Yesterday my daughter came home to find that someone had kicked in my steel entry door and stolen a bunch of stuff including a laptop computer and accessories, some digital cameras, my journal(!), and some Christmas presents. Turns out that security is all just an illusion. Talking to the guy who repaired the door as best he could on short notice, I was told that really nothing will stop someone who wants to get in. There's a tool that even allows you to rip the front of the lock right off and then easily open the door. You're better off leaving a key so at least you're not out the deductible on your insurance ($500). In this case the perpetrator(s) passed through a gate warning "Beware of Dog"(not even in Latin!) and into a house where two dogs lived, all without a concern. The biggest pain is trying to figure out exactly what was on the laptop and how much further compromising of security it might be. I've just spent two hours changing every single password to every single company I deal with on the web just in case. The thing of it is that when I live on the west side I feel like this stuff shouldn't happen, since clearly I don't have much. Why can't these guys attack the people who can better afford the insurance deductibles? To me this is like a regressive tax on the poor. My children now have to go without because some idiot (idiots?) doesn't want to try to find a job in an economy where it's an employee's market.Thursday, December 14, 2006
Holiday Spirit from West Valley Denizens
Yesterday my daughter came home to find that someone had kicked in my steel entry door and stolen a bunch of stuff including a laptop computer and accessories, some digital cameras, my journal(!), and some Christmas presents. Turns out that security is all just an illusion. Talking to the guy who repaired the door as best he could on short notice, I was told that really nothing will stop someone who wants to get in. There's a tool that even allows you to rip the front of the lock right off and then easily open the door. You're better off leaving a key so at least you're not out the deductible on your insurance ($500). In this case the perpetrator(s) passed through a gate warning "Beware of Dog"(not even in Latin!) and into a house where two dogs lived, all without a concern. The biggest pain is trying to figure out exactly what was on the laptop and how much further compromising of security it might be. I've just spent two hours changing every single password to every single company I deal with on the web just in case. The thing of it is that when I live on the west side I feel like this stuff shouldn't happen, since clearly I don't have much. Why can't these guys attack the people who can better afford the insurance deductibles? To me this is like a regressive tax on the poor. My children now have to go without because some idiot (idiots?) doesn't want to try to find a job in an economy where it's an employee's market.
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ReplyDeleteI was told something similar to that in regards to my Honda.
ReplyDeleteTinted Windows on Honda = Frickin' sweet stereo system!
Haha, too bad for the poor bastards that went through all the idiotic trouble of jimmying the lock (on a honda, ha, right). Then after realizing they couldn't do it because, dur, it's a Honda, they broke a hole through my passenger window and tried to open the door.. the door they just trashed by trying to jimmy the lock. In desperation of having spent so much time trying to do everything else, they completely cleaned out the window with a rock and leaned in and ripped out my entire stereo and stole my cd's.
Funny thing. They left my purse, my cell phone, my scarf, my subwoofer, and anything of real value.
The cops told me that the idiots got away with about $15 worth of equipment (very old stereo and all the cd's were burned), if the pawn shops were feeling charitable that day. My bodyshop man and insurance company told me that they caused about $1,200.00 worth in damage.
Personally, I laugh at the entire thing. Mainly because the insurance company over-estimated, and my body shop guy managed to get me an extremely beautiful German stereo for less than the insurance company gave me for the new one (you saw that earlier this year). *Napoleon Dynomite Voice* Frickin' Sweet!
But also, like you've pointed out, they could have made so much more just getting a damned job and slaving away like the rest of us.
Don't make me sing Monty Python to you (Allllllways look on the briiiight side of life!), keep your chin up.