Volume 3 Issue 36 November 2004
- Preventing Car Theft
- This Holiday Season: Shopping Center Dangers
- SafetyIssues Correspondent
- Never hide your keys in your car. This means removing the keys from above the sun visor, from underneath the seat, from under the floor mat, and from any other places you currently hide them in your car. Criminals are not stupid.
- Any spot that you may consider
to be a safe place to hide your keys has already been thought of by
car thieves.
- Always park your car with the
windows closed and the doors locked, no matter where you may park
it.
- Never leave valuables in your
car. If you absolutely must have something valuable in your
car, such as packages from a shopping trip you have just made don't
leave the packages out in the open. Cover any valuables up
with a coat, blanket, or other suitable camouflage.
- And make sure your key ring does not have your car's license number, your name, or address, or the description of your car listed on it somewhere.
- Police have been finding
families working together to make your time at the mall Hell.
One group of the family steals purses and passes the information in
a purse such as a description of your car to another group of the
family stealing cars or items in cars from the mall parking lot and
even to a third group burglarizing homes – knowing you are at the
mall and not home to protect your belongings.
Criminals have become better organized and smarter than they used to be so you have to be smarter too.
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