Montgomery County police responded to a report of two stolen vehicles in the Glen Echo Heights area of Bethesda on Tuesday morning, December 14, 2022. The first vehicle was taken from the driveway of a home in the 6300 block of Wiscasset Road. A second car was stolen from outside of a home in the 5700 block of Bent Branch Road. The Massachusetts Avenue corridor continues to be a favorite haunt of professional car thieves.
Faster to walk to downtown Bethesda anyway.
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Oh Bethesda, Bethesda what has happened to the wonderful and safe neighborhood of my childhood
ReplyDeleteMassachusetts Ave straight to the chophouses on U street SE
ReplyDeleteAhhhh, remember the good old days not so long ago when all you really bad to worry about was a white highschool kid robbing a Smoothie King on the location of the new Marriott HQ. . . Was is Whitman, Churchill or B-CC, I've since forgotten?
ReplyDeleteHow about everyone rig their vehicles to explode upon unlawful entry or movement Mission Impossible style? "The vehicle you are about to steal will self-destruct in five seconds..... bad luck, perp!"
ReplyDelete11:24 - tiny jumper cables that will give these maggots a mega jollt.
ReplyDeleteI think it's outrageous that local news has not covered this epidemic of vehicle theft at least I don't think they have. Bottom line, lock your car door, never leave your key fob in the car and get a Farady box to put your fob in at night. If you do all those things, it's almost impossible to have your car stolen.
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ReplyDeleteIf it's valuable enough, like a collectible Corvette, they can just drag it right onto a flatbed. But you are right, these mostly are crimes of opportunity. Doesn't make it ok, and sshhh - Bethesda is safe - right?
5:23 - Sure, a valuable car like that could be stolen with a flatbed. But that hasn't happened once in this area. Correct, it's mostly dumb crooks stealing cars from dumb owners. My new car has a key pad. Great, but that would be foolhardy to leave the fob in the car thinking you could access via keypad. Car makers need to decide. Why even offer the keypad with the theft they know is occurring?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately you can find these devices very easily online. If you have push-to-start, just locking doors won't save the car.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.vice.com/en/article/7kz48x/guy-selling-relay-attack-keyless-repeaters-to-steal-cars
9:01 - And that's exactly how these many cars are being opened and stolen outright. Again, get a Farady pouch to keep on you when out and a shielded box while home. I got mine off Amazon for under $30.00. Best investment ever. And with Ring cam, I'll know if any scum bag, at 3AM, made an attempt. That's why you've seen other Ring camera footage of these creeps going to the front doors of homes. They try and electronically grab the fob signal. Gosh, I hope they try my house. Sorry, not going steal my new car. If people wised up, this would end or certainly lessen that's for sure.
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