For now 1 year, in my town, there have been delinquents playing a weird game : opening cars.
They open it just for fun, broke and torn apart the door's metallic part away from the window to access the locket and open the door.
Then once inside the car, they only moved everything from the hand box, removed every protections (ash trash, etc.) and leave them every where in the car.
Last summer I already made a blog post about it, and they did it again after that.
The 5th time happened in November, where they stole again my gearbox ball. I stopped buying new one ...
Now, in February, After 4 months without more degradation, I decided to fix it.
My dad and myself tried to put the door metal back in place. It was almost perfect, but still a little open between the metal and the window, but not noticeable from far away.
But then, last week-end it happened again
But this time it looks like the delinquent only broke my door, but didn't get inside (maybe he was disturb by someone and run away).
This week I then decide to go to the police again to report it, and the funny thing is that another police man called me home the same day to ask what I've done with my car from the incident of last year, if I repaired it, how much it cost, etc. and they wanted me to go to police station to talk about it.
When I went to police station, they told me :
police - Well for your car, we know who is the person doing it.
me - You caught him ?
p - Well, in fact he broke into another car, and ... he forgot his Identity Card inside ! The owner bring it to us, and we ask that person to come. He admitted that he broke into that car. Then we showed him all the other cases and admitted he broke into your car many times.
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Well, so now the police asked me to go make the fix to a real coach/body repairer and ask how much it will cost, so that this person will pay for the fix.
They said it will be to his mother to pay as he is still minor
That gives him the right to do it again and again without any problem as he can't go to jail, and he is not the one who will pay or do community service.
They also said he lives near my home, that's why my car was always targeted (more than the others in town).
I'm glad they found him, but, damn I hoped he would pay for his acts and go to jail or anything similar.
Would it be ok for me to fix my car ?
I'm sure he will want revenge for being caught and will do it again.
Well, I'll go and make evaluate the cost for the repairs, maybe the judge will force his mother to give me that money.
They open it just for fun, broke and torn apart the door's metallic part away from the window to access the locket and open the door.
Then once inside the car, they only moved everything from the hand box, removed every protections (ash trash, etc.) and leave them every where in the car.
Last summer I already made a blog post about it, and they did it again after that.
The 5th time happened in November, where they stole again my gearbox ball. I stopped buying new one ...
Now, in February, After 4 months without more degradation, I decided to fix it.
My dad and myself tried to put the door metal back in place. It was almost perfect, but still a little open between the metal and the window, but not noticeable from far away.
But then, last week-end it happened again
But this time it looks like the delinquent only broke my door, but didn't get inside (maybe he was disturb by someone and run away).
This week I then decide to go to the police again to report it, and the funny thing is that another police man called me home the same day to ask what I've done with my car from the incident of last year, if I repaired it, how much it cost, etc. and they wanted me to go to police station to talk about it.
When I went to police station, they told me :
police - Well for your car, we know who is the person doing it.
me - You caught him ?
p - Well, in fact he broke into another car, and ... he forgot his Identity Card inside ! The owner bring it to us, and we ask that person to come. He admitted that he broke into that car. Then we showed him all the other cases and admitted he broke into your car many times.
m-
Well, so now the police asked me to go make the fix to a real coach/body repairer and ask how much it will cost, so that this person will pay for the fix.
They said it will be to his mother to pay as he is still minor
That gives him the right to do it again and again without any problem as he can't go to jail, and he is not the one who will pay or do community service.
They also said he lives near my home, that's why my car was always targeted (more than the others in town).
I'm glad they found him, but, damn I hoped he would pay for his acts and go to jail or anything similar.
Would it be ok for me to fix my car ?
I'm sure he will want revenge for being caught and will do it again.
Well, I'll go and make evaluate the cost for the repairs, maybe the judge will force his mother to give me that money.
