  Lobsterpots Member Username: Lobsterpots Post Number: 16 Registered: 06-2007 |
Woke up this morning to the hood open on my car in the driveway. Same shit...crime is everywhere even in Randolph, MASS. | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 5251 Registered: 10-2003 |
LP u sure that it was'nt Detroit? Apparently this is the only place where something like that can happen... (Message edited by Detroit_stylin on October 24, 2007) | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 243 Registered: 08-2007 |
Detroit_Stylin u sure u didn't take a trip to MA? | ||
Lobsterpots Member Username: Lobsterpots Post Number: 17 Registered: 06-2007 |
The fan is missing and the box with the computer shit was cut out also. I'm just leaving the hood open and Ill walk to work. fuck it hopefully theyll come back and take the whole thing..its insured. Maybe they'll break into my house and take my pipes too. | ||
Lobsterpots Member Username: Lobsterpots Post Number: 18 Registered: 06-2007 |
Why just the radiator? | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1851 Registered: 05-2005 |
lots of copper in there. if they were smart they would've taken the alternator for the same reason | ||
Bigjeff Member Username: Bigjeff Post Number: 133 Registered: 08-2006 |
I work in the automotive body repair business and I see that all the time. Usually someone has a front end collision. Instead of buying the parts , they will just have it stolen off another vehicle. No vehicle identification numbers to track those items. Presto, my car is fixed! Also, I see that with airbags. Back window broken out. Airbags and seat belts missing. They are no longer stealing the cars and stripping them. Either they steal the vehicle to joyride around in, usually kids. Or they break into and steal anything they need right in your driveway.! | ||
Karl_jr Member Username: Karl_jr Post Number: 140 Registered: 06-2007 |
I agree with Jeff, unless yor car is real old (ie. 20 or 30 yrs) that rad is probably alotta plastic. Your parts are on someone elses ride. | ||
Lobsterpots Member Username: Lobsterpots Post Number: 19 Registered: 06-2007 |
WTF...I just replaced the radiator in March. This town is going down the shitter. | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 245 Registered: 08-2007 |
How does someone get into a locked engine compartment? I thought all cars have hood releases inside the passenger compartment. BigJeff, as a car expert, how can someone by-pass that hood release. Lobsterpots, sorry for your troubles ... I'd look at someone at the radiator shop. I've heard how some sneaky mechanics do a fix, then steal back the parts at night because they know the parts are good. I realize that sounds crazy, but ... | ||
Lobsterpots Member Username: Lobsterpots Post Number: 20 Registered: 06-2007 |
To Everyone: I have good friends that live on Boston Blvd 48206. Both of them got into their cars this morning and drove off without this crap happening to them. Just food for thought. | ||
Bigjeff Member Username: Bigjeff Post Number: 134 Registered: 08-2006 |
It is actually very easy. Either they reach under the front of the car, there is a plastic shroud that covers the bottom of your car. they pull that off and stick a screw driver up there and "pop" the hood latch. Sometimes they will even cut your horn wires so you hear no sound. Break the side window quarter glass reach in and unlock your car door, and take whatever they need from there. These thieves are very methodic, quick, and very very quiet. Most of the time only taking what they need and leaving cd's and other stuff undisturbed in the vehicles. So even if you have an alarm system on your car they will either cut your battery cable so it cuts out your alarm, or cut the horn wires! I have vehicles towed in from all over the metro area, it does not just happen in one area. And, until they either start marking these parts with vehicle identification numbers or some type of tracking system. This problem will persist! | ||
Detroitbill Member Username: Detroitbill Post Number: 356 Registered: 09-2006 |
Seems to be a lot of car break ins/thefts going on in Huntington Woods, several attemped car thefts/breakins have occured this past week. Thieves there have gone right up to garages in back yards and started to drill thru car doors in an attempt to enter. An old neighbor has had two attempts on his 2007 Ford Edge in the last several weeks as well as other neighbors. Im told the area off of Lincoln/Woodward in Royal Oak is also getting hit bad lately as well as the homes, Remember to lock up no matter where you live. | ||
Lobsterpots Member Username: Lobsterpots Post Number: 21 Registered: 06-2007 |
It was such a crappy car. I bought it second hand a few years back because my Cadillac, my good car, is too heavy on gas, and I was racking up too many miles as I do lots of driving. Its a 99 civic and it has no air, no CD no cruise, power windows or locks, now no radiator. Its an ugly green, and its nickname is "old crappy". I don't care to own imports, but it was owned by an old lady next door who gave up driving and had low miles. Fortunately, I had two signed payroll checks on the visor, I was going to cash them yest, but the bank closes early on Tues, and also my digital camera was not stolen. The doors were locked just as I left them last night when I got home from the grocery store at 10PM Another thing, I would be even more pissed off it they damaged my black Fleetwood. | ||
Janesback Member Username: Janesback Post Number: 412 Registered: 08-2006 |
Same shit...crime is everywhere even in Randolph, MASS. ------------------ Wow, Randolph used to be a nice suburban town south of Boston. Lobster, what happened to the town? | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 834 Registered: 10-2003 |
Pisser. | ||
Diehard Member Username: Diehard Post Number: 172 Registered: 03-2005 |
Aren't catalytic converters a big target now too? | ||
Bigjeff Member Username: Bigjeff Post Number: 135 Registered: 08-2006 |
They were for a while, these thefts seem to come in trends. It was airbags and radios, then wheels and tires, then catalytic converters, now it's airbags and seatbelts! | ||
Lobsterpots Member Username: Lobsterpots Post Number: 22 Registered: 06-2007 |
Randolph mass population 30,000. so far two homicides this year, one young man gunned down in broad daylight on main street. Another homicide a few weeks later on July 3rd during the fireworks. Countless home invasions and the schools are failing. The town is broke and the grocery store is pulling out when their lease is up. Also, a target area for insurance fraud. | ||
Downtownguy Member Username: Downtownguy Post Number: 83 Registered: 07-2004 |
I had my radiator stolen off a new car about 28 years ago in the parking lot next to Yost Arena while I attended a hockey game. Came out after the game and the car wouldn't start. While I fumbled for a flashlight, my buddy was looking under the hood. We couldn't believe it when we realized what had happened. | ||
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln Post Number: 240 Registered: 06-2007 |
"Seems to be a lot of car break ins/thefts going on in Huntington Woods, several attemped car thefts/breakins have occured this past week. Thieves there have gone right up to garages in back yards and started to drill thru car doors in an attempt to enter. An old neighbor has had two attempts on his 2007 Ford Edge in the last several weeks as well as other neighbors. Im told the area off of Lincoln/Woodward in Royal Oak is also getting hit bad lately as well as the homes, Remember to lock up no matter where you live." Upscale area=Better cars to take stuff from. Then theres the easy escape route that Woodward provides. I believe these crimes are more prevalent in the suburbs than the city itself. Mall parking lots seem to be a hotbed of this kind of activity. Maybe its just a perception that theres more money in the suburbs so their stuff must be better. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 10590 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Quite an assumption. I didn't realize all crime in this region is committed in Detroit or by Detroiters. What a crock of shit statement. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 478 Registered: 07-2007 |
you mean this shit doesn't happen only in the D. wow, after reading these threads i am very surprised. shit can happen anywhere anytime anyplace.  | ||
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa Post Number: 1737 Registered: 11-2003 |
Coulda been going back to Pontiac. Or Birmingh... nah. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 479 Registered: 07-2007 |
So does Boston Edison sound more enticing now..?? | ||
Atwater Member Username: Atwater Post Number: 65 Registered: 09-2007 |
LOL @ Susanarosa | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 10591 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Point taken. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 175 Registered: 02-2005 |
Gas tanks are made of plastic now. They drill a hole in the tank, put a pan under car and get your gas. | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 281 Registered: 01-2007 |
Midnight Auto Supply strikes again! | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 527 Registered: 02-2007 |
In the 70's locking gas caps were all the rage. Can you blame the thieves? Gas was almost 50 cents a gallon. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 488 Registered: 07-2007 |
can you blame the thieves? hmmm YES I CAN IN FACT I WOULD SHOOT THEM | ||
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln Post Number: 244 Registered: 06-2007 |
I wasn't implying they were going to any particular city. Its more or less about how quickly you can LEAVE the city before anyone finds out. I live very close to the freeway and myself am a little cautious. The fact that someone can take something and quickly be out of the city limits crosses my mind a lot.Just seems like a better opportunity. | ||
Lobsterpots Member Username: Lobsterpots Post Number: 23 Registered: 06-2007 |
What is happening here in Boston metro area, is almost the exact opposite of what has happened in Detroit, but at the same time similar. Real estate prices have risen so high in Boston, that lower and middle income residents are getting squeezed out further from the hub (Boston). Once affordable apartments within the closest proximity to Boston have been converted to upscale condos. These areas have been gentrified. Low income residents with section 8 are being driven further away and Randolph is appealing to many because there is a large number of apartment buildings and home foreclosures. There isn't enough police and the schools are not equipped to deal with the influx of new students that English is not their household language. Lots of Haitians, Asians (Cambodians and Vietnamese) etc. The school system is on the brink of losing its state accreditation and may be forced into being placed into state receivership. There is no added revenue because these new arrivals to Randolph are typically renters & have lots of kids and they are renters and not adding to the property tax roles. Lots of businesses have closed up shop as well, and a local grocery chain is rumored that it is going to close the store when its lease runs out, citing high costs of doing business. Randolph is in big trouble. Lots of white flight going on, many with the means to do so are selling & moving to safer neighboring communities that do not have the "T" (bus lines), as Randolph does. Also, Randolph now has the highest number of registered sex offenders of any town in the south shore. In the 90's there was lots of middle to upper class black families that bought homes in Randolph, which appeared at the time to have worked out. Randolph was formerly known as a middle class Jewish community. The Jews moved away along time ago. Today Randolph has a serious gang problem, and there was a black on black teenage fatal shooting in broad daylight last summer and another fatal Haitian drug shooting last July 4th. The year before there was a body dumped in Randolph, and another fatal nightclub shooting. The police seem to think that my car was targeted by an Asian street gang due to it being a honda civic. Another resident found their car without wheels and tires this morning. Basically, Randolph is quickly turning into a ghetto. | ||
Umcs Member Username: Umcs Post Number: 299 Registered: 06-2007 |
Poverty has a tendency to do that. | ||
Lobsterpots Member Username: Lobsterpots Post Number: 24 Registered: 06-2007 |
Another homicide in Randolph Mass last night. About three city blocks from my house. | ||
Umcs Member Username: Umcs Post Number: 325 Registered: 06-2007 |
Are you sure you don't want to come back to the D? | ||
Lobsterpots Member Username: Lobsterpots Post Number: 25 Registered: 06-2007 |
http://boston.craigslist.org/s ob/rfs/460696651.html | ||
Ladyinabag Member Username: Ladyinabag Post Number: 330 Registered: 03-2007 |
That was nervy!•• | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2006 Registered: 04-2006 |
Exonerated Boston man found dead at new home October 26, 2007 ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON -- A man who spent more than six years in prison after being wrongly convicted in the shooting of a Boston police officer was found shot to death in Randolph. Norfolk District Attorney William Keating says 37-year-old Stephen Cowans was apparently shot by someone he let into his home. Cowans was wrongly convicted in the wounding of police Sergeant Gregory Gallagher in 1997 after a fingerprint found on a glass near the crime scene was wrongly identified as his. He was exonerated in 2004 after authorities re-examined the fingerprint. The case prompted the temporary closure of the police department’s fingerprint unit. Keating says there were signs of a struggle inside the home. Cowans received a $3.2 million settlement from the city and was also given $500,000 in compensation from the state for being wrongfully imprisoned. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/artikkel?Dato=20071026&Ka tegori=NEWS07&Lopenr=71026071& Ref=AR&Show=0&&imw=Y | ||
Lobsterpots Member Username: Lobsterpots Post Number: 26 Registered: 06-2007 |
http://www.boston.com/news/loc al/articles/2007/10/27/man_wro ngly_convicted_is_found_slain_ in_randolph/ |
