worlds dumbest criminal busted into my Audi (LAC)

[Robert Smith]

You're fortunate that the cops even give a darn about this. Years ago a
similarly intelligent thief broke into my '86 VW Golf GTI. He broke the
window and stole the radio (that was a real weak point for those cars) and
did a real hatchet job on the dash. In the course of removing it, some items
fell out of his pocket, including a NOTICE to appear in court for some other
crime. It listed his name, five different aliases, address, date and time of
court appearance, etc.

This happened in Philadelphia. I flagged down a passing cop car. He said
that it wasn't his precinct. I was parked at the end of a block, and his
precinct started at the next block. He did call another cop for me. I waited
an hour until he finally came. They wrote down the info and took the court
appearance notice. A few days later I called the local police station to
follow-up. I asked if they apprehended the thief when he appeared in court.
The cop bluntly told me that they never do anything with crimes like that --
they just take down the info!

So I was left with no radio and no justice.


Bob Smith
rdsmith3 at worldnet.att.net


-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Bryan Nielsen
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 9:35 AM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: worlds dumbest criminal busted into my Audi (LAC)


Living in the country I thought it was safe to leave my doors unlocked, keys
in the ignition sometimes...  I thought my broken door handles were theft
deterrent enough...  Well anyway some guy broke into my car took about 30
cents worth of pennies from the ash tray, took 3 cd's, and left a radar
detector on the front seat.  Maybe an even trade but I already had a radar
detector.  The thief did the same thing to a friends car (Saab) that was in
the driveway.  Things the thief didn't take, CD players, pay check, guitar
amp, '73 volvo center console (that's gold...lol).  The police came out made
a report, and tried to get finger prints from the radar detectors.  They
didn't find
any prints so it could have just been "let me type this into my invisible
typewriter" scenarios.  My friend thought to call a local cd shop to alert
them to the cd's coming in, since they were about the only local shop
dealing in the sort of music we had stolen (Verve, Kraftwerk, James).  The
record thought it was a slim chance but took our info down.  Later that
night the record store calls, the guy tried selling the cd's they gave him
an IOU, kept the cd's and got his ID.  I contacted the police again so they
could get the info and cd's from the record store.  I found out the next day
that the guy was already in jail for a B'nE or something since going to the
cd shop.  The
CD's are now evidence I guess so I probably won't see them for a while.

Bryan
audubon at voyager.net
'86 4kq
'84 Volvo 242Ti, '75 164, '72 144