I left the keys locked in my car at the amusement park in Cincinnati. I realized it before we got back to the car. A guy from the park drove us out to it to help us get it open. When we pulled up beside the car, the window had been broken and somebody had reached in the car and stolen a radar detector. The keys were in plain sight as he broke the passenger side window, and the back seat was full of scuba gear.
I didn't even like the radar detector! Ain't life great?!
Bare
But I'll bet you liked that window!
To say I live in a low-crime area would be an understatement. Many people leave their houses unlocked all the time, cars open with keys in them, etc. Things are getting worse now that more drug addicts are looking for easy money, or drugs!
My unlocked car was ransacked one time, years ago. I had nothing of any monetary value in it at all. Unfortunately, I did have a box of audio cassette tapes, many of which had, to me, very valuable music on them which was irreplaceable. You guessed it, they took them all. I heard that some other cars in the neighborhood were targeted, which around here almost always means bored teenagers, so I reported my loss to the police just in case something turned up - which it never did.
I don't know if they ever listened to any of them, but they must have been surprised, or confused, at the strange collection of European folk dance music, and songs in just about every language but English - and probably just chucked them in the bin. One tape was a recording of an entire concert my wife and I gave; we shared the bill with another folk singer, except he's, ummm... an actual famous one. We sang a bunch of songs separately, and a bunch together - gone.
Imagine if Scottie had shared the stage with Metallica, and his
only copy of the tape got knicked! He didn't bother to make a copy for safe keeping...
Hey, crooks!
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