Re: [OT] Toronto police urge car owners to make things easy for car thieves

On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:28:40 -0700
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

In article <20240313234633.00004310@example.com>,
 Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

Car theft is rampant in Toronto these days. It's gotten so bad that
thieves are using crowbars and similar tools to break into people's
homes so that they can access the keys to the vehicles they are
trying to steal. 

 
Oh, that would be sweet. My only conundrum would be whether to use
the 9mm or the .357. (The shotgun would make too much of a mess.)

I'm pretty sure we haven't been allowed to own handguns in many years
now. I think there may be an exception for target shooters though so we
may be about to see a huge upswing in people joining shooting clubs....

I think we can still own shotguns though so it will be interesting to
see if there is a major surge in shotgun purchases. If that happens, I
expect that to be followed by some very high profile arrests of
homeowners who use them to defend their cars and prosecutions by
judicial activists to "send a message" that they highly disapprove of
people shooting other people to protect their property.

 
The TPS (Toronto Police Service) is on the job! After due
consideration, they've come up with a plan: make it easy for
thieves to get your keys so that you don't get hurt by
home-invading thieves!! They're literally giving out this advice at
public meetings. And Torontonians are following this advice by
putting up signs at their doors telling thieves that their house
doors are unlocked and the keys are right by the door!!!
 
https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/03/toronto-police-car-theft/ 

 
That's a society that has given up. It no longer actually *is* a
society anymore.
 

Bingo!!

It was only a few weeks ago that I saw a senior police official warn
Mayor Olivia Chow that the police *MUST* be given the increase they
were demanding in the budget or else there would be major cuts in
service. Chow gave them the increase despite an already large tax
increase that was going to anger a lot of voters. It also came just
a few weeks after Trudeau convened an emergency summit on car theft
and spouted his usual blather about how his government would step
up and solve the problem.
 
I can hardly imagine the TPS giving LESS service than what they are
now offering. 

 
Every time you write TPS, I think of Ron Livingston and his TPS
reports from OFFICE SPACE.
 
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy5c9tJYyQI&pp=ygUYb2ZmaWNlIHNwYWNlIHRwcyBy
ZXBvcnRz
 

This is the same police force that only a few weeks ago gave
pro-Palestinian demonstrators that were illegally blocking a major
road and intimidating a nearby Jewish neighbourhood coffee and
doughnuts rather than enforcing the law.
 
It's becoming clear whose side the police are on in Toronto (and in
the UK but that's a different rant) and that's the criminals. 

 
We have it a little different here in L.A. The cops are still firmly
on the side of the public but they're prohibited from enforcing most
of the penal code by the politicians. And if they buck the system and
make arrests anyway, it doesn't do any good because the D.A. refuses
to prosecute, and if by some miracle your criminal gets arrested,
charged, and convicted, and sentenced, the state will come around in
short order and let him out of prison after barely serving 1/5 of his
sentence.
 

I hope all the car thieves are happy with how the police have made
their job easier. 

 
The cops might have made it easier but their challenge would just be
starting if they tried to break into my house for my car keys.
 

I'm expecting burglars to also send their heartfelt
thanks to the police since it should now be considerably easier to
get into people's houses to steal their belongings. Maybe the
rapists who now find it trivial to enter homes and have their way
with the occupants will also send a fruit basket to the police. 

 
Maybe the home owners should just accuse the car thief of making a
racial slur while he was ransacking their home for the car keys.
That'd get him life in prison, right?
 

If the slur was made online, yeah, that could be a life sentence. Not
sure if they've got a statute for that if uttered live. But that could
easily get you sent to the Human Rights Tribunals which can't order
jail time but can levy large fines.

I know Americans will be dumbfounded by this and not understand why
we don't do the obvious thing and buy guns to defend what's ours
but we've let Trudeau make it so much harder to get a gun than it
already was that it's almost unthinkable now. 

 
Y'all should put your car keys in a bear trap designed as a key
organizer. When the thief reaches in for the key, SNAP!

I like that idea but it might not go over really well if one of your
clumsier family members inadvertently triggered it and lost a hand....

I'm thinking of an audio deterrent: anyone approaching the door gets to
hear a recording of a shotgun being racked. Of course, that assumes the
visitor isn't wearing ear buds or whatnot and actually knows what a
shotgun being racked sounds like. (I've only heard that sound in
movies, never in real life.)

Of course the real solution to the problem is putting in more sensible
politicians and judges and purging the police of the people who think
the solution to crime is encouraging more of it.



--
Rhino