My car was broken into last Thursday night near Damen and Division
The scumbags busted my window by prying it open where the passenger window meets the windshield and in between the window and door. So my door is dented outward, my windshield was busted, there are gouges in my paint from front to back from glass or whatever, my center console was completely ripped out. There was glass everywhere in my car and in clothes I had in there, and I mean sharp as hell shards, not chunks. They surprisingly didn't go through my top which is 2 weeks old. They stole 2 cell phones and a V1 radar detector my keys and who knows what else. Thank god a woman saw them and yelled so they didn't have time to get my JL Audio 450/4 or my 10W3. They also got nothing out of the secret compartment-this made me smile. So my lesson here is I will not leave any valuables in my car again, I will get the most annoyingly loud alarm, I am disabling my trunk button, and I may get seat locks and take the "leave the doors unlocked" route to avoid this glass breaking, top ripping bullshit. The thing that somewhat scares me about this incident is that this was a very well lit area where many people can see from there apartments and it was only 10:45. The good thing is that the reaction time of the police (2 squads) was about 1-2 minutes.

 

"leave the doors unlocked"

I never thought of that one.

I usually just get vandelized but I deffinatley feel your pain, I was alsop burglerized a week and a half ago, they got 9grand in shit, including a gt35r, hks ssq, aps dual vent, two NICE laptops, home theatre, hdtv, ipod, movado, digital camera and a few other things.

Sucks dont it.

 

Thats too bad Is this a known bad area or supposedly fairly decent? I'm not sure I'd leave the doors unlocked though, last thing you need is some drunk stumbling around and taking a pee in it (yes, I've seen it).

 

Damn thats a lot of stuff! I'm guessing it was your house that was broken into? With that list it almost sounds like they knew exactly what they were looking for or had A LOT of time to go through everything.

 

Thats sucks hopefully insurance will clear up the mess. Were you parked on a side street or on the main street? Damen and Division is a pretty busy cornor.

 

condolences... wicker park/bucktown can still be a tough neighborhood...

 

remember when i posted my car (not the S) was broken into in wicker park? this is almost the exact same location. one street north on crystal, about halfway between damen and wolcott. pretty similar situation...visible area, break-in occurred before sundown in the summer, etc.

the lesson shouldn't be to get an annoying loud alarm...get a garage! either that, or move to a nicer area. i have the seat locks for peace of mind. fvck wicker park!

 

Yes, It was my house and yes it was "friends".

I caught the kids and got the major stuff back minus the home theatre Ipod digital camera, movado, and some other little things.

 

That sucks man. Sorry to hear about S2000s getting hurt.

 

that is horrible. i hope you get everything straightened out. I assume you're pressing charges? Did they say what happened to the things you didn't get back?