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Saturday, December 20, 2025
Vehicle stolen from Westbard Square in Bethesda
Montgomery County police are investigating the theft of a vehicle parked at the Westbard Square development in Bethesda during broad daylight business hours. The vehicle was stolen sometime between 12:40 and 12:55 PM on December 10, 2025, and has yet to be recovered. A rash of vehicle break-ins at the parking garage at Westbard Square earlier this year cooled off this fall after property owner Regency Centers installed surveillance cameras, which police were given access to.

How could that possibly happen!
ReplyDeleteHappens all the time so no big deal. To quote a brain dead Elrich intern: " people who leave their cars unlocked deserve to get burgled"
ReplyDeleteThe education in this county is an abysmal failure in addition to all the "educated" residents that keep reelecting morons.
So, the office of the executive also adds insult to injury.
DeleteYou don’t believe that leaving your car unlocked just encourages folks to steal items? Perhaps you leave your car running, and double parked in downtown Bethesda to get a quick coffee, and complain when someone hops in and steals your car. We are not in Kansas anymore Dorothy. It’s smart to discourage crime.
Delete5:25 is rationalizing previous moronic commentary after getting called out. So trot out an unrealistic analogy not that the crime was committed by someone not locking their car in the first place. Excusing bad behavior is your bread and butter. So sorry that everyone can see the BS but you.
Delete5:25 can't see the forest from the trees. This isn't grade school but we'll try to help you out here. Bad policy allows criminals more autonomy and whether or not a car is locked is irrelevant as criminals, like the ones in Westbard, are breaking windows to rummage and steal. The analogy of the running car is a false flag as the attempt to shift blame for democrats lack of enforcement to the citizen whose locked car is sitting in a parking space is clearly CYA. When you finish your internship for the council, please get out and and experience real world cause and effect as the education displayed so far has been abysmal.
DeleteOf course it’s a crime to take something that isn’t yours. My point was that people that believe leaving a car unlocked in a secluded parking deck are foolish by not protecting themselves and their belongings.
Delete@5:10 To add some more worldview since you have limited latitude to recognize cause & effect. The more lawless an area is, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Detroit and any city run by grifting democrats, many people leave their cars unlocked because replacing the glass is not only expensive but takes the car out of service for the owners that need it for things like work, school and other mundane tasks that perhaps you were exempt from.
DeleteYou and the people you vote for are making life difficult in a once fairly safe area.
Wait, glass protects people and their belongings? What's the saying about people in glass houses not throwing stones...
DeleteIs the picture posted adjusted for the one less car in that garage?
ReplyDeleteYou took the words out of my mouth!
DeletePerhaps the owner thought that it was a valet parking facility. . .
ReplyDeleteValets. Standard Westbardian thought process.
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