Car Broken into. What to do?

[Uabassoon]

Thanks Rachel. I was really confused as to what I should do. I was leaning towards not calling, but I guess I wanted someone else to agree with me.

I really didn't want to call my parents for advice because my dad is out of town and I don't want to talk to my mom because she would freak out. I could just picture her lying in bed dreaming that I live in some horrible crack den of a neighborhood because my car was broken into. So I'd prefer not to worry her!

I'm kind of leaning towards not calling in a police report, I mean it's not like I expect them to track down the guy who stole a half carton of cigarettes.

I'm at least cooling off now, I was feeling so angry and confused and just horrible when I first saw what happened to my car.

[Lady's Human]

I wouldn't call the insurance company, but I would call the police. Even if all they do is lift the prints, chances are that this isn't the only offence the perp has committed, and they can add it to the list of charges against the individual.

[Uabassoon]

I wouldn't call the insurance company, but I would call the police. Even if all they do is lift the prints, chances are that this isn't the only offence the perp has committed, and they can add it to the list of charges against the individual.

I didn't think about that. Will they still be able to find prints if I touched the handle? I was fiddling around with it to see how bad the damage was.

[Lady's Human]

Possibly, and they should be able to separate your prints from the prints of the preson who did it.

[Uabassoon]

Thanks for your help. I found a form on the Tucson Police Department webpage so I'm going to fill out the non emergency online reporting form.

[Karen]

Just wanted to say,
"Yes! This is a sign that you should quit smoking!"

[PinkSunshine]

My husbands truck window got broken out on Thursday and our cd case with about 100 cd's in it were stolen.... He was pissed. Nobody saw it happen (his truck was parked right in front of his work's office) but thankfully nothing else was taken (he had my video IPOD in the center console). He didn't bother filing a police report and it was $200 to fix it. Our deductible on our insurance is $200 so he just paid out of pocket for it.

It's absolutely horrible what people will do for a case of cd's (or in your case, carton of cigarettes) and I just have to think, karma will get them eventually