Police advice residents to leave keys on front door to facilitate car theft
Toronto, Canada, is dealing with a high amount of car thefts. Those wanting to steal cars break into homes to locate the keys so that they can take the cars. Toronto Police advised residents to leave their keys on the front door to avoid confrontations. The implication is that car owners should make it easier for the thieves to steal their cars while reducing the chances that residents would end up be injured in the process.
From the Post Millennial:
With one car stolen approximately every six seconds in Canada, Toronto Police have a new recommendation to residents: let the thieves steal your car.
At an Etobicoke community safety meeting last month, Toronto Police Service Constable Marco Ricciardi told attendees “To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door, because they’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.”
Auto theft is so bad in Toronto that people have even left notes on their car windows to inform would-be thieves that the doors were unlocked, hoping that the windows wouldn’t be smashed in.
According to blogTo, Toronto police had previously launched a campaign that told criminals how long they would have to finish a crime (an average of 22 minutes) before police would respond. The move was reportedly an attempt to prevent budget cuts.
The Post Millennial provides additional information, and a video of the police providing advice, here.
Category: Crime, Society, The Stupid is Strong
Will the insurance companies pay if one hands the keys to the car thief?
And if you have an electric vehicle, please be thoughtful enough to ensure that it is fully charged. Nothing is more irritating for a car thief to wait two hours in line to recharge the car that he just stole.
Yes, because that would be incredibly impolite! And in Canada you absolutely cannot get any sort of reputation of being impolite!
I’m sorry….(not Canadian, but Oblig.)
Would I be wrong if I used the keys as bait for a booby trap?
Asking for a friend.
Picture if you will, a front yard with strategically placed statuary, cleverly filled with tannerite and BB’s. A proximity sensor cleverly hidden in the keyfob will drastically shorten the life of the would-be car thief.
Would them BBs be be (snickers) in a 00 size? Asking for a friend.
I was thinking good old standard copper BB’s we wouldn’t want to endanger the local environs with lead. Think of the children…
Excellent point…
I was going to suggest they be coated with a toxic substance, but you’re right; the safety of the children comes first.
Plug the body into 240 AC and leave the keys in the door.
When I had a car stereo worth stealing, I Krazy Glued razor blades mounted on pennies to the rear portion of the stereo since you had to blindly grab it and pull in order to remove it
I worked with an old timer as we called him who told stories of getting his fender skirts stolen off his 60s impala on a somewhat regular basis.
He told stories of finally attaching sharp metal near the release mechanism as a deterrent. After losing 2 sets of skirts, his modification resulted in 0 thefts, and blood left on the hubcaps and whitewalls from a 3rd (failed) attempt.
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Post that notice right next to the one recommending women pee on themselves while being raped in order to become unattractive to the rapist. Make sure there is a good berm backdrop behind them, I’ll use it for target practice.
That would probably turn some on even more
Wow. Just wow.
Speechless on this one.
I’m hoping it’s a Babylon Bee article, but sadly I know it ain’t.
But what aboot what I want? Some of us have an array of weapons to um, ‘disassemble’ a threat who violates our sanctum.
Maybe violence is the only way I feel whole anymore. (/s…….maybe)
Regardless of “law”, I wouldn’t be neighbour to a man who wouldn’t tear down heaven and earth to protect his family from a paper cut, let ‘lone robbery.
Personal property and safety are “racist” because “all violence is wrong”– and they’ll hunt down and kill anyone who defends themselves with a SWAT team to prove it.
During the coof times some cops did enjoy the free fire harassment a bit too much.
I’m sure it’s fine….
The Canadians gave up their guns for safety. Canadians can no buy, sell, carry, transfer a handgun anywhere in the country as of 2022. And now that they no longer have gun rights, property rights oh and let’s not forget freedom of speech, are now gone.
Whatever do you mean 5JC? As bad as this is, there are actually things worse going on in Canada. I would suggest that the dog steers clear of north of the border.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/canadian-law-endorsed-trudeau-government-imprison-people-life-speech-crimes
Perhaps not as dramatic but the outcome there is getting similar:
“The Canadians gave up their guns for safety”
As did the Israelis. We will never know how many of those hostages would have remained free or how many dead would still be alive if they had been able to defend themselves. Instead, they could only hide in their “safe” rooms while waiting for the Hamas barbarians to come get them and their children.
Quick dick video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9fcSICnavzI
“Some of us have an array of weapons to um, ‘disassemble’ a threat who violates our sanctum.”
Not in Canada they don’t…at least not legally.
“To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave a loaded firearm at every door.” Fixed it for ’em.
“Gentlemen…Prepare to defend yourselves.” (IYKYK)
My wife’s alamo is the bathroom, glizzy (def. 1) with 2 mags.
If I’m not home or get got, she’s to light up the night.
By default: defense, yes.
I swear if they turn off law and the calculation favors offense: parapets of corpses ’round the homestead.
Prepare, or else.
I am going to throw BS flag on the one car stolen every 6 seconds. That would be 5 million cars a year, or about 20% of the rolling stock of the whole country. That is actually a lot more cars than are stolen in the United States every year.
Reading the attached link, it appears that they badly misquoted and it’s one car every 6 minutes. This is compared to the United States where one is stolen about every 30 seconds.
Be careful of statistics:
US population: 342,000,000+
Registered vehicles: 278,000,000+
Canadian population: 39,000,000+
Registered vehicles: 26,000,000+
One may say there are more people to steal more vehicles in the US. Of course it’s sophistry!
There’s about 79,000 people in Andorra and about 81,000 registered vehicles. I wonder how many vehicles are stolen there?
A lock only keeps an honest man honest and no one is not a thief simply because he hasn’t had a chance to steal. Let’s all buy an extra car, leave it out front, and let whomever wants it take it.
Andorra is far behind on Diversity and Inclusivity and still overwhelmingly White and Christian, so they haven’t been blessed with the Multicultural anti racist crime that we enjoy.
Leftists = 100% pro crime, pro criminal, anti-freedom.
This is the kinda shit that leads to vigilante justice.
The Purge… only law-abiding folk don’t get a pass:
Seems to me it would be safer just to leave the car keys in the ignition. That way the thieves don’t even need to approach the house.
And be sure that the radio is tuned to a station that is playing Prime Minister approved music.
I.e. Village People, Cher, RENT soundtrack
Would the prime Minister approve of this?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pG8TyIEAqps&pp=ygUNRGlzY28gaW5mZXJubw%3D%3D
Once again I am forever grateful to have been lucky enough to have been born here in the US of A….
Break into my home to take my car keys and I can pretty much guarantee it’s not gonna go as easily as the cops want to make it in Toronto apparently…
Even without a gun I don’t understand how a Canadian can’t cobble together a fucking spear with a kitchen knife and some tubing and stab a criminal shit bag from six feet away before they know what’s happening to them…
If we aren’t afforded the right to be safe in our own homes we aren’t afforded any rights at all…that is the absolute baseline fucking right of everyone. Secure in one’s home with an absolute right to repel any and all intruders however one wishes without fear of prosecution…
Don’t want to get unalived? Don’t be a thieving piece of shit…
As dirt poor as I was it never occurred to me that in order to advance my situation I had a right to the property of others…I understood I would be required to work my ass off to get ahead…I suspect most of you learned the same lessons.
That’s why liberal educators punished you for getting a fight with a bully but let him go– helpless citizens are good citizens, comrade!
Progressives only want human cattle. Their privileged elite (i.e., them) get protected.
The privileged elite are JUST FINR in their gated communities protected by armed security while everyone else is left at the mercy of the wolves, just like in places such as Cuba, Venezuela, …
Ahhhh, the leftwinger freaks of the world – ya gotta love em. The pathetic little buggers really believe they are making the world a better place,
Progressive dude at DoD wants “government monoply on violence” and to mobilize NG to take everybody’s guns:
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1768009862963728480
Maybe Trudeau could form an “Automobile Collective”, where motor vehicles are kept for the use of Canadian citizens, to each based upon their needs. There’s no need for private ownership that way, and auto theft will disappear.
So is this step 1 of “you will own nothing and like it”?
If so, they’ve picked the right country to implement it.
I think they’re already past Step 1.
Well, residents of Canada can no longer defend themselves by the use of firearms, now that the fairy in chief has taken them away.
I saw this posted somewhere else, earlier, and immediately thought of the Alexandr S quote, especially the middle;
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative (thief), when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Yep. Don’t just sit there, cowering, quivering. Grab a baseball bat (aluminum or wood), a cricket bat, an axe, a shovel, WHATEVER (Ex-PH2’s favorite, a cast iron skillet & a cat). Set up an ambush trap. Someone you don’t know pokes his head through the door, that person gets an Excedrin headache. Keep hitting until HE knows he’s dead. Later at full night, turn off the porch light and drag the body out to the middle of the street. DO NOT CALL THE PO-PO! Return to your home, go to bed, and sleep the sleep of the just.
((oh, and just for giggles & grins, and to pass some time, pilfer the dead thief’s pockets. Never know what useful things you might find))
I remember reading an article recently about a would-be thief who broke into a house and was beaten and raped by the homeowner. I think said homeowner was an ex-con who was missing his days in lockup. I figure that failed criminal is probably having a real bad time in the joint since word about such things spreads quickly in prison and everyone now knows he’s a punk. 🤣
I’m a believer in home defense and castle doctrine, but that’s way out in fuckin left field!
This homeowners mistake was that he left the thief alive, didn’t dispose of the (should-have-been) body, and he called the po-po.
Canada is fucked.
As Dennis mentioned, this sounds like a great way to void your insurance.
I wish Manmeet and Bumdeep would leave Torontistan and steal my fully insured vehicle. But for some reason, my 20 year old windowless, white cargo/Free Kandy van isn’t a hot ticket.
“Hey partner, I found the keys! But, what’s this little red dot bouncing around on my face?”
“Your partner’s warning shot is when your face explodes into a red mist.”
That’s one way to get someone’s attention!🤣
Someone should call Turd Bolling of Ambassador Worldwide Protection Agency (both international and national) and get him spun up.
With Turd Bolling on patrol, anything goes…
Liberal stupidity has no bounds or limits. Canada is becoming proof of that. A police state for citizens, an open field for criminals without repercussions.