My truck got broken into

[bouncer]

If you know the serial number put the word out to the local pawn shops in Nashua. I know for a fact they are buying like crazy. Let's just say I know one of the heroin junkies in Nashua (it's a female so it's not your crook) and get your behind out of that crappy city. One of my least favorite places in NH. Sorry to hear you got hit.

[FTL_Ian]

There's also a chance you were hit by an out-of-towner but that is less likely.

[margomaps]

Oh, not for anything other than the incident. It honestly makes me want to move somewhere more rural.. nashua feels too cramped. I live close to a lot of really nice people, but apparently close to a lot of bad people too.

It might just be a pipe dream for you right now, but do you have any idea where you might want to move?  You mentioned you already have a job, so I'm guessing you're probably constrained somewhat by your job's location.  

[Fluff and Stuff]

Oh, not for anything other than the incident. It honestly makes me want to move somewhere more rural.. nashua feels too cramped. I live close to a lot of really nice people, but apparently close to a lot of bad people too.

I'm really sorry about your lose.  It sounds like you may have discouraged that particular person from breaking into your truck again.  I'm glad you have a good job and enough money to take care of the damage.  That said

Trucks and cars are frequently broken into in cities.  Where I used to live cars were constantly broken into.  They put out newsletters telling folks to not leave valuables visible in your car, lock the doors, keep the windows up, and don't keep the keys in the car.  If you always do all of these things whenever you park in a city, you greatly reduce the chance your car will be broken into.  This is good advice for everyone, really.  I've taken it a step beyond the basics.  I don't have a CD player in my car.  I also don't fix minor scratches and such.  Likewise, don't have anything on your car indicating that you are loaded.  For example, if you bought your car at a dealership in a nice town don't let the dealer leave a sticker or plate cover on the car.  Of course, never parking in areas like Nashua would also be a may to reduce risk but that isn't something which is even possible for many of us.

[Mike Barskey]

Major bummer. I empathize with your feeling of helplessness, and I also feel frustration (and I wasn't even involved!). It makes me so mad that people are so short-sited: they hurt others to boost themselves slightly, temporarily; when in the long run hurting others hurts everybody, including themselves.

I also know how you feel about wanting to live somewhere more rural. It's certainly a matter of taste - there are benefits to living in cities that very rural areas don't have - but I prefer country living to city living in almost all circumstances.

[Russell Kanning]

I highly doubt that. Getting chased knowing the consequences if you get caught is scary as hell.

I agree. That guy must have been going crazy with a big man chasing him.

[Kat Kanning]

I highly doubt that. Getting chased knowing the consequences if you get caught is scary as hell.

I agree. That guy must have been going crazy with a big man chasing him.

Sounds like William was speaking from experience. 

[AntonLee]

sorry about your camera man. . .wicked bummer.  I posed the question a few seconds ago to people in the room without reading the blog to them:

What town or city in NH do you think would most likely be a place where you could have something stolen out of your car. . .or 'best chance of'

One person said Manchester
3 Others said Nashua

Seabrook is a heroin town too. . .I don't even go down South Main St. anymore.  I want to go rural (more rural) myself.

[Friday]

Oh, not for anything other than the incident. It honestly makes me want to move somewhere more rural.. nashua feels too cramped. I live close to a lot of really nice people, but apparently close to a lot of bad people too.

I'm really sorry about your lose.  It sounds like you may have discouraged that particular person from breaking into your truck again.  I'm glad you have a good job and enough money to take care of the damage.  That said

Trucks and cars are frequently broken into in cities.  Where I used to live cars were constantly broken into.  They put out newsletters telling folks to not leave valuables visible in your car, lock the doors, keep the windows up, and don't keep the keys in the car.  If you always do all of these things whenever you park in a city, you greatly reduce the chance your car will be broken into.  This is good advice for everyone, really.  I've taken it a step beyond the basics.  I don't have a CD player in my car.  I also don't fix minor scratches and such.  Likewise, don't have anything on your car indicating that you are loaded.  For example, if you bought your car at a dealership in a nice town don't let the dealer leave a sticker or plate cover on the car.  Of course, never parking in areas like Nashua would also be a may to reduce risk but that isn't something which is even possible for many of us.

What Radical and Stuff said.  There are many steps one can take to minimize the odds of this sort of petty crime happening to you. Most small-time, nonviolent criminals are opportunists at heart; make it a bit difficult for them, and they'll go elsewhere to do their thieving.

To put a potentially positive spin on this, Ryan, the service you got from the cops in response is wonderful.  In the city *I* used to live in, my neighbor's entire CAR was stolen, and the cops told her to her face they wouldn't spend any police resources pursuing the matter because no one was actually hurt or killed during the incident.  My car was also stolen.  The cops spoke to me long enough to demand, in a vaguely accusing manner, that if it turned out it was some disgruntled lover of mine who had stolen my car, I would press charges (note: I was MARRIED at the time  ).  I signed their form, and never heard from the cops again.  Never saw my car again, either.  First car I ever bought; 4-wheel drive Subaru was going to get me to New Hampshire.   

My family's suburban home was broken into once, in the daytime, when the family was not out of town, just at school and work.  My little brother came home from school and found the door of the house broken and open, and ran to a friend's house in a terror.  Nice neighborhood, no crime to speak of. 

The Grafton general store was held up at gun point, in the daytime, just a couple of days ago.  See that thread here.

So please don't think that the solution to avoiding crime is to not live in a "city" (by U.S. standards, Nashua is only a small city).  Not trying to make light of your situation or to depress you further; just trying to shed a little harsh light on the reality of the world we live in.

[Puke]

I would think that as the economy goes to shit more petty crimes like theft are going to occur.

[miamiballoonguy]

In Pursuit of the Aggressor
originally posted at EnigmaCurry.com

I've been feeling pretty good lately, I have a decent job, a wonderful wife, awesome friends, and a new-found purpose in life: liberty activism in New Hampshire. In a world as messed up as ours, its been a profound comfort to have found such peace and purpose. But I've also been a bit startled recently including having feelings of helplessness, distrust, and insecurity.

My truck got broken into.

I had just gotten home from work and not 10 minutes transpired before I heard a loud crash and some rustling outside. As I rushed out the door, I saw someone had broken the window of my truck and was diving inside to grab my video camera. Before I knew it, I was several blocks away from my house, running full speed 10 feet behind the guy who was also running like hell. I kept chasing him, never quite closing the gap between him and myself until I ran out of energy. He turned the corner and I followed a bit more slowly. Knowing he was hiding, I looked closely in the darkness for him and I finally saw the guy dash from his hiding spot and continue running away. I said a few more unkind words in his direction as he fled, but there was nothing more for me to do. Out of breath, dejected, and quite frustrated, I walked back home. Kellie was already outside at this point wondering what had happened, we assessed the damage and confirmed that he had destroyed the passenger side window of my truck and managed to steal my video camera.

My Landlord had already called the cops and they showed up about 10 minutes later. Since they were there anyway, I gave them my take on what happened, although I had never really gotten a good look at the guy. I really didn't have much hope that the police would ever do anything (and in an ideal world we wouldn't have such agents of force). Kellie left to do her own reconnaissance at the corner store and surprised me when she told me that she saw the same cops doing actual detective work, questioning the store manager. Although I'm almost sure that these same men have violated the rights of peaceful individuals before, and will most likely continue to do so in their roles as agents of the state, I'm glad that they take their jobs seriously enough to want to protect peace when they can.

I don't really leave anything that valuable in my truck. The camera is a somewhat cheap Samsung SC-MX10, I had it mounted to my windshield with a Modifry camera mount (The mount got ripped out with the camera), this setup was supposed to record the cops if I ever got pulled over. Sadly, I never got to try that out. I'm sure that the way I had it mounted made it stand out as an easy target for a thief.

I called up my insurance rep as well as an auto glass shop and got things taken care of pretty quickly, the auto glass shop was even willing to drive out to my house the next day and repair it right there even while I went to work that day. I love how market competition makes this so easy.

In total, I'm out $200 for the camera, $25 for the mount, and $163.15 for the glass. Yea, $388 is kind of a lot. However I was much more irritated with the inconvenience of it all, as well as the knowledge that there are people right in my neighborhood that have no reservations in actively destroying their society. The reason I'm here in NH is to work towards creating a civil and voluntary society. Its one thing to disagree with my ideas, I'm used to that. Its quite another to find that you live in a community where some percentage of the people do the exact opposite; creating a society of violence and distrust.

I'm left with a renewed sense of the importance of security, including responsible firearms ownership and carrying whenever possible. I don't actually think that a gun would have been useful in this situation, especially after the incident was carried onto the open street at 12 mph, but knowing first hand that desperation has led people to such forceful actions, it makes me much more cautious.

I caught someone in the middle of breaking onto my truck 2 years back, so I took a bat and beat the crap out of him.  Badly.  I think that I broke his arm and some ribs.  I've never had the problem again.

[neggy]

If it makes you feel any better, I live in a affluent area in Southern NH and the town has been hit from kids the next town over, or people from Lowell. A couple of them have ended up on the wrong end of a shotgun.


I have 2 dogs and nothing that consumes oxygen comes across my property line without them warning me.

they are the first line of defense.... I won't elaborate on the second through 46th

[Recumbent ReCycler]

My car was once broken into in MA.  The guy who did it put a big orange sticker on my windshield because it was parked on the side of the road with a puddle of antifreeze under it.  He called my house and told me that I needed to remove the car, to which I told him that I left to get a new radiator hose, tools and coolant so that I could repair it and drive home.  He worked for the government and wore a badge.

[AntonLee]

I think I know him, isn't that a gentleman named Obvious?  Captain Roy Obvious right?

[miamiballoonguy]

If it makes you feel any better, I live in a affluent area in Southern NH and the town has been hit from kids the next town over, or people from Lowell. A couple of them have ended up on the wrong end of a shotgun.


I have 2 dogs and nothing that consumes oxygen comes across my property line without them warning me.

they are the first line of defense.... I won't elaborate on the second through 46th

well, just fyi....  When the government thugs come, the dogs are the first to go.  All in the name of the safety of the govenrment thugs...