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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
- Subject: Re: car thieves
- Message-ID: <80YH03OJbbe=00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:30:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.175316.18066@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1992Nov13.175316.18066@midway.uchicago.edu> wag5@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- > Not too long ago around midnight I was walking home from the
- >main campus here and I got the opportunity to watch a 'professional'
- >car thief in action(Professional in that the guy probably does it
- >for a living.)
-
- Your thieves are wimps. On a street which runs right along the south end
- of the UC Berkeley campus, out in front of the (very popular) fitness center,
- I witnessed a homeless-looking women having some difficulty opening a car
- door with her keys. She had a lot of them and was jangling them quite a
- bit. Didn't really strike me until later that her hands were moving in an
- up-and-down motion instead of a rotating motion...
-
- Yet another guy was standing in the parking lot of a busy restaurant, doing
- the same key trick. Except he had this big white pillow case in his other
- hand. A tad obvious.
-
- Rule #107 of life in Berkeley: don't leave anything inside your vehicle that
- you wouldn't feel safe leaving on the hood.
-
- --
- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
-