Home invasions and car theft - advice.

[Bobby]

Home invasions and car theft.
Will Australian police follow overseas advice?

https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/world-new ... r-thieves/

Toronto police slammed for advising residents to leave car keys
within easy reach for thieves to avoid violence

By Social Links for Alyssa Guzman
Published March 15, 2024, 5:50 p.m. ET

Toronto police are being ridiculed for essentially advising Canadians to preemptively give thieves their car keys to avoid potential violent altercations.

Police issued the strange tip as more and more thieves have been breaking into homes and stealing people’s cars.

“To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at the front door because they are breaking into your home to steal your car; they don’t want anything else,” Cst. Marco Ricciardi said last month, according to City News.

Cst. Marco Ricciardi recommended Toronto residents to leave their key fobs “at the front door” to avoid car thieves breaking into their homes. The thieves are often armed and Ricciardi reminded residents that these are “not toy guns.”

Toronto Police advised residents to leave their key fobs in a Faraday pouch outside their door to dissuade thieves, who are often armed, from entering their homes.

Their advice was quickly picked apart, prompting the department to issue a statement Wednesday defending their intentions as “well-meaning.”

But Canadians still didn’t like the “bizarre” piece of advice.

“Toronto Police advising the public to leave your fobs near the door. They suggest this because invaders are primarily entering homes to steal your cars. Why not hang your keys outside the door? Or better yet, just leave them in the car,” one X user wrote.

Another fed-up woman added her own mocking suggestion: “It is also recommended that you leave out a cold beer and some cookies. If things get violent the TPS will smooth things over with fresh hot coffee.”

Another accused police of “failed state level insanity” and joked authorities were saying: “‘Hey guys do you mind making it easier for people to steal your cars so that they won’t break into your house instead? Thanks’ – The TORONTO POLICE.”

One user simply asked the police to do their job, writing on X: “There are laws in place for a reason. We need to use them and enforce them.”

Another joked: “Canada. Where you can’t defend your property. Just hand it over.”

[Jasin]

Thieves love 'easy meat'. They don't like to have to work hard (take time) to get it.
A real proper professional Thief will get it regardless.

Leave a gate unpadlocked and the common pleb Thief will go up to it and get in.
Leave a gate with an 'unlocked' padlock on it and a common pleb Thief will think it 'padlocked' and not worth the bother to double-check it, let alone bother to deal with the padlock in the first place.

Thieves are lazy and want an easy lifestyle of take.

Coins on the dash, centre console? It will be those cars that are broken into, rather than the cars with everything hidden and the Thief has to waste effort and time to look for 'possibly' any money hidden away.

[Bobby]

Thieves love 'easy meat'. They don't like to have to work hard (take time) to get it.
A real proper professional Thief will get it regardless.

Leave a gate unpadlocked and the common pleb Thief will go up to it and get in.
Leave a gate with an 'unlocked' padlock on it and a common pleb Thief will think it 'padlocked' and not worth the bother to double-check it, let alone bother to deal with the padlock in the first place.

Thieves are lazy and want an easy lifestyle of take.

Coins on the dash, centre console? It will be those cars that are broken into, rather than the cars with everything hidden and the Thief has to waste effort and time to look for 'possibly' any money hidden away.

comment from another forum -

oh and sleep naked with open doors so you can get fucked harder than your government is fucking you

[Jasin]