Car stolen on Liberty Street

Were the doors locked? Were the keys in the ignition? Was it left idling? If the answers are yes, no and no then I feel sorry for the customer. But, I could venture a guess contrary to that, although I won't.

If the answers were no, yes, yes, then the customer could be charged with leaving a vehicle unattended - and the CUSTOMER will get a fine. Never mind that their insurance won't cover any damages to the car if/when they find it.

Howard, tomorrow's poll question, if BPD will give you the answer you can withold the information and see who is right. I'm voting for Irene's Possible Scenario. Anybody want to vote for mine?

It would make no difference if the doors were locked or not (other than an insurance claim) if a thief wants it consider it gone.

However if the keys were indeed in the ignition and idling (we don't know and may never know) what was she thinking?

I agree with Irene's train of thought,forget about the insurance covering any of her losses.

George----Nice idea about the poll question.

Is there anymore information on this story about who did it and what happened to them? Was the car recovered? Was it in the same condition as it was when the customer left it? These are all things that would be interesting to know.

I can't stand it when people want to blame the victim for the crime. You should be able to leave a $100 bill on your porch or the car running in the driveway without having to worry about someone else stealing either of them.

Why should I have to think like a criminal to avoid one when I'm a law abiding citizen? I'm tired of good, honest people being blamed for what criminals do. That's backwards logic if you ask me.

Poor johnny never would've done the crime if only Jane law abiding citizen didn't make it possible for him to do it!

Good grief, stop with that cr*p. If someone steals a car, running or not, there's one person to blame. The damn criminal.

"you should be able to leave a $100 bill on your porch"
If you decide to test this theory I suggest you try it with a fiver first, you know, just in case. Or superglue a bunch of quarters to your driveway and see what happens.
Confession: as a kid, my friend stole a package off of the front entrance of the Jehovah's Witness Kindgdom Hall on North Lyon Street. I said "Why did you do that?", as we ran with the package. He said "It feels like it might be money." It was about 1000 tracts. We threw them in a vacant lot next to the Kingdom Hall. We're both going to hell and I think maybe there was a third kid too. Doomed as well, see the moral of my story is that the world isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it was already gone before I was born in the 50's.

the car was an employees not a customers and it was a male not a female

George, you missed my point which was people need to stop blaming the victim for what a thief/criminal does.