Attempted Vehicle Entry

[Keith B]

OK, WildBill asked about how the video was at night. I now have a video of a kid trying the door handle of my daughter's car last night, then going across to one of the neighbor's cars.

Awaiting a call-back from one of the Detectives.

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[USA1]

OK Keith, You know what you must now do...
Hide in that trash can and when the perp walks up, spring out and nab him.

Man I can't believe the nerve of those kids.

[Keith B]

OK Keith, You know what you must now do...
Hide in that trash can and when the perp walks up, spring out and nab him.

That would be funny. I bet the kid would so startled he would jump over the car!!!

It would also be on video, so maybe I could submit it and win $10,000 or even $100,000 on America's Funniest Videos!!!!

[WildBill]

OK, WildBill asked about how the video was at night. I now have a video of a kid trying the door handle of my daughter's car last night, then going across to one of the neighbor's cars.
Awaiting a call-back from one of the Detectives.

I didn't mean to have another attempted break-in. Better or more light would give a better picture, but the quality looks good - you can ID the kid's face.

[03Lightningrocks]

The Plano police are aggresive about crime prevention. Contact Officer Dawson in the Crime Prevention unit. They may want to place a extra patrol in the area.

Nothing could be further from the truth. I know from personal experience. We provided video, finger prints... even a tire iron that the video showed the perp holding with no gloves on. Anything... NOPE!!! Three weeks later five outside AC units were stolen from the same building. let's see now.. I sat in a parking lot at a local gas station(three minutes from the police substation at parker and ave K) and watched a drunk guy bounce off half a dozen obstacles and even spend 10 minutes drinking a beer out of a bag and the Plano police never did show up. Our office parking lot has been a regular shopping center for thieves... anything???? NOPE. Never in the past six years have the Plano police ever caught one person involved in the more than twenty crimes we have had in our parking lot. The Plano Police are only good for providing a report so your insurance can pay up. Plano police get a big thumbs down from me. Just once I would love to see them actually solve a crime. They are however, excellent at sitting near intersections busting folks for running red lights. I have to give them a big thumbs up for revenue production. They are at zero for solving any crime I am personally aware of.

Out of curiosity, what neighborhood is your office in? For a year my wife and I lived near the intersection of Park and K when we moved back to Texas in 2008. I'm very happy to be out of that general area. The Plano police did respond pretty promptly when I called 911 on a drunk guy exposing himself in the apartment complex we were living in. They took him in for public intoxication.

The park and Ave K area is pretty rough compared to even ten years ago. The whole corridor along Ave K has become a hot bed of theft. I know the apartment complex you speak of and you probably wouldn't feel as good about it now as you did back then.

Heck, the Police won't even pretend they are going to catch the theif anymore. Our offices are at Legacy and Ave. K. Fortunately we don't have a lot of violent crime around here. Mostly just petty theft.

I wish they would have cared as much about a driver drunk in a car as they did when you lived here. I could have intervened, i had three other people with me but like has been said before, my CHL is not a Batman license so we just set off to the side and watched while on the phone with the police. I was actually quite disappointed that they never had an officer show up. No kidding... the sub station was a block down the road.

Plano is still safer than a whole lot of places to live. We just have more than our fair share of theft crimes and most go unsolved.

[PUCKER]

I know I'm stating the obvious, but I'm in the same boat - it would be GREAT if all of our vehicles could be in a garage. Our two car garage is *barely* a 2 car garage. Even if the shelves/workbench were taken out I don't think that my vehicle and my wife's would fit in there without some door-dinging happening. It's a sad state that people don't respect other's property.

[randomoutburst]

I now have a video of a kid trying the door handle of my daughter's car last night, then going across to one of the neighbor's cars.

They're still doing this after the police have already talked to them?? Gutsy...or stupid. I call stupid with a streak of greed.

I think I'd be staking it out for a few nights, watching to see if they come back. When you see them on screen, play a recording of a large dog growling and barking in the backyard. Or the sound of a pump shotgun being cocked. Of course, the shotgun sound could be real if you want. ;)

It's upsetting to see these young kids making such stupid and selfish decisions. This kind of thing could happen to us; we don't have a garage, so our cars are parked in the carport. The carport is on the other side of the wall of my bedroom, so this is both good and bad. Good as in I would hear any loud noises immediately, and bad as in my close proximity to any thief attempting to break in to our cars.

I hope this gets resolved. Maybe you should leave a car unlocked one night with nothing too valuable (but maybe something he'd like to steal) in it and call the police when the kid enters your vehicle. After all, you have him on tape and he's been identified. Once he takes something, then the police can do something about it.

[Purplehood]

Super-glue the door handles (well, you get the idea).

[Keith B]

I now have a video of a kid trying the door handle of my daughter's car last night, then going across to one of the neighbor's cars.

They're still doing this after the police have already talked to them?? Gutsy...or stupid. I call stupid with a streak of greed.

Totally different kid than the other two. This is a VERY common way for kids to get money or electonics from unlocked cars.

[Hoi Polloi]

1. How do you review all of the video and know if something is there worth noting?

2. Was that the same kid who was in the passenger seat of the other video? I don't think it was. I think there's a stream of teenage delinquents working the same area.

[PUCKER]

Keith - you have the perp's address, right? Maybe you and a few friends could drop by just to let them know that they are on YOUR radar? Or would you not want to give away your hand, so to speak? A little chat with the parents may go a long way, I suppose it all depends on the parents. I know that with either of my neighbors (immediate neighbors) that the belt would probably come out before I even got to finish...but then again, my neighbors' kiddos are GREAT and the conversation would NEVER have to happen. Now, there's a case of some idiot teens about 8 houses down from me...the parents seem pretty worthless from what I know...the cops have had MANY visits with the teens AND their parents.

[KD5NRH]

Totally different kid than the other two. This is a VERY common way for kids to get money or electonics from unlocked cars.

Just make sure they don't steal those counterfeit $20 bills you were planning to turn in at the FBI office first thing in the morning.

[sjfcontrol]

Totally different kid than the other two. This is a VERY common way for kids to get money or electonics from unlocked cars.

Just make sure they don't steal those counterfeit $20 bills you were planning to turn in at the FBI office first thing in the morning.

You mean the ones with the dye pack?

[Keith B]

Totally different kid than the other two. This is a VERY common way for kids to get money or electonics from unlocked cars.

Just make sure they don't steal those counterfeit $20 bills you were planning to turn in at the FBI office first thing in the morning.

You mean the ones with the dye pack?

Yeah, that the rattlesnake in the breifcase is guarding.

[74novaman]

Is it my imagination or is the kid shuffling a little bit and crossing his feet when he walks? Almost looks like he might be drunk and or high.