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Nothing like waking up to your neighbor texting, “My car window was smashed this morning, looks like yours was too.” Sure enough, someone had shattered our car window, scooped everything from the center console, dumped it on the seat, and left. Nothing of value was in the car, so nothing of value was lost. As we looked at the damage, other neighbors came out to find their cars had also been broken into. I counted eight other cars, not including our neighbor’s. No pattern, no rhyme or reason. Just some dipshit with a window punch (we could tell because they tried some cars but couldn’t break the windows, only leaving divots with tiny spiderweb cracks) just going down two blocks, breaking and taking. I took pictures, filed an online report, and expect nothing to be done. On the one hand, this sucks. On the other, I got to meet a bunch of my neighbors I never had before. We’re all cleaning up the glass and trading temporary report numbers from SPD. (One ironic thing: as a group of us were talking in the middle of the street, an SPD patrol car rolled by at the end of the block. They probably weren’t responding to us, and they never looped back.) I’m bringing the shop vac around to help everyone clean the shard out of the nooks and crannies that every car has. Maybe that’s all we can do anyway: work together to pick up someone else’s mess so it doesn’t screw up anyone else’s day. submitted by /u/rakdaddy2000 |
