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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Car stolen on Bethesda Avenue
Montgomery County police responded to a report of a stolen car on Bethesda Avenue on Monday evening. The vehicle was parked along the street in the 4700 block of Bethesda Avenue, and was reported stolen around 7:10 PM, according to crime data.
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That's great that you're reporting these vehicle crimes which are a major problem now. But you need to ask their public information officer how these vehicle crimes are being perpetrated. How exactly are these crooks stealing cars right in the heart of the downtown shopping and restaurant district when tons of people are strolling down the sidewalk? Did they grab keys somehow? Are they hacking the keyfob somehow? How are they doing this? You have to either really know what you're doing or you're a professional car thief in order to boost a car that fast. We need to know and you're just the man to do it.
Pretty brazen to commit a crime like that in such a highly trafficked area at that time. The culprits either don't believe they'll get caught or don't fear the penalty if they do get caught.
If there were BLM/Hate Has No Home Here/Biden-Harris stickers on the car, they didn't prevent it this time. Sorry about that, as it's not consistent. If these stickers weren't on the car, too bad, they might have helped you out here.
Now go call a social worker since you defunded the police.
Most common is that the vehicle is taken without permission by someone known to the owner, e.g. a teenage son. Second most common is the vehicle is left running without occupants. Third is that the vehicle isn't running but the keys are left in the vehicle.
No one is hacking keyfobs like out of the movies and the police aren't defunded. It's entirely likely they've already recovered the joyridden vehicle.
#7:27 AM - Perhaps it's being perpetrated by members of your neighborhood Proud Boys delegation, in order to fund their organization. After all, they know the neighborhood is filled with their kind, that are rich to the hilt. Just sayin.
9:06 - Only your second cause is correct. Clueless people are leaving key fobs in their vehicles that's true. But, there are absolutely are devices that hack the system and trick the car into thinking the key fob is in the car when it isn't. All this tech in our society is great but much come with vulnerabilities. A quick browse of YouTube will show you just how easy and available these hacking tools are used to steal cars in seconds.
4:33, right, I'm not saying the tech doesn't exists to clone a keyfob or otherwise bypass a vehicle's security, but in reality we're talking about teens jumping in running cars not professional thieves out of Gone in 60 Seconds.
5:40 - Yeah, you're probably right on that. I see vehicle larceny reports on Ring every week. During Covid, it was nearly every night. Defund the police and otherwise very little support which causes low morale isn't good at all.
No one is hacking keyfobs. Criminals aren't that sophisticated usually. The vast majority are car left running while unattended (which is illegal in MD for this reason), or leaving keys in the car.
Same with break-ins -- I talked to the police chief for our district and he said nearly all car "break-ins" in residential Bethesda are people leaving the doors unlocked. The criminals don't even need to go to the trouble of breaking a window.
10 comments:
That's great that you're reporting these vehicle crimes which are a major problem now. But you need to ask their public information officer how these vehicle crimes are being perpetrated. How exactly are these crooks stealing cars right in the heart of the downtown shopping and restaurant district when tons of people are strolling down the sidewalk? Did they grab keys somehow? Are they hacking the keyfob somehow? How are they doing this? You have to either really know what you're doing or you're a professional car thief in order to boost a car that fast. We need to know and you're just the man to do it.
Pretty brazen to commit a crime like that in such a highly trafficked area at that time. The culprits either don't believe they'll get caught or don't fear the penalty if they do get caught.
If there were BLM/Hate Has No Home Here/Biden-Harris stickers on the car, they didn't prevent it this time. Sorry about that, as it's not consistent. If these stickers weren't on the car, too bad, they might have helped you out here.
Now go call a social worker since you defunded the police.
Most common is that the vehicle is taken without permission by someone known to the owner, e.g. a teenage son. Second most common is the vehicle is left running without occupants. Third is that the vehicle isn't running but the keys are left in the vehicle.
No one is hacking keyfobs like out of the movies and the police aren't defunded. It's entirely likely they've already recovered the joyridden vehicle.
#7:27 AM - Perhaps it's being perpetrated by members of your neighborhood Proud Boys delegation, in order to fund their organization. After all, they know the neighborhood is filled with their kind, that are rich to the hilt. Just sayin.
9:06 - Only your second cause is correct. Clueless people are leaving key fobs in their vehicles that's true. But, there are absolutely are devices that hack the system and trick the car into thinking the key fob is in the car when it isn't. All this tech in our society is great but much come with vulnerabilities. A quick browse of YouTube will show you just how easy and available these hacking tools are used to steal cars in seconds.
4:33, right, I'm not saying the tech doesn't exists to clone a keyfob or otherwise bypass a vehicle's security, but in reality we're talking about teens jumping in running cars not professional thieves out of Gone in 60 Seconds.
5:40 - Yeah, you're probably right on that. I see vehicle larceny reports on Ring every week. During Covid, it was nearly every night. Defund the police and otherwise very little support which causes low morale isn't good at all.
No one is hacking keyfobs. Criminals aren't that sophisticated usually. The vast majority are car left running while unattended (which is illegal in MD for this reason), or leaving keys in the car.
Same with break-ins -- I talked to the police chief for our district and he said nearly all car "break-ins" in residential Bethesda are people leaving the doors unlocked. The criminals don't even need to go to the trouble of breaking a window.
Somewhat related but surprised there wasnt coverage of a robbery at gunpoint on maple ave last saturday? same gangs of thugs doing car thefts?
@11:30 AM: Poe's Law --> I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
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