That’s apparent from the deluge of car break-in reports we’ve received today – one from north West Seattle, two from south – and one WSB’er says even the police were surprised by what was taken – read on:
First, from TD in Admiral:
Just wanted to let you know that our car was broken into sometime overnight. The little sh*ts took the seats! Unbelievable. Even the police officer was surprised at that. A google search says the punks steal them to put them into cars that they jack up to race. Our car, evidently, is the prime car for this. They ripped the convertible top to open the door. They also popped the trunk – but there wasn’t anything in it of interest to them.
We’re over on 41st Avenue SW, 1/2 a block south of the High School [vicinity map].
This is the fourth (that we know of) time to get hit. Our truck has been stolen (and found down under the Viaduct) and later, broken into TWICE. Our other, 17 year old car has been broken TWICE, and had the stereo stolen on one of those occasions.
Our neighbor’s car was broken into a few weeks ago.
It’s really out of control.
Then we have two reports from Gatewood – first from Shelley:
Wanted to let people know. Last night our car was prowled in our driveway. We live in Gatewood on Thistle between 37th & 39th [map]. They rifled through everything, glove compartment, center console, back pockets of seats. They left everything strewn about.
But they didn’t steal anything because, aside from massive amounts of kids books and toys, there wasn’t anything to take. There was change in the cup holders but they didn’t seem to want that. We didn’t have an updated stereo or GPS or laptop in there. Nothing of value.
However, it is creepy to us that they skulked up our driveway undetected by our dog. Typically, we were so preoccupied with throwing our daughter’s birthday party today we didn’t lock the door of the car. It’s usually part of my nightly ritual but it was forgotten lastnight. And that seemed to be the one time they struck – although who knows if they have tried before. The driveway comes right up along our home and you do have to be brazen to get up it so it was still a violation having this person this far up on our property. We won’t report it to police because we didn’t lock our doors. I am next going to notify everyone on our blockwatch list to keep an eye out for this creep so don’t bother coming back. Lesson learned, lock your doors!
And apparently Shelley was not alone. A short note from Robin:
We’re slowly discovering that multiple cars were rifled through last night between 35th and at least 41st on Thistle street. North side of street.
One more car-prowl note from Matt, received earlier this week but not previously published:
I live near Delridge and Juneau [map].
At 6:55pm, I noticed thru my closed front window blinds, a white 2006-ish Taurus sedan pulled into the end of my driveway, stayed for a few minutes and then slowly drove away. They didn’t seem lost. No interior lights on or cell phones being used. I could see at least one driver and a passenger. Could not confirm gender or race or plate number. Passenger had the window open.
10 minutes later they returned. I went outside and told them to get out of here and move along. They slowly left and I opened my blinds to get a better look at them if they were to return. And they did another 10 minutes later. Pulling all the way up my driveway and staring at me. I let them watch me call 911 and they slowly left again. For good.
I requested that Police patrol the neighborhood and then come talk to me. They showed up 45 minutes after I called and then began to patrol. 7pm is when the police change their shift. And since no crime was committed, I got de-prioritized.
Reminder: West Seattle Crime Prevention Council meets this week, Tuesday (10/20) at 7 pm, Southwest Precinct meeting room (off Webster west of Delridge). This is the PERFECT place to bring crime concerns/questions – in addition to the group’s volunteer leadership and members, precinct leadership and Community Police Team officers are always there in attendance, and often it’s YOUR questions that bring out new information (including questions about police-response time, etc.). See you there.
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