OVERKILL
$100 Site Donor 2021
As we've discussed previously, the downtown cores of many cities are now filled with the homeless and addicted and my city is no exception. When my kids were younger we had numerous bicycles stolen off our deck. My son's 4-wheeler front wheels were stolen from my driveway.
With the return of the nice weather, we have the return of what are called "Car Hoppers" locally, which are the degenerates that go around checking door handles and sometimes breaking car windows when there's something of value visible.
My wife's truck is still in the body shop, so she has been driving my Jeep since she ran out of rental coverage last Monday, while I've been driving my parent's new GC-L. We have a music festival that happens downtown and she drove my Jeep down to take our daughter and her friend to the show.
Next day, she goes out and finds the passenger mirror on the Jeep pushed in, which means one of these "down on their luck" individuals made their way up my driveway and checked the vehicles. She pushed the mirror out and was on her way.
Well, later that afternoon, when she comes out of work, she actually takes a second to look at the vehicle and there are scuffs on it. She feels just sick and doesn't want to tell me, but she does when she gets home and I go out and take a look. There's a scratch on the rear passenger-side door that leads into a smear-like scuff, then a break, then another on the passenger door, then another on the fender, come around to the driver's side, there's another on the fender and another on the driver's door.
These are all at the same height. This is from a bicycle. It's not uncommon for hoppers, which regularly get around on bikes, to not get off the bikes, and just slide off the seat and walk the bike around the vehicle as they try the doors, which, as one would expect, means the handlebars are contacting the vehicle, hence the smear-like scuffs, these are from the handle grips.
I was not pleased by this discovery.
Got out the Meguiars polish, all of the rubber smear came off thankfully, but the scratch is well into the clear and probably needs professional correction, but worse, there's now a small dent in the fender that was in the middle of the smear:
But it gets better!
I assume this happened at the music festival, since it would have been difficult to go around the vehicle on a bicycle in my driveway given its proximity to my dad's Jeep, and there were no similar marks on it.
However, on the side where the mirror was pushed in? There's a dent on the window trim and it's pulled out about 1/4" and won't go back to where it's supposed to. So, that's a trip to the body shop to replace a piece that was recently replaced due to hail damage
I don't want to fence my front yard, it would look a bit silly IMHO in this neighbourhood, but it's extremely frustrating to know that millions of tax dollars are being poured into not solving this crisis, but effectively perpetuating it, while the city mostly ignores their inability or unwillingness to actually do something effective and instead hand waves and blows millions on bizarre "rejuvenation" projects in areas that get little traffic from the people paying for them because they are crawling with prostitutes, addicts and homeless, many with MAJOR mental health issues and several that are walking biohazards with multiple strains of hepatitis and other infectious diseases.
With the return of the nice weather, we have the return of what are called "Car Hoppers" locally, which are the degenerates that go around checking door handles and sometimes breaking car windows when there's something of value visible.
My wife's truck is still in the body shop, so she has been driving my Jeep since she ran out of rental coverage last Monday, while I've been driving my parent's new GC-L. We have a music festival that happens downtown and she drove my Jeep down to take our daughter and her friend to the show.
Next day, she goes out and finds the passenger mirror on the Jeep pushed in, which means one of these "down on their luck" individuals made their way up my driveway and checked the vehicles. She pushed the mirror out and was on her way.
Well, later that afternoon, when she comes out of work, she actually takes a second to look at the vehicle and there are scuffs on it. She feels just sick and doesn't want to tell me, but she does when she gets home and I go out and take a look. There's a scratch on the rear passenger-side door that leads into a smear-like scuff, then a break, then another on the passenger door, then another on the fender, come around to the driver's side, there's another on the fender and another on the driver's door.
These are all at the same height. This is from a bicycle. It's not uncommon for hoppers, which regularly get around on bikes, to not get off the bikes, and just slide off the seat and walk the bike around the vehicle as they try the doors, which, as one would expect, means the handlebars are contacting the vehicle, hence the smear-like scuffs, these are from the handle grips.
I was not pleased by this discovery.
Got out the Meguiars polish, all of the rubber smear came off thankfully, but the scratch is well into the clear and probably needs professional correction, but worse, there's now a small dent in the fender that was in the middle of the smear:
But it gets better!
I assume this happened at the music festival, since it would have been difficult to go around the vehicle on a bicycle in my driveway given its proximity to my dad's Jeep, and there were no similar marks on it.
However, on the side where the mirror was pushed in? There's a dent on the window trim and it's pulled out about 1/4" and won't go back to where it's supposed to. So, that's a trip to the body shop to replace a piece that was recently replaced due to hail damage
I don't want to fence my front yard, it would look a bit silly IMHO in this neighbourhood, but it's extremely frustrating to know that millions of tax dollars are being poured into not solving this crisis, but effectively perpetuating it, while the city mostly ignores their inability or unwillingness to actually do something effective and instead hand waves and blows millions on bizarre "rejuvenation" projects in areas that get little traffic from the people paying for them because they are crawling with prostitutes, addicts and homeless, many with MAJOR mental health issues and several that are walking biohazards with multiple strains of hepatitis and other infectious diseases.
