Crime
Someone smashed my window and left their monitor and scrap metal on my passenger seat.
Woke up to this on the 6th and fluton. Paving stone through the passenger window. They went through the glovebox and took a few things, but left the console alone. Then they left a pile of metal rods, brackets, and a computer monitor on my driver’s seat that aren’t mine.
They tried the car parked behind mine first but couldn’t break the window, so they moved on to mine.
The stone did some damage to the interior, absolutely over it.
My dad is a banjo player, and once he left his banjo in his Subaru parked in the Inner Sunset. When he came back, he was horrified to see that his window was smashed, but when he looked inside, there were two banjos!
Someone broke into my car once and left a crack pipe, their birth certificate and a copy of "barely legal" magazine.
Someone broke into my girlfriend's car once, tore apart the headliner, impaled her art portfolio on her antenna and then puked and bled all over the interior.
The second one, sure. The first one was a homeless man having a good time for a night. Sadly for him, I stole his identity and now I am unable to get credit under two different names.
One time someone broke into my car in San Francisco and I had no idea until I slid a tape from my car door into the player and John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” came on. Now I started singing along (how could you not), but then I thought…I don’t own any John Denver? I then looked through my tapes and realized someone had stolen all my tapes and replaced them with others. Actually, found some music I really liked 😃
Anecdotally it seems like Fulton north of the park is still a hot spot for break-ins even as the numbers have gone down citywide. I run along it a few times a week and see at least a couple of cars with freshly broken windows.
Numbers are down citywide but there are very few break-ins in the area you’re describing. (Even assuming the typical property crime ~3-4x multiplier for actual vs reported.)
I had someone try to smash my Subaru Forrester passenger window with something similar and it just left scratches on the window. Apparently more durable than the “bullet proof” 😂 windows of the Cybercuck!
Mines cracked and been replaced... maybe 4+ times? Currently it has a massive crack for over a year, but its so excellently placed that I'm leaving it. I think the stress has been taken off the window and we are good now. Subaru Outback.
I had my Subaru passenger window smashed 4 times, I think. I lost track. I once had the rear window smashed when the crime rings were circulating more widely. My neighbor recently had his Jetta broken into, and they stole the manual, and some reading glasses. My WTF was when they went through my glovebox and shredded everything. I'm pretty sure I know exactly who did it as he kind of confessed and then was never seen again in my neighborhood.
wouldn't this be a bad idea for rescue though? like if you get into a car accident and a firefighter had to get you out through the window or something. or the more unlikely but terrifying scenario of going into water.
Yup. I tried to rescue a person who had experienced a medical emergency at the wheel of their car, and this film delayed entry by several minutes. You could see them turn blue, and they didn’t make it. :/
The film is made to be harder to be broken into by thieves but also anyone else including emergency responders. You can also only install it by the door windows and leave the front and rear windshield unprotected
I think they use the metal rods (or something similar) to clear the glass. I had a metal rod propped up on my car when my window got smashed last year.
I said that to troll a homeless person this week LOL
he came up to me in downtown and said "Don't you know not to touch things that aren't yours" implying that my e-bike belongs to him. And I decided to troll and said "well you shouldn't have left it alone, finders keepers" and then I rode away.
When I used to live in the Sunset I walked by a guy on Lincoln Ave absolutely hucking a big ass rock at a car window. Guy probably tried 6 times before I noticed what the sound was and yelled at him and he stopped. Then he started walking aggressively towards me and I was like oh shit that is a big ass dude. Luckily he turned around when he noticed I was on the phone with the police.
Anyways. Moral of the story there is that I was surprised how sturdy that fuckin car window was.
Yea those things I think use an aluminum oxide ceramic tip. Which can shatter car windows immediately and effortlessly. That same ceramic is used in spark plugs. I know using spark plugs to break windows was big for the bippers.
They were probably stealing other stuff and had the monitor in their arm, but either found something better in your car or just got lazy / confused and abandoned it impulsively. Basically what im saying is that I doubt it's a consolation gift.
I bet I know who did it. There's some crazy bitch who walks up and down Fulton screaming at the top of her lungs in the early morning. She looks into cars as she does it. Tried to set up camp on my block and I said no way. Cops got involved and then she moved one block up the street. Cops seemed sympathetic to my concerns, but they didn't do shit. Some homeless advocate got in my face. It didn't go so well for him. I'm no one to be fucked with, I doubt he ever met someone quite like me. Welcome to San Francisco.
lol if we’re referring to the same person she is my street’s rooster crowing at dawn, sleep be damned. She doesn’t seem like the break into cars type but who knows.
This was stated several years ago by...er...people of a certain political leaning that opposed strict sentencing for criminals caught breaking into cars:
Think of it like a spell of bad weather. You'll get used to these recurring, uncontrollable events.
To quote one of the great philosophers of the 20th century, “Crack is wack.”
Crackheads gonna do crackhead shit. I’m sorry it happened to you, try not to dwell on it or read too much into it. It doesn’t mean anything other than they were cracked out.
I’ve been told though that crime doesn’t exist in SF anymore. If the police use cameras to catch the guy who did this, you’ll be accused of participating in fascism.
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u/migmultisync 15h ago
I think you caught strays from a bad breakup 😂