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WhiteTiger · 11-07-2014, 08:02 PM

So this story came across my newsfeed, and it caught my eye:

http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/...es=og.comments

Basically, the local police did a parking lot blitz where they went around and checked out parked vehicles to see if they were locked or if valuables were visible. If they found the car unlocked, they locked it and left a note for the driver. Of 200 vehicles checked, they found 9 unlocked.

I thought that was a pretty clever thing for them to do, as a reminder to folks to lock stuff up...then I read the comments (which is always an internet mistake, I know) and people were flipping out, with some going so far as to ask if the police were going to charged with "something".

Maybe it's just my own personal experience with hearing about so many unlocked vehicles broken into and/or stolen that is coloring my perception, but I still think that this was a good and 'neat' idea to catch people's memory, and make them realize that the next person who isn't them who opens their car door may have much more sinister motives.

11-07-2014, 08:02 PM	#1
WhiteTiger Franchise Player Join Date: Nov 2010 Exp:	Police Lock Your Door For You So this story came across my newsfeed, and it caught my eye: http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/...es=og.comments Basically, the local police did a parking lot blitz where they went around and checked out parked vehicles to see if they were locked or if valuables were visible. If they found the car unlocked, they locked it and left a note for the driver. Of 200 vehicles checked, they found 9 unlocked. I thought that was a pretty clever thing for them to do, as a reminder to folks to lock stuff up...then I read the comments (which is always an internet mistake, I know) and people were flipping out, with some going so far as to ask if the police were going to charged with "something". Maybe it's just my own personal experience with hearing about so many unlocked vehicles broken into and/or stolen that is coloring my perception, but I still think that this was a good and 'neat' idea to catch people's memory, and make them realize that the next person who isn't them who opens their car door may have much more sinister motives.