Breaking into a Prius...

[Danny Hamilton]

Originally Posted by hobbit

. . . .You can see just how flexible the doors are, even with frames around where the windows go. . . .try leaving
your fingers in between the top of the frame and the roof and
!gently! pushing the door toward closed -- you might even be
able to get it to the first latch click without pain. . . .

I was shutting the rear door, and at about the same moment that the swinging door left my hand my dog turned his back to the door and accidentally placed his tail out through the top of the doorway.

He wasn't happy. Yelped first, then turned and barked at the door and his tail. I quickly opened the door, and felt horrible for what had happened. I was sure that his tail would be bloody or damaged.

I checked it out, and it was fine. No blood, no sign of injury, no behavior indicating pain once the door was opened. The dog has not demonstrated any fear of or concern about the door or doorway to the car. Wow was I surprised, and thankful.

While I realize that the "give" at the top of the door makes it easier for a thief to get into the car, I'm really glad (as is my dog) that it is there.

[Ichabod]

NYC is better than it used to be in terms of crime, but I have a couple old school NYC car anecdotes to share:

1. A friend of my mother was moving from one apartment to another. They had a car, and wanted to load things into the car to make the move. Fearing theft if the car was left for long-ish periods, they came up with a plan: They carefully measured the interior of the car, and in the apartment they laid out a masking tape outline in the shape of the car's interior with poles marking height. They carefully arranged carloads inside the apartment first, and then in speed-relay fashion, loaded the car by transferring the contents of the car mockup, front-to-back as fast as possible. They managed to load up and move 3 car loads without anything going missing. The added benefit was that the cargo fit really well into the car.

2. I don't know if this is apocryphal, but I was told by a friend that they saw a beat up old car parked in NYC with a handwritten sign in the window that said "NO RADIO!" In the empty space next to the car, some wiseacre left a beat up old car radio with a handwritten sign that said "NO CAR!"

[limetime13]

I'm hoping we don't see the theft rate go up on our cars, since they are in such high demand. The laws of supply and demand unfortunately apply to the bad guys, too.

[chrisspaulding]

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Stole the laptop, 'played' the ipod but traded for the chapstick? Rigggggggggght.

You probably left the car unlocked, forgot the chapstick in your old jeans, didn't remember you were rolling through playlists earlier, and your laptop is still at the library where you left it - or, was.

Are you posting here to alibi some theft claim your conspiring?
Or maybe there really are dumb criminals who take time to view ipod playlists before leaving with a laptop and chapstick.

Sorry to hear if this really happened, but it sounds fishy
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[Lord_Towers]

thiefs will take random stuff some times. My parents had their car broken into (the doors MAY have been unlocked) they ripped open the locked glove compartment and ended up stealing 50 cents and the owners manuals... it was more incontinent than anything else

and when i was younger i got my thumb slammed in a car door, the door shut completely and locked! it hurt like a bitch but when we finally got the door unlocked my thumb wasn't broken and i only had a few scratches on it, nothing too bad

[qbee42]

Originally Posted by Lord_Towers

... it was more incontinent than anything else

Could you tell this by the yellow fluid on the floor?

Tom