Friday, November 21, 2008

Not good enough for crackheads

So my car got prowled the other night. It was disconcerting to get in to go to work and find my console and ashtray/change drawer open, my visors down and stuff from my glovebox on the floor. My car was messy enough that I didn't really notice right away, and once I started going through my stuff I realized nothing was taken. My old New Yorkers, my atlas, my sunglasses were all still there. The crackheads didn't want any of it.

The only thing missing was a grocery sack from the night before with two 24-oz boxes of FMWs. Apparently even THEY weren't good enough for Harbor crackheads, because they left them out on the street where I didn't see them. Steve found them and brought them in. He and Apt. mgr Mike still apparently think I "forgot" the FMWs (they clearly don't know me) when going inside after a grueling workout and an armload of heavy (think gallon of milk and big things of cottage cheese, because I love my dairy), and that I wasn't prowled. But I was.

The cop I talked to said it was more "cost effective" to do what I do — leave a door unlocked and nothing valuable inside — because no window will get busted. And I guess it was, but sheesh, it's a little disconcerting that my car really, truly had nothing of value to local crackheads.

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