to the worthless little children who broke into my car on Allan street Friday night: I hope everything you ever own, ever, breaks just as you’re starting to enjoy it and/or at just the moment you need it and can’t afford to replace it. I hope every single item you ever have is smashed to pieces by some random vandal- I hope someone rips your ipod out of your pocket and does a mexican hat dance on it before sauntering away without a word. I hope someone takes the money you just got out of the atm and rips it to shreds and throws it to the wind. I hope the viagra you flaccid little shit for brains pop turns your penis’s green adn they fall off just as you’ve finally convinced some blind deaf dumb troll to let you have a go.
What made you think that MY not-so-new car with the big scratch on the side from where some other shit for brains scrapped me in a parking lot and didn’t leave a note, parked in back of my clearly-cheap apartment building, in my mid-range neighborhood was a good place to start with the stealing? You smashed my window, rifled my things, tore up a notebook I needed for work AND ripped a library book in half, all for what? a handfull of change in my cupholder? I hope you enjoy those pennies boys, because they will rot your soul. why on earth was that even worth it? you did the same to my neighbors car, and took exactly the same thing. And why did you feel the need to take my gym bag and dump it’s contents on some ladies lawn?? what’s up with that? (although my faith in some portion of humanity was restored when this very nice lady turned said bag, complete with my fairly-new gym sneakers I can’t afford to replace, into the cops. thanks!)
Now I’m out what’s probably going to be hundreds of dollars to repair my car or increased insurance to get your ‘fun’ fixed. I live paycheque to paycheque, and work damn hard for it. this is something that will break me, but you don’t care- you got bored on friday night and thought my locked car in my private parking lot was fair game. it’s not. it’s my property, not yours, and there’s no excuse for what you did.
further more, I’m disgusted by the response of the police; this was two cars, in one parking lot, and you won’t do anythign! I think there was a similar incident up the street a few days ago, as I saw a number of possessions strewn about, just like mine were. and still, nothing. THIS is why these little asswipes think they can get away with it! the least youc ould have done was sound sympathetic, and not laugh when I said I hadn’t really touched the car….I don’t know. it’s not every day my possessions are plundered.
Thanks for ruining my long weekend, all of you. I hope someone ruins something of yours, you entitled twerps, so you can feel what it’s like to have your hard earned possessions that you cannot afford to replace and are the only things of value you own destroyed, all because someone else got bored and thought some selfindulgent, senseless vandalism was a good time.
This article appears in Jun 26 – Jul 2, 2008.
Oh, man. We live in the area and our neighbours had someone visiting from out of town, same deal happened to them – window smashed, car ransacked, belongings strewn in and outside the car, but nothing stolen. I don’t think they even bothered to call the police. The shitty thing for them is that they have to replace a broken window and take this memory of Halifax away with them. Those of us who still live here have to accept that there are bored little criminals violating people left and right, and the police are only interested in busting people in the moment, or when they need to make their quotas (dumb charges like jaywalking and skateboarding). “You couldn’t have called us WHEN they were beating you senseless/raping you/breaking into your car? Well, not much we can do for you then”.
Sorry to hear about what happened. Here are some tips that might help in the future:Tip #1: Leave NOTHING inside your car, not even a reusable grocery bag! If there is nothing there, they will look for another car.Tip #2: Park next to a more expensive car (Lexus, BMW, AUDI). Works everytime!Tip #3: Get a car alarm installed. They are not expensive and your insurance company WILL cut you a break on your rates, but only if you ask. If you can’t afford an alarm, go to Dollarama and buy a $1 flashing LED light and stick that in your car (that works too).Simple Tip #4 (which I learned in Vancouver): If there is nothing inside, don’t even bother locking it!
I have had my cars damaged 5 times in the past 10 years in Halifax, police came out once since a neighbor called while it was in progress, they file a report and thats it, Ive never gone through insurance, its pricey. Even in buildings with video cameras, nothing is done.98 I lost a car stereo, they damaged the vehicle while removing it resulting in more repairs. Car was not drivable until repaired. This was in an underground garage off quinpool/monastery.2000 my car was parked off brunswick st on portland, a side mirror was smashed off during the night. 2002 underground parking garage basement of apt tower above grocery store off quinpool, car was vandalised, another newer vehicle in same garage was damaged worse than mine same evening. 2003 During a child’s birthday party one snowy afternoon, my car was parked at barrington end of gerrish st – for about 3 hours. When leaving the party I returned to the car and found it was scraped from the rear bumper to the middle of the drivers door dented in pretty deep and paint scraped off with yellow paint and the size of the scratch made my passenger and I guess that it was done by a plow… I called the resident managers and asked to look at the video and they would not let me, they said it was for privacy reasons, and then they said if the police came and looked at the tape they could to investigate. So I called but nothing was ever done… Fall of 2005 I again parked on portland the next morning a neighbor stopped me and was like someone was breaking into your car last night and I called the police and there is a report on the front seat. The police report said that the lady called the police and told them that someone with a ball bat was smashing cars along brunswick st. My car was damaged badly, a side window was smashed, car full of glass, the side mirror was smashed right off the car, an expensive front headlight was smashed, a running light was smashed. Nothing was taken. The smasher continued down brusnwick toward the bridge and kept smashing.. past homes that have those little police cameras on them…While I cleaned up the glass, this group of older men that often gathers on portland outside the business there im not sure what they do but they seem like creative or film types for some reason. one of them approached me and asked me wat happend and I told him and he said his car had been broken into several times in his own driveway – I cant remember the street he said but it was halifax peninsula I think.I strongly agree with the poster who says leave nothing in the car. Not a twist tie, not a penny, not a pencil. Nothing!To the OP – Im just curious, do you know it was kids who broke into your car?And I am wondering if junkies broke into your car, not youths. Cause that would be my guess. The only way to fix this, and I recommend doing it and leaving your windows down, is to leave a nice fat drooling pitbull in your car – just kidding. But I did drive a friend around one day and her two large shark like pitbulls and it was priceless. No one in their right mind is going to come near your vehicle. I’m used to the car vandalism problem and its not going anywhere.
junkies? I dunno..it sort of reads like it was kids. I mean, nothing was taken aside from the change, the car was just smashed…..sounds like kids to me, being idiots.