(Remember, not a professional study, just my simple tally of things seen in the videos available in YouTube)

I went over a hundred videos in YouTube to see if I could get some sort of pattern we could use to lower the number of guns stolen from cars. I wanted to know basically how long it takes for a burglar to break in ransack and leave with goodies and what was the method of entry. I ended up tallying 63 videos that clearly showed method of entry and ran the entire time from the moment entry to the vehicle was gained till burglar left. These videos are the original from the victims either posted by them or a few LEO agencies that did not edit the content. Videos from News organizations were not tallied as they edited for time. Still those videos edited gave me confirmation of many of the things I will mention later down this post.

Let’s say I had assumptions and  they were shattered.  I figured busting windows was the favorite way to gain access and that it took them 3-4 minutes to go through the car and steal all the stuff.

Method of Entry:

73% Unlocked vehicle

17% Breaking window

7% Window down

2% Locked forced open

2% Trunk left unlocked

People, it is not a question of gear, it is  question of absent-mindedness, of carelessness and irresponsibility, specially when you find out that over 90% of the videos were home surveillance videos.  Basically, 82% of the break ins are the fault of the owner of the vehicle. They were preventable.

The screen caps above are from burglaries where I know guns were stolen from vehicles parked at home! Why in the name of all that is holy did the owners leave the frigging guns in the unlocked car?

And I heard some with the ditty: “It is a Gun Free Zone, but I’ll be in and out in  couple of minutes” or “I just need to run inside the house quick, it will only be a minute.” Well, I have bad news for you when it comes to a burglar breaking in, ransacking your car and leaving without being caught: the average time for a burglar to do your car is 39 seconds.  That is a TV commercial break and a teaser for the Six O’Clock news. It takes you longer that to take a piss and wash your hands, and even longer for a woman.

And here are other interesting stats related to breaking in time:

Average burglary (From Door Opening to burglar exiting the vehicle with the goods): 39 seconds.

Fastest time: 3 seconds (Smash & Grab)

Longest time: 261 seconds (4 minutes, 21 seconds)

86% of the burglaries took under one minute.

Almost all  burglars will go fully inside the vehicle.  Center console, glove compartment and under the front seats seem to be the first places they check from what I was able to see. Rear seat, floors and door pockets close the line up. Trunks get very little consideration. Surveillance cameras and motion sensor lights have zero deterrent effect as they either don’t see the cameras, don’t care if they are there and do not get scared about lights. Noise however is different. Car alarms will send them running and in couple of instances I saw if they break glass at a car parked at home, they will move down the street and wait to see if somebody comes out. If nobody comes, then they take their time inside the car. They guy who did the 261 seconds was one of them.

One important thing I saw was that the most common thing they carried with them tool-wise was a small flashlight. I saw very few videos with burglars using tools and the feeling I have is that they specifically targeted already cased vehicles. Except in one occasion, the vehicles were working vans or trucks with tools inside. The exception was one car with six figures worth of jewelry in the trunk.

Other information I gathered:

Most cases involve one individual on foot.  Two may go on foot or one checking cars and one in a getaway car. Three or more tend to involve one getaway car (Car Hopping: A group may go through a neighborhood and discover several vehicles with their doors unlocked. From there they will “toss” the vehicle and take anything of value.) One burglar ransacking per car.

Tools: The few that broke windows, appear to use spring-loaded glass breaker, one had a small hammer and some sort of punch and another used a rock. For thee rest, several had just a flashlight to see the inside of the car and many wore gloves, probably as not to leave prints. I saw no pliers, bolt cutters, torches, etc.  with the regular burglars.  The only exceptions were only on a couple of work vehicles and I think they  had cased them prior to the burglary.

Most checked door: Driver’s door.

Let me repeat this again: Burglars do not care or don’t even bother to look for surveillance cameras.  They don’t mind the automatic flood lights either.

That’s it. I am already working on another post about what I learned here. It will go up tomorrow and I will have my ideas on what we should do to reduce firearms stolen from vehicles and I hope you share yours in that post too.

Summarized in two headlines.

Majority of world population support globalism, survey finds

and

US citizens own 40% of all guns in world – more than next 25 top-ranked countries combined, study suggests. 

Dear world:

This is what we think about your globalism.

Love.

The US of effing A.

It has to be somebody who wants American males to become French or something like that. I found this article titled Obsolete Man Skills You Should Ditch and it is a step by step on how to make sure you have people who will fold to anybody who grunts at them aggressively and be nice servants in a generation.

The article not only tells you what “obsolete male skills” you need to dispose off but it also gives you what you should substitute it with.

Old: Hunting – New: Learn How to Cook for Yourself.
Sweetheart, if you can kill your food, sure as hell you can cook it even if it is a piece of meat on a stick over a campfire. And hunters get the freshest most organic food in the world rather than having to go to Whole Foods and pay up the ass for a few ounces of crap raised in some farm.

Old: Fighting – New: Learn How to Mediate
I have to quote them “Problem-solving with an eye to compromise and healthy conflict resolution is something that, by and large, men just aren’t taught growing up.”  Listen Pajama Boy, if you are getting your head pounced into the pavement by some enraged asshole, your mediation skills are worth about as much as used toilet paper. Enjoy your stay in ICU.

Old: Repairing Your Car – New: Learn How to Code
Yes, cars nowadays are run by computer, but I doubt pretty much your nighttime class in coding is gonna fix whatever Check Engine light is trying to tell you or even if the car dies all of a sudden and you have not figured out how to clean the battery terminals.

Old: Fixing Things at Home – New: Learn How to Decorate.
I have to quote them again. “With most millennials having no real shot at home-ownership, there’s a good chance your landlord will be the one in charge of fixing anything that goes wrong in your place — or, more likely, paying someone else to.” Listen, I have rented and all of the places came with the condition of the manager being in charge of the repairs and maintenance. But here is the thing: shit breaks down after hours where getting the manager or the handyman on the phone is a bit difficult. And unfortunately, there is a good chance there are a few other apartments in need of fixing ahead of you. So, unless you don’t want to spend the weekend in the dark because you can’t figure out an electrical panel or hear the drip from the shower for a week or two, learn to fix things. In fact, the property manager will be happy as a lark to discount your expenses from the next rent payment because he won’t have to pay somebody $75 an hour plus parts to fix whatever little thing you had wrong in your rental.

Old: Being a Leader – New: Learn How to Collaborate
How about both? How about learning when to be a leader and when to be a helping hand? I understand why being a leader scares them: You are the sole responsible for failures that may happen while a group can dilute the blame among those presents. And that is where they are coming from and not from a concept of many minds applying to solve a problem.

Old: Being a Disciplinarian – New: Learn How to Communicate With Your Children.
OK, these people are a bad joke “For a long time, the most important aspect of being a father was simply providing for your family, and second, perhaps, was molding your sons into men. That meant being stern with them — even harsh. That meant toughening them up by teaching them how to shoot, how to fight, how to push through their pain, how to overcome their fears.”  If your kids screw up, of course you have to be stern. You would be doing them a disservice otherwise. You need to teach them to conquer their fears may them be sleeping without a light, jump from the board into the pool or get their first job. Sometimes is sink or swim, sometimes is experienced advice that they will learn the hard way because they chose to ignore you.

Old: Holding Your Emotions In – New: Learn How to Talk About Your Feelings
“Listen here dear son/daughter. You are the dumbest collection of human DNA in history and I feel embarrassed to have my name attached to your birth certificate. I am in almost physical pain for all the money wasted on you on what I thought it was “education” and I wish I could get a refund or sell you for parts.”  OK, I shared my feelings, Do you think they would feel better?

Sweet Lord.

The original Spirit of the Democrats is still here, it just come packaged differently nowaday .

Keep in mind that the 800,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown have so far missed a grand total of one paycheck, which would have arrived five days ago.

There’s no doubt that this is challenging for many workers, particularly those who don’t budget their money well. But Congress has already guaranteed they will be made whole once the shutdown ends.

This is an inconvenience, not a hardship.

Government Shutdown: Pampered Federal Workers Don’t Deserve Anyone’s Pity

I have a Facebook friend who went into a rant about the buddies celebrating the Shutdown and that we should know that those furloughed include people working for the security of the Nation.  There is a point made there, but also we know there is probably 3 times more people who are not essential to the nation other than picking up a check so they are not on welfare.

There are over 2 million Federal workers not including those in the postal service. Out of that many, even the wasteful Federal Government considers 800,000 unessential enough to be sent home. According to the own guidelines of the Federal Government, 40% of its workforce is non-essential.  Think about that.That is bad business practice in the private sector and any CEO keeping that many people sucking company income, would be taken to the desert outside Las Vegas, shot in the back of the head and  the corpse left in the open for the wildlife to feast and “Pour encourager les autres” in management.

And some people wonder why there is so much deficit coming out of DC?

And please, do not put the blame on me because I laugh at the shutdown. It was not me who deemed you unessential, it was your employer. And if this shit ends, you will get your money anyway, so spare me your woes of “suffering and starvation” as in real life you don’t get those cushions to land on.

According to the wife, the duck walking over her car is vandalism publishable by death.

She does not kid when it comes to her car.