, this was in Paris, and cigarettes are pretty expensive there, but still. I myself once ended up with a broken car window that netted the thief the knobs off the radio.
Anyway, my deepest sympathies to the OP for his loss, which obviously was much less trivial.
The reason is it encourages car theft, not to mention making it real easy.
I think it was to stop joy riding teenagers. Cops tired of chasing them. Decided to work the other side of the street, and make people remove the keys from their cars. Easier than a high speed chase, for sure.
In addition this is a widely known fact in these parts. And, as it is illegal, I believe it might just negate your car insurance if it gets stolen. Increasing compliance and reducing enforcement requirements.
The last time my car was broken into, it was done by a real professional - I couldn’t even tell how the car was entered until I noticed while driving that the driver’s side window was a little bit out of alignment. Seems they’d used a slim jim causing no damage at all. What they discovered is that I don’t carry anything of worth in my car.
However I am hoping that the curse I placed on the rat-turd-maggots who robbed us (shortly after we moved; still wondering if moving companies might attract unsavoury types as employees) and took all my mom’s jewellery. It was costume jewellery (we had all the ‘good’ stuff well-stashed) but there were a lot of very nice pieces that I miss to this day. The sewage-eating-puppy-kickers also took a wonderful (and expensive) original argillite scuplture - I’m sure they had zero idea of its value and sold it for ten bucks to some mook someplace. Unfortunately, I’m not a gypsy so I don’t know if the curse ‘took’ but maybe, XaMcQ, you can find a neighbourhood spell-caster to put a pox on the scurvy sneaksbies.
