Car window smashed
Today I discovered my car had been broken into last night. The thief smashed in the front passenger window and rifled through the glove compartment and the box between the front seats. This happened on The Ridgeway, which is normally quite a safe street. They took a phone which I'd left in the car. Thankfully, we don't store anything else in the car.I reported the incident to the police and also remembered seeing 2 men last night who were staring at the car while I parked last night and talking to each other. I couldn't understand what they were saying (they weren't talking in English) and I've never seen them before. I reported this to the police as well.The police came home to take a statement but they didn't sound too keen on pursuing the matter. I was told there wouldn't be any fingerprints to be lifted because the glove compartment 'door' is made of plastic and there would be no fingerprints there. There was no point, apparently, in trying to lift prints from the body of the car because it wouldn't prove the person whose prints they might be actually broke in. There is a smooth strip of plastic on top of the glove compartment but that won't have prints either - it needs to be shiny like the outside body of the car. The glove compartment had been rifled through and there were 2 mirrors in there. When asked if there could be any prints on those, the answer was no because they weren't outside the glove compartment (why this means they didn't touch the mirror is something I don't understand). I pointed out that the guy would have opened the door using the latch inside the door because the compartment between the seats had also been opened and the answer there was since there would be too many prints on the handle, they won't be able to get any prints off that. Basically, they just were not interested in pursuing it. I felt quite upset by the whole thing.I told them about the 2 men and that they had entered one of the houses opposite mine and they had tools, so they may have been working in one of the houses. If there were prints from inside the car they could have tried to match them up. But as I said before, they took one look at me and decided they simply did not want to pursue this matter at all and I am pretty sure they won't even try to find out who these two men were.I tried calling my phone that had been taken and was surprised to find that it rang twice before being disconnected. I pointed this out and asked if the phone company could track where it was. Answer was since it takes £1000 to query the location of a phone from the phone company, it was too expensive to be attempted. The message was clear, the police can't be bothered about me. I guess I'd better just shut up and pay my considerable tax.
Manish Madan ● 5058d4 Comments ● 5057d
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